Famous Quotes & Sayings

Erma Bombeck

When you look like your passport photo, it's time to go home.

Henry Mancini

If you're feeling fancy free, come wander through the world with me, and any place we chance to be, will be a rendezvous. Two for the road, we'll travel through the years, collecting precious memories, selecting souvenirs and living life the way we please.

Henry Miller

When spring comes to Paris the humblest mortal alive must feel that he dwells in paradise.

Henry Miller

If we are always arriving and departing, it is also true that we are eternally anchored. One's destination is never a place but rather a new way of looking at things.

Helen Keller

Life is a daring adventure, or nothing.

James D. Watson

Science moves with the spirit of an adventure characterized both by youthful arrogance and by the belief that the truth, once found, would be simple as well as pretty.

Jamaica Kincaid

An ugly thing, that is what you are when you become a tourist, an ugly, empty thing, a stupid thing, a piece of rubbish pausing here and there to gaze at this and taste that, and it will never occur to you that the people who inhabit the place in which you have just paused cannot stand you.

J. R. R. Tolkien

Then something Tookish woke up inside him, and he wished to go and see the great mountains, and hear the pine-trees and the waterfalls, and explore the caves, and wear a sword instead of a walking-stick.

Izaak Walton

Good company in a journey makes the way seem shorter.

Ellen DeGeneres

The first time probably people really were aware of me, I unfortunately had the title of Showtime's Funniest Person in America. And that's a really tough title to travel around with when you're not even known.

Jennifer Hudson

There’s something wonderful about entertaining people on vacation. Everyone is there to have a good time.

Jean-Paul Sartre

For an occurrence to become an adventure, it is necessary and sufficient for one to recount it.

Jean Racine

He who will travel far spares his steed.

Jim Harrison

After a lifetime of world travel I've been fascinated that those in the third world don't have the same perception of reality that we do.

James A. Baldwin

Voyagers discover that the world can never be larger than the person that is in the world; but it is impossible to foresee this, it is impossible to be warned.

James A. Baldwin

I met a lot of people in Europe. I even encountered myself.

Jacques Yves Cousteau

The reason I love the sea I cannot explain - it's physical. When you dive you begin to feel like an angel. It's a liberation of your weight.

George Harrison

But I've been traveling on a boat and a plane, in a car on a bike with a bus and a train. Traveling there, traveling here, everywhere in every gear. But oh Lord we pay the price, with the spin of the wheel with the roll of the dice. Ah yeah you pay your fare. And if you don't know where you're going, any road will take you there.

Christopher Hitchens

I want to urge you very strongly to travel as much as you can, and to evolve yourself as an internationalist. It's as important a part of your education as a radical as the reading of any book.

Christopher Fry

I travel light; as light, that is, as a man can travel who will still carry his body around because of its sentimental value.

Christina Baldwin

My real journey had very little to do with traveling Europe, and a whole lot to do with traveling my own mind.

Francis Bacon

Travel, in the younger sort, is a part of education; in the elder, a part of experience.

Fran Lebowitz

If you're going to America, bring your own food.

George Washington

The constitution vests the power of declaring war in Congress; therefore no offensive expedition of importance can be undertaken until after they shall have deliberated upon the subject and authorized such a measure.

George Santayana

The traveller must be somebody and come from somewhere, so that his definite character and moral traditions may supply an organ and a point of comparison for his observations.

George P. Shultz

He who walks in the middle of the road gets hit from both sides.

George Mikes

Travel' is the name of a modern disease which became rampant in themid-fifties and is still spreading. The disease - its scientific name is travelitis furiosus - is carried by a germ called prosperity.

Franz Grillparzer

Is it true that one travels in order to know mankind? It is easier to get to know other people at home, but abroad one gets to know oneself.

George Eliot

In travelling I shape myself betimes to idleness And take fools' pleasure

George Eliot

The best travel is that which one can take by one's own fireside. In memory or imagination.

George Eliot

We have had an unspeakably delightful journey, one of those journeys which seem to divide one's life in two, by the new ideas they suggest and the new views of interest they open.

George Eliot

Our deeds still travel with us from afar, and what we have been makes us what we are.

Fred Allen

The American arrives in Paris with a few French phrases he has culled from a conversational guide or picked up from a friend who owns a beret.