Travel Quotes - Page 18

Travel is seeking the lost paradise. It is the supreme illusion of love.

Adventure is where you find it, any place, every place, except at home in the rocking chair.

We travel to learn; and I have never been in any country where they did not do something better than we do it, think some thoughts better than we think, catch some inspiration from heights above our own.

If you're feeling insecure and you need to feel special, the best place to go is somewhere foreign where people treat you as special because you're different.

Those who know nothing of foreign languages know nothing of their own.

Here’s to freedom, cheers to art. Here’s to having an excellent adventure and may the stopping never start.

In my mind I'm going to Carolina. Can't you see the sunshine, can't you just feel the moonshine? Ain't it just like a friend of mine, to hit me from behind, and I'm goin' to Carolina in my mind.

The true fruit of travel is perhaps the feeling of being nearly everywhere at home.

The two elements the traveler first captures in the big city are extra human architecture and furious rhythm. Geometry and anguish.

No matter where you are, you're always a bit on your own, always an outsider.

Wherever you go becomes a part of you somehow.

How subtle is the relationship between the traveler and his luggage! He knows, as no one else knows, its idiosyncrasies, its contents ... and always some small nuisance which he wishes he had not brought; had known, indeed, before starting that he would regret it, but brought it all the same.

I don't drink coffee I take tea my dear, I like my toast done on one side. And you can hear it in my accent when I talk, I'm an Englishman in New York. See me walking down Fifth Avenue, a walking cane here at my side. I take it everywhere I walk, I'm an Englishman in New York. I'm an alien I'm a legal alien, I'm an Englishman in New York.

The use of traveling is to regulate imagination by reality.

Everyone in this world is somehow connected. So why not just be nice to everybody.

There are only two emotions in a plane: boredom and terror.

I never saw a discontented tree. They grip the ground as though they liked it, and though fast rooted they travel about as far as we do.

Travel and society polish one, but a rolling stone gathers no moss, and a little moss is a good thing on a man.

I thought of Paris as a beauty spot on the face of the earth, and of London as a big freckle.

It's good-bye. But we lean forward to the next crazy venture beneath the skies

I keep going back as if I'm looking for something I have lost. Back to the motherland, sisterland, fatherland. Back to the beacon, the breast, the smell and taste of the breeze, and the singing of the rain.

Kilometers are shorter than miles. Save gas, take your next trip in kilometers.

People going from Southern Italy to the North say that they feel cold not only for the different climate, but for the less "warm" approach in relationships.

The film of tomorrow will not be directed by civil servants of the camera, but by artists for whom shooting a film constitutes a wonderful and thrilling adventure.

Getting to the top is optional. Getting down is mandatory.