Travel Quotes - Page 10

When I go on Japanese Airlines, I really love it because I like Japanese food.

We leave something of ourselves behind when we leave a place, we stay there, even though we go away. And there are things in us that we can find again only by going back there.

Life is beautiful if you are on the road to somewhere

Writing is a miracle. You can travel anywhere in the world, to any time and any place — and still be home in time to have dinner.

What I love most about this crazy life is the adventure of it.

How do you expect the Germans to revolt when they don't even dare walk on the grass?

The traveler sees what he sees, the tourist sees what he has come to see.

People travel to faraway places to watch, in fascination, the kind of people they ignore at home.

"What place would you advise me to visit now?" he asked. "The planet Earth," replied the geographer. "It has a good reputation."

As I travel across the country speaking about MS, perhaps I can offer others comfort and hope.

Escape through travel works. Almost from the moment I boarded my flight, life in England became meaningless. Seat-belt signs lit up, problems switched off. Broken armrests took precedence over broken hearts. By the time the plane was airborne I'd forgotten England even existed.

You can fall in love at first sight with a place as with a person.

Every other movie is one of those action things. I mean, 'Lost in Space'? A bunch of good actors running around shooting at special effects on a soundstage? I took my kids to see that and felt like I was on an acid trip.

Travel is the frivolous part of serious lives, and the serious part of frivolous ones.

Then I was lucky I met with my future husband, and I started new life with my husband, and I was happy again. He was a musician. I start to travel with him through Europe also and around the former Soviet Union.

No matter how you travel, it's still you going.

August in Kansas City is hotter than two rats f**king in a sock.

All my life I have lived and behaved very much like the sandpiper - just running down the edges of different countries and continents, 'looking for something'.

My parents and my grandfather on my mom's side would travel the earth. They went to Australia and China, and they went to probably every soccer game I ever played.

I kept my babies fed. I could have dumped them, but I didn't. I decided that whatever trip I was on, they were going with me. You're looking at a real daddy.

It’s an irritating reality that many places and events defy description. Angkor Wat and Machu Picchu, for instance, seem to demand silence, like a love affair you can never talk about. For a while after, you fumble for words, trying vainly to assemble a private narrative, an explanation, a comfortable way to frame where you’ve been and whats happened. In the end, you’re just happy you were there - with your eyes open - and lived to see it.

Some people try to turn back their odometers. Not me, I want people to know “why” I look this way. I’ve traveled a long way and some of the roads weren’t paved.

What makes a nation in the beginning is a good piece of geography.

Traveling outgrows its motives. It soon proves sufficient in itself. You think you are making a trip, but soon it is making you - or unmaking you.

The secret of success is making your vocation your vacation.