Famous Quotes & Sayings

Isak Dinesen

You know you are truly alive when you’re living among lions.

Isak Dinesen

some travelers are drawn forward by a goal lying before them in the way iron is drawn to the magnet. Others are driven on by a force lying behind them. In such a way the bowstring makes the arrow fly.

Ilka Chase

Like building a house, travel always costs more than you estimate.

Ilka Chase

When traveling abroad if you see something you yearn for if you can afford it at all, buy it. If you don't you'll regret it all your life.

Giotto di Bondone

Rome is the city of echoes, the city of illusions, and the city of yearning.

Nancy Mitford

One thing about tourists is that it is very easy to get away from them. Like ants they follow a trail and a few yards each side of that trail there are none.

Do not tell me how educated you are. Tell me how much you have traveled, and I will know how educated you are.

Katherine Mansfield

In the shortest sea voyage there is no sense of time. You have been down in the cabin for hours or days or years. Nobody knows or cares. You know all the people to the point of indifference. You do not believe in dry land any more - you are caught in the pendulum itself, and left there, idly swinging.

Julian Barnes

He didn’t really like travel, of course. He liked the idea of travel, and the memory of travel, but not travel itself.

Ray Bradbury

We travel, initially, to lose ourselves, and we travel, next, to find ourselves. We travel to open our hearts and eyes. And we travel, in essence, to become young fools again—to slow time down and get taken in, and fall in love once more.

Ray Bradbury

I don't know anything anymore

Sharon Shinn

You have not traveled enough," she said. "Or you'd know that every journey makes its own map across your heart.

Shane Koyczan

Don't let your luggage define your travels, each life unravels differently.

Shana Alexander

Americans ought to be the best-traveled, most cosmopolitan people on earth, not only because experience of the world is desirable in its own right, but because as a people acquires a great concentration of power, worldliness becomes a moral imperative.

Shana Alexander

Tourists moved over the piazza like drugged insects on a painted plate ...

Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

The true traveler is he who goes on foot, and even then, he sits down a lot of the time.

Sloane Crosley

I used to think that nails-down-a-chalkboard was the worst sound in the world. Then I moved on to people-eating-cereal-on-the-phone. But only this week did I stumble across the rightful winner: it's the sound of a baggage carousel coming to a grinding halt, having reunited every passenger on your flight with their luggage, except for you.

Sinclair Lewis

He who has seen one cathedral ten times has seen something; he who has seen ten cathedrals once has seen but little; and he who has spent half an hour in each of a hundred cathedrals has seen nothing at all.

Sinclair Lewis

Do you think it's so snobbish, to want to see something besides one's fellow citizens abroad?

Socrates

Why do you wonder that globetrotting does not help you, seeing that you always take yourself with you? The reason that set you wandering is ever at your heels.

Socrates

How can you wonder your travels do you no good, when you carry yourself around with you?

Socrates

Wonder is the beginning of wisdom.

Norma Shearer

An adventure may be worn as a muddy spot or it may be worn as a proud insignia. It is the woman wearing it who makes it the one thing or the other.

Noel Coward

But why, oh why, do the wrong people travel, when the right people stay at home?

Mitch Albom

Detachment doesn’t mean you don’t let the experience penetrate you. On the contrary, you let it penetrate you fully. That’s how you are able to leave it.

Neil Gaiman

Wherever you go, you take yourself with you.

John Muir

Only by going alone in silence, without baggage, can one truly get into the heart of the wilderness. All other travel is mere dust and hotels and baggage and chatter.

John Muir

Thousands of tired, nerve-shaken, over-civilized people are beginning to find out going to the mountains is going home; that wilderness is a necessity...

John Steinbeck

We don't take a trip. A trip takes us.

John Steinbeck

A journey is a person in itself; no two are alike.

John Steinbeck

Niagara Falls is very nice. I'm very glad I saw it, because from now on if I am asked whether I have seen Niagara Falls I can say yes, and be telling the truth for once.

John Steinbeck

I am writing this from what we Americans call Yurrp. In Yurrp writers are taken as seriously as Lana Turner's legs are in America - a ridiculous situation.

John Steinbeck

I know people who are so immersed in road maps that they never see the countryside they pass through, and others who, having traced a route, are held to it as though held by flanged wheels to rails.