Travel Quotes - Page 39

There was nothing to talk about anymore. The only thing to do was go.

My witness is the empty sky.

I wonder the human race has been so fond of migrations, when the young take so hardly to traveling.

I just travel all the time. And I was just looking at the schedules now and starting the first week of October I will be every weekend with somebody at tournaments through Christmas. So it gets very difficult to just go away and not do that.

An insuperable obstacle to rapid transit in Africa is the want of carriers, and as speed was the main object of the Expedition under my command, my duty was to lessen this difficulty as much as possible.

When spring comes to Paris the humblest mortal alive must feel that he dwells in paradise.

Everyone carries his own inch rule of taste, and amuses himself by applying it, triumphantly, wherever he travels.

I hate London when it's not raining.

They should tell you when you’re born: have a suitcase heart, be ready to travel.

If you're going to America, bring your own food.

To put it rather bluntly, I am not the type who wants to go back to the land; I am the type who wants to go back to the hotel.

I have a good mind not to take Aloysius to Venice. I don't want him to meet a lot of horrid Italian bears and pick up bad habits.

As her time in Florence drew to a close she was only at ease amongst those to whom she felt indifferent.

There's just something about being English. When you travel the world you feel more grateful.

Number one way life would be different if dogs ran the world: All motorists must drive with head out window.

When we get out of the glass bottle of our ego ... things will happen to us so that we don't know ourselves. Cool, unlying life will rush in.

Traveling is seeing; it is the implicit that we travel by.

I travel light; as light, that is, as a man can travel who will still carry his body around because of its sentimental value.

I grew up in South Africa and I would look at maps and we were at the bottom of the world. There was this whole thing up there. I was always reading encyclopedias about the world. So travel was something I was always attracted to.

The idea that seeing life means going from place to place and doing a great variety of obvious things is an illusion natural to dull minds.

Never travel by sea when you can go by land.

We're Americans! Do you know what that means? It means our forefathers were kicked out of every decent country in the world.

Perhaps it's my natural pessimism, but it seems that an awfully large part of travel these days is to see things while you still can.

I urge you to travel - as far and as widely as possible. Sleep on floors if you have to.

The vitality of thought is in adventure. Ideas won't keep. Something must be done about them. When the idea is new, its custodians have fervor, live for it, and if need be, die for it.