Generality Travel Quotes

I travel to work on my motorcycle, so it's jeans, boots and a brown Aero leather jacket that weighs as much as I do. If it were black, it would seem like I've got a Brando idea going on, which I don't. ~ Hugh Laurie

His diaries had begun to assume something of the knowingness of incipient middle age; at times, indeed, he was in danger of becoming priggish and opinionated. As with many later European voyagers, travel in this part of the world, far from broadening the mind, seemed instead to lead to a blanket distrust of anyone of a different creed, colour or class. ~ William Dalrymple

Yeah," I said because it led to more options than 'no'. ~ S.A. Tawks

They say life is a highway and we all travel our own roads, some good, some bad, yet each is a blessing of its own. ~ Jess "Chief" Brynjulson

O I'm so afraid that it's true about to travel hopefully being better than to arrive. It might be all in the quest, all in the search, all in the anticipation. When it came, there might be nothing there. ~ Brigid Brophy

The snapshots in CHINA: Portrait of a People are not meant to be works of art. I was too preoccupied with participating, with reveling in the moment, to worry about their perfection. Their purpose, then, is to form a candid portrait of China exactly as China presented itself to me. ~ Tom Carter

Genghis Khan's 'arrow messengers' could travel 450 kilometers a day. ~ Rory Stewart

It's easier to find a traveling companion than to get rid of one. ~ Peg Bracken

It was an amazing adventure, it was my dream to be in an American musical ... I really hope you are going to love what you are going to see. ~ Marion Cotillard

I have never listened to anyone who criticized my taste in space travel, sideshows or gorillas. When this occurs, I pack up my dinosaurs and leave the room. ~ Ray Bradbury

Time is much more valuable than money. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

A couple of days after the letter arrived, I was discharged from the hospital, in the custody, so to speak, of about three yards of adhesive tape around my ribs. Then began a very strenuous week's campaign to get permission to attend the wedding. I was finally able to do it by laboriously ingratiating myself with my company commander, a bookish man by his own confession, whose favorite author, as luck had it, happened to be my favorite author-L. Manning Vines. Or Hinds. Despite this spiritual bond between us, the most I could wangle out of him was a three-day pass, which would, at best, give me just enough time to travel by train to New York, see the wedding, bolt a dinner somewhere, and then return damply to Georgia. ~ J.D. Salinger

After Supper the Master dismissed all except Sun Wukong, Zhu Bajie and Sha the Monk. He took them out with him and said, Look at that wonderful moolight. It makes me long for the time when I can return home. ~ Wu Cheng'en

No one really understands the grief or joy of another. We always imagine that we are approaching some other, but our lines of travel are actually parallel. ~ Franz Schubert

My manager said the next best inspiration to heartbreak is travel, and it's true. ~ Beth Orton

I left Beijing because I wanted to be alone and to forge my own path, but I know now that no path is solitary, we all tread across other people's beginnings and ends. ~ Ma Jian

I travel third-class because there is no fouth-class. ~ Mahatma Gandhi

Wolves are disciplined not only when they hunt but also when they travel, when they play, and when they eat. Nature doesn't view discipline as a negative thing. Discipline is DNA. Discipline is survival. ~ Cesar Millan

Travel is rich with learning opportunities, and the ultimate sourvenir is a broader perspective. ~ Rick Steves

I am a voyager - and the voyage cannot mean that I stay at home. ~ Emmanuelle Beart

Well, trust me. Nowadays, babies travel with more crap than a rock band." He ~ Debra Salonen

If you're not in a major city, many bands don't come your way, and you have to really travel to see them. ~ Eddie Trunk

I'm particularly inspired by pristine locations. I enjoy working in areas where one can travel for miles without seeing any human influence. ~ Matt Smith

I've always wanted to do things differently, and if one person or ten people are doing the same, then I want to do it differently. I love to travel, I love art, I love fashion. I love going to great restaurants and trying different things. Different cultures are inspiring to me. ~ Molly Sims

He lay stretched full length along his glorified cot, and while his bandage masked his shoulder, plenty of bare skin remained for her gaze to lap up. Bare, musclely skin. Skin that was somehow otherworldly in the soft glow of the flickering candlelight. Skin that made her want to touch, feel, and…and…lick. Until her gaze snagged on the scar-tattoo combo, and ice again crystallized in her gut. ~ Angela Quarles

When you travel and go sight seeing you imagine seeing castles, lakes etc but you would not normally have a cemetery at the top of your to see list! Cimitero Monumentale is an old cemetery and, in a way, can also be considered a museum. Many people think of it as one of the most beautiful cemeteries in the world, because of its monumental mausoleums, impressing sculptures and tombs. ~ Blether Travel Guides

The most amazing journey on earth is the journey of oneself. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

what I preferred
was not statues but the bird in the statue's hair. ~ Derek Walcott

Traveling is seeing; it is the implicit that we travel by. ~ Cynthia Ozick

For me, Dracula has always been associated with travel and beautiful historical places. ~ Elizabeth Kostova

You may travel far and wide but never will you find the boundaries of the soul. ~ Heraclitus

We all travel life's highway, making good and bad choices based on upbringing and beliefs. And, in the end, we have to be able to live with what we've done. ~ Ilsa Madden-Mills

Every moment is travel - if understood. ~ Benjamin Disraeli

Like seasonless fowl we migrate…
from East Coast to West Coast
and back and forth again,
for a job,
for a friend,
for a change,
for a kick. ~ Lenore Kandel

The railroads needed standardized time; as a result, the technology of train travel shaped the way everyone gets up, eats, goes to sleep, calculates age, and, perhaps of no small importance, imagine the world as a whole, ticking reliably, with reliable deviations, according to the beat of one central clock in a physical location. ~ Stacey D'Erasmo

You are dead weight. You are always trying to bring me down to your miserable state of mind. I am not going down that path - You are going to travel down that road alone. ~ Charlena E. Jackson

The beauty and charm of the wilderness are his for the asking, for the edges of the wilderness lie close beside the beaten roads of the present travel. ~ Theodore Roosevelt

To me travel is triple delight: anticipation, performance, and recollection. ~ Ilka Chase

Sometimes I wonder if, having the ability to time travel back to certain moments in which our fear or impulsiveness got the best of us and resulted in an unsatisfying outcome, we would actually alter our behavior knowing what we know now, or if we would end up repeating exactly what we did the first time, surrendering to those elemental directives, incapable of deviating from some preordained essence of our character. ~ Teddy Wayne

One can travel this world and see nothing. To achieve understanding it is necessary not to see many things, but to look hard at what you do see. ~ Giorgio Morandi

I like old bookstores, the smell of coffee brewing, rainy day naps, farmhouse porches, and sunsets. I like the sweet, simple things that remind me that life doesn't have to be complicated to be beautiful. ~ Brooke Hampton

It is required of every man," the ghost returned, "that the spirit within him should walk abroad among his fellow-men, and travel far and wide; and, if that spirit goes not forth in life, it is condemned to do so after death. ~ Charles Dickens

I certainly have routines in my day-to-day life that are important to me and still give me feelings of security and control, but the capacity to break out of them every so often as I travel has given me a second wind. ~ Daniel Tammet

The respect + love for humanity that's why I travel.
We are all special and gifted beings, no matter our religious differences. The message should be peace,
love and prosperity. There should be no adversity but solidarity. ~ Henry Johnson Jr

I think that somebody with the resources and innovation and the idea is going to come out of nowhere and come up with a successful space travel program. ~ Kevin J. Anderson

I'm still at the end of my rope because I find myself not handling things well when I travel. ~ Stephen Lewis

Colin's head injury had loosened his tongue. First he seemed to know that she wouldn't marry him and why, which she had never discussed with him, then he was saying he had kissed her, which he hadn't, and now he was saying he liked hearing her talk. He had also said last night that her talking sounded cheerful, now that she thought about it. Could he truly think that? This strange conversation was making her heart leap madly. She had to stop thinking these wonderful but confusing things about Colin. She must focus on the task at hand - making sure he was well enough to travel. ~ Melanie Dickerson

The thing about Ayers Rock is that by the time you finally get there you are already a little sick of it. ~ Bill Bryson