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Quotes About Travel

Getting lost is just another way of saying 'going exploring'.
~ Justina Chen
Mom doing things for herself was the best souvenir we could have brought back from China.
~ Justina Chen
While our mothers rode the escalators up to baggage claim, Jacob and I took the stairs, racing each other. "No fair," I said, as we started. "You've got longer legs." Jacob glanced over his shoulder at me, grabbed Mom's spillover purchases that I had stuffed into one of his extra carry-ons. "Take your excuses somewhere else, Trouble Magnet.
~ Justina Chen
He left school without even sending you a text message saying 'I hope you enjoy the beautiful scenery on your trip through Dumpslandia.
~ Justine Larbalestier
Warwick Castle, Oxford University, the Cotswold, and the countryside of England are my favorite places to visit when I'm in England. Whenever I visit, I feel as if I've come home. These places inspired my settings for my fantasy series, Bitter Frost Series, Wordwick Games, and The Alchemists Academy. I didn't know the great author of the Lord of the Rings Trilogy was also inspired by Warwick, Oxford, and Cotswold. Imaginative minds must dream alike.
~ Kailin Gow
I chose to see emigration and globe-trotting as an escape, not as a loss. Nowhere to call home? No problem, the world is my oyster. Where are you from, they ask. Does it matter, I answer. But it does. Because how can you truly know yourself, and how can you know other place and people, if you don't even know where you come from?
~ Kapka Kassabova
I managed to convince myself that I'd left Bulgaria behind for good. I chose to see emigration and globe-trotting as an escape, not as a loss. Nowhere to call home? No problem, the world is my oyster. Where are you from? they ask. Does it matter? I answer. But it does.
~ Kapka Kassabova
Back in the day we didn't really have time to be a live act because we were always on TV or doing live interviews. We were being flown all over the world.
~ Keren Woodward
If you're going somewhere international, try to learn a little bit of the language. It goes a long way to be able to introduce yourself, ask for things, and even say hello to someone in a new country!
~ Eva Gutowski
I would take the jeepney all the way to Angeles City, and that's how I got introduced to break dancing.
~ apl.de.ap
Because I have two houses, I invariably get immersed in a book and then discover it's at the other house.
~ Lois Lowry
I hate it when I have to abandon my children. I politely turn down most of the invitations I get from abroad and try to fly only when it's absolutely necessary.
~ Sayed Kashua
Some people get the wrong idea about what the job of a cricket correspondent involves - it's not all laid-on luxury travel.
~ Jonathan Agnew
At any given time, I have to be looking at different things constantly, and it involves a lot of flying, and it doesn't involve much sleep.
~ Tony Khan
I've gotten into doing electronic books and audiobooks, so I have an iPad. I still love reading a real book, but when you travel, it's better than carrying around a bunch of books.
~ Jim James
When I'm at home, I like to put records on, but because I travel a lot, I listen to a lot of music on my iPhone.
~ Tom Odell
I never go anywhere without my iPod.
~ Robert Carlyle
I always travel with my iPod and I've never read a book in my life. It makes me tired; my brain is not set up for reading.
~ Gino D'Acampo
I try to get over to Iraq and Afghanistan as much as I can.
~ R. Lee Ermey
I was born in Argentina, and have lived in England, Ireland, Africa and Malta.
~ Chris de Burgh
I spend most of my time in London but I come back to Ireland whenever I can.
~ Rory Gallagher
I had a very peripatetic childhood, so I bounced around. Lived in Ethiopia until I was, like, three or four and then lived between Ireland and London.
~ Ruth Negga
Ireland is also quite nice. So is Amsterdam.
~ Diane von Furstenberg
It's beautiful, shooting in Ireland. It's an amazing country.
~ Travis Fimmel