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Quotes About Travel

How can I care about needing a visa to travel if the furthest I'm going to travel is the town centre? For a person to care about Brexit - it's only for people who are in a certain state of mind.
~ Big Narstie
I've been all around the world, and there will be a thousand kids crying out your name, and it's such a weird, visceral experience. It's like, it's disorienting.
~ Rodney Mullen
Getting to Valle Nevado is half the fun. A serpentine road from Santiago wriggles up the spine of Andean peak for an hour, then traverses a valley and finally up again. The hotel is perched on a rugged mountain crag at 3,000m: no other sign of human development is visible from this spot, which is close to the Argentinean border.
~ Jonathan Franklin
In my world travels, I saw a good many varieties of butterflies. They're incredibly delicate creatures, but they shouldn't be underestimated. Observing them as I did, I learned a valuable lesson. Sometimes if you surround a butterfly too closely, it couldn't fly if it wanted to.
~ Lorraine Heath
I go to the gym five days a week and I have a personal trainer. I am on a strict diet, which is kind of hard to keep up with on the road, but I stick to it as well as I can.
~ Lou Gramm
Never eat Mexican food east of Mississippi or north of Dallas.
~ Unknown
We may sit in our library and yet be in all quarters of the earth.
~ Unknown
Miksi muka on hienostunutta olla ikävystynyt? Tyylikkäillä matkailijoilla ja teatterissa kävijöillä on usein sama tuskastunut, ikävystymisestä kielivä ilme. Miksei voisi sanoa: "Ai matka? Miten jännittävää! Suurenmoinen näytelmä!
~ Unknown
Dipendesse da me non farei altro che viaggiare. Vorrei
~ Luciano De Crescenzo
Everywhere is nowhere. When a person spends all his time in foreign travel, he ends by having many acquaintances, but no friends.
~ Lucius Annaeus Seneca
My favourite setting is Italy, specifically Venice, because it is there that I met my husband, who is Venetian. I used it as the setting for Virtue and Vice, Enchantment in Venice, and Seduced by Innocence. Apart from Venice, my favourite city is Rome.
~ Unknown
Food is central to travelling and is a vivid entryway into another culture, but we do not have to literally leave home to "travel". Movies, books, postcards, memories all take us, emotionally if not physically, to other places.
~ Unknown
The basis of tourism is perception of otherness, of something being different from the usual.
~ Unknown
Travel is the only context in which some people ever look around. If we spent half the energy looking at our own neighborhoods, we'd probably learn twice as much.
~ Lucy R. Lippard
A bus cuts the world in half...
~ Jodi Picoult
The scenery you see when you're driving in a car is completely different from the scenery you'd see if you walked the same stretch of road. In the car you might see splashes of color; by foot, you'd realize they are butterflies.
~ Jodi Picoult
She wondered how big the world was, really, when you crossed it, instead of traced it with your finger on the map.
~ Jodi Picoult
It felt like the stamp of a passport when you reached your own country, and realized that the only reason you'd traveled was to remember the feeling of home.
~ Jodi Picoult
Suddenly Izzy's future no longer seemed impossible. It felt like the stamp of a passport when you reached your own country, and realized that the only reason you'd traveled was to remember the feeling of home.
~ Jodi Picoult
to the door. Blankets, supplies, hardtack.
~ Jodi Thomas
While traveling in this highly idiosyncratic country, it became clear to me that the Scots did not like the English.
~ Joe Queenan
Veneeni on kevyt ja nopea
~ Unknown
If travelling through a malarial region take an adequate supply of anti-malaria tablets. You must start taking these two weeks before your journey, so that resistance is in the system before you arrive in the risk area, and should keep taking them for a month after your return.
~ Unknown
What a fine affair it would be if we could flit across the Atlantic as they say the angels do from planet to planet.
~ John Adams