Quotes About Travel

The cost of living is first on all of our minds this important year. Yet the President [Nixon] has decided that it is a year for travel. I ask–when is he going to make a "Trip to Peking" in regard to the basic problems facing us in the United States this year? He is willing to go halfway 'round the world--yet he doesn't have time to walk ten blocks from the White House in Washington and look at the lives people are living under Phase II. (From Voices of Multicultural America)

I spend plenty of time in London and it doesn't scare me, but it's a lonely place, even if you've got friends there. My job takes me all around the world, meeting lots of interesting people. But I think if I couldn't get home, if I couldn't get back to what I consider my real life I'd be frightened.

The more I traveled the more I realized that fear makes strangers of people who should be friends.

The elderly in China play mah-jong. American senior citizens go on cruises and play golf. Europeans visit museums, tour wineries and dine at Michelin-star restaurants. Indian elders visit temples.

Speak, roofless Nature, your instinctive words; And let me learn your secret from the sky, Following a flock of steadfast-journeying birds In lone remote migration beating by. December stillness, crossed by twilight roads, Teach me to travel far and bear my loads.

I like being able to walk into an old town and find good local food.

You can start locally. Upturn a glass on a map and centre it on your home. Then draw a ring around the rim and explore that circle so you know it like the back of your hand. All travel gifts memories, and spontaneity has a place.

I looked forwards to the flight deck. The door was open and I could see the pilot and co-pilot toasting each other with glasses of vodka. In the context of where we were going, this felt completely normal.

He charged me about £50 and in fifteen minutes I had a genuine Somali diplomatic passport, bearing my own name and photograph. No checks, no birth certificate, of course. I still have the passport, and it remains one of my strangest travel souvenirs.

More of us should try turning a break into a proper adventure with a healthy dose of purpose and meaning. It almost guarantees a lifetime of memories. You could follow a river from source to sea or start a trip in one location and then head to another, exploring along the way.

think the real Golden Age of travel is actually now, when it is cheaper and safer than ever. It's also a guaranteed way of tingling your senses, enhancing your life and gifting you a huge stock of memories, encounters and experiences.

If the style of my programmes was to be inspired by anyone else, I thought it had to be, of course, the great Michael Palin.

My experience of ships is that on them one makes an interesting discovery about the world. One finds one can do without it completely.

He travels safe and not unpleasantly who is guarded by poverty and guided by love.

Most of the time I spent in America, I was having a love affair with some American or other. I was just passing through but stayed because of these chaps.

I'm a huge camper, and love hiking and mountain biking.

There are still so many places on our planet that remain unexplored. I'd love to one day peel back the mystery and understand them.

If we want money we'll go to Las Vegas, if we want an after party we'll go to Miami but if we want to play for love, we still come to India!

I would love to fly privately, but unfortunately, I don't. I don't summer anywhere either.

There's no downside to traveling the world and making money. I'm doing something I love. A lot of people have sucky jobs, but I have a good one, and I'm not trying to lose it any time soon.

I wasn't captivated by the romance of Paris or London. I love visiting, but I'd rather be in L.A.

I loved the way she said 'LA'; I love the way everybody says 'LA' on the Coast; it's their one and only golden town when all is said and done.

All our songs are about love, travel and death.

I want to drive! I love to drive! I drive at home in Barbados.