Travel Quotes

One's destination is never a place, but a new way of seeing things.

I wandered everywhere, through cities and countries wide. And everywhere I went, the world was on my side.

See the world. It's more fantastic than any dream made or paid for in factories. Ask for no guarantees, ask for no security.

Every one of a hundred thousand cities around the world had its own special sunset and it was worth going there, just once, if only to see the sun go down.

The world is a book, and those who don't travel only read one page.

We live in a wonderful world that is full of beauty, charm and adventure. There is no end to the adventures we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open.

If you really want to escape the things that harass you, what you’re needing is not to be in a different place but to be a different person.

You can't understand a city without using its public transportation system.

The farther you go, however, the harder it is to return. The world has many edges, and it's easy to fall off.

One travels long distances not solely for large gatherings, but for something more intangible. I have always gone out on a limb for love. A dangerous, romantic, disappointing way to live.

Most of the time, beauty lies in the simplest of things.

Leave home, leave the country, leave the familiar. Only then can routine experience—buying bread, eating vegetables, even saying hello—become new all over again.

It is not the destination where you end up but the mishaps and memories you create along the way!

The journey not the arrival matters.

You can't control the past, but you can control where you go next.

Across galaxies of time and spaceTravelling just to see your faceLost amidst the countless starsTo bring me back to where you are.

I don't want to go to Peru."How do you know? You've never been there."I've never been to hell either and I'm pretty sure I don't want to go there.

How you live your life is up to you. You have to go out and grab the world by the horns. Rope it before it ties you down and decides for you.

I am looking for the people who have always been there, and belong to the places they live. The others I do not wish to see.

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...

I knew then that I wanted to go home, but I had no home to go to--and that is what adventures are all about.

We want to make good time, but for us now this is measured with the emphasis on "good" rather than on "time"....

I probably did too much thinking in India. I blame it on the roads, for they were superb...

If travel were so inspiring and informing a business...then the wisest men in the world would be deck hands on tramp steamers, Pullman porters, and Mormon missionaries.

Borders? I have never seen one. But I have heard they exist in the minds of some people.

One thing that I love about traveling is feeling disoriented and removed from my comfort zone.

Wish you were here, we can get lost in the forest together and eat bamboo rice.

You cannot keep something down that is bound to rise.

This is a roadside attraction, ' said Wednesday. 'One of the finest. Which means it is a place of power.

Too often travel, instead of broadening the mind, merely lengthens the conversation.

The open road. Seemingly my only friend for years upon end since leaving war. The road embraced me, let me breathe, and more importantly, did not judge me.

will I ever get over the pull I feel to both of these places?

It's hard to be less than happy when you can be happy with less.

And guess what? I have to admit.. I kinda start liking it here.

The desert doesn't care who you are, and neither does anyone or anything who lives in it.

The idea of my heart dancing with delight was far too good to pass up.

I wish she’d said something different, but patriarchy is as prevalent around the world as racism and xenophobia are. We can’t hide from it, not even here.

Living in China has made me appreciate my own country, with its tiny, ethnically diverse population of unassuming donut-eaters.

They say life is a highway and we all travel our own roads, some good, some bad, yet each is a blessing of its own.

...all the disadvantages of good roads: high speed, and almost total lack of that inspiring factor in travel -- the welcoming hand of the interested stranger.

I nearer than I was yesterday and further than I am today, tomorrow I'll be square one.

Partition was a total catastrophe for Delhi, ’ she said. ‘Those who were left behind are in misery. Those who were uprooted are in misery. The Peace of Delhi is gone. Now it is all gone.

You sell off the kingdom piece by piece and trade it for a horse that will take you anywhere.

The world isn't built with a ramp.

Where can one buy a lit of that *Right Stuff* bravado required to shrug off the fact that your airplane is now a convertible?

That’s the place to get to—nowhere. One wants to wander away from the world’s somewheres, into our own nowhere.

To me, travel is more valuable than any stupid piece of bling money can buy.

It is easier to bear the worries of wandering than to find peace in your hometown, where only the sage can live in a happy house surrounded by trite troubles and daily distractions.

Hip-hop...has been the proverbial key that’s opened the door for me to roam this breathtaking planet.

The people of North America have little idea of religion, but they have strict public morality. The Latin people are without morality but they are highly religious.