Travel Quotes - Page 6

Life on board a pleasure steamer violates every moral and physical condition of healthy life except fresh air. . . . It is a guzzling, lounging, gambling, dog's life. The only alternative to excitement is irritability.

Nature is the art of God.

Books are the plane, and the train, and the road. They are the destination, and the journey. They are home.

You are still young, free.. Do yourself a favor. Before it's too late, without thinking too much about it first, pack a pillow and a blanket and see as much of the world as you can. You will not regret it. One day it will be too late.

Every traveler has a home of his own, and he learns to appreciate it the more from his wandering.

There's a race of men that don't fit in, A race that can't sit still; So they break the hearts of kith and kin, And they roam the world at will. They range the field and rove the flood, And they climb the mountain's crest; Their's is the curse of the gypsy blood, And they don't know how to rest.

Most men who have really lived have had, in some share, their great adventure. This railway is mine.

Science moves with the spirit of an adventure characterized both by youthful arrogance and by the belief that the truth, once found, would be simple as well as pretty.

In life, it's not where you go, it's who you travel with.

NOT I - NOT ANYONE else, can travel that road for you, You must travel it for yourself.

Prague is the Paris of the '90s.

There is science, logic, reason; there is thought verified by experience. And then there is California.

Well, I took a sabbatical. I walked away from shooting movies because I couldn't handle the travel. I'm a single parent. I had young kids, and I found that keeping in touch with them from hotel rooms and airports wasn't working for me. So I stopped.

I pack my trunk, embrace my friends, embark on the sea and at last wake up in Naples, and there beside me is the stern fact, the sad self, unrelenting, identical, that I fled from.

Everything will be alright in the end so if it is not alright it is not the end.

Where the Old Masters created an illusion of space into which one could imagine walking, the illusion created by a Modernist is one into which one can look, can travel through, only with the eye.

I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train.

I have found out that there ain't no surer way to find out whether you like people or hate them than to travel with them.

The only true voyage of discovery, . . . would be not to visit strange lands but to possess other eyes.

We must go beyond textbooks, go out into the bypaths and untrodden depths of the wilderness and travel and explore and tell the world the glories of our journey.

It can hardly be a coincidence that no language on earth has ever produced the expression, 'As pretty as an airport.

The most dangerous risk of all - the risk of spending your life not doing what you want on the bet you can buy yourself the freedom to do it later.

No one realizes how beautiful it is to travel until he comes home and rests his head on his old, familiar pillow.

And if travel is like love, it is, in the end, mostly because it's a heightened state of awareness, in which we are mindful, receptive, undimmed by familiarity and ready to be transformed. That is why the best trips, like the best love affairs, never really end.

The helicopter is a fine way to travel, but it induces a view of the world that only God and CEOs share on a regular basis.