Travel Quotes - Page 9

• The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Witty, Work, Humorous

  Henry David Thoreau (2016). “Walden”, p.52, Xist Publishing

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• I read; I travel; I become

  Derek Walcott

  Inspire

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• There is no moment of delight in any pilgrimage like the beginning of it.

  Charles Dudley Warner

  Inspirational, Carpe Diem, Journey

  Charles Dudley Warner (1874). “Baddeck, and that Sort of Thing”, p.16

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• I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I intended to be.

  Douglas Adams

  Life, Positive, Sassy

  Douglas Adams (2016). “Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency Box Set: Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency and The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul”, p.354, Simon and Schuster

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• The attention of a traveller, should be particularly turned, in the first place, to the various works of Nature, to mark the distinctions of the climates he may explore, and to offer such useful observations on the different productions as may occur.

  William Bartram

  Journey, May, Firsts

  William Bartram (1792). “Travels Through North and South Carolina: Georgia, East and West Florida, the Cherokee Country, the Extensive Territories of the Muscogulges Or Creek Confederacy, and the Country of the Chactaws. ... Embellished with Copper-plates”, p.8

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• He travels the fastest who travels alone.

  Rudyard Kipling

  Traveling Alone, Originality, Conformity

  The Story of the Gadsbys (1890) "L'Envoi"

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• I have wandered all my life, and I have also traveled; the difference between the two being this, that we wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfillment.

  Hilaire Belloc

  Life, Journey, Two

  Hilaire Belloc (1942). “Places”

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• Those who know nothing of foreign languages know nothing of their own.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Communication, Inspiration, Learning

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• They say no land remains to be discovered, no continent is left unexplored. But the whole world is out there, waiting, just waiting for me. I want to do things-- I want to walk the rain-soaked streets of London, and drink mint tea in Casablanca. I want to wander the wastelands of the Gobi desert and see a yak. I think my life's ambition is to see a yak. I want to bargain for trinkets in an Arab market in some distant, dusty land. There's so much. But, most of all, I want to do things that will mean something.

  Lisa Ann Sandell

  Rain, Ambition, Mean

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• Travel is the most private of pleasures. There is no greater bore than the travel bore. We do not in the least want to hear what he has seen in Hong-Kong.

  Vita Sackville-West

  Want, Hong Kong, Pleasure

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• Madrid is enjoyed most from the ground, exploring your way through its narrow streets that always lead to some intriguing park, market, tapas bar or street performer. Each night we'd leave our hotel to begin a new adventure in Madrid and nine out of 10 times, we'd walk through the Plaza Mayor.

  Emilio Estevez

  Adventure, Night, Nine

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• I travel around the world constantly promoting my projects and endorsing products. Yes, I do get paid to go to parties; in fact, I'm the person who started the whole trend of paid appearances. But when you see me at a party, I'm always working or promoting something.

  Paris Hilton

  Party, Facts, World

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• All journeys have secret destinations of which the traveler is unaware.

  Martin Buber

  Inspirational, Freedom, Fun

  Martin Buber (2015). “Hasidism and Modern Man”, p.47, Princeton University Press

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• 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.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Country, Adventure, Carpe Diem

  "Does Travel Really Matter Anyway?" by Kim Mance, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 11, 2008.

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

  Lin Yutang

  Beautiful, Home, Adventure

  Lin Yutang (1940). “With Love and Irony”

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• The more I traveled the more I realized that fear makes strangers of people who should be friends.

  Shirley MacLaine

  Friendship, Fear, Strangers And Friends

  "Don't fall off the mountain". Book by Shirley MacLaine, 1985.

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• Wandering re-establishes the original harmony which once existed between man and the universe.

  Anatole France

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Nature

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• 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.

  Mark Twain

  Hate, Memorable, Adventure

  Mark Twain, General Press (2016). “The Complete Works of Mark Twain: All 13 Novels, Short Stories, Poetry and Essays”, p.1919, GENERAL PRESS

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• Rome is the city of echoes, the city of illusions, and the city of yearning.

  Giotto di Bondone

  Echoes, Rome, Cities

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• You've got to jump off cliffs and build your wings on the way down.

  Ray Bradbury

  Confidence, Courage, Fear

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• Traveling, you realize that differences are lost: each city takes to resembling all cities, places exchange their form, order, distances, a shapeless dust cloud invades the continents.

  Italo Calvino

  Distance, Clouds, Dust

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• I am going away with him to an unknown country where I shall have no past and no name, and where I shall be born again with a new face and an untried heart.

  Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

  Country, Heart, Past

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• The true traveler is he who goes on foot, and even then, he sits down a lot of the time.

  Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

  Feet, Goes On, Traveler

  "Paris From My Window". Book by Sidonie Gabrielle Colette, 1944.

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• One travels more usefully when alone, because he reflects more.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Single, Loneliness, Memorable

  Thomas Jefferson (1829). “Memoirs, 2: Correspondence and Private Papers”, p.162

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• Washington is a city of Southern efficiency and Northern charm.

  John F. Kennedy

  Funny, Home, Cities

  John F. Kennedy, Dominique Enright (2003). “The Wicked Wit of John F. Kennedy”, Michael O'Mara Books

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