Travel Quotes
The Delta agent saw my itinerary and said, 'You’re flying to Jakarta via Atlanta, Frankfurt, Amsterdam, Bangkok and Kuala Lumpur? You must have really pissed off your travel agent.
Damoder climbed slowly to his feet. 'Buy lot!' he wheedled, 'I am poor man. I sell you cheap. I am bank-Rupert! Apparently the only things that could save him from bank-rupertcy were our dollars.
I’d see the arrow. I’d think about attitude and perception. Maybe the green arrow on the ceiling is to Muslims as the KJV in the Motel 6 nightstand is to Christians.
I’d learned so much from traveling to familiar places that I figured I’d learn twice as much by going to a place I knew nothing about.
I've never understood people who just go out for one drink. Once I have one drink, I want all the drinks.
Random acts of kindness show that even amidst the hustle and bustle, Paris inhabitants are more welcoming that their reputation gives them credit for.
I was supposed to stay for 3 months. But I think I always knew I would stay a little longer, despite the crazy Frenchies. Or maybe because of them.
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With my pen I have engraved warrants of citizenship in the most remote corners, for truly the world has been my home.
Animals travel on all fours. Mankind on two. Motorcycling is not a means of transport but an ideology, a nomadic way of life.
I was forced to wander, having no one, forced by my nature to keep wandering because wandering was the only thing that I believed in, and the only thing that believed in me.
From all that I saw, and everywhere I wandered, I learned that time cannot be spent, It only can be squandered.
I’m in no hurry: the sun and the moon aren’t, either.Nobody goes faster than the legs they have.If where I want to go is far away, I’m not there in an instant.
For this I weep all my daysand throughout my lifetime grievethat I swam from my own landsand came from familiar lands towards these strange doors to these foreign gates.
London was one of the worst places to have a bad day and one of the best places to have a good day
My meal arrived. It was a bowl of tepid, green curried water with two spinach leaves floating in it. The waiter called it 'vegetable soup'. I called it inedible slop.
I pity snails, and all that carry their homes on their backs.
...I fear their false urgency, their call to speed, their insistence that travel is less important than arrival...
As well as writing, 2004 saw my first attempt at wine making: the elixir of life. Unfortunately, my effort tasted more like the elixir of death.
If you ever find yourself on a path that just doesn't feel safe anymore, you have every right to stop the car. Get out - change your shoes and start walking.
But what I do know is this: you got to find your own places. The places you get, girl, the ones that stick in your heart. And if you’re lucky, you find people to share them with.
If you don't know your history, you don't know what you are talking about!
I was seeing the world, and it turned out to be a lonely place.
I'll pretty much try any cheese, but I have found that I prefer young goats and old cows. I don't like gray areas.
Reading is poor man's way of travelling not just around the world but into the minds of people.
If you find holes in my book that you could drive a car through, do not be too sure they were not left there for that express purpose.
Leaving home's a cinch. It's the staying, once you've found it, that takes courage.
In Paris, the dance was everything. The dance of romance was what a man could remember in his old age. Didn’t all young Americans come to Europe in search of that kind of romance?
Traveling is all very well if you can get home at night. I would be willing to go around the world if I could be back in time to light the candles and set the table for dinner.” ♥ Gladys Taber.
Well, I like to know where I'm going before I try to get there. It's a mistake to try to execute a plan before you've thought of one, in my experience.
Very nice, " said Rick after a while. "Very nice, " he repeated, with more emphasis the second time. "What is?" I asked, turning to him, though I knew. "Everything, " he said. And it was true.
I wanted to find my voice, so I sat in silence.I wanted joy, so I cried my heart open.I wanted wisdom, so I capered in bodacious foolishness.I wanted freedom, so I felt my bonds.
Man, you should write a book.’‘I know. You couldn’t make this stuff up, could you?
To do is to be – AristotleTo be or not to be – ShakespeareTo be is to do – Jean-Paul SartreDo be do be do – Frank Sinatra
It is the right of a traveller to vent their frustration at every minor inconvenience by writing of it to their friends.
Look for chances to take the less-traveled roads. There are no wrong turns.
I stood in the library admiring the huge book collection. There was something inherently calming about being surrounded by books, even their smell and texture was comforting.
There were lots of things to stop and see - and then it was time to go, always time to go.
The best journeys are the ones that answer questions that at the outset you never even thought to ask.-Rick Ridgeway
With thousands of roads before us that lead nowhere, going in circles. There really are only two roads we will either travel, one going to heaven, or the other to hell.
Prose fills a space, like a liquid poured in from the top, but poetry occupies it, arrays itself in formation, sets up camp and refuses to budge.
I always wonder why birds stay in the same place when they can fly anywhere on the earth. Then I ask myself the same question.
Just imagine if you took all the money you've spent on these things and traveled around the world with it, instead, or bought books and read them. Think about how much you would know about life.
And now it was official: I loved REI more than I loved the people behind Snapple lemonade.
If you cannot find peace where you stand you shall not find it where you land.