Quotes About Travel

The last couple relationships I had were long distance. It's not like I can make much of an effort to travel and see anybody. The guy had to do all the work, unfortunately.

Their ships are swift as a bird or a thought.

I'd need rest to refresh my brain, and to get rest it's necessary to travel, and to travel one must have money, and in order to get money you have to work. . . . I am in a vicious circle . . .from which it is impossible to escape.

Si les Français ont autant de répugnance que les Anglais ont de propension pour les voyages, peut-être les Français et les Anglais ont-ils raison de part et d'autre. On trouve partout quelque chose de meilleur que l'Angleterre, tandis qu'il est excessivement difficile de retrouver loin de la France les charmes de la France.

All through those splendid years of travel Pons was as happy as was possible to a man with a great soul, a sensitive nature, and a face so ugly that any "success with the fair" (to use the stereotyped formula of 1809) was out of the question; the realities of life always fell short of the ideals which Pons created for himself; the world without was not in tune with the soul within, but Pons had made up his mind to the dissonance.

If travel were so inspiring and informing a business ... then the wisest men in the world would be deck hands on tramp steamers.

Seize the opportunities life has to offer you. Embrace the changes, and have the courage to travel on roads less travelled, even though what is in front of you could be tough, make it successful. Have determination and courage to kick down the brick walls in front of you, and to go on and achieve bigger success than you ever thought possible.

I am what I am and what I have always been, a poor soul on a journey.

You're like a favorite pillow. I have to pack you wherever I go.

Well, anyway, she certainly was not worried that John-Paul was having an affair. Definitely not. It wasn't a possibility. Not even a remote possibility. He wouldn't have time for an affair! When would he fit it in? He did travel a bit. He could fit in an affair then.

She has that euphoric feeling you get at the airport after you've checked in your luggage. Nothing can stop your journey.

This type of thing was always happening to John-Paul. Last time he went overseas he'd left his laptop in a cab. The man lost things constantly. Wallets, phones, keys, his wedding ring. His possessions just slid right off him.

because she was a woman, and women know that babies and husbands and sick parents can derail your dreams, at any moment they can drag you from your bed, they can forestall your career, they can lift you from your prized seat at Wimbledon from a match later described as 'epic'. She thought she'd need to call an ambulance or take him to a hospital. She was thinking about travel insurance and telling the children, and how would they transport his body home?

fares for the ship?' 'I'll see to it,' Joe reassured her. 'And look, if you want Dottie and me to come with you, I'm sure she wouldn't mind. We meant to stay here for the winter but we could easily change our plans. I reckon she'd be all right on the journey now, especially if you were there too.' He

But others, the book said, will stay where they are for the winter. Those geese are already home.

A year and a half up that little tributary somewhere?' Tillie said. 'Good God,

No one realizes how beautiful it is to travel until he comes home and rests his head on his old, familiar pillow.

was. Laura saw it more as an opportunity to spend three months in

If I had children, I would be very selfish. I wouldn't be out doing things. But by not having kids, it makes me freer to travel the world and talk about things I feel are important.

You've been in more hotel rooms, Coop, than Gideon's Bible

As I stared out of the train window, the scenery became a blur, as unclear as my thoughts and feelings.

If you want to understand the life of a foreign city, how people go about their day-to-day business, what they buy and what they look like, go to the supermarket. I rarely have the need to purchase a box of breakfast cereal or a loaf of bread while abroad, but watching others do it tells me more about a place than being led around in a crocodile behind a tour guide's umbrella.

I'm extremely blessed because I travel extensively for my work, but I always try to incorporate a bit of leisure with business.

And then we heard the train from a long ways off. It was how sound traveled her, where sometimes a sound from miles away seemed close at hand, and at other times a person in the same room sounded far away, distant and remote.