Travel Quotes - Page 25

We travel, in essence, to become young fools again - to slow time down and get taken in, and fall in love once more.

Each coming together of man and wife, even if they have been mated for many years, should be a fresh adventure; each winning should necessitate a fresh wooing.

And all the bustle of departure - sometimes sad, sometimes intoxicating - just as fear or hope may be inspired by the new chances of coming destiny.

Journeys, like artists, are born and not made. A thousand differing circumstances contribute to them, few of them willed or determined by the will-whatever we may think.

Democracy is an extraordinary adventure. It's difficult, full of daring and risk and danger. But it's the greatest gift we have.

We don't take a trip. A trip takes us.

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

I've been homesick for countries I've never been, and longed to be where I couldn't be.

The traveler was active; he went strenuously in search of people, of adventure, of experience. The tourist is passive.

There ain't no surer way to find out whether you like people or hate them than to travel with them. - Mark Twain, author Making the team is one thing, becoming a team is another.

An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.

Travel provided many interesting experiences, but perhaps the most useful lesson I learned was that I really had no proficiency for learning the thousands of characters of the written Chinese language.

This is the most beautiful place on Earth. There are many such places. Every man, every woman, carries in heart and mind the image of the ideal place, the right place, the one true home, known or unknown, actual or visionary.

Americans who travel abroad for the first time are often shocked to discover that, despite all the progress that has been made in the last 30 years, many foreign people still speak in foreign languages

I wondered why it was that places are so much lovelier when one is alone.

Traveling is so complicated. There are so many people everywhere. I make my best journeys on my couch.

We need affordable space travel to inspire our youth, to let them know that they can experience their dreams, can set significant goals and be in a position to lead all of us to future progress in exploration, discovery and fun. Thanks to the X Prize for the inspiration.

Like all great travellers, I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen.

Paris is always a good idea.

Travel changes you. As you move through this life and this world you change things slightly, you leave marks behind, however small. And in return, life - and travel - leaves marks on you. Most of the time, those marks - on your body or on your heart - are beautiful. Often, though, they hurt.

Flying might not be all plain sailing, but the fun of it is worth the price.

Tourists went on holidays while travellers did something else. They travelled.

I love to travel, but hate to arrive.

The world belongs to the Enthusiast who keeps cool.

I left my heart in San Francisco, high on a hill, it calls to me. To be where little cable cars climb halfway to the stars, the morning fog may chill the air, I don't care. My love waits there in San Francisco, above the blue and windy sea, when I come home to you, San Francisco , your golden sun will shine for me.