Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Steinbeck

A journey is a person in itself; no two are alike. And all plans, safeguards, policing, and coercion are fruitless. We find that after years of struggle that we do not take a trip; a trip takes us.

John Steinbeck

I was born lost and take no pleasure in being found.

John Steinbeck

We find after years of struggle that we do not take a trip; a trip takes us.

John Steinbeck

There are as many worlds as there are kinds of days, and as an opal changes its colors and its fire to match the nature of a day, so do I.

John Steinbeck

When I was very young and the urge to be someplace else was on me, I was assured by mature people that maturity would cure this itch. When years described me as mature, the remedy prescribed was middle age. In middle age I was assured that greater age would calm my fever and now that I am fifty-eight perhaps senility will do the job. Nothing has worked. I fear the disease is incurable.

Terry Pratchett

The fastest way to travel is to be there already.

Terry Pratchett

Coming back to where you started is not the same as never leaving.

Nat King Cole

If you ever plan to motor west, travel my way, take the highway that is best. Get your kicks, on Route Sixty-six.

John Ruskin

Modern travelling is not travelling at all; it is merely being sent to a place, and very little different from becoming a parcel.

Maya Angelou

I long, as does every human being, to be at home wherever I find myself.

Marilyn vos Savant

Know how to travel from your town to a nearby town without a car, either by bus or by rail.

Matsuo Basho

Traveler's heart. Never settled long in one place. Like a portable fire.

Matsuo Basho

The journey itself is my home.

Pharrell Williams

My ideal travel companions are my family.

Penny Lancaster

Im a pretty organised traveller.

Peg Bracken

Like a chastity belt, the package tour keeps you out of mischief but a bit restive for wondering what you missed.

Peg Bracken

one's travel life is basically as incommunicable as his sex life is ...

Marlene Dietrich

Latins are tenderly enthusiastic. In Brazil they throw flowers at you. In Argentina they throw themselves.

Marlene Dietrich

In language gender is particularly confusing. Why, please, should a table be male in German, female in French, and castrated in English?

Marlene Dietrich

To lose your prejudices you must travel.

Maria Sharapova

I want my handbags and my shoes to be stylish but I want to make sure that they're versatile. I travel and I have to make sure the pieces I put into my bag can go with a dress or with shorts or jeans.

Maria Sharapova

When you travel so many weeks a year, it's always nice to have a home-cooked meal.

May Sarton

This suspension of one's own reality, this being entirely alone in a strange city (at times I wondered if I had lost the power of speech) is an enriching state for a writer. Then the written word ... takes on an intensity of its own. Nothing gets exteriorized or dissipated; all is concentrated within.

Max Frisch

Travelling, gentlemen, is medieval, today we have means of communication, not to speak of tomorrow and the day after, means of communication that bring the world into our homes, to travel from one place to another is atavistic.

The tourist who moves about to see and hear and open himself to all the influences of the places which condense centuries of human greatness is only a man in search of excellence.

Maya Angelou

Human beings are more alike than unalike, and what is true anywhere is true everywhere, yet I encourage travel to as many destinations as possible for the sake of education as well as pleasure.

Mario Batali

Bologna is the best city in Italy for food and has the least number of tourists. With its medieval beauty, it has it all.

Mason Cooley

Travelling, I worry about luggage, prices, and strange food. At home, I am free to broaden my mind by thinking about the higher things.

Mason Cooley

Travelling carries me to the surface, away from the deeps of home-thoughts.

Mason Cooley

The routines of tourism are even more monotonous than those of daily life.

Mason Cooley

Travelers never think that they are the foreigners.

Marge Piercy

I have no connections here; only gusty collisions, rootless seedlings forced into bloom, that collapse. ... I am the Visiting Poet: a real unicorn, a wind-up plush dodo, a wax museum of the Movement. People want to push the buttons and see me glow.

Theophile Gautier

Those horses must have been Spanish jennets, born of mares mated with a zephyr; for they went as swiftly as the wind, and the moon, which had risen at our departure to give us light, rolled through the sky like a wheel detached from its carriage.