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Travel Quotes
Travel is one of the most popular topics among family, friends and acquaintances. It's an excellent way to open up a conversation and a great way to find out about people by where they have and have not traveled and where they want to go. Or do they even like to travel? Enjoy this collection of great travel quotes, feel free to add your own favorite quotes as well, and here's one of my own. ~Marianne Schwab, TV Travel Show Producer My Favorite Travel QuotesYou can never cross the ocean unless you have the courage to lose sight of the shore. The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page. The trail is the thing, not the end of the trail. Travel too fast and you miss all you are traveling for. To get away from one's working environment is, in a sense, to get away from one's self; and this is often the chief advantage of travel and change. Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one's lifetime. I travel a lot; I hate having my life disrupted by routine. Travelers never think that they are the foreigners. I soon realized that no journey carries one far unless, as it extends into the world around us, it goes an equal distance into the world within. I dislike feeling at home when I am abroad. I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move. I met a lot of people in Europe. I even encountered myself. Like all great travelers, I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen. Once in a while it really hits people that they don't have to experience the world in the way they have been told to. If you reject the food, ignore the customs, fear the religion and avoid the people, you might better stay at home. All travel has its advantages. If the passenger visits better countries, he may learn to improve his own. And if fortune carries him to worse, he may learn to enjoy it. When you travel, remember that a foreign country is not designed to make you comfortable. It is designed to make its own people comfortable. The Lighter Side of TravelBoy, those French. They have a different word for everything. I have a map of the United States - it's actual size. One certainty when you travel is the moment you arrive in a foreign country, the American dollar will fall like a stone. In Paris they simply stared when I spoke to them in French; I never did succeed in making those idiots understand their own language. Kilometers are shorter than miles. Save gas, take your next trip in kilometers.” If you look like your passport photo, you're too ill to travel. Travel is only glamorous in retrospect. The major advantage of domestic travel is that, with a few exceptions such as Miami, most domestic locations are conveniently situated right here in the United States. The worst thing about being a tourist is having other tourists recognize you as a tourist. I have the world's largest collection of seashells. I keep it on all the beaches of the world... perhaps you've seen it. When setting out on a photographic holiday, always provide yourself with two cameras, one to leave in the train going and the other to leave in the cab coming back. A tourist is a fellow who drives thousands of miles so he can be photographed standing in front of his car. You can find your way across this country using burger joints the way a navigator uses stars. People travel to faraway places to watch, in fascination, the kind of people they ignore at home. I stayed in a really old hotel last night. They sent me a wake-up letter. Writing and travel broaden your ass if not your mind and I like to write standing up. The worst thing about being a tourist is having other tourists recognize you as a tourist. The Gentle Reader will never, never know what a consummate ass he can become, until he goes abroad. I speak now, of course, in the supposition that the Gentle Reader has not been abroad, and therefore is not already a consummate ass. And that’s the wonderful thing about family travel: it provides you with experiences that will remain locked forever in the scar tissue of your mind. When I was crossing the border into Canada, they asked if I had any firearms with me. I said, "Well, what do you need?" Knock Knock! Who’s there? Tibet! Tibet who? Early Tibet and early to rise! Living on Earth is expensive, but it does include a free trip around the sun every year. When travelling w/ someone, take large doses of patience & tolerance w/ your morning coffee. I told the doctor I broke my leg in two places. He told me to quit going to those places.
Travel Tips and TricksI 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. When preparing to travel, lay out all your clothes and all your money. Then take half the clothes and twice the money. The time to enjoy a European trip is about three weeks after unpacking. A passport, as I'm sure you know, is a document that one shows to government officials whenever one reaches a border between countries, so the officials can learn who you are, where you were born, and how you look when photographed unflatteringly. The Lure of Adventure: Why We TravelWe wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfillment. I think that travel comes from some deep urge to see the world, like the urge that brings up a worm in an Irish bog to see the moon when it is full. The traveler was active; he went strenuously in search of people, of adventure, of experience. The tourist is passive; he expects interesting things to happen to him. He goes "sight-seeing." What you've done becomes the judge of what you're going to do - especially in other people's minds. When you're traveling, you are what you are right there and then. People don't have your past to hold against you. No yesterdays on the road. If you reject the food, ignore the customs, fear the religion and avoid the people, you might better stay home. To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries. The most important trip you may take in life is meeting people halfway. For me, traveling and living are the same. How you travel is a symbol of your life. The Journey of TravelThe Road to Hana is not a destination, it's a journey. Stop worrying about the potholes in the road and celebrate the journey. The journey not the arrival matters. Tourists don't know where they've been, travelers don't know where they're going. The Accidental TouristA good traveler has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving. It is not down in any map; true places never are. The traveler sees what he sees. The tourist sees what he has come to see. Wandering re-establishes the original harmony which once existed between man and the universe. Travel and change of place impart new vigor to the mind. There's nothing wrong with enjoying looking at the surface of the ocean itself, except that when you finally see what goes on underwater, you realize that you've been missing the whole point of the ocean. Staying on the surface all the time is like going to the circus and staring at the outside of the tent.
Family VacationsIn America there are two classes of travel - first class, and with children. And that's the wonderful thing about family travel: it provides you with experiences that will remain locked forever in the scar tissue of your mind. Planes, Trains, & AutomobilesWhy don't they make the whole plane out of that black box stuff. If God had really intended men to fly, he'd make it easier to get to the airport. I did not fully understand the dread term "terminal illness" until I saw Heathrow for myself. There are only two emotions in a plane: boredom and terror. I feel about airplanes the way I feel about diets. It seems to me that they are wonderful things for other people to go on. There is nothing safer than flying - it's crashing that is dangerous. Whenever we safely land in a plane, we promise God a little something. If you are in a spaceship that is traveling at the speed of light, and you turn on the headlights, does anything happen? Most travel is best of all in the anticipation or the remembering; the reality has more to do with losing your luggage. The only way of catching a train I ever discovered is to miss the train before. Just get on any major highway, and eventually it will dead-end in a Disney parking area large enough to have its own climate, populated by large nomadic families who have been trying to find their cars since the Carter administration. Thanks to the Interstate Highway System, it is now possible to travel across the country from coast to coast without seeing anything. I had to stop driving my car for a while... the tires got dizzy. End of the JourneyToo often travel, instead of broadening the mind, merely lengthens the conversation. The whole object of travel is not to set foot on foreign land; it is at last to set foot on one's own country as a foreign land. No one realizes how beautiful it is to travel until he comes home and rests his head on his old, familiar pillow. 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." "Certainly, travel is more than the seeing of sights; it is a change that goes on, deep and permanent, in the ideas of living. I love New York, Chicago, London, St. Bart's and Italy but one of my fave cities in the whole world is San Francisco. Why? Those are all places that I love to go to cause it feels good to me personally when I'm there. What's Your Favorite Travel Quote?I want to know your favorite travel quote...you can even quote yourself. Top of Page Search this Site for Travel Tips & Travel Deals
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