Quotes About Travel

It's all too easy to sneer at war tourism. Appending the word 'tourism' to any activity diminishes it, makes it ersatz, collective, prearranged. But the desire to make travelling more than a purely hedonistic or childish experience in search of warmth and food is a good thing, and the desire to understand the struggles of nations and the deaths of youths on their behalf must be important.

It was lucky for the pride of men that few traveled with their wives to Oregon. They'd never quite believe again a woman was to look at but not to listen to.

Travelling in one direction. Yearning to be going the other way. She has lived here. She will survive there.

Cuando el tren empezó a moverse y a salir de la estación, me asomé a la ventanilla. Pero no miré atrás, sino adelante. Como debe ser. En los viajes, lo mismo que en la vida, nunca hay que mirar al furgón de cola donde llevamos el equipaje del pasado, sino a la locomotora que nos conduce al porvenir. (Aunque parezca que este pensamiento lo he robado de la hoja de un calendario, juro que se me ha ocurrido a mí. Por si acaso.) (P. 192).

One of the strangest elements in travelling to other worlds is the way people smell. It isn't a matter of hygiene, simply a case of different foods, different oils and soaps for cleaning, meaning skin, hair, sweat and breath is always vastly different, world to world.

Gideon laughed and took his milkshake from the opened lid of the glove compartment.

My mother's father, Ahmed Musa Ibrahim, was an educated man, a travelled man, who had no time for these self-deluding patrician airs. He preferred to speak about justice and liberty and the right to self-fulfilment.

The natural tenderness and delicacy of our constitution, added to the many dangers we are subject to from your sex, renders it almost impossible for a single lady to travel without injury to her character. And those who have a protector in a husband have, generally speaking, obstacles to prevent their roving.

You can't really stop going places because you're frightened.

There are two kinds of travelers. There is the kind who goes to see what there is to see, and the kind who has an image in his head and goes out to accomplish it. The first visitor has an easier time, but I think the second visitor sees more.

We could have made it to the Arizona border in a few more hours if we hadn't been distracting each other with stupid little arguments. Don't get me wrong; I liked J.Lo fine. I've made that bed. But I'm not sure there's a person in the world I could be with twenty-four hours a day for three weeks without getting a little snippy. If I ever meet such a person, I'm marrying them.

Twain wrote in 1869 that "travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness.

Humans are both horny and mobile.

The fastest journey is achieved on foot

Have you ever stopped to think how weird it is that you have to take malaria pills to go to places where the population doesn't take them, or that you get injections for yellow fever, cholera, typhus and hepatitis? None of the locals are immune to these things. They just suffer them. Drug companies can find prophylactics for rich Western holiday-makers, but not for people who live with disease the other 50 weeks of the year.

Plenty of Westerners come, though, to pick through its jumble for something off the peg that fits; they do yoga as exercise, which is a bit like walking the stations of the cross as aerobics.

You never know when some small thing will lead to a big idea. Travel is very inspirational - but it's in the ordinary that I find my themes of love and work and family.

People use GoPros to capture the experiences they are passionate about.

My passport's green.

I remember I want for a shoot in Tbilisi and my entire Indian crew was allowed to go. But I was stopped because of my Pakistani passport. I was investigated and they took my interview and then they let me go.

A lot of Americans don't have a passport, never will have a passport. Not only will they not travel, they don't want to travel.

My ginger tabby cat Oscar - he's got his own passport - he comes everywhere with me.

I always have my passport on me, as well as two currencies.

When you're in trouble, all you need is your bank card and passport, and you're fine.