Travel Quotes - Page 4

I managed to take a family trip to the Bahamas and it was quite lovely.

Learn to reverence night and to put away the vulgar fear of it, for, with the banishment of night from the experience of man, there vanishes as well a religious emotion, a poetic mood, which gives depth to the adventure of humanity.

The Philippines are ours forever. They are not capable of self-government. How could they be? They are not a self-governing race.

You either get the point of Africa or you don't. What draws me back year after year is that it's like seeing the world with the lid off.

Rocket scientists agree that we have about reached the limit of our ability to travel in space using chemical rockets. To achieve anything near the speed of light we will need a new energy source and a new propellant. Nuclear fission is not an option.

It is an old dream: To travel on the back of a benevolent sea beast down to some secret underwater garden.

We live at the edge of the world, so we live on the edge. Kiwis will always sacrifice money and security for adventure and challenge.

The man who goes afoot, prepared to camp anywhere and in any weather, is the most independent fellow on earth.

I did not wish to take a cabin passage, but rather to go before the mast and on the deck of the world, for there I could best see the moonlight amid the mountains. I do not wish to go below now.

I shall make that trip. I shall go to Korea.

Perhaps travel cannot prevent bigotry, but by demonstrating that all peoples cry, laugh, eat, worry, and die, it can introduce the idea that if we try and understand each other, we may even become friends.

All that is gold does not glitter.

To move, to breathe, to fly, to float, To gain all while you give, To roam the roads of lands remote, To travel is to live.

What we get from this adventure is just sheer joy. And joy is, after all, the end of life. We do not live to eat and make money.

The secret to so many artists living so long is that every painting is a new adventure. So, you see, they're always looking ahead to something new and exciting. The secret is not to look back.

We were in the Arabian Desert for nine months. And I was having the time of my life. It could have been an archeological expedition, a military expedition.

I long, as does every human being, to be at home wherever I find myself.

I have a neighbor who knows 200 types of wine. ... I only know two types of wine - red and white. But my neighbor only knows two types of countries - industrialized and developing. And I know 200.

How lazily the sun goes down in Granada, it hides beneath the water, it conceals in the Alhambra!

I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I intended to be.

We travel, initially, to lose ourselves; and we travel, next to find ourselves. We travel to open our hearts and eyes and learn more about the world than our newspapers will accommodate. We travel to bring what little we can, in our ignorance and knowledge, to those parts of the globe whose riches are differently dispersed. And we travel, in essence, to become young fools again- to slow time down and get taken in, and fall in love once more.

Take the back roads instead of the highways.

As I travel around Idaho and visit with seniors, I hear almost universal concern about the rising cost of health care, particularly the cost of prescription drugs.

Sometimes the road less traveled is less traveled for a reason.

Nature is full of genius, full of the divinity; so that not a snowflake escapes its fashioning hand.