Travel Quotes

"Travel for me is all about transformation, and I'm fascinated by those people who really do come back from a trip unrecognizable to themselves and perhaps open to the same possibilities they'd have written off not a month before."

"I do have to travel a lot for speaking engagements."

"I do think that travel can be part of a journey of inner maturation, but you've got to do it right."

"If you were to actually travel around schools and universities and listen in on lectures about evolution, you might find a fairly substantial fraction of young people, without knowing what it is they disapprove of, think they disapprove of it, because they've been brought up to."

"My keen love of travel was seldom hindered by Father. He permitted me, even as a mere boy, to visit many cities and pilgrimage spots."

"Perhaps travel cannot prevent bigotry, but by demonstrating that all peoples cry, laugh, eat, worry, and die, it can introduce the idea that if we try and understand each other, we may even become friends."

"The secret to modern life is finding the measure in time management. I have two kids, career and I travel, and I don't think my life is any different than most couples. The most valuable commodity now for many people is time and how to parcel that out."

"To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries."

"Travel makes a wise man better, and a fool worse."

"Wherever you go, go with all your heart."

"Young people should travel, and they don't. You can't know if you don't go."

"A man who leaves home to mend himself and others is a philosopher; but he who goes from country to country, guided by the blind impulse of curiosity, is a vagabond."

"By the time I'm 40, interplanetary travel will be common. Nobody will want to talk to me at that age, anyway."

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

"I really have created a family. I work with the people I love, I travel with them, I make films with them, and I'm in an office with them. So in a weird way - I know I haven't birthed a child - I feel that I'm a part of creating a family. It's a tribe. I love that word."

"I travel all over the country making speeches for people I believe in."

"I used to bodyguard for Muhammad Ali, Leon Spinks, Sugar Ray Leonard. I used to bodyguard a lot of diamond merchants; I would travel with a suitcase full of diamonds and take them from point A to point B. My reputation grew because I was a professional. I did my job, and I was courteous - a no-nonsense guy."

"In this world, shipmates, sin that pays its way can travel freely, and without passport; whereas Virtue, if a pauper, is stopped at all frontiers."

"It never ceases to amaze me that every second of every day, more than 6,000 billion neutrinos coming from nuclear reactions inside the sun whiz through my body, almost all of which will travel right through the earth without interruption."

"Just got back from a pleasure trip: I took my mother-in-law to the airport."

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

"Long-term, perpetual travel is the dream of many. But surprisingly, for such a popular desire, few people realize how accessible it is."

"The traveler sees what he sees, the tourist sees what he has come to see."

"We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls."

"What should I have known or written had I been a quiet, mercantile politician or a lord in waiting? A man must travel, and turmoil, or there is no existence."

"As a person, I was born to give out my opinions. By giving out my opinions, I realize who I am. As long as I can communicate, I'm not so lonely. If I cannot travel, or do art, or have company, if they take away all my belongings, it doesn't matter at all."

"I took a gap year myself after high school and worked on a farm near Lyon, France. I stayed with the Vallet family, picked and packed fruit, and discovered that red wine can be a breakfast drink. That led to further travel as a university student."

"I'm such a girl for the living room. I really like to stay in my nest and not move. I travel in my mind, and that that's a rigorous state of journeying for me. My body isn't that interested in moving from place to place."

"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."

"If you travel to Germany, it's still absolutely Germany. If you travel to Sweden, it still has a Swedish identity."

"Paris is always a good idea."

"People who think about time travel stories sometimes think that going back in time would be fun because you would have all the information you needed to be much more astute than the people there, when the truth is of course you wouldn't."

"The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page."

"Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not."

"Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts."

"We all become great explorers during our first few days in a new city, or a new love affair."

"A wise traveler never despises his own country."

"Everywhere is nowhere. When a person spends all his time in foreign travel, he ends by having many acquaintances, but no friends."

"I find the whole time travel question very unsettling if you take it to its logical extension. I think it might eventually be possible, but then what happens?"

"I think kids ought to travel. I think it's very good to carry kids around. It's good for them. Of course it's tough on the parents."

"If you have enthusiasm, you have a very dynamic, effective companion to travel with you on the road to Somewhere."

"Of course there were times, particularly when you travel, when it's very tough to leave the kids, particularly when they were very young. I would try to take them with me when I could just so they could experience and see a little bit of what a work day involved."

"Ours is the century of enforced travel of disappearances. The century of people helplessly seeing others, who were close to them, disappear over the horizon."

"The Patriot Act unleashed the FBI to search your email, travel and credit records without even a suspicion of wrongdoing."

"The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes."

"There are few places you can find silence. Air travel could be the last fortress of solitude."

"To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him and travel in his company."