“It’s all the same, only the names will change, everyday it seems we’re wasting away. Another place, where the faces are so cold, I’d drive all night just to get back home” – Bon Jovi
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Travel Quote of the Day Archive
Travel Quote of the Day publishes a different travel quote every day to provide travel inspiration for those who yearn to explore the world. These travel quotes range in source from the world's greatest authors, to icons of popular culture, prominent recording artists, and the occasional blogger.
Travel When Opportunity Presented
January 24, 2014 By Leave a Comment
“At least as a single woman, I had time to pursue my own interests, read voraciously, and travel when opportunity presented” – Tasha Alexander
Adventure Can Be An End In Itself
January 23, 2014 By Leave a Comment
“Adventure can be an end in itself. Self-discovery is the secret ingredient” – Grace Lichtenstein
A Traveller Moves Among Real People In Their Own Milieu
January 22, 2014 By Leave a Comment
“A traveller moves among real people in their own milieu and learns from them, soaking up their wisdom and philosophy, their way of being in the world. A tourist simply hops from one tourist highpoint to another, skimming across the surface, cramming in quantity rather than quality, and comes away with his soul and imagination […]
Whenever You Go On A Trip To Visit Foreign Lands
January 21, 2014 By Leave a Comment
“Whenever you go on a trip to visit foreign lands or distant places, remember that they are all someone’s home and backyard” – Vera Nazarian
Three Trips You Take To India
January 20, 2014 By Leave a Comment
“There are three trips you take to India: the one you think you’re going to have – that you plan for; the one you actually have; and the one you live through once you go back home” – Erin Reese
Travelling Just To See Your Face
January 19, 2014 By Leave a Comment
“Across galaxies of time and space, travelling just to see your face. Lost amidst the countless stars, to bring me back to where you are” – Bryce Anderson
I Wanna Be Sedated
January 18, 2014 By Leave a Comment
“Twenty-twenty-twenty four hours to go I wanna be sedated. Nothin’ to do and no where to go-o-oh I wanna be sedated. Just get me to the airport put me on a plane, hurry hurry hurry before I go insane. I can’t control my fingers I can’t control my brain, Oh no no no oh no…” – The Ramones (I Wanna Be Sedated)
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Only The Little, Narrow People Who Do Not Travel
January 17, 2014 By Leave a Comment
“In my contact with people, I find that, as a rule, it is only the little, narrow people who live for themselves, who never read good books, who do not travel, who never open up their souls in a way to permit them to come into contact with other souls – with the great outside […]
The Journey Is Part Of The Experience
January 16, 2014 By Leave a Comment
“The journey is part of the experience – an expression of the seriousness of one’s intent. One doesn’t take the A train to Mecca” – Anthony Bourdain
To Shut Your Eyes
January 15, 2014 By Leave a Comment
“To shut your eyes is to travel” – Emily Dickinson
What One Knows Of Alternative Realities
January 14, 2014 By Leave a Comment
“One wants never to give up this crystalline perspective. One wants to keep counterpositioning home with what one knows of alternative realities, as they exist in Tunis or Hyderabad. One wants never to forget that nothing here is normal, that the streets are different in Wisebaden, and Louyang, that this is just one of many […]
If The Mattress Stains Were Anything To Go By
January 13, 2014 By Leave a Comment
“I turned to my own bunk and examined it with a kind of appalled fascination. If the mattress stains were anything to go by, a previous user had not so much suffered from incontinence as rejoiced in it. He had evidently included the pillow in his celebrations” – Bill Bryson
Never Seen Anything As Green As These Rice Paddies
January 12, 2014 By Leave a Comment
“We’d never seen anything as green as these rice paddies. It was not just the paddies themselves: the surrounding vegetation – foliage so dense the trees lost track of whose leaves were whose – was a rainbow coalition of one colour: green. There was an infinity of greens, rendered all the greener by splashes of […]
Sitting In A Tin Can, Far Above The World
January 11, 2014 By Leave a Comment
“For here, am I sitting in a tin can, far above the world. Planet Earth is blue, and there’s nothing I can do… Though I’m past one hundred thousand miles, I’m feeling very still – and I think my spaceship knows which way to go. Tell my wife I love her very much (she knows…)” – David Bowie (Space Oddity)
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Travel Comes From Some Deep Urge
January 10, 2014 By Leave a Comment
“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” – Lord Dunsany
Your Seat Cushion Will Become A Floatation Device
January 9, 2014 By Leave a Comment
“In the event of a water landing, your seat cushion will become a floatation device.” ‘Yeah, until the sharks come. Then it’s a bobber’ – Anonymous
I Just Wanna Go On More Adventures
January 8, 2014 By Leave a Comment
“I just wanna go on more adventures. Be around good energy. Connect with people. Learn new things. Grow” – Kid Cudi (Scott Mescudi)
Aphrodite Chills At Home In Cyprus
January 7, 2014 By Leave a Comment
“If Aphrodite chills at home in Cyprus for most of the year, then Fez must be the goddess’s playground” – Raquel Cepeda
Impossible For A Single Lady To Travel Without Injury To Her Character
January 6, 2014 By Leave a Comment
“The natural tenderness and delicacy of our constitution, added to the many dangers we are subject to from your sex, renders it almost impossible for a single lady to travel without injury to her character. And those who have a protector in a husband have, generally speaking, obstacles to prevent their roving” – Abigail Adams […]
A Desire To See Something Besides My Own Shores
January 5, 2014 By Leave a Comment
“I had a desire to see something besides my own shores, if only to be content to return to them someday. If I wish to live in my native land and love her, it should not be out of ignorance” – Margaret George
I’m Going to Graceland
January 4, 2014 By Leave a Comment
“I’m going to Graceland, for reasons I cannot explain. There’s some part of me wants to see Graceland. And I may be advised to defend every love, every ending, or maybe there’s no obligations now. Maybe I’ve a reason to believe we all will be received in Graceland” – Paul Simon (Graceland)
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For West is Where We All Plan To Go Some Day
January 3, 2014 By Leave a Comment
“For West is where we all plan to go some day. It is where you go when the land gives out and the old-field pines encroach. It is where you go when you get the letter saying: Flee, all is discovered. It is where you go when you look down at the blade in your […]
With Languages, You Are At Home Anywhere
January 2, 2014 By Leave a Comment
“With languages, you can move from one social situation to another. With languages, you are at home anywhere” – Edmund de Waal
Up and Off to Somewhere Else Tomorrow
January 1, 2014 By Leave a Comment
“Here today, up and off to somewhere else tomorrow! Travel, change, interest, excitement! The whole world before you, and a horizon that’s always changing!” – Kenneth Grahame
Good Quality Gear is Always Money Well Spent
December 31, 2013 By Leave a Comment
“Money spent on good-quality gear is always money well spent” – Tahir Shah
To Understand Your Own Country
December 30, 2013 By Leave a Comment
“W. H. Auden once suggested that to understand your own country you need to have lived in at least two others. One can say something similar for periods of time: to understand your own century you need to have come to terms with at least two others. The key to learning something about the past […]
Far Ranging Travel and Exotic Adventure
December 29, 2013 By Leave a Comment
“A lot of us first aspired to far ranging travel and exotic adventure early in our teens; these ambitions are, in fact, adolescent in nature, which I find an inspiring idea…Thus, when we allow ourselves to imagine as we once did, we know, with a sudden jarring clarity, that if we don’t go right now, […]
Stairway to Heaven
December 28, 2013 By Leave a Comment
“Yes, there are two paths you can go by, but in the long run, there’s still time to change the road you’re on” – Led Zeppelin (Stairway to Heaven)
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Small as A World
December 27, 2013 By Leave a Comment
“may came home with a smooth round stone,as small as a world and as large as alone” – E. E. Cummings
Picket the Antiseptic Nature of Modern Travel
December 26, 2013 By Leave a Comment
“The serious reader in the age of technology is a rebel by definition: a protester without a placard, a Luddite without hammer or bludgeon. She reads on planes to picket the antiseptic nature of modern travel, on commuter trains to insist on individualism in the midst of the herd, in hotel rooms to boycott the […]
Travel is Worth Any Cost
December 25, 2013 By Leave a Comment
“To travel is worth any cost or sacrifice” – Elizabeth Gilbert
No Room at the Inn
December 24, 2013 By Leave a Comment
“And she brought forth her firstborn son, and wrapped him in swaddling clothes, and laid him in a manger; because there was no room for them in the inn” – Luke
What is it About Maps?
December 23, 2013 By Leave a Comment
“What is it about maps? I could look at them all day, earnestly studying the names of towns and villages I have never heard of and will never visit..” – Bill Bryson
We See Things at the Wrong Time
December 22, 2013 By Leave a Comment
“A danger of travel is that we see things at the wrong time, before we have had a chance to build up the necessary receptivity and when new information is therefore as useless and fugitive as necklace beads without a connecting chain” – Alain de Botton
The Dawning of the Rest of Our Lives – On Holiday
December 21, 2013 By Leave a Comment
“I beg to dream and differ from the hollow lies. This is the dawning of the rest of our lives – On holiday” – Green Day (On Holiday)
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I Shouldn’t Haggle with Poverty
December 20, 2013 By Leave a Comment
“I don’t like dealing with money transactions in poor countries. I get confused between the feeling that I shouldn’t haggle with poverty and getting ripped off” – Alex Garland
Travel is the Great Leveler
December 19, 2013 By Leave a Comment
“No man is brave that has never walked a hundred miles. If you want to know the truth of who you are, walk until not a person knows your name. Travel is the great leveler, the great teacher, bitter as medicine, crueler than mirror-glass. A long stretch of road will teach you more about yourself […]
My Destiny is to Travel
December 18, 2013 By Leave a Comment
“I now know, by an almost fatalistic conformity with the facts, that my destiny is to travel..” – Ernesto Guevara
Nothing Like Staying at Home
December 17, 2013 By Leave a Comment
“There is nothing like staying at home for real comfort” – Jane Austen
It Is Not The Destination Where You End Up
December 16, 2013 By Leave a Comment
“It is not the destination where you end up but the mishaps and memories you create along the way!” – Penelope Riley
He Who Travels Much Has This Advantage
December 15, 2013 By Leave a Comment
“He who travels much has this advantage over others – that the things he remembers soon become remote, so that in a short time they acquire the vague and poetical quality which is only given to other things by time. He who has not traveled at all has this disadvantage – that all his memories […]
Walking in Memphis
December 14, 2013 By Leave a Comment
“Walking in Memphis, I was walking with my feet ten feet off of Beale. Walking in Memphis, but do I really feel the way I feel?” – Marc Cohn (Walking in Memphis)
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Stuck on a Long Train Ride
December 13, 2013 By Leave a Comment
“Imagine that you are stuck on a long train ride and must choose one of two books to read in order to pass the time: the first is a novel whose main character is an office worker who is essentially working to pay his monthly cable bill; the second is about someone who decides to […]
Travel Far Enough
December 12, 2013 By Leave a Comment
“Travel far enough, you meet yourself” – David Mitchell
I Had Been in India Long Enough
December 11, 2013 By Leave a Comment
“In some peculiar way, indeed, the rules were now beginning to seem quite logical. It was then I knew that I had been in India long enough” – Tahir Shah
Things One Would Rather Have Done Than Do
December 10, 2013 By Leave a Comment
“Climbing K2 or floating the Grand Canyon in an inner tube, there are some things one would rather have done than do” – Edward Abbey
Reduces the Value of the Place
December 9, 2013 By Leave a Comment
“If you travel everywhere and find the same elements everywhere, somehow it reduces the value of the place” – Gwenael Nicolas
Move for Eternity Along Roads and Seas
December 8, 2013 By Leave a Comment
“All night, after the exhausting games of canasta, we would look over the immense sea, full of white-flecked and green reflections, the two of us leaning side by side on the railing, each of us far away, flying in his own aircraft to the stratospheric regions of his own dreams. There we understood that our […]
Around the World
December 7, 2013 By Leave a Comment
“Around the world, around the world, around the world, around the world, around the world, around the world, around the world, around the world” – Daft Punk (Around the World)
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Escape the Things that Harass You
December 6, 2013 By Leave a Comment
“If you really want to escape the things that harass you, what you’re needing is not to be in a different place but to be a different person” – Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Departure Upon a Distant Journey
December 5, 2013 By Leave a Comment
“One of the gladdest moments of human life, methinks, is departure upon a distant journey into unknown lands” – Richard Burton
Nights Are Long
December 4, 2013 By Leave a Comment
“Nights are long when it’s cold and you’re waiting for a train” – J.M.G. Le Clézio
The Beckoning Counts
December 3, 2013 By Leave a Comment
“The beckoning counts, not the clicking latch behind you” – Freya Stark
The Ultimate Experience in Life
December 2, 2013 By Leave a Comment
“Travel really is the ultimate experience in life” – Chloe Cole
Promiscuities of Bed and Board and Road
December 1, 2013 By Leave a Comment
“A young gratuitous smile; trust and distrust; promiscuities of bed and board and road; the one assured treasure a life, in recollection, truly possessed” – Robert Wells
I Got Ramblin’ on my Mind
November 30, 2013 By Leave a Comment
“I got ramblin’, I got ramblin’ on my mind. I got ramblin’, I got ramblin’ all on my mind. Hate to leave my baby, but you treats me so unkind” – Robert Johnson (Rambling On My Mind)
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Drive from New York to California Without Seeing a Single Thing
November 29, 2013 By Leave a Comment
“When we get these thruways across the whole country, as we will and must, it will be possible to drive from New York to California without seeing a single thing” – John Steinbeck
In Proportion to Their Lack of Travel
November 28, 2013 By Leave a Comment
“All classes in proportion to their lack of travel and familiarity with foreign literature are bellicose, prejudiced against foreigners, fond of fighting as a cruel sport — in short, dog-like in their notions of foreign policy.”” – George Bernard Shaw
Mind-Travel to the Future
November 27, 2013 By Leave a Comment
“Wouldn’t it be amazing if you could travel into the future, see where you messed up, and then go back in time to rearrange things in order to make your future better? You can. If you can foresee regret, you can mind-travel to the future. If you can train yourself to mind-travel effectively, you can […]
Walk Around the World
November 26, 2013 By Leave a Comment
“My dream is to walk around the world. A smallish backpack, all essentials neatly in place. A camera. A notebook. A traveling paint set. A hat. Good shoes. A nice pleated (green?) skirt for the occasional seaside hotel afternoon dance” – Maira Kalman
Ideas More Flexible
November 25, 2013 By Leave a Comment
“Florence and Milan had given him ideas more flexible than those of people who’d stayed at home” – Hilary Mantel
The Problem with Driving Around Iceland
November 24, 2013 By Leave a Comment
“The problem with driving around Iceland is that you’re basically confronted by a new soul-enriching, breath-taking, life-affirming natural sight every five goddamn minutes. It’s totally exhausting” – Stephen Markley
So Far Away
November 23, 2013 By Leave a Comment
“Traveling around sure gets me down and lonely, nothing else to do but close my mind. I sure hope the road don’t come to own me, there’s so many dreams I’ve yet to find. But you’re so far away” – Carole King
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Travel and Adventure Change and Elongate Time
November 22, 2013 By Leave a Comment
“Travellers understand, instinctively and by experience, that travel and adventure change and elongate time, even while navigating the deadlines of airline and train departures” – Paul Sheehan
It is the Journey that Matters
November 21, 2013 By Leave a Comment
“It is good to have an end to journey toward; but it is the journey that matters, in the end” – Ernest Hemingway
Technology has Doomed the Spontaneity of Adventure
November 20, 2013 By Leave a Comment
“We can’t jump off bridges anymore because our iPhones will get ruined. We can’t take skinny dips in the ocean because there’s no service on the beach and adventures aren’t real unless they’re on Instagram. Technology has doomed the spontaneity of adventure and we’re helping destroy it every time we Google, check-in, and hashtag” – […]
Technologies of Easy Travel
November 19, 2013 By Leave a Comment
“Technologies of easy travel give us wings; they annihilate the toil and dust of pilgrimage; they spiritualize travel! Transition being so facile, what can be any man’s inducement to tarry in one spot?” – Nathaniel Hawthorne
Adventures Befall the Unadventurous
November 18, 2013 By Leave a Comment
“Adventures befall the unadventurous as readily, if not as frequently, as the bold. Adventures are a logical and reliable result – and have been since at least the time of Odysseus – of the fatal act of leaving one’s home, or trying to return to it again. All adventures happen in that damned and magical […]
More in the World than Man Can See
November 17, 2013 By Leave a Comment
“No changing of place at a hundred miles an hour will make us one whit stronger, or happier, or wiser. There was always more in the world than man could see, walked they ever so slowly; they will see it no better for going fast. The really precious things are thought and sight, not pace. […]
Have Love, Will Travel
November 16, 2013 By Leave a Comment
“I took a boat and I took a plane. I might hitch-hike or jump a railroad-train. Your kind of love drive a man insane. So look for me walkin’ just any old way – Have love, will travel” – The Sonics (Have Love, Will Travel)
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Letting Go of Control
November 15, 2013 By Leave a Comment
“I ease into the idea of letting go of control and simply let life take the reins. And when I don’t hold it so tightly, it doesn’t thrash against me so wildly. It calms to a trot and allows me to take in the scenery, experience love, and learn what is important in this world: […]
The Wish to Travel
November 14, 2013 By Leave a Comment
“The wish to travel seems to me characteristically human: the desire to move, to satisfy your curiosity or ease your fears, to change the circumstances of your life, to be a stranger, to make a friend, to experience an exotic landscape, to risk the unknown.” – Paul Theroux
Why Do The Wrong People Travel?
November 13, 2013 By Leave a Comment
“But why, oh why, do the wrong people travel, when the right people stay at home?” – Noel Coward
In Travel, We Attain Them All
November 12, 2013 By Leave a Comment
“All of us have hopes of being poet, artist, discoverer, philosopher, scientist; of possessing the attributes of all these simultaneously. Few are permitted to achieve any of them in daily life. But in travel we attain them all. Then we have our day of glory, when all our dreams come true, when we can be […]
The Journey Itself Is My Home
November 11, 2013 By Leave a Comment
“The journey itself is my home” – Matsuo Basho
It’s Important to Travel and Move
November 10, 2013 By Leave a Comment
“It’s important to travel and move and have a continual set of experiences so you’ve got more to feed back into your work. For me, it’s a natural thing” – Cate Blanchett
Come Away With Me
November 9, 2013 By Leave a Comment
“Come away with me and we’ll kiss on a mountaintop. Come away with me and I’ll never stop loving you. And I want to wake up with the rain falling on a tin roof, while I’m safe there in your arms. So all I ask is for you to come away with me in the night, come away with me” – Norah Jones
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Every Journey Makes Its Own Map
November 8, 2013 By Leave a Comment
“You have not traveled enough,” she said. “Or you’d know that every journey makes its own map across your heart” – Sharon Shinn
Shanghai, The Orient’s Original Opium-den of Iniquity
November 7, 2013 By Leave a Comment
“A peek inside the city’s many nightspots reveals a Shangri-La-di-da of tiny Shanghai socialites in even tinier outfits dancing provocatively with well-to-do Westerners. But while such sights may draw gasps from some people, the truth is that this kind of thing is nothing new for Shanghai, the Orient’s original opium-den of iniquity” – Tom Carter
Comforting to Curse the Tropics
November 6, 2013 By Leave a Comment
“It was such ecstasy to dream, and dream – till you got a bite. A scorpion bite. Then the first duty was to get up out of the grass and kill the scorpion; and the next to bathe the bitten place with alcohol or brandy; and the next to resolve to keep out of the […]
You Travel to Search
November 5, 2013 By Leave a Comment
“I think you travel to search and you come back home to find yourself there” – Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Tell Me How Much You Have Traveled
November 4, 2013 By Leave a Comment
“Don’t tell me how educated you are, tell me how much you have traveled” – Abu al-Qasim Muḥammad
To See Well The Rest
November 3, 2013 By Leave a Comment
“Better far off to leave half the ruins and nine-tenths of the churches unseen and to see well the rest; to see them not once, but again and often again; to watch them, to learn them, to live with them, to love them, till they have become a part of life and life’s recollections” – […]
Learn to Fly
November 2, 2013 By Leave a Comment
“Now I’m looking to the sky to save me, looking for a sign of life. Looking for something to help me burn out bright. I’m looking for a complication, looking ’cause I’m tired of lying. Make my way back home when I learn to fly” – Foo Fighters
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Roots and Wings
November 1, 2013 By Leave a Comment
“Two of the greatest gifts we can give our children are roots and wings” – Hodding Carter
Travel Not to Escape Life
October 31, 2013 By Leave a Comment
“We travel not to escape life, but for life not to escape us – Robyn Yong
Every Joyous Moment of Travel
October 30, 2013 By Leave a Comment
“All the pathos and irony of leaving one’s youth behind is thus implicit in every joyous moment of travel” – Paul Fussell
Except for a Weekend in Atlantic City
October 29, 2013 By Leave a Comment
“I’m basically monogamous, preferring one headache at a time – except for a weekend in Atlantic City with those two sisters, but that’s another story” – John Corey
It’s a Strange Thing to Come Home
October 28, 2013 By Leave a Comment
“It is a strange thing to come home. While yet on the journey, you cannot realize how strange it will be” – Selma Lagerlof
Never Count Countries
October 27, 2013 By Leave a Comment
“I never count countries. Travel is not a contest” – Andrew Evans
Same in any Language
October 26, 2013 By Leave a Comment
“Sometime ago I met a Navajo, in a parking lot in Tokyo. He said everything wordlessly. Wonderlust in my eyes he did see, oh yeah, oh oh yeah. Those postcards I sent to Birmingham, all the way from those windows of Amsterdam. I copped a gram from Dappersan, just to fall at her man in another jam, oh yeah, oh oh yeah. It’s the same in any language, a brother is a brother if theres one thing I know. It’s the same in any language, wherever you go. Oooo yeah. I ran out of Jack in Tripoli, oh those freedom fighters they were good to me. They asked me all about Tennessee, and on one thing we all did agree, ooh yeah, yeah oh oh yeah” – I Nine (Same in any Language)
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Those Who Will Risk Going Too Far
October 25, 2013 By Leave a Comment
“Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go” – T. S. Eliot
If You Look Like Your Passport Photo
October 24, 2013 By Leave a Comment
“If you look like your passport photo, you’re too ill to travel” – Will Kommen
Never Travel Without a Diary
October 23, 2013 By Leave a Comment
“I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read on the train” – Oscar Wilde
The Journey is My Home
October 22, 2013 By Leave a Comment
“The journey is my home” – Muriel Rukeyser
The Value of Men
October 21, 2013 By Leave a Comment
“He who does not travel does not know the value of men” – Moorish Proverb
A Wise Traveler
October 20, 2013 By Leave a Comment
“A wise traveler never despises his own country” – Carlo Goldoni
Get Your Kicks on Route 66
October 19, 2013 By Leave a Comment
“If you ever plan to motor west, travel my way, take the highway that is best. Get your kicks, on Route Sixty-six” – Nat King Cole (Route 66)
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Experience the World
October 18, 2013 By Leave a Comment
“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” – Alan Keightley
