John Steinbeck Quotes about Travel

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A journey is like marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think you control it.

A journey is like marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think you control it.

John Steinbeck

Marriage, Travel, Adventure

John Steinbeck (1980). “Travels with Charley in Search of America”, p.8, Penguin

We find after years of struggle that we do not take a trip; a trip takes us.

John Steinbeck

Travel, Struggle, Journey

John Steinbeck (1980). “Travels with Charley in Search of America”, p.8, Penguin

When I was very young and the urge to be someplace else was on me, I was assured by mature people that maturity would cure this itch. When years described me as mature, the remedy prescribed was middle age. In middle age I was assured that greater age would calm my fever and now that I am fifty-eight perhaps senility will do the job. Nothing has worked. I fear the disease is incurable.

John Steinbeck

Travel, Jobs, Maturity

John Steinbeck (1980). “Travels with Charley in Search of America”, p.8, Penguin

There are as many worlds as there are kinds of days, and as an opal changes its colors and its fire to match the nature of a day, so do I.

John Steinbeck

Travel, Fire, Color

John Steinbeck (1980). “Travels with Charley in Search of America”, p.39, Penguin

A journey is a person in itself; no two are alike. And all plans, safeguards, policies and coercion are fruitless. We find after years of struggle that we do not take a trip; a trip takes us.

John Steinbeck

Inspirational, Travel, Struggle

A journey is a person in itself; no two are alike. And all plans, safeguards, policing, and coercion are fruitless. We find that after years of struggle that we do not take a trip; a trip takes us.

John Steinbeck

Travel, Struggle, Journey

John Steinbeck (1980). “Travels with Charley in Search of America”, p.8, Penguin

When we get these thruways across the whole country, as we will and must, it will be possible to drive from New York to California without seeing a single thing.

John Steinbeck

Country, Travel, New York

John Steinbeck (1980). “Travels with Charley in Search of America”, p.54, Penguin

I know people who are so immersed in road maps that they never see the countryside they pass through, and others who, having traced a route, are held to it as though held by flanged wheels to rails.

John Steinbeck

Travel, People, Maps

John Steinbeck (1980). “Travels with Charley in Search of America”, p.17, Penguin

A journey is a person in itself; no two are alike.

John Steinbeck

Travel, Struggle, Journey

John Steinbeck (1980). “Travels with Charley in Search of America”, p.8, Penguin

I am writing this from what we Americans call Yurrp. In Yurrp writers are taken as seriously as Lana Turner's legs are in America - a ridiculous situation.

John Steinbeck

Travel, Taken, Home

Charley is a mind-reading dog. There have been many trips in his lifetime, and often he has to be left at home. He knows we are going long before the suitcase has come out, and he paces and worries and whines and goes into a state of mild hysteria.

John Steinbeck

Dog, Travel, Reading

John Steinbeck (1980). “Travels with Charley in Search of America”, p.12, Penguin

Niagara Falls is very nice. I'm very glad I saw it, because from now on if I am asked whether I have seen Niagara Falls I can say yes, and be telling the truth for once.

John Steinbeck

Travel, Nice, Fall

John Steinbeck (1980). “Travels with Charley in Search of America”, p.51, Penguin