Quotes About Travel

Away down at the far end of the lake they got every night a glimpse of a big, continental train rushing through a clearing. Valancy liked to watch its lighted windows flash by and wonder who was on it and what hopes and fears it carried.

Miss Patty and Miss Maria are hardly such stuff as dreams are made of, laughed Anne. Can you fancy them `globe-trotting' -- especially in those shawls and caps? I suppose they'll take them off when they really begin to trot, said Priscilla, but I know they'll take their knitting with them everywhere. They simply couldn't be parted from it. They will walk about Westminster Abbey and knit, I feel sure...

Let the Piper come and welcome, he cried, waving his hand. I'LL follow him gladly round and round the world.

We want to travel back in time, but we can't, and so we want to go to a new place instead. Place is what we have instead of time. No. Not true. Money is what we have now, instead of place or time." He exhales. "Time is money. Place is money. Love, love is money. And power is money. You'll see.

Worm was old; he was a man of silence. He could speak prophecy and make spells, but mostly he was quiet and alert, a pleasure to travel with.

Mrs. Popper smiled, but neither of them spoke again, all the way to Olney.

I'm in the mood to travel. Once you boys get settled I may go to China, for all you know.

It's good to get away from Washington and back here in the United States.

why people travel far from home-far from where they started. There was, of course, the obvious reason:escape. Escape from the monotony of every day. SO many of us chasing what we wished our everyday existence could be instead. But there was a less obvious and perhaps more important reason. Somewhere, often right in the middle of a trip, you got to believe this was your everyday life. You got to believe you were never going home again.

car. I headed down CA-116—the winding road

The bigger point for me was that if you were on a trip with someone you didn't love, at the end of it you'd only get to remember what you remembered. But if you went with someone you loved, you'd often get more than that. You'd get to share it with them. You'd get to remember what they remembered too.

I enjoy Mr. Verne's work," she went on brightly. "He writes of such exotic places. But you've seen all that sort of thing in person. I suppose it's nothing to you." "Of course. Giant squids. Cannibals. Every day.

Odhadovala jsem, že jsem mimo dosah, ale jistá jsem si nebyla. Jak velká je bezpe?ná vzdálenost od hada vÄ›tÅ¡ího než nákla?ák? O dva státy dál? Nebo o tÃ…â"¢i?

You remember that song by Jovanotti I say to you, in the river?" he asks. "Yes!" I swivel a little to look at him. "I looked it up, but I couldn't find it." "' La Valigia ,'" he says. "The suitcase. The boy is a suitcase, he travels all around, but only one person, the girl, knows how to open the lucchetto. " "The lock," I translate, suffused with happiness at this.

If the US Open was a two-week trip to Ibiza, Wimbledon was a meditative hike through a scenic national park.

From far across the sea I come, Through fire, frost,and blazing sun, That you might, with your own fair hand, Enjoy the bounties of my land - Emma Delagardie and Augustus Whittlesby Americanus, A masque in three parts

Oh, no," said Mr. Fitzhugh blithely, immune to nuance. "We're here to see the ruins." Lady Vaughn looked innocently up at her husband. "Isn't that what you said, Vaughn?

City of Gold. City of Water. City of Faiths. Quien no ha visto Sevilla, runs a saying, no ha visto maravilla .

Tomorrow we're to visit the Dardanelles. Jack Aird speaks of them as though I should know them, but I really don't recall them. One meets so many people.

Where did you live before you came here? I asked. The moon, he said smoothly. We left because the place had no atmosphere.

It had been a good day, all things considered. I had managed rather well on my own. I opened Grandfather's Bible. This is what it would be like when I had my own shop, or when I traveled abroad. I would always read before sleeping. One day, I'd be so rich I would have a library full of novel to choose from. But I would always end the evening with a Bible passage.

Travel broadens, they say. My personal experience has been that, in the short term at any rate, it merely flattens, aiming its steam-roller of deadlines and details straight at one's daily life, leaving a person flat and gasping at its passage.

It's an even money that your Diners' Club card will be good at the decent cathouses.

Journeys, like artists, are born and not made. A thousand differing circumstances contribute to them, few of them willed or determined by the will - whatever we may think. They flower spontaneously out of the demands of our natures - and the best of them lead us not only outwards in space, but inwards as well. Travel can be one of the most rewarding forms of introspection....