TRAVEL QUOTES III
quotations about travel
For many people, foreign travel can be transformational, changing how we think of our lives and our world. When we spend time in different cultures, everything is new and fascinating. We start living in the present, because the present is so intriguing. We feel revitalized. Because you let go of what is familiar and routine for you, your inner mind is inclined to take a fresh look at your life--how you feel about what's going on and what direction you want to go next.
LINDA BREEN PIERCE
Simplicity Lessons
I am fevered with the sunset,
I am fretful with the bay,
For the wander-thirst is on me
And my soul is in Cathay.
RICHARD HOVEY
A Sea Gypsy
I think especially in the jet age that the right to travel is a civil right and a human right which, except for health reasons, ought not to be restricted in any way. Why does the State Department have the right to issue passports? We are citizens. Not subjects.
SHANA ALEXANDER
"The Real Tourist Trap", Life, January 26, 1968
My favorite thing is to go where I have never gone.
DIANE ARBUS
attributed, The Quotable Traveler
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
Tremendous Trifles
Travel far enough, you meet yourself.
DAVID MITCHELL
Cloud Atlas
Wherever you go becomes a part of you somehow.
ANITA DESAI
attributed, Constant Traveller
You were going to travel for love, without shoes, or cloak, or common sense. This is one of the things a woman can do when her lover leaves her. It's hard on the feet perhaps, but staying at home is hard on the heart.
KELLY LINK
Stranger Things Happen
The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.
LAO TZU
attributed, A Kind of Knowing
Travel is a discovery of the world soul of which we are a part.
THOMAS MOORE
The Re-Enchantment of Everyday Life
Travel is theater: It invites us to extend our boundaries and to "play" new roles. Is that you sipping ouzo, singing fado, tasting eel, donning a caftan, riding a donkey, boarding a helicopter, ogling a kilt?
MARTY LESHNER
Cruise Travel, October 2004
Know most of the rooms of thy native country before thou goest over the threshold thereof.
THOMAS FULLER
The Holy State and the Profane State
Law of Airlines: The shorter the time between flights, the greater the distance between gates.
DOUG LARSON
attributed, Wise Quotes of Wisdom: A Lifetime Collection of Quotes, Sayings, Philosophies, Viewpoints and Thoughts
Perhaps travel cannot prevent bigotry, but by demonstrating that all peoples cry, laugh, eat, worry, and die, it can introduce the idea that if we try and understand each other, we may even become friends.
MAYA ANGELOU
"Passports to Understanding"
Travel is the frivolous part of serious lives, and the serious part of frivolous ones.
MADAME SWETCHINE
"Airelles", The Writings of Madame Swetchine
We travel, initially, to lose ourselves; and we travel, next, to find ourselves. We travel to open our hearts and eyes and learn more about the world than our newspapers will accommodate. We travel to bring what little we can, in our ignorance and knowledge, to those parts of the globe whose riches are differently dispersed. And we travel, in essence, to become young fools again -- to slow time down and get taken in, and fall in love once more.
PICO IYER
"Why We Travel"
When one realizes that his life is worthless he either commits suicide or travels.
EDWARD DAHLBERG
Reasons of the Heart
Why do you wonder that globe-trotting does not help you, seeing that you always take yourself with you? The reason which set you wandering is ever at your heels.
SOCRATES
attributed, Moral Letters to Lucilius
A man who leaves home to mend himself and others is a philosopher; but he who goes from country to country, guided by the blind impulse of curiosity, is a vagabond.
OLIVER GOLDSMITH
Letters from a Citizen of the World
A traveller without observation is a bird without wings.
SAADI
attributed, Day's Collacon