Famous Quotes & Sayings

e. e. cummings

The three saddest things are the ill wanting to be well, the poor wanting to be rich, and the constant traveler saying 'anywhere but here'.

Mitch Gaylord

When I was young, all I wanted to do was to compete, have fun and travel.

Kurt Vonnegut

Unusual travel suggestions are dancing lessons from God.

William Shakespeare

Time travels in divers paces with divers persons.

William Shakespeare

Crowns in my purse I have, and goods at home, And so am come abroad to see the world.

William Shakespeare

Now no way can I stray; Save back to England, all the world's my way.

William Shakespeare

I hope to see London once ere I die.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

I fly because it releases my mind from the tyranny of petty things.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Language is the source of misunderstandings.

Carl Sagan

The vast distances that separate the stars are providential. Beings and worlds are quarantined from one another. The quarantine is lifted only for those with sufficient self-knowledge and judgment to have safely traveled from star to star.

Bill Bryson

I turned to my own bunk and examined it with a kind of appalled fascination. If the mattress stains were anything to go by, a previous user had not so much suffered from incontinence as rejoiced in it. He had evidently included the pillow in his celebrations.

Bill Bryson

I love the feeling of being anonymous in a city I've never been before.

Bill Bryson

Traveling makes you realize what an immeasurably nice place much of America could be if only people possessed the same instinct for preservation as they do in Europe.

Bill Bryson

What is it about maps? I could look at them all day, earnestly studying the names of towns and villages I have never heard of and will never visit...

Bill Bryson

I could spend my life arriving each evening in a new city.

Bill Bryson

Perhaps it's my natural pessimism, but it seems that an awfully large part of travel these days is to see things while you still can.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

War is not an adventure. It is a disease. It is like typhus.

Bill Vaughan

It is easiest to lose your way in the forest after it is cut.

Scott Niedermayer

I was trying to get it up in the corner. How it traveled into the net, I can't tell you.

Stephen Lewis

I'm still at the end of my rope because I find myself not handling things well when I travel.

Calvin Trillin

How did Italy manage to end up with no Caribbean islands at all? Christopher Columbus took the trouble to discover the Caribbean personally before the end of the fifteenth century. Try to get a decent plate of spaghetti there now.

Harrison Ford

Traveling through hyperspace ain't like dusting crops, boy.

Conrad Sewell

Traveling a lot and touring, you're in and out of hotels, and you don't have any comforts around.

Travel in 2006 is all about the family.

Baz Luhrmann

If Paris is a city of lights, Sydney is the city of fireworks.

Matt Mullenweg

When I travel, which is most of the year, I live in TripIt.

Bob Moore

This thing is right in the travel way. It's a very visible reminder.

James Taylor

In my mind I'm going to Carolina. Can't you see the sunshine, can't you just feel the moonshine? Ain't it just like a friend of mine, to hit me from behind, and I'm goin' to Carolina in my mind.

James Thurber

Man is flying too fast for a world that is round. Soon he will catch up with himself in a great rear end collision.

James McAvoy

I considered becoming a priest very seriously. I wanted to travel the world. By the time I turned 16, I realized I was only in it for selfish reasons. And, more importantly, I didn't want to sacrifice the ladies!

James Lane Allen

As you think, you travel, and as you love, you attract. You are today where your thoughts have brought you; you will be tomorrow where your thoughts take you.

John Donne

To roam Giddily, and be everywhere but at home, Such freedom doth a banishment become.

Joe Harris

Always go onward; returning to a favored place you will only find your old footsteps washed away.