Quotes About Travel

If there was a road I could not make it out in the faint starlight. There was nothing but land: not a country at all, but the material out of which countries are made.

Round the world and home again, that's the sailor's way!

Pluck not the wayside flower; It is the traveler's dower.

The attention of a traveller, should be particularly turned, in the first place, to the various works of Nature, to mark the distinctions of the climates he may explore, and to offer such useful observations on the different productions as may occur.

Travelers repose and dream among my leaves.

William Buhlman

He made the world to be a grassy road Before her wandering feet.

A friend Alan and I ended up in an Outback pub in a place called Daly Waters and apparently, he says, in the course of this very lively evening we spent there I offered to do a house swap with a family from Korea. We weren't sure whether they were from North Korea or South Korea.

His diaries had begun to assume something of the knowingness of incipient middle age; at times, indeed, he was in danger of becoming priggish and opinionated. As with many later European voyagers, travel in this part of the world, far from broadening the mind, seemed instead to lead to a blanket distrust of anyone of a different creed, colour or class.

There is no fear of robbers nor highwaymen, no one challenges you where you are going nor where you have come from;

A hotel isn't like a home, but it's better than being a house guest.

She knows, now, absolutely, hearing the white noise that is London, that Damien's theory of jet lag is correct: that her mortal soul is leagues behind her, being reeled in on some ghostly umbilical down the vanished wake of the plane that brought her here, hundreds of thousands of feet above the Atlantic. Souls can't move that quickly, and are left behind, and must be awaited, upon arrival, like lost luggage.

There is no budget for travel for a Shadow Foreign Secretary.

One of the pleasantest things in the world is going a journey; but I like to go by myself.

You know more of a road by having traveled it than by all the conjectures and descriptions in the world.

It is not fit that every man should travel it makes a wise man better, and a fool worse.

It is precisely Battuta's lack of interest in peoples outside Dar-al- Islam—the world of Islam—that testifies to Muslim dominance of medieval Asian trade. In the fourteenth century, Battuta could travel 74,000 miles through Morocco, East Africa, India, central Asia, Southeast Asia, and China and remain entirely within the Muslim cultural envelope, never having to interact in a meaningful manner with those outside it in order to survive, to travel, or even to make a living.

Royal Adventurers into Africa

We had been given flowers, good food, and a soft bed, all in exchange for declaring our love. I thought we might go from town to town and marry in each one.

So much of who we are is where we have been.

What you've done becomes the judge of what you're going to do - especially in other people's minds. When you're traveling, you are what you are right there and then. People don't have your past to hold against you. No yesterdays on the road.

I never listen to the radio unless I rent a car.

A major league pitching coach is a really difficult job. It takes a big commitment in terms of time, travel and workload.

A traveler's most interesting meals tend to happen by surprise.