Famous Quotes & Sayings

Theophile Gautier

I was born to travel and write verse.

Theodore Bikel

You can't expect the entire world to come to New York to see you. You have to travel to them.

Terry Pratchett

Adventure! People talked about the idea as if it were something worthwhile, rather than a mess of bad food, no sleep and strange people inexplicably trying to stick pointed objects in bits of you.

Terry Pratchett

My experience in Amsterdam is that cyclists ride where the hell they like and aim in a state of rage at all pedestrians while ringing their bell loudly, the concept of avoiding people being foreign to them.

Margaret Mead

as the traveler who has once been from home is wiser than he who has never left his own doorstep,so a knowledge of one other culture should sharpen our ability to scrutinize more steadily , to appreciate more lovingly , our own.

Margaret Drabble

There are some people who cannot get onto a train without imagining that they are about to voyage into the significant unknown; as though the notion of movement were inseparably connected with the notion of discovery, as though each displacement of the body were a displacement of the soul.

Michael Kors

Travel is the ultimate inspiration.

Michelangelo

Lord, make me see thy glory in every place.

Michael Palin

Once the travel bug bites, there is no known antidote.

Michael Palin

The trouble with travelling back later on is that you can never repeat the same experience.

Rick Steves

I'm just a travel writer trying to get more horsepower, more amplification.

Neal Shusterman

Our conversation with the supermarket manager had been about as helpful as a New Jersey road sign, and if you've ever been there, you know the signs don't tell you the exit you're coming up to, they only point out the exits you've just missed.

Morley Safer

The helicopter is a fine way to travel, but it induces a view of the world that only God and CEOs share on a regular basis.

Laura Linney

I get cold - really cold - when I travel.

Lisa Snowdon

On long haul flights I always drink loads and loads of water and eat light and healthy food.

Laurence J. Peter

When a New Yorker looks like he has a suntan, it's probably rust.

Laurence Sterne

I pity the man who can travel from Dan to Beersheba, and cry, 'Tis all barren--and so it is; and so is all the world to him who will not cultivate the fruits it offers.

Laurence Sterne

Conversation is a traffick; and if you enter into it, without some stock of knowledge, to ballance the account perpetually betwixtyou,--the trade drops at once: and this is the reasonwhy travellers have so little [good] conversation with natives,--owing to their [the natives'] suspicionthat there is nothing to be extracted from the conversationworth the trouble of their bad language.

Laura Fraser

London on your own actually seems more exotic than Egypt on a tour.

Laura Hillenbrand

I am disabled, so I can't travel, and I have not been to any development meetings, but Gary and the others affiliated with the film keep me updated on everything.

Larry Hagman

I never travel without my Stetson, but the more I wear it the more I realise that no one wears hats any more. When I was a kid everybody wore hats, especially in Texas, but I get off the plane in Dallas now and I'm the only guy with a hat. It's amazing.

Liberty Hyde Bailey

When the traveler goes alone he gets acquainted with himself.

Louise Gluck

What was difficult was the travel, which, on arrival, is forgotten.

Henry Rollins

I just travel the world with my backpack and my cameras and a bunch of Clif bars.

Henry Adams

The tourist was the great conservative who hated novelty and adored dirt.

Henry Adams

The less a tourist knows, the fewer mistakes he need make, for he will not expect himself to explain ignorance.

Henry Adams

Everyone carries his own inch rule of taste, and amuses himself by applying it, triumphantly, wherever he travels.

Henry A. Kissinger

The British capitalize on their accent when they don't want you to know what they're saying. But if you wake them up at 4 A.M., they speak perfect English, the same as we do.

Helen Hayes

When traveling with someone, take large does of patience and tolerance with your morning coffee.

Hedy Lamarr

I've met the most interesting people while flying or on a boat. These methods of travel seem to attract the kind of people I want to be with.

Henry David Thoreau

I cannot but regard it as a kindness in those who have the steering of me that, by the want of pecuniary wealth, I have been nailed dawn to this my native region so long and steadily, and made to study and love this spot of earth more and more. What would signify in comparison a thin and diffused love and knowledge of the whole earth instead, got by wandering? The traveler's is but a barren and comfortless condition. Wealth will not buy a man a home in nature-house nor farm there. The man of business does not by his business earn a residence in nature, but is denaturalized rather.

Henry David Thoreau

I have climbed several higher mountains without guide or path, and have found, as might be expected, that it takes only more time and patience commonly than to travel the smoothest highway.

Malcolm Muggeridge

The English have this extraordianry respect for longevity. The best example of this was Queen Victoria, a most unpleasant woman who achieved a sort of public affection simply by living to be an enormous age.