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Quotes About Travel

Loneliness is an integral part of travelling. I used to think it was the downside to travelling, but now I realise it is a necessary educative part of it to be embraced.
~ David Mitchell
Cell phones, alas, have pretty much ruined train travel, which I used to love. I could read or even sketch notes for what I was working on.
~ Thomas Mallon
Space travel is utter bilge. I don't think anybody will ever put up enough money to do such a thing. . . . It is all rather rot.
~ Richard van der Riet Woolley
Angela Merkel can't travel to any European country without being protected by hundreds of police. That is not brotherhood.
~ Marine Le Pen
When you look like your passport photo, it's time to go home.
~ Erma Bombeck
The greatest difficulty of Travel is that one is forced to take oneself along.
~ Alain de Botton
Travel should rub off Local Prejudices and provide an enlarged and impartial view of Men and Things.
~ Josiah Tucker
The cruelty of fate is that I must travel with the people I hate when the people I love are dead behind me.
~ Veronica Roth
Even while the Earth sleeps we travel.
~ Khalil Gibran
I didn't realise you could travel so far and still be in England.
~ Kevin Bond
I've always been interested in the rest of the world. My family is very eccentric; my parents have always been very supportive of travel and doing whatever I thought I needed to do.
~ Lynsey Addario
The real meaning of travel, like that of a conversation by the fireside, is the discovery of oneself through contact with other people, and its condition is self-commitment in the dialogue.
~ Paul Tournier
[Jazz] is a music of freedom and wonder. It's our indigenous art form, and I'm still blessed to travel around the world and people lay out the carpet for us, so it's quite touching.
~ Charles Lloyd
He that would travel for the entertainment of others should remember that the great object of remark is human life.
~ Samuel Johnson
Like love, travel makes you innocent again.
~ Diane Ackerman
I became a model to see the world, to make enough money to travel and experience other cultures.
~ Lauren Hutton
We are going to sign a treaty with Mexico. We are competing internationally. We need another international airport for international cargo, international travel, international businesses.
~ Richard M. Daley
Is it true that one travels in order to know mankind? It is easier to get to know other people at home, but abroad one gets to know oneself.
~ Franz Grillparzer
They say the sky is the same everywhere. Travellers, the shipwrecked, exiles, and the dying draw comfort from the thought.
~ Virginia Woolf
The urge to travel feels magnetic. Two of my favorite words are linked: departure time. And travel whets the emotions, turns upside down the memory bank, and the golden coins scatter.
~ Frances Mayes
There is nothing safer than flying - it's crashing that is dangerous.
~ Theo Cowan
Night falls over Machu Picchu to the sound of Abba's 'Dancing Queen'.
~ Michael Palin, Full Circle
Time travel is such a magic concept.
~ Matt Smith
We've let too much time go by. We've been busy with war instead of being busy with peace. And that's what space travel is all about. It's all about peace and exploration and wonder and beauty.
~ Ray Bradbury