Travel Quotes

Usually speaking the worst-bred person in company is a young traveller just returned from abroad.

~ Jonathan Swift

For my part I travel not to go anywhere but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move.

~ Robert Louis Stevenson

I met a lot of people in Europe. I even encountered myself.

~ James Baldwin

Travel is ninety per cent anticipation and ten per cent recollection.

~ Edward Streeter

If one had but a single glance to give the world one should gaze on Istanbul.

~ Alphonse De Lamartine

There is no unhappiness like the misery of sighting land again after a cheerful careless voyage.

~ Mark Twain

Before he sets out the traveller must possess fixed interests and facilities to be served by travel. If he drifted aimlessly from country to country he would not travel but only wander ramble as a tramp. The traveller must be somebody and come from somewhere so his definite character and moral traditions may supply an organ and a point of comparison for his observations.

~ George Santayana

When you travel remember that a foreign country is not designed to make you comfortable. It is designed to make its own people comfortable.

~ Clifton Fadiman

Wherever I travel I'm too late. The orgy has moved elsewhere.

~ Mordecai Richler

(Airplanes) may kill you but they ain't likely to hurt you.

~ Satchel Paige

If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man then wherever you go for the rest of your life it stays with you for Paris is a movable feast.

~ Ernest Hemingway

Old men and far travellers may lie with authority.

~ Anonymous

Russia is the only country of the world you can be homesick for while you're still in it.

~ John Updike

In both business and personal life, I've always found that travel inspires me more than anything else I do. Evidence of the languages, cultures, scenery, food, and design sensibilities that I discover all over the world can be found in every piece of my jewelry.

~ Ivanka Trump

I have found adventure in flying, in world travel, in business, and even close at hand... Adventure is a state of mind - and spirit.

~ Jacqueline Cochran

No one's going to be able to operate without a grounding in the basic sciences. Language would be helpful, although English is becoming increasingly international. And travel. You have to have a global attitude.

~ Rupert Murdoch

What is required as we travel towards full unemployment is not new legislation but a gradual change of mental attitude, a shift in values. As our taste for idling grows, we will refuse to work for old-fashioned bosses who demand a five-day, 40-hour, nine-to-five type week, or worse.

~ Tom Hodgkinson

I think the philosophy that you have to have if you travel frequently is, stuff is just stuff. Even if it has some sentimental or family connection, if you lose it in the world, it's still just a thing, and I think if you don't have that attitude, you will get incredibly stressed out and not enjoy your travels.

~ Leila Janah

There is a part of me that still wants to go out and grab a backpack and unplug - not take a cellphone or even a camera and just get out there and experience the world and travel. I have yet to do that, but someday I hope.

~ Emilio Estevez

It was one of my dreams as a child, growing up in my little village with my cousins. We used to walk together, and I used to say, when you look at the world map, 'This town is there, that town is there, that river is there.' I used to say, 'One day, I'm going to travel these places.'

~ Jimmy Cliff

We need affordable space travel to inspire our youth, to let them know that they can experience their dreams, can set significant goals and be in a position to lead all of us to future progress in exploration, discovery and fun. Thanks to the X Prize for the inspiration.

~ Burt Rutan

Our brand of democracy is hard. But I can promise that a year from now, when I no longer hold this office, I'll be right there with you as a citizen - inspired by those voices of fairness and vision, of grit and good humor and kindness that have helped America travel so far.

~ Barack Obama

It's amazing how many companies aren't really in tune to the needs of different travelers. There's just so many embarrassing situations that you go through when you travel. You have to have a sense of humor about it and take it in stride. My whole approach is to embrace spontaneity.

~ Zach Anner

Until the June 1967 war I was completely caught up in the life of a young professor of English. Beginning in 1968, I started to think, write, and travel as someone who felt himself to be directly involved in the renaissance of Palestinian life and politics.

~ Edward Said

The largest single reason for disappointing travel experiences is the failure to plan properly.

~ Michael Frome

Never go on trips with anyone you do not love.

~ Ernest Hemingway

The cool thing about being famous is traveling. I have always wanted to travel across seas, like to Canada and stuff.

~ Britney Spears

I've done so much travelling in the past few years, and when you travel, you realise that we do actually have a cool, clean look in Scandinavia - it's not just Denmark - which I think brings peace if you have it in your home.

~ Birgitte Hjort Sorensen

People want to go out and travel around and meet cool people. I could just go live in Vermont, but is that what I really want?

~ Tom Brady

It's amazing: it's so cool being from Brampton, Ontario, and being able to travel the world and being embraced by so many countries.

~ Alessia Cara

I'm the person friends come to when they want to find the perfect restaurant or boutique hotel on the outskirts of Paris. As opposed to scouring the Internet for a travel guide, wouldn't you rather ask the people who are really cool who go there? That's what I do.

~ Meghan Markle

On the tennis court, one needs a cool temperament, tremendous ball sense, reflexes, speed, hand-eye co-ordination, power, timing and peak physical fitness. Off the court, the player and support team need skills in planning, execution, travel, an ability to raise funds when needed, and several other talents.

~ Sania Mirza

During the past few decades, modern technology, with radio, TV, air travel, and satellites, has woven a network of communication which puts each part of the world in to almost instant contact with all the other parts.

~ David Bohm

The limits of sensory evolution in fish are defined very largely by their habitat. Water is physically supportive, carries some kinds of odour well, and is kind to sound - letting it travel several times faster than air will allow, but it inhibits other more personal kinds of communication.

~ Lyall Watson

I think they need to get a more reliable way of watching television on the laptop. Because I travel so much, if I want to watch my favorite sports team it might not be showing in that place, so I want a reliable way to watch whatever I want to watch on my laptop.

~ John Legend

Many a trip continues long after movement in time and space have ceased.

~ John Steinbeck

Time travel used to be thought of as just science fiction, but Einstein's general theory of relativity allows for the possibility that we could warp space-time so much that you could go off in a rocket and return before you set out.

~ Stephen Hawking

The most important thing we can do is inspire young minds and to advance the kind of science, math and technology education that will help youngsters take us to the next phase of space travel.

~ John Glenn

The desire to fly is an idea handed down to us by our ancestors who... looked enviously on the birds soaring freely through space... on the infinite highway of the air.

~ Wilbur Wright

In spite of the opinions of certain narrow-minded people, who would shut up the human race upon this globe, as within some magic circle it must never outstep, we shall one day travel to the moon, the planets, and the stars, with the same facility, rapidity, and certainty as we now make the voyage from Liverpool to New York!

~ Jules Verne