Quotes About Travel

I've never really wanted to go to Japan. Simply because I don't like eating fish. And I know that's very popular out there in Africa.

All of Sicily is a dimension of the imagination.

The use of travelling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are.

There was part of me that wanted to see the world and travel to distant places, but I could only do it in my imagination, so I read ferociously and imagined things.

A black cat crossing your path signifies that the animal is going somewhere.

Anywhere you can take Jesus Christ with you is all right to go.

Wanderer, your footsteps are the road, and nothing more; wanderer, there is no road, the road is made by walking. By walking one makes the road, and upon glancing behind one sees the path. . .

I knew I was going to take the wrong train, so I left early.

I have no interest in sailing around the world. Not that there is any lack of requests for me to do so.

On my tenth birthday a bicycle and an atlas coincided as presents and a few days later I decided to cycle to India.

As a cabin boy on a Norwegian sailing ship I earned five kronen a week in addition to my keep.

The tourist may complain of other tourists, but he would be lost without them.

Without going out of my door, I can know all things on earth. Without looking out of my window I could know the ways of heaven. The farther one travels, The less one knows, the less one really knows.

I would like to go and dance in Palestine one day, with great pleasure, great pleasure.

When you are already in Detroit, you don't have to take a bus to get there.

When you run in places you visit, you encounter things you'd never see otherwise.

I wish I could get all the discourteous drivers on a ship and sail them away and make sure it's a really horrible, wavy journey and when they get to where they're going, keep them there.

The beaten path is the safest, but the traffic's terrible.

I have a picture of the Pont Neuf on a wall in my apartment, but i know that Paris is really on the closet shelf, in the box next to the sleeping bag, with the rest of my diaries.

The journey is the thing.

It's easier to date a football player for sure. Football players have one game a week, and they practice every day, but they're all at home. In basketball, they're on the road all the time.

You can cover a great deal of Countries in books.

If you have enthusiasm you have a very dynamic effective companion to travel with you on the road to somewhere.

Ewan McGregor, Long Way Round