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Quotes About Travel

Hemingway said the only way to write about a place is to leave it.
~ David Guterson
I'm the type of guy who, right as I'm taking off, I'm deciding, 'Hey, where do I want to go today?'
~ Jimmy Graham
I don't want to be one of those comics who says, 'Hey, what's wrong with air travel?' and stuff like that.
~ Russell Howard
Me and Devin have never hid the fact that us playing together would be a dream come true. My mom kind of has hinted at that since we both got into the league. She knows it would be a lot easier only having to travel to one city during the season.
~ Jason McCourty
I love to travel with my family or my two best friends because I completely trust them. I forced my two best friends into learning to scuba dive with me in Sri Lanka - it was amazing but also hideous because we were learning in very difficult seas.
~ Julia Sawalha
I've seen every highway in the United States, and they all look alike to me.
~ Loretta Lynn
Of course, you always have to be concerned about hijacking. But with the measures that are in place right now, I'd say that probably the airways are as safe as they've been in a good number of years.
~ Hugh Shelton
There are so many fun places to hike.
~ Peyton List
I try to make sure to get off the bus as much as I can, try to do something during the day that's local to where I am, whether it's hiking or fishing.
~ Dierks Bentley
Hiking, scuba diving - I just love getting out and doing things.
~ Jonathan Scott
I go hiking. I go camping.
~ Andrew R. Wheeler
I travel all over the world, but I'm never happier than when I'm walking up the hill to pick up my children from school.
~ Bettany Hughes
When I'm in Kathmandu, I go out into the hills and go trekking.
~ Manisha Koirala
But it is no use trying to account for things in Fairy Land; and one who travels there soon learns to forget the very idea of doing so, and takes everything as it comes; like a child, who, being in a chronic condition of wonder, is surprised at nothing
~ George MacDonald
Home is ever so far away in the palm of your hand, and how to get there it is of no use to tell you. But you will get there; you must get there; you have to get there. Everybody who is not at home, has to go home. You thought you were at home where I found you: if that had been your home, you could not have left it. Nobody can leave home.
~ George MacDonald
I would sooner be a foreigner in Spain than in most countries. How easy it is to make friends in Spain!
~ George Orwell
L'art de voyager, c'est presque la science de la vie.
~ George Sand
And we rode forward into the night, past the sleeping houses of our countrymen.
~ George Saunders
If I had my way I'd move everybody up to Canada. It's nice there. Very polite. We went for a weekend last fall and got a flat tire and these two farmers with bright-red faces insisted on fixing it, then springing for dinner, then starting a college fund for the babies.
~ George Saunders
I'm looking forward to a good night's sleep on the soil of a friend. [on an upcoming trip to Denmark]
~ George W. Bush
I didn't smuggle the dog into the country; I merely caused him to be smuggled out of Baluchistan.
~ Georgette Heyer
Mr Fawnhope, shaking hands with Lady Ombersley, asked whither she was bound. She told him, Merton, and he said elliptically: 'Statutes, Nolumus leges Angliae mutari.' 'Very likely', said Lady Ombersley almost tartly.
~ Georgette Heyer
Miss Thane turned her head to look up at Sir Tristram. 'I wish you will tell me what you did,' she said. 'You were not on the Brighton mail, were you? Is it possible that you rode here ventre à terre ?' 'No,' replied Sir Tristram. 'I came post.' Miss Thane seemed to abandon interest in his proceedings.
~ Georgette Heyer
It chances that I'd a letter myself by today's post, from Uncle Jonas Henry.' He chuckled. 'Seemingly he's as throng as he can be, and a trifle hackled with me for loitering here. I shall have to post off to Huddersfield next week, sir - and a bear-garden jaw I'll get when I arrive there, if I know Jonas Henry!
~ Georgette Heyer