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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.
I’m on the Road Again
March 30, 2013 By Leave a Comment
“On the road again, goin’ places that I’ve never been. Seein’ things that I may never see again, and I can’t wait to get on the road again” – Willie Nelson
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Preoccupied with the Destination
March 29, 2013 By Leave a Comment
“Too often we are so preoccupied with the destination, we forget the journey” – Anonymous
Every Exit is an Entry
March 28, 2013 By Leave a Comment
“Every exit is an entry somewhere else” – Tom Stoppard
Adventure as a Proud Insignia
March 27, 2013 By Leave a Comment
“An adventure may be worn as a muddy spot or it may be worn as a proud insignia” – Norma Shearer
Dreams of a Faraway Place
March 26, 2013 By Leave a Comment
“A child on a farm sees a plane fly overhead and dreams of a faraway place. A traveler on the plane sees the farmhouse… and thinks of home” – Carl Burns
America is Still the Great Melting Pot
March 25, 2013 By Leave a Comment
“I travel the world, and I’m happy to say that America is still the great melting pot – maybe a chunky stew rather than a melting pot at this point, but you know what I mean” – Philip Glass
Moment of Delight in Pilgrimage
March 24, 2013 By Leave a Comment
“There is no moment of delight in any pilgrimage like the beginning of it” – Charles Dudley Warner
Back in the USSR
March 23, 2013 By Leave a Comment
“Been away so long I hardly knew the place, gee, it’s good to be back home. Leave it till tomorrow to unpack my case, Honey, disconnect the phone” – The Beatles (Back in the USSR)
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How Journeys End
March 22, 2013 By Leave a Comment
“Journeys end in lovers meeting; every wise man’s son doth know” – William Shakespeare
Don’t be a Tourist
March 21, 2013 By Leave a Comment
“Don’t be a tourist. Plan less. Go slowly. I traveled in the most inefficient way possible and it took me exactly where I wanted to go” – Andrew Evans
Where the Sun Sails and the Moon Walks
March 20, 2013 By Leave a Comment
“May the wind under your wings bear you where the sun sails and the moon walks” – J. R. R. Tolkien
Travel Lengthens the Conversation
March 19, 2013 By Leave a Comment
“Too often travel, instead of broadening the mind, merely lengthens the conversation” – Elizabeth Drew
One Step at a Time
March 18, 2013 By Leave a Comment
“To get through the hardest journey we need take only one step at a time, but we must keep on stepping” – Chinese Proverb
May the Road Rise Up to Meet You
March 17, 2013 By Leave a Comment
“May the road rise up to meet you, may the wind be ever at your back. May the sun shine warm upon your face and the rain fall softly on your fields. And until we meet again, May God hold you in the hollow of his hand” – Irish Blessing
Born to Be Wild
March 16, 2013 By Leave a Comment
“Get your motor runnin’, head out on the highway, lookin’ for adventure in whatever comes our way…” – Steppenwolf (Born to Be Wild)
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The Journey Matters
March 15, 2013 By Leave a Comment
“The journey not the arrival matters” – T. S. Eliot
No Yesterdays on the Road
March 14, 2013 By Leave a Comment
“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” – William Least Heat-Moon
Experience Everyday Things for the First Time
March 13, 2013 By Leave a Comment
“To my mind, the greatest reward and luxury of travel is to be able to experience everyday things as if for the first time, to be in a position in which almost nothing is so familiar it is taken for granted” – Bill Bryson
Walk in a More Deliberate Way
March 12, 2013 By Leave a Comment
“Long-term travel doesn’t require a massive bundle of cash; it requires only that we walk through the world in a more deliberate way” – Rolf Potts
Wandering Re-Establishes Harmony
March 11, 2013 By Leave a Comment
“Wandering re-establishes the original harmony which once existed between man and the universe” – Anatole France
Forgive Places Left Behind
March 10, 2013 By Leave a Comment
“One always begins to forgive a place as soon as it’s left behind” – Charles Dickens
What a Long Strange Trip It’s Been
March 9, 2013 By Leave a Comment
“Lately, it occurs to me… what a long, strange trip it’s been” – The Grateful Dead (Truckin’)
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To Travel is to Live
March 8, 2013 By Leave a Comment
“To move, to breathe, to fly, to float. To gain all while you give. To roam the roads of lands remote. To travel is to live” – Hans Christian Andersen
Become an Asker of Questions
March 8, 2013 By Leave a Comment
“To be on a quest is nothing more or less than to become an asker of questions” – Sam Keen
Travel with Equals or Better
March 6, 2013 By Leave a Comment
“Travel only with thy equals or thy betters; if there are none, travel alone” – The Dhammapada
Kiss Your Ass Good-bye
March 5, 2013 By Leave a Comment
“Now I know why they tell you to put your head between your knees on crash landings. You think you’re going to kiss your ass good-bye” – Terry Hanson
Leave the Path and Find a Way
March 4, 2013 By Leave a Comment
“You may not find a path, but you will find a way” – Tom Wolfe
Back to the Hotel
March 3, 2013 By Leave a Comment
“To put it rather bluntly, I am not the type who wants to go back to the land; I am the type who wants to go back to the hotel” – Fran Lebowitz
Son of a Son of a Sailor
March 2, 2013 By Leave a Comment
“As a dreamer of dreams and a travelin’ man, I have chalked up many a mile. Read dozens of books about heroes and crooks, and I learned much from both of their styles” – Jimmy Buffett
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Go Where You Are
March 1, 2013 By Leave a Comment
“No matter where you go, there you are” – Buckaroo Bonzai
See Every Inch of this World
February 28, 2013 By Leave a Comment
“When I was young, I used to have this thing where I wanted to see everything. I used to think, ‘How can I die without seeing every inch of this world?’” – Leonardo DiCaprio
Go Where You Have Never Been
February 27, 2013 By Leave a Comment
“My favorite thing is to go where I have never been” – Diane Arbus
Experience Travel
February 26, 2013 By Leave a Comment
“Experience, travel, these are as education in themselves” – Euripides
Travel Inspires
February 25, 2013 By Leave a Comment
“In both business and personal life, I’ve always found that travel inspires me more than anything else I do” – Ivanka Trump
Lose Sight of the Shore
February 24, 2013 By Leave a Comment
“One doesn’t discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time” – Andre Gide
The Lonesome Road
February 23, 2013 By Leave a Comment
“Look down, look down, the lonesome road, before you travel on” – Frank Sinatra
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Greater Happiness and Opportunities
February 22, 2013 By Leave a Comment
“My travels led me to where I am today. Sometimes these steps have felt painful, difficult, but led me to greater happiness and opportunities” – Diana Ross
End of theTrail
February 21, 2013 By Leave a Comment
“May all your trails be crooked, winding, lonesome, dangerous, leading to the most amazing view, where something strange and more beautiful and more full of wonder than your deepest dreams waits for you” – Edward Abbey
Secret Destinations
February 20, 2013 By Leave a Comment
“All journeys have secret destinations of which the traveler is unaware” – Martin Buber
Travel Light
February 19, 2013 By Leave a Comment
“I travel light. I think the most important thing is to be in a good mood and enjoy life, wherever you are” – Diane von Furstenberg
Good, Kind People
February 18, 2013 By Leave a Comment
“One of the great things about travel is that you find out how many good, kind people there are” – Edith Wharton
Travel Education and Experience
February 17, 2013 By Leave a Comment
“Travel, in the younger sort, is a part of education; in the elder, a part of experience” – Francis Bacon
Welcome to the Hotel California
February 16, 2013 By Leave a Comment
“You can check out anytime you like, but you can never leave” – The Eagles
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Going Through Hell
February 15, 2013 By Leave a Comment
“If you are going through hell, keep going” – Winston Churchill
Unintended Destinations
February 14, 2013 By Leave a Comment
“I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I ended up where I needed to be” – Douglas Adams
A Tourist and His Car
February 13, 2013 By Leave a Comment
“A tourist is a fellow who drives thousands of miles so he can be photographed standing in front of his car” – Emile Ganest
Wise Travelers Never Despise
February 12, 2013 By Leave a Comment
“A wise traveler never despises his own country” – Pamela Goldoni
Find the Beautiful
February 11, 2013 By Leave a Comment
“Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
Unending Voyage
February 10, 2013 By Leave a Comment
“Once you have traveled, the voyage never ends, but is played out over and over again in the quietest chambers” – Pat Conroy
Where the Streets Have No Name
February 9, 2013 By Leave a Comment
“I’ll show you a place, high on a desert plain, where the streets have no name” – U2
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Life’s Daring Adventure
February 8, 2013 By Leave a Comment
“Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure or nothing” – Helen Keller
Something Not Fun in the Air
February 7, 2013 By Leave a Comment
“The saying ‘Getting there is half the fun’ became obsolete with the advent of commercial airlines” – Henry J. Tillman
I Left My Winter Coat in San Francisco
February 6, 2013 By Leave a Comment
“The coldest winter I ever spent was a summer in San Francisco” – Anonymous
All You Do is Talk
February 5, 2013 By Leave a Comment
“Two great talkers will not travel far together” – Spanish Proverb
Just a Little Bigger
February 4, 2013 By Leave a Comment
“One’s little world is put into perspective by the bigger world out there” – Gail Rubin Bereny
Separate Intervals
February 3, 2013 By Leave a Comment
“A person needs at intervals to separate from family and companions and go to new places. One must go without familiars in order to be open to influences, to change” – Katharine Butler Hathaway
Ramble On
February 2, 2013 By Leave a Comment
“I’m gonna ramble on, sing my song, gonna work my way all around the world” – Led Zeppelin
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Travel Introspection
February 1, 2013 By Leave a Comment
“Travel can be one of the most rewarding forms of introspection” – Lawrence Durrell
Wrong About Other Countries
January 30, 2013 By Leave a Comment
“To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries” – Aldous Huxley
We Can Be Heroes
January 29, 2013 By Leave a Comment
“Heroes take journeys, confront dragons, and discover the treasure of their true selves” – Carol Pearson
Animal Instincts
January 28, 2013 By Leave a Comment
“I like animals. I like natural history. The travel bit is not the important bit. The travel bit is what you have to do in order to go and look at animals” – David Attenborough
Poetic Predestination
January 27, 2013 By Leave a Comment
“Everywhere I go I find a poet has been there before me” – Sigmund Freud
I’ve Been Everywhere
January 26, 2013 By Leave a Comment
“Of travel I’ve had my share, man, I’ve been everywhere” – Johnny Cash (I’ve Been Everywhere)
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A Road Less Traveled
January 25, 2013 By Leave a Comment
“Two roads diverged in a wood, and I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference” – Robert Frost
Don’t Trip
January 24, 2013 By Leave a Comment
“People don’t take trips – trips take people” – John Steinbeck
Fear of Flying
January 23, 2013 By Leave a Comment
“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” – Jean Kerr
Alone in a Strange Town
January 22, 2013 By Leave a Comment
“To awaken quite alone in a strange town is one of the pleasantest sensations in the world” – Freya Stark
Take the Short Cut
January 20, 2013 By Leave a Comment
“Kilometers are shorter than miles. Save gas, take your next trip in kilometers” – George Carlin
Two Lost Souls Swimming in a Fishbowl
January 19, 2013 By Leave a Comment
“How I wish, how I wish you were here” – Pink Floyd (Wish You Were Here)
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Unhappy Homebodies
January 18, 2013 By Leave a Comment
“There is no happiness for him who does not travel” – Aitareya Brahmanan
Get Lost
January 17, 2013 By Leave a Comment
“The open road is a beckoning, a strangeness, a place where a man can lose himself” – William Least Heat-Moon
Reality Regulated Imagination
January 16, 2013 By Leave a Comment
“The use of traveling is to regulate imagination by reality” – Samuel Johnson
Don’t Need No Stinkin’ Map
January 15, 2013 By Leave a Comment
“He who chooses his own path needs no map” – Queen Kristina of Sweden
Disappointment In Things Not Done
January 14, 2013 By Leave a Comment
“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover” – Mark Twain
Sounds Like Frequent Flyers
January 13, 2013 By Leave a Comment
“Too often. . .I would hear men boast of the miles covered that day, rarely of what they had seen” – Louis L’Amour
Baby, We Were Born to Run
January 12, 2013 By Leave a Comment
“We gotta get out while we’re young, ‘cause tramps like us, baby we were born to run.” – Bruce Springsteen (Born to Run)
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A Small Step for Man
January 11, 2013 By Leave a Comment
“A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step” – Lao Tzu
Where the Wild Things Are
January 10, 2013 By Leave a Comment
“Remember you are over the edge of the wild now, and in for all sorts of fun wherever you go” – J.R.R. Tolkien
The Theory of Travel
January 9, 2013 By Leave a Comment
“I love to travel, but hate to arrive” – Hernando Cortez
Seeing is Believing
January 8, 2013 By Leave a Comment
“The question is not what you look at, but what you see” – Henry David Thoreau
California Defies Logic
January 7, 2013 By Leave a Comment
“There is science, logic, reason; there is thought verified by experience. And then there is California” – Edward Abbey
Burger Joint GPS
January 6, 2013 By Leave a Comment
“You can find your way across this country using burger joints the way a navigator uses stars” – Charles Kuralt
When in Roam…
January 5, 2013 By Leave a Comment
“Roam if you want to, roam around the world” – The B52’s (Roam)
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Thinking Outside the Bucket
January 4, 2013 By Leave a Comment
“I haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list” – Susan Sontag
Are You Paying Attention?
January 3, 2013 By Leave a Comment
“People travel to faraway places to watch, in fascination, the kind of people they ignore at home” – Dagobert D. Runes
Papa Hemingway on Love
January 2, 2013 By Leave a Comment
“Never go on trips with anyone you do not love” – Ernest Hemingway
Ask Your Yogi for Directions
January 1, 2013 By Leave a Comment
“You got to be careful if you don’t know where you’re going, because you might not get there” – Yogi Berra
