Travel Quotes - Page 12

Anyone who needs more than one suitcase is a tourist, not a traveler

An involuntary return to the point of departure is, without doubt, the most disturbing of all journeys.

One of the great things about travel is you find out how many good, kind people there are.

A man of ordinary talent will always be ordinary, whether he travels or not; but a man of superior talent (which I cannot deny myself to be without being impious) will go to pieces if he remains forever in the same place.

I can speak to my soul only when the two of us are off exploring deserts or cities or mountains or roads.

I'm always improving and I want to get better and never hit a plateau. I find it an amazing adventure.

In the space age, man will be able to go around the world in two hours - one hour for flying and one hour to get to the airport.

Listen--are you breathing just a little, and calling it a life?

No one ever has or ever will travel quite the same path on earth.

To a dog, motoring isn't just a way of getting from here to there, it's also a thrill and an adventure. The mere jingle of car keys is enough to send most any dog into a whimpering, tail-wagging frenzy.

Traveling is not just seeing the new; it is also leaving behind. Not just opening doors; also closing them behind you, never to return. But the place you have left forever is always there for you to see whenever you shut your eyes.

I beg young people to travel. If you don't have a passport, get one. Take a summer, get a backpack and go to Delhi, go to Saigon, go to Bangkok, go to Kenya. Have your mind blown. Eat interesting food. Dig some interesting people. Have an adventure. Be careful. Come back and you're going to see your country differently, you're going to see your president differently, no matter who it is. Music, culture, food, water. Your showers will become shorter. You're going to get a sense of what globalization looks like.

The most beautiful thing in the world is, of course, the world itself.

I want to feel that every trip I make has enhanced me as a person.

Everyone of a hundred thousand cities around the world had its own special sunset and it was worth going there, just once, if only to see the sun go down.

I travel the world, and I'm happy to say that America is still the great melting pot - maybe a chunky stew rather than a melting pot at this point, but you know what I mean.

They have a joy for life in Brazil unlike any country I've ever seen.

Don't settle down and sit in one place. Move around, be nomadic, make each day a new horizon.

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

Don't be scared to walk alone. Don't be scared to like it.

I really fall in love with my characters, even the bad ones. I love getting together with them. They tell me what to do; they take me on a wild and wonderful trip.

The only way to be sure of catching a train is to miss the one before it.

There's no adventure in knowing the outcome of who you're supposed to be with.

With languages, you can move from one social situation to another. With languages, you are at home anywhere.

You’ve traveled this far on the back of every mistake.