Quotes About Travel

Packing light' wasn't possible. 'Packing light enough not to stall the train engine' seemed a noble goal to Evie's way of thinking.

Q: How far will he travel? A: He will travel so far, he will never come home again. His feet will never touch the ground, not for the rest of his life. He will never see his family again. He will never see the cannon again, but for the rest of his life, he will dream of her round, fixed, roaring black mouth.

It was said that pilgrims should not spend too much time planning their journey, for they might learn of so many hazards that they decide not to go

Woodrow Wilson was the first American president ever to leave the country during his term of office.

luces intermitentes. Se sintió aliviado al llegar al puente Carquinez. Una

había recogido a un europeo en una carretera.

Un giorno un giornalista mi chiese : <>. No. Le cattedrali sono sempre state affollate da turisti. Nel Medioevo non si chiamavano turisti, erano pellegrini, ma viaggiavano per gli stessi motivi: per vedere il mondo e le sue meraviglie, per ampliare i propri orizzonti, per istruirsi e forse per entrare in contatto con qualcosa di miracoloso, soprannaturale, eterno.

In dog philosophy it is always better to go somewhere than to be left behind.

Un ignorante piensa que los extranjeros son estúpidos, sin darse cuenta de que él también parecería igual de necio si viajase al extranjero.

It was the most romantic plane ever made.

He'd traveled in a straight line and completed a circle.

One night early in my travels I had had a dream about a birder who rode through the West, identifying everything in sight, and his binoculars were made of gold. The next day I had bought some cheap gold enamel and painted mine. The gold soon faded to a sickly greenish yellow.)

When you travel by road in the west you travel with a cohort of dust which streams up from your tyres and rolls away in a disintegrating funnel, defining the currents of air your vehicle sets in motion … And the heat is unthinkable, no matter how widely the windows are open, and the sweat streams off your body and into your socks, and if there are a number of people in the car their body stenches mingle disagreeably

I am not unconscious of the persuasive power exerted by these considerations to drag men along in the current; but I am not at liberty to travel that road.

Most people who travel look only at what they are directed to look at. Great is the power of the guidebook maker, however ignorant.

I travel with a boom box. When I get on a plane, I stuff the power cord for the boom box into the battery compartment. From an outsider's point of view, it looks like I've got it all wrong.

Music replays the past memories, awaken our forgotten worlds and make our minds travel.

I knew I'd chosen the wrong airline when I noticed the sick bag had the Lord's Prayer on it.

Just as I came out into the rue, an omnibus came by - pas complet, so I sprang in, without that prayer and fasting which should chasten the mind before risking it in a French omnibus.

Prayers and Provender hinder no Journey.

If airports can be seen as temples to travel, gateways to other worlds, then airport carpets are the vast prayer mats upon which we all genuflect.

I couldn't really jet off to the States on a whim and a prayer.

I always love to begin a journey on Sundays because I shall have the prayers of the church to preserve all that travel by land or by water.

The American people, intrenched in freedom at home, take their love for it with them wherever they go...