Great Travel Quotes - Page 4

• Our deeds still travel with us from afar, and what we have been makes us what we are.

  George Eliot

  Travel, Integrity, Journey

  George Eliot (2015). “Middlemarch”, p.765, Booklassic

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• Heroes take journeys, confront dragons, and discover the treasure of their true selves.

  Carol Lynn Pearson

  Sports, Veterans Day, Travel

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• After a lifetime of world travel I've been fascinated that those in the third world don't have the same perception of reality that we do.

  Jim Harrison

  Travel, Reality, Perception

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• When traveling with someone, take large does of patience and tolerance with your morning coffee.

  Helen Hayes

  Travel, Morning, Coffee

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• I was not born for one corner. The whole world is my native land.

  Seneca the Younger

  Travel, Land, World

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• Whenever you go on a trip to visit foreign lands or distant places, remember that they are all someone's home and backyard.

  Vera Nazarian

  Travel, Home, Land

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• A ship in port is safe, but that's not what ships are built for.

  Grace Hopper

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  1987 Address at Trinity College, Washington. Reported in Time, 22 Jun.

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• The ideal is to feel at home anywhere, everywhere.

  Geoff Dyer

  Travel, Home, Feels

  Geoff Dyer (2014). “Paris Trance: A Romance”, p.95, Macmillan

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• The gentle reader will never, never know what a consummate ass he can become until he goes abroad. I speak now, of course, in the supposition that the gentle reader has not been abroad, and therefore is not already a consummate ass. If the case be otherwise, I beg his pardon and extend to him the cordial hand of fellowship and call him brother.

  Mark Twain

  Travel, Brother, Hands

  Mark Twain (2008). “The Innocents Abroad”, p.233, Velvet Element Books

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• In both business and personal life, I've always found that travel inspires me more than anything else I do.

  Ivanka Trump

  Travel, Inspire, Jewelry

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• The very basic core of a man's living spirit is his passion for adventure.

  Christopher McCandless

  Adventure, Passion, Men

  In a letter to Russell Fritz (as known as Ron Franz), April 1992 in "Back to the Wild" by Chris McCandless and Mary Ellen Barnes, (2nd ed.), Twin Star Press, (pp. 135-137), 2013.

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• There is one voyage, the first, the last, the only one.

  Thomas Wolfe

  Travel, Lasts, Firsts

  Thomas Wolfe, Arlyn Bruccoli, Matthew Joseph Bruccoli (2000). “O Lost: A Story of the Buried Life”, p.661, Univ of South Carolina Press

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• The border means more than a customs house, a passport officer, a man with a gun. Over there everything is going to be different; life is never going to be quite the same again after your passport has been stamped.

  Graham Greene

  Travel, Mean, Gun

  Graham Greene (1982). “Another Mexico”, Viking Adult

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• I didn't know that the world could be so mind-blowingly beautiful.

  Justina Chen

  Beautiful, Travel, Mind

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• The cool thing about being famous is traveling. I have always wanted to travel across seas, like to Canada and stuff.

  Britney Spears

  Funny, Travel, Sea

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• To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Life, Sports, Hope

  Virginibus Puerisque "El Dorado" (1881)

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• ... the grand tour is just the inspired man's way of heading home.

  Paul Theroux

  Travel, Home, Men

  Paul Theroux (2006). “The Great Railway Bazaar”, p.350, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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  We are torn between nostalgia for the familiar and an urge for the foreign and strange. As often as not, we are homesick most for the places we have never known.

  Carson McCullers

  Travel, Jukebox, Road Trip

  Carson McCullers (2017). “Carson McCullers: Stories, Plays & Other Writings”, p.408, Library of America

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• But that's the glory of foreign travel, as far as I am concerned. I don't want to know what people are talking about. I can't think of anything that excites a greater sense of childlike wonder than to be in a country where you are ignorant of almost everything. Suddenly you are five years old again. You can't read anything, you have only the most rudimentary sense of how things work, you can't even reliably cross a street without endangering your life. Your whole existence becomes a series of interesting guesses.

  Bill Bryson

  Country, Travel, Memorable

  Bill Bryson (1991). “Neither here nor there: travels in Europe”, Harvill Secker

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• When we get out of the glass bottle of our ego ... things will happen to us so that we don't know ourselves. Cool, unlying life will rush in.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Travel, Glasses, Ego

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  But I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep, and miles to go before I sleep.

  Robert Frost

  Love, Inspirational, Tattoo

  "Stopping byWoods on a Snowy Evening" l. 13 (1923)

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• One's destination is never a place but rather a new way of looking at things.

  Henry Miller

  Positive, Travel, Attitude

  Henry Miller (1957). “Big Sur and the Oranges of Hieronymus Bosch”, p.25, New Directions Publishing

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• We live in a wonderful world that is full of beauty, charm and adventure. There is no end to the adventures that we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open.

  Jawaharlal Nehru

  Inspirational, Life, Beauty

  Jawaharlal Nehru (1967). “Aug. 1949-Feb. 1953”

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• We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls.

  Anais Nin

  Inspirational, Funny, Travel

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• Too often travel, instead of broadening the mind, merely lengthens the conversations.

  Elizabeth Drew

  Travel, Fun, Mind

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