Quotes About Travel

You can be in Tokyo or Alberta at four in the morning in your hotel and you can still practice if you feel like it. A trombone cannot do that at four in the morning.

There are those who stay at home and those who go away, and it has always been so. Everyone can choose for himself, but he must choose while there is still time and never change his mind.

Yes, you're right. One makes a trip by day, but by night one sets out on a journey

The Platte River offered them a constant source of refreshing water

Since my addiction to motion is what feeds my writing, the main purpose of travel for me is to get lost.

As far as luxury goes, about the only thing I do is... I go first class all the way. I live on the road, so when I'm out there, I'm getting the nice hotel suite, I'm getting the luxury car, I'm eating the good food, and I make sure I take care of myself on the road.

I would like to host a show, something like travel or cooking or something like that, something I'm really interested in, and so I'm pitching a couple television shows.

Passengers come in all styles and types. But as long as they buckle their seat belts, observe the No Smoking sign, and don't pinch us as we pass, we couldn't care less.

Matthew rolled up in the Kahns' dilapidated van. "Hey there, vagrants," he said. "Sorry, my mom says I'm not allowed to pick up hitchhikers.

I'm giving you the grand tour,

I've come down from the mountains, with an ass-full of specimens...

Please tell the Senhor that I have never eaten better porco in my life,' said Jack, holding up a bare white bone. Jack had a variety of little imbecilities, but none irritated Stephen more than his way of tossing in the odd word or two of a foreign language.

There is nothing that interests me more than travel, I declare; and if I had had my health, I should have been a great traveller, a second–a second– St Paul? No, no. A second Lady Mary Wortley Montagu.

Horta de Sant Joan

Life is short. The world is big. It awaits your exploration. If you're not living on the edge, you're just taking up way too much space.

Whereas the tourist generally hurries back home at the end of a few weeks or months, the traveler, belonging no more to one place than to the next, moves slowly, over periods of years, from one part of the earth to another.

At least you can say you were in on the last days of Morocco, he told her. How's your tea? Finished? I think we ought to be going.

Ogniqualvolta si trovava in viaggio da un luogo all'altro, era in grado di valutare la propria vita con un po' più di obiettività del solito. Spesso, proprio durante un viaggio i suoi pensieri divenivano particolarmente lucidi, e prendeva decisioni cui non poteva arrivare quand'era fermo in un luogo.

You can go anywhere in books

Your on the planet too. Why should James Bond have all the action, fun, money, and resort hotel living.

Mr. Hamilton? At your service. I stopped at your cabin for you. I wasn't there.

She felt the curious flattening of inquiring spirit the traveller suffers from, knowing himself without occupation or investment in the fortunes of a strange city.

Reading made me a traveler; travel sent me back to books.

You think of travellers as bold, but our guilty secret is that travel is one of the laziest ways on earth of passing the time.