Travel Quotes - Page 36

... we might say that the earth has a spirit of growth; that its flesh is the soil, its bones the arrangement and connection of the rocks of which the mountains are composed, its cartilage the tufa, and its blood the springs of water.

A boat is always safe in the harbor, but that's not what boats are built for.

He must have travelled everywhere, at least in the spirit.

Time travel is possible. Will explain later

A journey is a person in itself; no two are alike. And all plans, safeguards, policies and coercion are fruitless. We find after years of struggle that we do not take a trip; a trip takes us.

I was born lost and take no pleasure in being found.

Give form to the passing World. Freeways are a drama.

I considered becoming a priest very seriously. I wanted to travel the world. By the time I turned 16, I realized I was only in it for selfish reasons. And, more importantly, I didn't want to sacrifice the ladies!

I love short trips to New York; to me it is the finest three-day town on earth.

Nights are long when it's cold and you're waiting for a train.

Arriving at each new city, the traveler finds again a past of his that he did not know he had: the foreignness of what you no longer are or no longer possess lies in wait for you in foreign, unpossessed places.

A nomad I was even when I was very small and would stare at the road, that white spellbinding road headed straight for the unknown ... a nomad I will remain for life, in love with distant and uncharted places.

Each child is an adventure into a better life - an opportunity to change the old pattern and make it new.

A guest never forgets the host who has treated him kindly.

Everything flows and nothing abides. Everything gives way and nothing stays fixed.

People are always asking me what the world will be like economically in the year 2000. I do know this: in the year 2000, no matter what else happens, there will still be good food in France.

The whole object of travel is not to set foot on foreign land; it is at last to set foot on one's own country as a foreign land.

Travel' is the name of a modern disease which became rampant in themid-fifties and is still spreading. The disease - its scientific name is travelitis furiosus - is carried by a germ called prosperity.

I love the melody of an unknown language, the strange food, all the surprises of a strange town, and my own impatience and curiosity ... I love traveling as others love the gaming table; I anticipate a new place as others anticipate the next number to come up.

If you have never taken the train across Canada, you really should put it on your life list... Meanwhile, I get to sit back and watch for moose from the dome car as we roll through the lake-dotted vastness of the boreal forest.

We need the possibility of escape as surely as we need hope.

There is a peculiar pleasure in riding out into the unknown. A pleasure which no second journey on the same trail ever affords.

I don't like to travel as much as I have in the past, but it's good for my soul to get to pick, especially with these good musicians and these guys that play so well.

O, from the ancient days always there have been travelers. So why should I grieve?

And that's the wonderful thing about family travel: it provides you with experiences that will remain locked forever in the scar tissue of your mind.