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Quotes About Travel

Haley wondered to herself as she packed a sample of virtually every over-the-counter medication she was allowed to take into her travel bag. Insect
~ Edie Claire
bruscas sacudidas del tren abofetean a los viajeros hasta dejarlos sumidos en un estado de abyecta sumisión
~ Edmund Crispin
To travel in a foreign country is but to touch its surface. Under the guidance of a novelist of genius we penetrate to the secrets of a nation, and talk the very language of its citizens.
~ Edmund Gosse
Over hill, over dale, we have hit the dusty trailAnd those caissons go rolling along.
~ Edmund L. Gruber
Yes. All the worth-while things in life. All mixed up. Rooms in candle-light. Leisure. Colour. Travel. Books. Music. Pictures. People—all kinds of people. Work that you love. And growth—growth and watching people grow. Feeling very strongly about things and then developing that feeling to—to make
~ Edna Ferber
He never has seen Seattle; he says he's crazy to; he says he doesn't believe there is any such place or any state called Washington that has a town named Walla Walla.
~ Edna Ferber
We were very tired, we were very merry—We had gone back and forth all night on the ferry.
~ Edna St. Vincent Millay
My heart is warm with the friends I make, And better friends I'll not be knowing, Yet there isn't a train I wouldn't take, No matter where it's going.
~ Edna St. Vincent Millay
How shall I know, unless I go To Cairo and Cathay, Whether or not this blessed spot Is blest in every way? Now it may be, the flower for me Is this beneath my nose; How shall I tell, unless I smell The Carthaginian rose? The fabric of my faithful love No power shall dim or ravel Whilst I stay here,—but oh, my dear, If I should ever travel!
~ Edna St. Vincent Millay
My heart is warm with the friends I make, And better friends I'll not be knowing, Yet there isn't a train I wouldn't take, No matter where it's going.
~ Edna St. Vincent Millay
The country has charms only for those not obliged to stay there.
~ Edouard Manet
Let our people travel light and free on their bicycles—nothing on the back but a shirt, nothing tied to the bike but a slicker, in case of rain. Their
~ Edward Abbey
Better to idle through one park in two weeks than try to race through a dozen in the same amount of time. Those who are familiar with both modes of travel know from experience that this is true; the rest have only to make the experiment to discover the same truth for themselves.
~ Edward Abbey
And most significant, these hordes of nonmotorized tourists, hungry for a taste of the difficult, the original, the real, do not consist solely of people young and athletic but also of old folks, fat folks, pale-faced office clerks who don't know a rucksack from a haversack, and even children. The one thing they all have in common is the refusal to live always like sardines in a can—they are determined to get outside of their motorcars for at least a few weeks each year.
~ Edward Abbey
An American credit card… is just as good in Europe as American gold used to be.
~ Edward Bellamy
For the same reason I read the National Geographic, I like to see places I will never visit.
~ Edward Bernays
I felt as if I could ride the bus through eternity and be happy.
~ Edward Bunker
Something stayed him awhile yet. For the first time in his life he was feeling the traveler's thrill: a mixture of apprehension and excitement.
~ Edward Docx
Let the train take the strain.
~ Anonymous
May the road rise to meet you. May the wind be ever at your back.
~ Anonymous
Fly the friendly skies of United.
~ Anonymous
I'm [stewardess name] . . . Fly me.
~ Anonymous
See the USA in a Chevrolet.
~ Anonymous
You are now free to move about the country.
~ Anonymous