Quotes About Travel

It's all right to drill your crew, but why not drill the passengers.

My travels took me as far north as Thorsminde, Denmark (in February no less); as far south as Christopher Newport University in Newport News, Virginia; as far west as the Hoover Library at Stanford University; and to various points east, including the always amazing Library of Congress and the U.S. National Archives, and equally enticing archives in London, Liverpool, and Cambridge.

Americans coming to Germany will find themselves surrounded by influences of the Government and

There were parents sailing to rejoin their children, and children to rejoin their parents, and wives and fathers hoping to get back to their own families, as was the case with Mrs. Arthur Luck of Worcester, Massachusetts, traveling with her two sons, Kenneth Luck and Elbridge Luck, ages eight and nine, to rejoin her husband, a mining engineer who awaited them in England. Why in the midst of great events there always seems to be a family so misnamed is one of the imponderables of history.

Cherbourg was leaving Liverpool, the ship

White Star liner Megantic

There is nothing like the diversion of travel for one who is mentally fagged.

the station.

Speed Bonnie Boat.

Three hours into the voyage Kendall saw two of his passengers lingering by a lifeboat. He knew them to be the Robinsons, father and son, returning to America.

The Lusitania remained a passenger liner, but with the hull of a battleship.

Cunard tickets did not identify babies by name, possibly out of quiet resentment that they traveled free.)

At West Linton, near Edinburgh, Scotland

You took him up to the Snug-Rest Auto Court, didn't you?

When you look like your passport photo, it's time to go home.

One never realizes how different a husband and wife can be until they begin to pack for a trip.

Going to another country doesn't make any difference. I've tried all that. You can't get away from yourself by moving from one place to another. There's nothing to that.

It is by riding a bicycle that you learn the contours of a country best, since you have to sweat up the hills and coast down them.

It is by riding a bicycle that you learn the contours of a country best, since you have to sweat up the hills and coast down them. Thus you remember them as they actually are, while in a motor car only a high hill impresses you, and you have no such accurate remembrance of country you have driven through as you gain by riding a bicycle.

In every port in the world, at least two Estonians can be found.

The best sky was in Italy or Spain and in Northern Michigan in the fall

For one person who likes Spain there are a dozen who prefer books on her.

Woman are a nuisance on Safari.

The road of the pass was hard and smooth and not yet dusty in the early morning.