Travel Quotes - Page 58

The greatest mercy, I have often thought, of the Mediterranean coast lies in its mosquitoes. Did we not suffer from their unwelcome attention, we could not bear our holidays to end.

Traveling in Europe made me understand that America has an island mentality: No one exists except us. There's a whole other world out there, but most Americans - all they know is America, the marketing plan.

Within 10 years it will be impossible to travel to the North Pole by dog team. There will be too much open water.

Going on the ship felt like 100 years or one day. Timeless. Beautiful vertigo. It will continue to show up in my work.

How many cities have revealed themselves to me in the marches I undertook in the pursuit of books!

when we travel, most of us take too much. I always work on the assumption that I'm going to take everything with me because I don't want the second wife to have anything if the plane crashes.

we can't know a road until we travel it. Hearing about it is not enough. We are obliged to travel over it.

I'm living my dream right now. I get to make music, perform and travel.

I drop in from the sky disturbing the silence only momentarily, then leaving the ancient land once more to converse with the sky. It's my home and all I need.

Only it seems to me that once in your life before you die you ought to see a country where they don't talk in English and don't even want to.

In Europe, where human relations like clothes are supposed to last, one's got to be wearable. In France one has to be interesting, in Italy pleasant, in England one has to fit.

Using a camera appeases the anxiety which the work-driven feel about not working when they are on vacation and supposed to be having fun. They have something to do that is like a friendly imitation of work: they can take pictures.

The end of the ridge and the end of the world... then nothing but that clear, empty air. There was nowhere else to climb. I was standing on the top of the world.

The best motto for a long march is 'Don't grumble. Plug on.

I've always thought I was looking for myself whenever I traveled. Like a journey anywhere was really a journey through myself.

Who was it said that you never get to a place until a day after you come, nor leave it until a day after you go?

He that would travel for the entertainment of others should remember that the great object of remark is human life.

The more you travel, the better you get at it.

I learn much more by traveling by myself.

It is better to travel hopefully than to arrive.

We are going to sign a treaty with Mexico. We are competing internationally. We need another international airport for international cargo, international travel, international businesses.

A shortage of airports runways and gates along outmoded air traffic control systems have made U.S. air travel the most congested in the world.

Come, see the north-wind's masonry, Out of an unseen quarry evermore Furnished with tile, the fierce artificer Curves his white bastions with projected roof Round every windward stake, or tree, or door. Speeding, the myriad-handed, his wild work So fanciful, so savage, naught cares he For number or proportion.

So how can you tell me you're lonely, and say for you that the sun don't shine? Let me take you by the hand, and lead you through the streets of London. I'll show you something to make you change your mind.

Rain is my lover, my apple strudel. / It haunts my heels like a pedigreed poodle. / Beyond the seas or across the nation, / It follows me faithful on every vacation.