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.

Seen It All In A Small Town

“I’ve seen it all in a small town.
Had myself a ball in a small town.
Married an L.A. doll and brought her to this small town,
now she’s small town just like me.

No I cannot forget where it is that I come from.
I cannot forget the people who love me.
Yeah, I can be myself here in this small town
and people let me be just what I want to be

Got nothing against a big town.
Still hayseed enough to say
look who’s in the big town.
But my bed is in a small town.
Oh, and that’s good enough for me.

Well I was born in a small town.
And I can breathe in a small town.
Gonna die in this small town
and that’s probably where they’ll bury me”

– John Mellencamp (Small Town) | Travel Quote of the Day

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The Value Of Your Travels

“The value of your travels does not hinge on how many stamps you have in your passport when you get home – and the slow nuanced experience of a single country is always better than the hurried, superficial experience of forty countries” – Rolf Potts | Travel Quote of the Day

Interesting Experiences In Store

“At each of these northern posts there were interesting experiences in store for me, as one who had read all the books of northern travel and dreamed for half a lifetime of the north; and that was – almost daily meeting with famous men” – Ernest Thompson Seton | Travel Quote of the Day

The Detergent Of Travel E-commerce

“Companies like Amadeus IT Group are the little blue crystals, if you will, in the detergent of travel e-commerce” – Henry Harteveldt | Travel Quote of the Day

Travel – An Opportunity Taken

“Sometimes travel is merely an opportunity taken when you can” – Ian Frazier | Travel Quote of the Day

Inextricably Mixed Up Together

“In real life, the big things and the little things are inextricably mixed up together, so in Libya at one moment, one worried because one’s native boots were full of holes, and at the next, perhaps, one wondered how long one would be alive to wear them” – Rosita Forbes | Travel Quote of the […]

People Move Around So Much

“People move around so much in the world, things get lost” – Emma Donoghue | Travel Quote of the Day

Journey Through The Past

“Now I’m going back to Canada,
on a journey thru the past.
And I won’t be back
till February comes.
I will stay with you,
if you’ll stay with me,
said the fiddler to the drum.
And we’ll keep good time
on a journey thru the past”

– Neil Young (Journey Through The Past) | Travel Quote of the Day

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Spirit Of This Great London

“I like the spirit of this great London which I feel around me. Who but a coward would pass his whole life in hamlets; and for ever abandon his faculties to the eating rust of obscurity?” – Charlotte Brontë | Travel Quote of the Day

Travelling Through Hyperspace

“Travelling through hyperspace ain’t like dustin’ crops, boy!” – Han Solo (George Lucas/Star Wars) | Travel Quote of the Day

She Went To Japan For Loveliness

“She did not want to say it, because it made no practical sense, but in the end she went to Japan for the delicate sake cups, resting in her hand like a blossom; she went to Japan for loveliness” – Z.Z. Packer | Travel Quote of the Day

Travel Within

“You cannot travel within and stand still without” – James Lane Allen | Travel Quote of the Day

The Path Is Long, The Way Unknown

“Go not knowing where. Bring not knowing what. The path is long, the way unknown” – Russian Proverb | Travel Quote of the Day

Great Glory Of Travel

“The great glory of travel, to me, is not just what I see that’s new to me in countries visited, but that in almost every one of them I change from an outsider looking in to an insider looking out” – Clara E. Laughlin | Travel Quote of the Day

I Am A Poor Wayfaring Stranger

“I am a poor, wayfaring stranger, traveling through this world alone.
And there’s no sickness, toil, or danger, in that bright land to which I go.
And I’m going there to see my mother.
And I’m going there no more to roam.
And I’m only going over Jordan.
And I’m only going over home now”

– Traditional (As performed by Ed Sheeran) | Travel Quote of the Day

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Dense Magic Of The City

“I walked down Paseo del Prado, losing myself to the sights, sounds, and dense magic of the city. There’s something weirdly calming about being alone in a big city. It made me feel like the universe was hugely generous, and that my species was so damn smart to have constructed such a beautiful city” – […]

Travel That Way Yourself

“To bring up a child in the way he should go, travel that way yourself once in a while” – Josh Billings | Travel Quote of the Day

Desert Tells A Different Story

“No doubt you are wondering what you will find, out there.’ The Commandant said it for me. ‘Well, it would be useless for me to try and tell you. The desert tells a different story every time one ventures on it…” – Robert Edison Fulton Jr. | Travel Quote of the Day

Fantasised What It Would Be Like

“I read a lot of travel books before I came here. Fantasised what it would be like. I read Scott’s journal. Those last entries as they froze to death in that tent. ‘Had we lived, I should have made a tale to tell of the hardihood, endurance and courage of my companions which would have […]

Reach The Summit Of Your Own Heart

“Once you reach the summit of your own heart you will see beauty is everywhere” – Bryant McGill | Travel Quote of the Day

Nature a ‘Wilderness’

“Only to the white man was nature a ‘Wilderness’ and only to him was the land infested with ‘Wild’ animals. To us it was tame… When the very animals of the forest began to flee from his approach, then it was for us that the ‘Wild West’ began” – Luther Standing Bear | Travel Quote […]

The Answer Is Blowin’ In The Wind

“How many roads must a man walk down,
before you call him a man?
Yes, ’n how many seas must a white dove sail,
before she sleeps in the sand?
Yes, ’n how many times must the cannonballs fly,
before they’re forever banned?
The answer, my friend, is blowin’ in the wind,
the answer is blowin’ in the wind”

– Bob Dylan (Blowin’ In The Wind) | Travel Quote of the Day

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In Paris, Everything Was Fixable

“In Paris, everything was fixable for the right price” – Peggy Kopman-Owens | Travel Quote of the Day

Between Travel Writing And Fiction

“The difference between travel writing and fiction is the difference between recording what the eye sees and discovering what the imagination knows. Fiction is pure joy – how sad that I could not reinvent the trip as fiction” – Paul Theroux | Travel Quote of the Day

Fails To Remember The Airplane Trip

“As one gets older, it happens that in the morning one fails to remember the airplane trip to be taken in a few hours or the lecture scheduled for the afternoon” – Rudolf Arnheim | Travel Quote of the Day

Only In Adventure

“It is only in adventure that some people succeed in knowing themselves – in finding themselves” – Andre Gide | Travel Quote of the Day

Trust Only Movement

“Trust only movement” – Alfred Adler | Travel Quote of the Day

Travels The World Over

“A man travels the world over in search of what he needs and returns home to find it” – George Augustus Moore | Travel Quote of the Day

You Can Get Anything You Want – Alice’s Restaurant

“You can get anything you want at Alice’s restaurant.
Walk right in, it’s around the back,
just a half a mile from the railroad track.
You can get anything you want at Alice’s restaurant”

– Arlo Guthrie (Alice’s Restaurant) | Travel Quote of the Day

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Free And Unanchored

“I saw in their eyes something I was to see over and over in every part of the nation- a burning desire to go, to move, to get under way, anyplace, away from any Here. They spoke quietly of how they wanted to go someday, to move about, free and unanchored, not toward something but […]

Travel Two Roads At Once

“The person attempting to travel two roads at once will get nowhere” – Xun Zi | Travel Quote of the Day

Something Is Protecting Me

“In moments of great uncertainty on my travels, I have always felt that something is protecting me, that I will come to no harm” – Tahir Shah | Travel Quote of the Day

Carry A Can Of Tunafish

“When traveling through Kansas always carry a can of tuna fish. If you get lost not only can you eat it, but you can stand on the can and see Nebraska” – Tim Jackson | Travel Quote of the Day

Traveling-To-A-Place Energy

“Traveling-to-a-place energy and living-in-a-place energy are two fundamentally different energies” – Elizabeth Gilbert | Travel Quote of the Day

Invite Stares Of Disapproval

“One very good way to invite stares of disapproval in Japan is to walk and eat at the same time” – Andrew Horvat | Travel Quote of the Day

What A Wonderful World

“I see trees of green, red roses, too,
I see them bloom, for me and you.
And I think to myself,
what a wonderful world.

I see skies of blue, and clouds of white,
the bright blessed day, the dark sacred night.
And I think to myself,
what a wonderful world”

– Louis Armstrong | Travel Quote of the Day

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Traveling In Other Countries

“Traveling in other countries is especially fun because others often attribute your differences to the less-stigmatizing idea that you’re like this only because you’re a foreigner” – Michael John Carley | Travel Quote of the Day

I Hate Traveling With Amateurs

“I hate traveling with amateurs” – Rachel Caine | Travel Quote of the Day

There Are No Foreign Lands

“There are no foreign lands. It is the traveler only who is foreign” – Robert Louis Stevenson | Travel Quote of the Day

I Left My Body On A Distant Shore

“So I find words I never thought to speak, in streets I never thought I should revisit, when I left my body on a distant shore” – T.S. Eliot | Travel Quote of the Day

Leave Yourself Behind

“Travel doesn’t become adventure until you leave yourself behind” – Marty Rubin | Travel Quote of the Day

Long Voyages, Great Lies

“Long voyages, great lies” – Italian Proverb | Travel Quote of the Day

London’s Brilliant Parade

“Just look at me, I’m having the time of my life, or something quite like it.
When I’m walking out and about in London’s brilliant parade”

– Elvis Costello (London’s Brilliant Parade) | Travel Quote of the Day

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God Made The Country

“God made the country and man made the town.” – William Cowper | Travel Quote of the Day

Leave Something Of Ourselves Behind

“We leave something of ourselves behind when we leave a place, we stay there, even though we go away. And there are things in us that we can find again only by going back there” – Pascal Mercier | Travel Quote of the Day

Reason For Never Going Back

“Dad reckons if you have a great time in one place, then that’s a good reason for never going back. Nothing will ever measure up to the first time. He laughs at people who go to the same place every year, same beach, same house, same things to do” – James Moloney | Travel Quote […]

Lived On Two Continents

“Twelve thousand miles of it, to the other side of the world. And whether they came home again or not, they would belong neither here, nor there, for they would have lived on two continents and sampled two different ways of life” – Colleen McCullough | Travel Quote of the Day

Not Daunted By Travel

“I’m not daunted by the travel. People say, ‘It’s so far to Australia,’ and I say, ‘You get on the plane, you eat well, you sleep, you wake up – and you’re there.’” – Geoffrey Rush | Travel Quote of the Day

Look Like Your Passport Photo

“Airplane travel is nature’s way of making you look like your passport photo” – Al Gore | Travel Quote of the Day

Hit The Road Jack

“Hit the road Jack, and don’t you come back, no more, no more, no more, no more.
Hit the road Jack and don’t you come back no more”

– Ray Charles (Hit The Road Jack) | Travel Quote of the Day

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Travel Does Not Exist Without Home

“Travel does not exist without home… If we never return to the place we started, we would just be wandering, lost. Home is a reflecting surface, a place to measure our growth and enrich us after being infused with the outside world” – Josh Gates | Travel Quote of the Day

Another Place Heightens The Senses

“The Chinese say that there is no scenery in your home town. They’re right. Being in another place heightens the senses, allows you to see more, enjoy more, take delight in small things; it makes life richer. You feel more alive, less cocooned” – Jane Wilson-Howarth | Travel Quote of the Day

Unassuming Donut Eaters

“Living in China has made me appreciate my own country, with its tiny, ethnically diverse population of unassuming donut-eaters” – Jan Wong | Travel Quote of the Day

The Fabulous White City

“It seemed like a matter of minutes when we began rolling in the foothills before Oakland and suddenly reached a height and saw stretched out ahead of us the fabulous white city of San Francisco on her eleven mystic hills with the blue Pacific and its advancing wall of potato-patch fog beyond, and smoke and […]

Bring Me That Horizon

“Now, bring me that horizon” – Johnny Depp | Travel Quote of the Day

Free To Travel

“Let me be a free man – free to travel, free to stop, free to work” – Chief Joseph | Travel Quote of the Day

Possum Kingdom (Lake)

“Make up your mind
Decide to walk with me
Around the lake tonight
By my side
I’m not gonna lie
I’ll not be a gentleman
Behind the boathouse
I’ll show you my dark secret”
– The Toadies (Possum Kingdom) | Travel Quote of the Day

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Travel In Contested Territory

“Your favorite occupation? Travel in contested territory. Hard-working writing and reading when safely home, in the knowledge that an amusing friend is later coming to dinner” – Christopher Hitchens | Travel Quote of the Day

Cities And Countries Alive

“This was how it was with travel: one city gives you gifts, another robs you. One gives you the heart’s affections, the other destroys your soul. Cities and countries are as alive, as feeling, as fickle and uncertain as people. Their degrees of love and devotion are as varying as with any human relation. Just […]

First Months Of Travel

“Until-as often happened during those first months of travel, whenever I would feel such happiness-my guilt alarm went off. I heard my ex-husband’s voice speaking disdainfully in my ear: So this is what you gave up everything for? This is why you gutted our entire life together? For a few stalks of asparagus and an […]

Spirit Of Place!

“Spirit of place! It is for this we travel, to surprise its subtlety; and where it is a strong and dominant angel, that place, seen once, abides entire in the memory with all its own accidents, its habits, its breath, its name” – Alice Meynell | Travel Quote of the Day

Airports Lead You Way Back

“I suppose there has been nothing like the airports since the age of the stage-stops – nothing quite as lonely, as sombre-silent. The red-brick depots were built right into the towns they marked – people didn’t get off at those isolated stations unless they lived there. But airports lead you way back in history like […]

Corners Of The Globe

“By travelling to all the corners of the globe, it allows me to further define the ever changing world we live in, which in turn helps me to redefine myself, therefore it is an important process towards becoming a complete person” – Andrew James Pritchard | Travel Quote of the Day

Get Miles Away

“I love this island, but this island’s killing me.
Sitting here in silence, man, I don’t get no peace.
The waves upon my shore, take me away piece by piece.
Gonna leave everything I know, gonna head out towards the sea.
Jump off this island, gonna head out towards the sea”

– Gomez (Get Miles) | Travel Quote of the Day

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You Cannot Travel To The Known

“You cannot travel to the known; because all travels are towards the future and the future is unknown!” – Mehmet Murat ildan | Travel Quote of the Day

The Journey is Preparation For The Experience

“I believe that Marrakech ought to be earned as a destination. The journey is the preparation for the experience. Reaching it too fast derides it, makes it a little less easy to understand” – Tahir Shah | Travel Quote of the Day

We Travel To Lose Ourselves; To Find Ourselves

“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 […]

You’re A F**king Tourist

“The saddest journey in the world is the one that follows a precise itinerary. Then you’re not a traveler. You’re a fucking tourist” – Guillermo del Toro | Travel Quote of the Day

Go See What It’s Really Like

“I lack the imagination. For that reason I have to pack, stuff into my pockets odds and ends, passport, money, and go see what it’s really like. Whenever the time of year or the weather changes, I have to pack up whatever I can’t do without and visit all those places I’ve been before, to […]

Same As Everywhere Else

“David Attenborough has said that Bali is the most beautiful place in the world, but he must have been there longer than we were, and seen different bits, because most of what we saw in the couple of days we were there sorting out our travel arrangements was awful. It was just the tourist area, […]

Turning Japanese

“No sex, no drugs, no wine, no women. No fun, no sin, no you, no wonder it’s dark. Everyone around me is a total stranger. Everyone avoids me like a cyclone ranger. Everyone.
That’s why I’m turning Japanese. I think I’m turning Japanese, I really think so”
– The Vapors (Turning Japanese) Travel Quote of the Day

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Settling In One Particular Nook

“The few times I said to myself anywhere: ‘Now that’s a nice spot for a permanent home,’ I would immediately hear in my mind the thunder of an avalanche carrying away the hundreds of far places which I would destroy by the very act of settling in one particular nook of the earth” – Vladimir […]

Where You Are Headed

“Where you come from does matter — but not nearly as much as where you are headed” – Jodi Picoult | Travel Quote of the Day

Preoccupied With Participating

“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 | Travel […]

Travel With A Purpose

“Just to travel is rather boring, but to travel with a purpose is educational and exciting” – Sargent Shriver | Travel Quote of the Day

As Though Traveling Abroad

“People do not die for us immediately, but remain bathed in a sort of aura of life which bears no relation to true immortality but through which they continue to occupy our thoughts in the same way as when they were alive. It is as though they were traveling abroad” – Marcel Proust | Travel […]

Middle Age Requires Adventure

“We in middle age require adventure” – Carolyn Heilbrun | Travel Quote of the Day

I Get Around

“I’m gettin’ bugged driving up and down this same old strip. I gotta finda new place where the kids are hip.

My buddies and me are getting real well known, yeah, the bad guys know us and they leave us alone.

I get around, from town to town. I’m a real cool head. I’m makin’ real good bread. I get around.

We always take my car cause it’s never been beat and we’ve never missed yet with the girls we meet.

None of the guys go steady cause it wouldn’t be right, to leave their best girl home on a Saturday night.

I get around”

– The Beach Boys (I Get Around) | Travel Quote of the Day

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This Place Feels Familiar

“More than anything, this place feels familiar. I bury my hands in the hot sand and think about the embodiment of memory or, more specifically, our natural ability to carry the past in our bodies and minds. Individually, every grain of sand brushing against my hands represents a story, an experience, and a block for […]

Transform The World

“Every man can transform the world from one of monotony and drabness to one of excitement and adventure” – Irving Wallace | Travel Quote of the Day

In Books I Have Traveled

“In books I have traveled, not only to other worlds, but into my own” – Anna Quindlen | Travel Quote of the Day

A Land Of Liberty

“New skin, a new land! And a land of liberty, if that is possible! I chose the geology of a land that was new to me, and that was young, virgin, and without drama, that of America. I traveled in America, but instead of romantically and directly rubbing the snakeskin of my body against the […]

Designed for Space Travel

“Man is an artifact designed for space travel. He is not designed to remain in his present biologic state any more than a tadpole is designed to remain a tadpole” – William S. Burroughs | Travel Quote of the Day

When You Get The Chance, Go

“And my mother, whose radius of travel was short, tied the letters with ribbon and kept them in her desk, When you get the chance, she said to me, “go” – Frances Mayes | Travel Quote of the Day

The Trip We Made To Hollywood

“I spend a lot of money and I spent a lot of time.
The trip we made to Hollywood is etched upon my mind.
After all the things we’ve done and seen, you find another man.
The things you think are useless, I can’t understand.
Are you reelin’ in the years? Stowin’ away the time?
Are you gatherin’ up the tears? Have you had enough of mine?”

– Steely Dan (Reelin’ In The Years) | Travel Quote of the Day

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Always Sad To Leave

“It is always sad to leave a place to which one knows one will never return. Such are the melancolies du voyage: perhaps they are one of the most rewarding things about traveling” – Gustave Flaubert | Travel Quote of the Day

A Wise Man Travels

“A wise man travels to discover himself” – James Russell Lowell | Travel Quote of the Day

Hong Kong Will Never Leave You

“You can leave Hong Kong, but it will never leave you” – Nury Vittachi | Travel Quote of the Day

Pictures Of The Native Girls

“We took pictures of the native girls, but they weren’t developed. But we’re going back next year” – Groucho Marx | Travel Quote of the Day

Direction Of Our Fear

“We must travel in the direction of our fear” – John Berryman | Travel Quote of the Day

Travels Through The Unknown

“Every man needs his Siren to check his courage and strength. When he hears her song in his travels through the unknown” – Dejan Stojanovic | Travel Quote of the Day

The Best Of Both Worlds

“We want the best of both worlds. We want it slow and hot. We like to taste revenge, but we can’t waste the shot.
We want to see from both sides, we like it cool and fast. We want to get it over, we like to make it last.
Keep it on, it’s getting closer, the best of both worlds, Double fun.
I’d like to now propose a toast, to the best of both worlds”

– Robert Palmer | Travel Quote of the Day

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Time Has Been Cheated

“There is, of course, always the personal satisfaction of writing down one’s own experiences so they may be saved, caught and pinned under glass, hoarded against the winter of forgetfulness. Time has been cheated a little, at least, in one’s own life, and a personal, trivial immortality of an old self assured” – Anne Morrow […]

Recollections Of Sitting

“Most of my treasured memories of travel are recollections of sitting” – Robert Thomas Allen | Travel Quote of the Day

Adventure – Part Of Everyone’s Life

“Adventure should be part of everyone’s life. It is the whole difference between being fully alive and just existing” – Holly Morris | Travel Quote of the Day

Who Travels Sees More

“Who lives sees, but who travels sees more” – Anonymous | Travel Quote of the Day

Travel Through The Audience

“I always thought it would be really cool to be playing the drums in the show and then have your astral body or whatever travel all through the audience and dig whatever it’s like out there” – Bill Kreutzmann | Travel Quote of the Day

Maps Are Essential

“Maps are essential. Planning a journey without a map is like building a house without drawings” – Mark Jenkins | Travel Quote of the Day

Reach The Sister Cities

“See the old man on the bridge. He’s hauling up a sagging net.
It’s full of eels twisting through the eye sockets of a horse’s head
And this fiend has no family, so he will outlive you and me.

In the hospital you talked about thumbing down
that truck ride or the first time.
And the false friend kept his back turned.
That’s when you learned, the fierceness of man.
Again, again, again.
How long it took to reach the Sister Cities.
And then somehow make it back,
just to tell me, ‘Yeah, I guess I’m still pretty mad'”

– Hop Along (Sister Cities) | Travel Quote of the Day

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Every Journey Is Personal

“Every journey is personal. Every journey is spiritual. You can’t compare them, can’t replace, can’t repeat. You can bring back the memories but they only bring tears to your eyes” – Riana Ambarsari | Travel Quote of the Day