Quotes About Travel

Repeatedly during her trek from grotto to bungalow

which was named after the Roman god Mercury.

all goes well, he will be done with the job before the day ends, and then be on his way.

On the road again, past the jerkwater called Warm Springs, heading toward Tonopah on federal highway 6

A lot of the time, I don't much care where I go, just so I go somewhere.

His clairvoyance is time travel achieved without leaving the present

Anywhere includes everywhere. If it does not matter where we go, then surely there can be no point in going.

This is an example of why travel is important. It changes perspective. It alters your eyes and ears, puts unexpected notions into your head, provides aha moments.

Animals had returned to what was left of the forest...clusters of orange butterflies exploded off the blackish purple piles of bear sign and winked and fluttered magically like leaves without trees. More bears than people traveled the muddy road, leaving tracks straight up and down the middle of it...

We whizzed along down through the skeleton remnants of Iowa.

Don't go on holiday to Blackpool, it's fucking horrible there.

I had to travel, to distract the enchantments gathered in my brain. Over the sea, that I loved as if she'd wash me clean of stain, I saw the cross of consolation rise. I had been damned by the rainbow. Happiness was my fatality, my remorse, my worm: my life would be forever too immense to be devoted to strength and beauty. O Happiness! its tooth, killing sweetly, warned me at cock-crow

You was in all sorts of places, huh?" "Yeah, I was. Saw the world." "What'd you think of it?" "Different languages, same shit.

On September 7th, after the Cubs dropped Game Three, the two teams boarded the Michigan Central together to embark on the twenty-seven hour trip, and Babe Ruth got drunk and started stealing hats.

If I Am murdered en route it will have been well worth while!

The hardships and poverty of my youth had been a good apprenticeship for this form of travel. I had been brought up to understand that material possessions and physical comfort should never be confused with success, achievement and security. And soon I was discovering for myself that our real material needs are very few and that the extras now presented as 'needs' not only endanger true contentment but diminish our human dignity.

I heard you went to Ireland...I haven't seen it in many years. Is it still green then, and beautiful? Wet as a bath sponge and mud to the knees but, aye, it was green enough.

I could feel the hair rising on my forearms, as though with cold, and rubbed them uneasily. Two hundred years. From 1945 to 1743; yes, near enough. And women who traveled through the rocks. Was it always women? I wondered suddenly.

My first coherent thought was, "It's raining. This must be Scotland.

The rest of the journey passed uneventfully, if you consider it uneventful to ride fifteen miles on horseback through rough country at night, frequently without benefit of roads, in company with kilted men

We jolted along for a couple of hours in this manner, but the pain grew steadily worse, keeping me shifting in the saddle incessantly.

Here we stopped, turning our horses over to the attention of a hostler, who moved so slowly as to seem ossified.

All right. Where are we going?

along. It was a week after we had set out, in a