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Quotes About Travel

We sail, at sunrise, daily, "outward bound."
~ Helen Hunt Jackson
The Owl and the Pussy-Cat went to sea In a beautiful pea-green boat.
~ Edward Lear
There are three wants which can never be satisfied: that of the rich, who want something more; that of the sick, who want something different; and that of the traveler, who says, "Anywhere but here."
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
The proper means of increasing the love we bear our native country is to reside some time in a foreign one.
~ William Shenstone
Teenagers travel in droves, packs, swarms. ... To the librarian, they're a gaggle of geese. To the cook, they're a scourge of locusts. To department stores, they're a big beautiful exaltation of larks ... all lovely and loose and jingly.
~ Bernice FitzGibbon
He who never leaves his country is full of prejudices.
~ Carlo Goldoni
Every year it takes less time to fly across the Atlantic, and more time to drive to the office.
~ Anonymous
If I look like this, I need the trip.
~ Gloria Swanson
The cure for grief is motion.
~ Elbert Hubbard
I have found adventure in flying, in world travel, in business, and even close at hand. ... Adventure is a state of mind-and spirit. It comes with faith, for with complete faith there is no fear of what faces you in life or death.
~ Jacqueline Cochran
The country has charms only for those not obliged to stay there.
~ Edouard Manet
Our deeds still travel with us from afar, and what we have been makes us what we are.
~ George Eliot
Before he sets out, the traveller must possess fixed interests and facilities, to be served by travel. If he drifted aimlessly from country to country he would not travel but only wander, ramble as a tramp. The traveller must be somebody and come from somewhere so his definite character and moral traditions may supply an organ and a point of comparison for his observations.
~ George Santayana
Down to Gehenna or up to the throne, He travels the fastest who travels alone.
~ Rudyard Kipling
The more I see of other countries the more I love my own.
~ Mme. De Stael
Good company in a journey makes the way to seem the shorter.
~ Izaak Walton
Hamej, merrini këto valixhe. Të rënda? Janë mbushur me pritje...
~ Ismail Kadare
There is more time than there is expanse of the world and so any voyage at last will end.
~ Ivan Doig
Sav sjaj što ga Bog svijetom propisa plavi o?i moje. Vezani su ?ilimi od sunca i sjenka. Ognjen miris ima vino života. Srce mi pod grlom bije. Za dug život i veliku radost! Putujte i brodite, ne ostanite željni burna mora, ni polja, ni gustih šuma! Milo je Bogu da vas vidi gdje vam je život pjesma i ples! Za žive i za one koji su mladi!
~ Ivo Andri?
I treated the wound with antibiotic cream and let it close before doing any serious snorkeling—and incidentally, I do very much like the phrase serious snorkeling. If I could somehow figure out a way to incorporate the sentence I'm a serious snorkeler, bitchezz without it seeming like a gratuitous aside, I would. And I guess I just did. It's magic, really.
~ J. Maarten Troost
Why do they call it rush hour when it lasts days and nobody can rush anywhere?
~ J.D. Robb
You enjoyed your honeymoon? Christ, she thought, when was someone going to ask if she'd enjoyed being fucked around the world and into outer space? Yes, sir. Thank you.
~ J.D. Robb
Why do sheep need a station? Are they catching trains? Where are they going? Why do they have to go there?
~ J.D. Robb
She had to hoof it two
~ J.D. Robb