Travel Quotes

"A wise traveler never despises his own country."

"To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive."

"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."

"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?"

"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."

"Air travel is the safest form of travel aside from walking; even then, the chances of being hit by a public bus at 30,000 feet are remarkably slim. I also have no problem with confined spaces. Or heights. What I am afraid of is speed."

"Of all possible subjects, travel is the most difficult for an artist, as it is the easiest for a journalist."

"The world is getting so small. Young people are mobile; they want to travel around the world. When you travel around the world, you exchange culture, you want to make friends, you want to exchange things."

"I still make sure to go, at least once every year, to a country where things cannot be taken for granted, and where there is either too much law and order or too little."

"How often I found where I should be going only by setting out for somewhere else."

"When you travel and when you campaign, people tell you their problems. You see the problems and you become aware of them and you talk about them every day. And so you feel the responsibility for doing something about them."

"Dealing with global warming doesn't mean we have all got to suddenly stop breathing. Dealing with global warming means that we have to stop waste, and if you travel for no reason whatsoever, that is a waste."

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

"I want to teach. I want to speak. I want to travel."

"The world is a country which nobody ever yet knew by description; one must travel through it one's self to be acquainted with it."

"The first voyagers to the stars will be creatures whose life cycle is matched to the voyage: the aeons involved in traversing the galaxy are not daunting to immortal beings. By the end of the third millennium, travel to other stars could be technically feasible. But would there be sufficient motive?"

"Before the BBC, I joined the Navy in order to travel."

"To be able to travel the world, especially to places I never thought I'd be... it's really, you know, still fascinating for me."

"To bring up a child in the way he should go, travel that way yourself once in a while."

"I'm a big fan of doing 'Triple D.' But I don't want to do it forever, don't get me wrong! Travel away from my family, are you crazy? But do you know what it does for these mom-and-pop restaurant joints? It changes their lives forever. I mean, their businesses will never be the same."

"Fifty years of isolating Cuba had failed to promote democracy, setting us back in Latin America. That's why we restored diplomatic relations, opened the door to travel and commerce, and positioned ourselves to improve the lives of the Cuban people."

"I've got a real sense of three-dimensional geometry. I can look at a flat piece of fabric and know that if I put a slit in it and make some fabric travel around a square, then when you lift it up it will drape in a certain way, and I can feel how that will happen."

"Own only what you can always carry with you: know languages, know countries, know people. Let your memory be your travel bag."

"I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train."

"It is better to travel well than to arrive."

"What does it mean to pre-board? Do you get on before you get on?"

"Every perfect traveler always creates the country where he travels."

"Our deeds still travel with us from afar, and what we have been makes us what we are."

"Travel in all the four quarters of the earth, yet you will find nothing anywhere. Whatever there is, is only here."

"London is a roost for every bird."

"The traveller has reached the end of the journey!"

"Southeast Asia has a real grip on me. From the very first time I went there, it was a fulfillment of my childhood fantasies of the way travel should be."

"Ah! Young people, travel if you can, and if you cannot - travel all the same!"

"It always rains on tents. Rainstorms will travel thousands of miles, against prevailing winds for the opportunity to rain on a tent."

"I want to see friends more and travel more."

"I went to university for a year, and I'm not one for schooling and have no enjoyment sitting in a classroom all day and ended up going to live in England for two years, just to travel. I worked in a bar in a hotel for a couple of years and had no intention of becoming an actor. That's where I met my agent."

"In Einstein's equation, time is a river. It speeds up, meanders, and slows down. The new wrinkle is that it can have whirlpools and fork into two rivers. So, if the river of time can be bent into a pretzel, create whirlpools and fork into two rivers, then time travel cannot be ruled out."

"You don't need to be a spook to care about encryption. If you travel with your computer or keep it in a place where other people can put their hands on it, you're vulnerable."

"The fact that people will pay you to talk to people and travel to interesting places and write about what intrigues you, I am just amazed by that."

"Besides, I'm a gypsy at heart and I like to travel around."

"All travel has its advantages. If the passenger visits better countries, he may learn to improve his own. And if fortune carries him to worse, he may learn to enjoy it."

"Everywhere I travel throughout Eastern Washington, I hear from people demanding we do a better job of controlling our borders and reducing illegal immigration."

"I travel in so many different ways; I travel high, I rough it... it all depends on who I travel with."

"The first time probably people really were aware of me, I unfortunately had the title of Showtime's Funniest Person in America. And that's a really tough title to travel around with when you're not even known."

"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."

"I travel all the time, but when I come back to the South, I see such progress. In a real sense, a great deal of the South has been redeemed. People feel freer, more complete, more whole, because of what happened in the movement."

"A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes."

"The first condition of understanding a foreign country is to smell it."

"Until 1914 I loved to travel; I often went to Italy and once spent a few months in India. Since then I have almost entirely abandoned travelling, and I have not been outside of Switzerland for over ten years."