Travel Quotes - Page 21

All the pathos and irony of leaving one's youth behind is thus implicit in every joyous moment of travel: one knows that the first joy can never be recovered, and the wise traveller learns not to repeat successes but tries new places all the time.

Sittin' here resting my bones, this loneliness won't leave me alone. Two thousand miles I roam, just to make this dock my home. I'm just gon' sit at the dock of the bay, watching the tide roll away. Sittin' on the dock of the bay, wastin' time.

But why, oh why, do the wrong people travel, when the right people stay at home?

I am not the same having seen the moon shine on the other side of the world. Mary

A traveller I am, and a navigator, and everyday I discover a new region within my soul.

Go at least once a year to a place you've never been before.

The Wright Brothers created the single greatest cultural force since the invention of writing. The airplane became the first World Wide Web, bringing people, languages, ideas, and values together.

Spirit of place! It is for this we travel, to surprise its subtlety; and where it is a strong and dominant angel, that place, seen once, abides entire in the memory with all its own accidents, its habits, its breath, its name.

We breathe in our first language, and swim in our second.

I feel like I'm a time traveler from the future who has been sent back to be annoyed.

To strive endlessly to stir the venturesome spirit that moves you to follow a rainbow to its end... and thus make your travel dreams come true.

The psychiatrist must become a fellow traveler with his patient.

Travel can be one of the most rewarding forms of introspection.

People travel because it teaches them things they could learn no other way.

Every land has its own special rhythm, and unless the traveler takes the time to learn the rhythm, he or she will remain an outsider there always.

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.

A nomad I will remain for life, in love with distant and uncharted places.

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

He who walks in the middle of the road gets hit from both sides.

My fear of flying starts as soon as I buckle myself in and then the guy up front mumbles a few unintelligible words then before I know it I'm thrust into the back of my seat by acceleration that seems way too fast and the rest of the trip is an endless nightmare of turbulence, of near misses. And then the cabbie drops me off at the airport.

Whatever course you have chosen for yourself, it will not be a chore but an adventure if you bring to it a sense of the glory of striving.

The unsuspected is the daily fare of the traveler in Thibet.

Journeys end in lovers meeting.

May your adventures bring you closer together, even as they take you far away from home.

It is men who make a city, not walls or ships.