Quotes About Travel

The sparrow flies south for the winter.

By the time they got to Denholm Street, day had been beaten back and the night was soaking through the city.

And that was how Sebastian travelled across this alien landscape, trundling along on Lily's yellow scooter, his black coat flapping behind him, like some weird, majestic bird. On a scooter.

Consultant: an ordinary guy more than 50 miles from home.

Ten lands are sooner known than one man.

An expert is an ordinary fella away from home.

Travel is rich with learning opportunities, and the ultimate sourvenir is a broader perspective.

A great way to learn about your country is to leave it.

What I gained by being in France was learning to be better satisfied with my own country.

I think we should try to be responsible and educate ourselves. I'm simply doing that and traveling, learning first hand, and seeing first hand what's going on.

Big stuff and little: learning how to order breakfast in a country where I don't speak the language and haven't been before - that's really satisfying to me. I like that.

Yet this book is to prove that no matter how you travel, how 'successful' your tour, or foreshortened, you always learn something and learn to change your thoughts.

Life Is a Journey, Not a Destination.

My life is shaped by the urgent need to wander and observe, and my camera is my passport.

I haven't been everywhere, but it's on my list.

He also got to write a book about whiskey a few years before his death from cancer, which entailed driving around Scotland and sampling the product, engendering perhaps thousands of envious curses from writers around the world.

Down to Gehenna or up to the throne, / He who travels fastest who travels alone...

Y Cristo no solo nos encargó {lit. nos comisionó} que fuéramos, también prometió que iría con nosotros. Hasta el fin del mundo, Cristo viajará a los confines de la Tierra por medio de Sus mensajeros para llamar a Su pueblo a Sí mismo (Mat. 28:20).

Americans] know instinctively that when they see lines of Americans whose travel plans have been screwed up because they can't get a U.S. passport to travel to Mexico or Canada, when they realize 3 of the Fort Dix plotters were not only illegal aliens but were stopped 75 times (!!!) by various police authorities and never once had their status questioned, the very notion that a Washingtonized-immigration bill is going to "solve the problem" of immigration is hilarious nonsense.

That's the way both they and I travel sometimes. Pick road at random, and when it's time to pull over, you pull over and hope you can find a place to crash.

On the other, if Mom was driving up here, we were only half an hour away from Cole.

My sister, she's amazing. She sort of inspired me to take this journey to Latin America.

Every hotel room, every apartment we rent, I am sage-ing. And I have crystals that I travel with. It just makes me feel better.

I could have probably raised them in L.A. and they would have been great and had so many things at their fingertips and been exposed to so many things. But we travel a lot, so I don't think that moving out of town is sheltering the girls at all. Maybe protecting them a little bit more, trying to prolong their youth.