Travel Quotes

The travel writer seeks the world we have lost --the lost valleys of the imagination.

Alexander Cockburn

Our instructed vagrancy, which has hardly time to linger by the hedgerows, but runs away early to the tropics, and is at home with palms and banyans --which is nourished on books of travel, and stretches the theatre of its imagination to the Zambesi.

George Eliot

Christmas to a child is the first terrible proof that to travel hopefully is better than to arrive.

Stephen Fry

Unusual travel suggestions are dancing lessons from God.

Kurt Vonnegut

Certain travellers give the impression that they keep moving because only then do they feel fully alive.

Ella Maillart

The time to enjoy a European trip is about three weeks after unpacking.

George Ade

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

William Hague

This is a roadside attraction,' said Wednesday. 'One of the finest. Which means it is a place of power.

Neil Gaiman

Travel is very subjective. What one person loves, another loathes. I would say a private paradise in the Caribbean. If you want culture and class, I would say Tuscany. If you want exotic, I would say Bangkok, Thailand.

Robin Leach

If you travel around America you see different sections of highways donated by this or that person, and that's a slow beginning of what may end up being a situation common in the Third World: some sections of highways in wealthy areas are beautifully maintained and other parts are just dirt-strewn potholes.

Robert D. Kaplan

I'm such a girl for the living room. I really like to stay in my nest and not move. I travel in my mind, and that that's a rigorous state of journeying for me. My body isn't that interested in moving from place to place.

Bell Hooks

I travel all the time, and I have two small children.

Hope Davis

The time to enjoy a European tour is about three weeks after you unpack.

George Ade

My wife and I have so much fun when we travel and find anything... like stray cats and squirrels.

Eric Roberts

As a child I sometimes used to travel to the West Bank to visit my family, so I know what the checkpoints felt like. I knew what it was like to live under occupation.

Queen Rania of Jordan

We need to be aware of all aspects: To check how they travel, how they eat, the competition conditions.

Alberto Juantorena

Until 1914 I loved to travel I often went to Italy and once spent a few months in India. Since then I have almost entirely abandoned travelling, and I have not been outside of Switzerland for over ten years.

Herman Hesse

I aimlessly travel, meaning I have no agenda other than to get small in the world, be quiet and observe people.

Walton Goggins

You know, the interesting thing about having traveled around the country as much as I have, and I think it's sort of inadvertently what made me come out or at least begin doing things within the community and thinking more about that, was that I get to travel quite a bit.

Lesley Gore

I travel in so many different ways I travel high, I rough it... it all depends on who I travel with.

Diane von Furstenberg