Quotes About Travel

I am very happy since when I am in different cities I can experience and learn different cultures!

J'avais un compte à régler avec moi-même. On ne fuit jamais soi-même. Je pouvais prendre tous les train de la terre, tous les avions, tous les paquebots, je charrierais partout où j'irais cette chose indomptable qui sécrétais sa bile en moi.

If I had no family, my wife and I would lead a much more romantic and nomadic existence.

What was it that the eighteenth-century traveller said about Mull? 'Italy itself, with all the assistance of art, can hardly afford anything more beautiful and diverting'. On this blessed September evening that verdict needs no amendment.

I've become a less brave traveller since I became a dad, but in the past I was more foolhardy than brave.

There's a particular grubbiness that comes with travel. You start showered and fresh in clean and comfortable clothes, upbeat and hopeful that this will be like travel in the movies; sunlight flaring on the windows, heads resting on shoulders, laughter and smiles with a lightly jazzy soundtrack. But in reality the grubbiness has set in

You should visit the Palatine. It's at the top of that hill . . ." "I know where the Palatine is, Dexter, I was visiting Rome before you were born." "Yes, who was emperor back then?

Until now travel had always been a fraught affair. Each year until she was sixteen, it had been two weeks fighting with her sister in a caravan in Filey while her parents drank steadily and looked out at the rain, a sort of harsh experiment in the limits of human proximity.

At the same time President Kennedy invited me - and all the other millions of Europe - to try the novelty of tourism in the U.S., he issued a secret directive to 180,000,000 Americans to be nice to us. How else to explain the embarrassing generosity, the overwhelming kindness, the extreme courtesy at every turn?

Uncle Eric holding court, proud the only time he ever left Yorkshire was to kill Germans.

equatorial Africa? Could it have arrived there in one soaring leap, leaving no traces in between? From southwestern Sudan to Manila is almost seven thousand miles as the bat flies. But no bat can fly that far without roosting. Are ebolaviruses more broadly distributed than we suspect? Should scientists start looking for them in India, Thailand, and Vietnam? Or did Reston virus get to the Philippines the same way Taï Forest virus got to Switzerland and Johannesburg—by airplane? If

Among the people visiting those temples, feeding handouts to those macaques, exposing themselves to SFV, are international tourists. Some carry away more than photos and memories. "Viruses have no locomotion," according to the eminent virologist Stephen S. Morse, "yet many of them have traveled around the world." They can't run, they can't walk, they can't swim, they can't crawl. They ride.

For a dozen years it traveled quietly from person to person. Symptoms were slow to arise. Death lagged some distance behind. No one knew. This virus was patient, unlike Ebola, unlike Marburg. More patient even than rabies, but equally lethal.

In 1996 the Queen traveled to Toronto to catch Diahann Carroll playing the lead in a new staging of Sunset Boulevard. "She didn't realize it wasn't going to be freezing," said Erma, "so she ordered up a mink coat from one of the better department stores. Because the coat was so enormous, she decided it required a ticket of its own. She and her coat sat together on the front row. It was hysterical.

I am a passionate traveler, and from the time I was a child, travel formed me as much as my formal education.

There is clearly a rule at O'Hare that, no matter what flight you come in on, your connecting flight must be at a gate as far away as possible. And,

He had guessed right; they were headed to the airport. But why Olney, Illinois?

they traveled from city to city and decided on their next destinations based upon the trading opportunities and the political situation.

I think family is very important in West Virginia and has long been so because the mountains made travel difficult in the past, and family members had to depend on each other.

kids come along with me when I drive down the

There is one Now: the spot where I stand, And one way the road goes: onward, onward.

Now, you get on this here moped at once!" The

In fact, Zoe dreamed of travelling the world with a huge menagerie of animal stars. One day, she would train animals to do extraordinary feats that she believed would delight the world. She even made a list of what these madcap acts could be:

the last few miles of the Atlantic Ocean back to England with all of the jewellery hidden in her knickers. Granny