Quotes About Travel

He's got places to go, people to see . . . 

I think I knew even then it would be my maps that would take me across the world, to places and people unknown and into cultures otherwise closed to me. In mapping them I would come to know them a little and at times my very eagerness pained me.

His father had promised to show him the world. They'd go to Egypt, he'd said, and climb the Pyramids. They'd go to China and take a nice long stroll along that Great Wall. They'd see the Eiffel Tower in Paris and the Colosseum in Rome and at night, by the light of the stars, they'd glide through Venice in a black wooden gondola. The moon above, he sang, is yours and mine...

Sometimes, if you want to be happy, you've got to run away to Bath and marry a punk rocker.

We head for the mainland, and the long journey home.

If there were one more thing I could do, it would be to go on safari again.

And the cat went with her.

I'm seeing so much of America today," Luya kept telling Lowell in nervously accented English. It became a personal catchphrase for him — whenever things were not to his liking, he'd say that — I'm seeing so much of America today.

Leave nothing but footprints, take nothing but memories.

If you were a nomad, your nation traveled in your heart. And without the Mando heart, you had nothing -not even your soul- in whatever new conquest followed death

He's from Georgia," Cayla said. "Where else is he gonna go on vacation?

I've found out that Malakula was named by Captain James Cook. It comes from the French mal au cul which means 'pain in the arse' after Cook found it difficult to deal with cannibals, volcanoes and other annoying features. It's good to know proper explorers sometimes share the feelings I have on my travels.

I'd heard street food was a big thing here in Mexico but I didn't think it meant the creatures that lived on the street.

the bus was running late, but in truth this was no surprise. Delhi probably got its name from the word 'delay'.

That was the problem with time travel, of course (apart from the impossibility) – one would always be a Cassandra, spreading doom with one's foreknowledge of events. It was quite wearyingly relentless but the only way that one could go was forward. She

A man away from home need feel no shame. Let's go out there and shame ourselves like crazy.

We flee away from cities, but we bring The best of cities, these learned classifiers, Men knowing what they seek, armed eyes of experts.

Every man has some favorite topic of conversation, on which, by a feigned seriousness of attention, he may be drawn to expatiate without end.

I have this terrific make-up man. But he's expensive. I have to bring him in from Lourdes.

Never marry anyone you could not sit next to during a three-day bus trip.

The man who is tired of London is tired of looking for a parking space

No man ever got lost on a straight road.

A crossbow?" Pigeon asked. I left my battle-ax in my other jeans," the man said.

It is not wise for a man who can get seasick in a rowboat on a mill-pond to attack a Japanese dinner just after a seventeen days voyage across the Pacific.