Quotes About Travel

When people are worried about the future, they don't take trips to Hawaii.

Eventually everyone will have the opportunity to travel onto space.

A practical way to travel between the stars is a must-have for space opera, and a sine qua non for our frequently vaunted future as a galactic society.

Aviation is for the common man. My goal is to enable everyone to fly. It shouldnt be only for the rich.

The road is more important than the goal.

Each and every one of the security measures we implement serves an important goal: providing safe and efficient air travel for the millions of people who rely on our aviation system every day.

The last time I was in Spain I got through six Jeffrey Archer novels. I must remember to take enough toilet paper next time.

I quit flying years ago. I don't want to die with tourists.

The taxpayers are sending congressmen on expensive trips abroad. It might be worth it except they keep coming back!

I once spent a year in Philadelphia, I think it was on a Sunday.

What does it mean to pre-board? Do you get on before you get on?

I love to go to Washington - if only to be near my money.

Everywhere is within walking distance if you have the time.

Cross country skiing is great if you live in a small country.

Airplanes may kill you, but they ain't likely to hurt you.

I believe that every English poet should read the English classics, master the rules of grammar before he attempts to bend or break them, travel abroad, experience the horror of sordid passion and-if he is lucky enough-know the love of an honest woman.

A man knows his companion in a long journey and a little inn.

his "ma guarda che roba, but will you look at this," when he sees the flowers and then his tinkering search for the espresso pot while I'm pulling on shorts and sandals, shouting down, "Why don't we just run up the hill for cappuccini?

Travel is said to be broadening because it makes us realize that our way of doing things is not the only one, that people in other cultures live differently and get by just fine. Insects do that, too, only better.

In Australien ist man der amerikanischen Zeit um siebzehn Stunden voraus. Man fliegt also buchstäblich in den nächsten Tag hinein. Während des Fluges erinnerte ich mich daran, daß wir sicher sein konnten, daß es die Welt am nächsten Tag noch geben und alles in Ordnung sein würde! Auf dem Kontinent, der vor uns lag, war es schon »morgen«.

In Australien ist man der amerikanischen Zeit um siebzehn Stunden voraus. Man fliegt also buchsnächstäblich in den nächsten Tag hinein. Während des Fluges erinnerte ich mich daran, daß wir sicher sein konnten, daß es die Welt am nächsten Tag noch geben und alles in Ordnung sein würde! Auf dem Kontinent, der vor uns lag, war es schon >morgen<.

The photograph reverses the purpose of travel, which until now had been to encounter the strange and unfamiliar.

You said: There's a lot of places out there, friend, so you would go, smuggling a suitcase of words across every border carved by the heel of mapmakers or conquerors, because you had an all-night conversation with the world, hearing the beat of unsung poems in every voice, visiting the haunted rooms in every face. Drive, you said, because poets must bring the news to the next town: You got a song, man, sing it. You got a bell, man, ring it.

Wanderer, there is no road, the road is made by walking.