Travel Quotes - Page 52

Whenever we safely land in a plane, we promise God a little something.

Until they come up with an independent woman who's on an adventure of her own, I don't think I'm interested.

I sure love Ireland. The first trip I ever made was last year when I did this record in Dublin.

The tourist who moves about to see and hear and open himself to all the influences of the places which condense centuries of human greatness is only a man in search of excellence.

Travelling, gentlemen, is medieval, today we have means of communication, not to speak of tomorrow and the day after, means of communication that bring the world into our homes, to travel from one place to another is atavistic.

Traveler's heart. Never settled long in one place. Like a portable fire.

We travellers are in very hard circumstances. If we say nothing but what has been said before us, we are dull and have observed nothing. If we tell anything new, we are laughed at as fabulous and romantic.

I climb, I backtrack. I float. I ramble my way home.

I read everything: fiction, history, science, mathematics, biography, travel.

The reading of tourist prospectuses is one of the joys of the world -- it is like operetta in prose -- all so flowery and heavenlike.

They spell it da Vinci and pronounce it da Vinchy. Foreigners always spell better than they pronounce.

You perceive I generalize with intrepidity from single instances. It is the tourist's custom.

I am technically "boss" of the family which I am carrying along-but I am grateful to know that it is only technically - that the real authority rests on the other side of the house. It is placed there by a beneficent Providence, who foresaw before I was born, or, if he did not, he has found it out since - that I am not in any way qualified to travel alone.

The Creator made Italy from designs by Michelangelo.

Travel has no longer any charm for me. I have seen all the foreign countries I want to except heaven & hell & I have only a vague curiosity about one of those.

One must travel, to learn. Every day, now, old Scriptural phrases that never possessed any significance for me before, take to themselves a meaning.

When you travel so many weeks a year, it's always nice to have a home-cooked meal.

[On travel:] Who would be so besotted as to die without having made at least the round of this, his prison?

Walking in Memphis, I was walking with my feet ten feet off of Beale. Walking in Memphis, but do I really feel the way I feel?

Travel, of course, narrows the mind.

But he knew people and he was head writer for Have Gun Will Travel, and if you took those early Star Treks that we did and put us in a western wardrobe and put us on wagon train going west, we can say the same lines.

A solitary traveler can sleep from state to state, from day to night, from day to day, in the long womb of its controlled interior. It is the cradle that never stops rocking after the lullaby is over. It is the biggest sleeping tablet in the world, and no one need ever swallow the pill, for it swallows them.

A good traveller is one who does not know where he is going to, and a perfect traveller does not know where he came from.

I never subscribe to the stay-at-home policy. I'm not sick of the road or sick of eating in good restaurants around the country. I like to travel.

For there is a price ticket on everything that puts a whizz into life, and adventure follows the rule. It's distressing, but there you are.