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Quotes About Travel

I go toward Capri for my holiday; but it seems to me now, in the quietness of this night, beneath the mysterious geometry of the stars, where nothing exists except this hand that forms the curious letters which by some other mysterious process you will understand, it seems to me that I go somewhere else, to a place as mysterious as any I have ever seen. I shall write further tomorrow. Perhaps we can discover that place toward which I travel.
~ John Williams
Jim sat back, taking her hand. "We're going to have a terrific time, sweetheart. Just like the farty-looking couples in the brochures. It'll be great.
~ Elizabeth Strout
We of the Plains believe that our dead travel with us, ride along beside us, unseen and unknown, but knowing and seeing... Until the longest night. On that night, we mourn our dead, who are released to journey to the stars.
~ Elizabeth Vaughan
The fuss made over the chickens at the checkpoints is not to be believed. Unlike me they had their own papers.
~ Elizabeth Wein
I need complicated railroad journeys and people speaking to me in foreign languages to keep me happy. I want to see the world and write stories about everything I see.
~ Elizabeth Wein
One travels to run away from routine, that dreadful routine that kills all imagination and all our capacity for enthusiasm.
~ Ella Maillart
Travel can also be the spirit of adventure somewhat tamed, for those who desire to do something they are a bit afraid of.
~ Ella Maillart
Shall we ever see the 10 million things of the universe simultaneously in order to be the all? I am convinced that to live is to travel towards the world's end.
~ Ella Maillart
Not only does travel give us a new system of reckoning, it also brings to the fore unknown aspects of our own self. Our consciousness being broadened and enriched, we shall judge ourselves more correctly.
~ Ella Maillart
We travelled with a bookshelf fixed above the back of our seat. The poor books were shaken madly during all these days, but we rejoiced to be able to lay our hand on the right volume at the right moment. Rubbing against each other were Marco Polo, Pelliot, Evans-Wentz, Vivekananda, Maritain, Jung, a life of Alexander the Great, Grousset, the Zend-Avesta. I picked The Darvishes by John P. Brown and H. A. Rose, and read aloud a passage about Jalal-ud-din Rumi.
~ Ella Maillart
Out the plane's window, flatlands had given way to the rough and rumpled chaos of mountain peaks and alpine valleys.
~ Ellen Datlow
This is overdue. Quite a bit, I'm afraid. I apologize. We moved to Topeka when I was very small, and Mother accidentally packed it up with the linens. I have traveled a long way to return it, and I know the fine must be large, but I have no money. As it is a book of fairy tales, I thought payment of a first-born child would be acceptable. I always loved the library. I'm sure she'll be happy there.
~ Ellen Klages
I think the Smart Car is awesome. The only problem is I've been on the freeway and felt like I was going to be blown away like a Tim Hortons coffee cup, so I may have to upgrade to a Mini Cooper - something a little stronger.
~ Ellen Page
Go in and get us a shrunken head!
~ Ellen Schreiber
Say you'll come with me to Paris." "Je t'aime.
~ Ellen Sussman
When I get up in the morning I brush my teeth and go about my business, and if I am going anywhere interesting I take my camera along.
~ Elliott Erwitt
I traveled. I went to parties. I played house with my ugly husband.
~ Ellis Avery
It's so beautiful here. You must come before you die.
~ Eloisa James
So this book is my phone call--not from the top of a mountain, or even the top of the Eiffel Tower: the "here" is negotiable. It's so beautiful here. You must come visit before you die.
~ Eloisa James
I'm going to cover the whole world like it was a neighborhood, and in airplanes and raing cars, not on foot!
~ Elsa Morante
Hold me closer tiny dancer, count the headlights on the highway. Lay me down in sheets of linen, you had a busy day today.
~ Elton John
viejo aeropuerto de Barajas a la ciudad en un día de otoño.
~ Elvira Lindo
I based in Brazil, Sao Paulo, but I come very often to the states, and I travel all over the world.
~ Emerson Fittipaldi
S? faci dou? zile de drum ca sa fugi de Paris, ÅŸi s? reg?seÅŸti radioul, tranzistorul etc, tot ce detestai cînd ai plecat.
~ Emil Cioran