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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.
Foul Contingency Of Life
“Trains induce such terrible anxiety. They image the possibility of total and irrevocable failure. They are also dirty, rackety, packed with strangers, an object lesson in the foul contingency of life: the talkative fellow-traveller, the possibility of children” – Iris Murdoch | Travel Quote of the Day
It Allows Me To Travel
“So it allows me to travel, I’ll be doing that and running these great rivers and doing what I’ve done in the past without much purpose other than for the experience” – Richard Dean Anderson | Travel Quote of the Day
Never Completely At Home
“You will never be completely at home again, because part of your heart always will be elsewhere. That is the price you pay for the richness of loving and knowing people in more than one place” – Miriam Adeney | Travel Quote of the Day
No Fixed Plans
“A good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent on arriving” – Lao Tzu | Travel Quote of the Day
This Is Not America
“A little piece of you, the little piece in me will die.
This is not a miracle, for this is not America.
Blossom fails to bloom this season.
Promise not to stare too long.
This is not America, for this is not the miracle.
There was a time, a storm that blew, so pure.
For this could be the biggest sky, and I could have the faintest idea.
For this is not America. Sha-la-la-la-la”
– David Bowie (This is not America) | Travel Quote of the Day
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Over The Hills And Far Away
“I would love you all the day, every night we would kiss and play, if with me you’d fondly stray, over the hills and far away” – John Gray | Travel Quote of the Day
Between Standstill And Flight
“Every journey is played out between standstill and flight” – Claudio Magris | Travel Quote of the Day
Vacation Should Be Pleasant
“Though most tourists accepted the occasional comic misadventure, it was important to them that overall their vacation should be pleasant. When you spend money on a holiday you are essentially purchasing happiness: if you don’t enjoy yourself you will feel defrauded” – Alison Lurie | Travel Quote of the Day
Has A Passport
“He has a passport,” my classmates would whisper. “Quick, let’s run before he judges us!” – David Sedaris | Travel Quote of the Day
The Immigrant Trail
“I took Laura on a trip once where we followed the Immigrant Trail for about six hundred miles. She really learned a lesson. People forget too often how it was back then” – Bruce Dern | Travel Quote of the Day
Eat Without Fear
“Do we really want to travel in hermetically sealed popemobiles through the rural provinces of France, Mexico and the Far East, eating only in Hard Rock Cafes and McDonalds? Or do we want to eat without fear, tearing into the local stew, the humble taqueria’s mystery meat, the sincerely offered gift of a lightly grilled […]
Get Into A Car And Drive
“We, so tired of all the darkness in our lives, with no more angry words to say can come alive.
Get into a car and drive, to the other side.
We are young but getting old before our time.
We’ll leave the T.V. and the radio behind.
Don’t you wonder what we’ll find, steppin’ out tonight?
You can dress in pink and blue just like a child.
And in a yellow taxi turn to me and smile.
We’ll be there in just a while, if you follow me.
Babe, steppin’ out…
Into the night, into the light” – Joe Jackson (Steppin’ Out) | Travel Quote of the Day
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Weeks On The Road
“After weeks on the road, listening to a language you don’t understand, using a currency whose value you don’t comprehend, walking down streets you’ve never walked down before, you discover that your old ‘I,’ along with everything you ever learned, is absolutely no use at all in the face of those new challenges, and you […]
Yes To Your Adventure
“The big question is whether you are going to be able to say a hearty yes to your adventure” – Joseph Campbell | Travel Quote of the Day
Deeds Still Travel With Us
“Our deeds still travel with us from afar, and what we have been makes us what we are” – George Eliot | Travel Quote of the Day
Sacrifices Of Time And Money
“The sacrifices of time and money that Chinese friends will make for one another often go far beyond what is expected or accepted in Western society” – Larry Herzberg | Travel Quote of the Day
Expedition to New York
“As our expedition to New York seems likely to be attended with a very fatal Consequence, and ourselves haply censured for undertaking it without assurance of success” – Lewis Hallam | Travel Quote of the Day
Other Side Of The World
“It was good to travel to the other side of the world” – Andre Braugher | Travel Quote of the Day
Not Gonna Go To LA Anymore
“I don’t think I’m gonna go to LA anymore. I don’t know what its like to land and not race through your door. I don’t think I’m gonna go to LA anymore.
I don’t think I’m gonna go to LA anymore. I’m not sure that I really ever could. Hold on to your hotel key in your bedroom neighborhood,
Me sleep-walkin in Hollywood.
I’m gonna steer clear, I’d burn up in your atmosphere. I’m gonna steer clear, cause I’d die if I saw you. I’d die if I didn’t see you there.
So I don’t think I’m gonna go to LA anymore.
I don’t think I’m gonna go to LA anymore. I’d get lost on the boulevard at night. Without your voice to tell me I love you take a right,
the ten and the two is the loneliest sight. Think I’m gonna stay, gonna stay in the gray”
– John Mayer (In Your Atmosphere) | Travel Quote of the Day
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India Is Brilliantly Mad
“Be as intellectual as you like about it, but India is brilliantly mad. And if you want to love it, you have to hate it first”
Man Belongs To The Earth
“The earth does not belong to man, man belongs to the earth. All things are connected like the blood that unites us all. Man did not weave the web of life, he is merely a strand in it. Whatever he does to the web, he does to himself” – Chief Seattle | Travel Quote of […]
Places In Your Heart
“India will reveal to you the places in your heart that must be purified” – Erin Reese | Travel Quote of the Day
A Lot Of Travel
“Book tours and research provide a lot of travel – too much, I sometimes think, but we do take vacations” – Bernard Cornwell | Travel Quote of the Day
Old Road Of The Past
“All that old road of the past unreeling dizzily as if the cup of life had been overturned and everything gone mad. My eyes ached in nightmare day” – Jack Kerouac | Travel Quote of the Day
Man Must Travel
“What should I have known or written had I been a quiet, mercantile politician or a lord in waiting? A man must travel, and turmoil, or there is no existence” – George Byron | Travel Quote of the Day
In Travel You Can Start Over
“Far too many people on the spectrum spend most of their days with people who carry around memories of, and are often too overwhelmed by incidents of, prior misinterpretation. This is no fun. In travel you can start over, and reinvent yourself. If somehow a relationship gets weird, you can leave and go to the […]
Get Away From Yourself
“The further you get away from yourself, the more challenging it is. Not to be in your comfort zone is great fun” – Benedict Cumberbatch | Travel Quote of the Day
You’re Not Traveling
“You’re not traveling if you already know everything” – Erica Bauermeister | Travel Quote of the Day
Journeyed Through The Afternoon
“If we are inclined to forget how much there is in the world besides that which we anticipate, then works of art are perhaps a little to blame, for in them we find at work the same process of simplification or selection as in the imagination. Artistic accounts include severe abbreviations of what reality will […]
Screw The Shops
“Screw the shops; I want a duty-free office” – Rishi Piparaiya | Travel Quote of the Day
Move To A New Country
“Move to a new country and you quickly see that visiting a place as a tourist, and actually moving there for good, are two very different things” – Tahir Shah | Travel Quote of the Day
The Girl From Ipanema
“Tall and tan and young and lovely,
the girl from Ipanema goes walking,
and when she passes, each one she passes goes ‘a-a-ah!’
When she walks, she’s like a samba that,
swings so cool and sways so gentle,
that when she passes, each one she passes goes ‘a-a-ah!’
Oh, but I watch her so sadly,
how can I tell her I love her?
Yes, I would give my heart gladly,
but each day when she walks to the sea,
she looks straight ahead, not at me”
– Antonio Carlos Jobim | Travel Quote of the Day
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Understand A City
“You can’t understand a city without using its public transportation system” – Erol Ozan | Travel Quote of the Day
Ability To Travel In Space
“Rocket scientists agree that we have about reached the limit of our ability to travel in space using chemical rockets. To achieve anything near the speed of light we will need a new energy source and a new propellant. Nuclear fission is not an option” – Wilson Greatbatch | Travel Quote of the Day
To Miss A Place
“Maybe you had to leave in order to miss a place; maybe you had to travel to figure out how beloved your starting point was” – Jodi Picoult | Travel Quote of the Day
Mobility Means Security
“With the earth firmly beneath our feet, we can approach what attracts us, and withdraw from what unnerves us. If there is real danger, we can run. Mobility means security, both physically and emotionally. Flying takes away our most basic way of regulating feelings” – Tom Bunn | Travel Quote of the Day
A Traveler’s Memories
“There comes a moment when the things one has written, even a traveler’s memories, stand up and demand a justification. They require an explanation. They query, ‘Who am I? What is my name? Why am I here?” – Anne Morrow Lindbergh | Travel Quote of the Day
Journeys End In The Same Place
“All journeys eventually end in the same place, home” – Chris Geiger | Travel Quote of the Day
Tear Down The Walls
“Hauled from the wreckage, dragged to the side of the road, there’s a man, standing alone.
Live by the moonlight, blown by the wind, nothing there, but the road in front of him.
So tear down the walls, storm through the barricades,
There’s fight in every corner, and a night to everyday” – Davy Knowles And Back Door Slam | Travel Quote of the Day
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Love Getting Lost
“I love getting lost on purpose” – Lisa Desrochers | Travel Quote of the Day
More Than One Suitcase
“Anyone who needs more than one suitcase is a tourist, not a traveler” – Ira Levin | Travel Quote of the Day
Disoriented, Even Frightened
“Personally I like going places where I don’t speak the language, don’t know anybody, don’t know my way around and don’t have any delusions that I’m in control. Disoriented, even frightened, I feel alive, awake in ways I never am at home” – Michael Mewshaw | Travel Quote of the Day
Happy With Less
“It’s hard to be less than happy when you can be happy with less” – Chris Brady | Travel Quote of the Day
Outside The Window
“Outside the window, there slides past that unimaginable and deserted vastness where night is coming on, the sun declining in ghastly blood-streaked splendour like a public execution across, it would seem, half a continent, where live only bears and shooting stars and the wolves who lap congealing ice from water that holds within it the […]
The World Is A Book
“The World is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page” – Saint Augustine | Travel Quote of the Day
Paradise City
“Take me down to the paradise city, where the grass is green and the girls are pretty. Oh, won’t you please take me home.Just an urchin livin’ under the street, I’m a hard case that’s tough to beat. I’m your charity case, so buy me somethin’ to eat. I’ll pay you at another time. Take it to the end of the line” – Guns N’ Roses (Paradise City) | Travel Quote of the Day
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Spirit That Animates
“In the end I believe the essential spirit that animates those places animates me. If that spirit is God, then I found God…If that spirit is life, then I found life…If that spirit is awe, then I found awe. Part of me suspects it’s all three…all I had to do to discover that spirit and […]
Somehow Missed The Sky
“She got on a plane to see a client in California and somewhere over Colorado, the pilot somehow missed the sky” – Jonathan Tropper | Travel Quote of the Day
Region Of Ice And Snow
“I had a dream when I was 22 that someday I would go to the region of ice and snow and go on and on till I came to one of the poles of the earth” – Ernest Shackleton | Travel Quote of the Day
No Home To Go To
“I knew then that I wanted to go home, but I had no home to go to–and that is what adventures are all about” – Trina Schart Hyman | Travel Quote of the Day
Italy Gives Much, In Beauty
“Remember that a little learning can be a pleasant thing. Italy gives much, in beauty, gaiety, diversity of arts and landscapes, good humor and energy — willingly, without having to be coaxed or courted. Paradoxically, she requires (as do other countries, probably more so) and deserves some preparation as background to enhance her pleasures. It […]
Whether You Like People Or Hate Them
“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 | Travel Quote of the Day
Midnight In Harlem
“Well, I came to the city, I was running from the past.
My heart was bleeding and it hurt my bones to laugh.
Stayed in the city, no exception to the rules.
He was born to love me, I was raised to be his fool.
Walk that line, torn apart.
Spend your whole life trying.
Ride that train, free your heart.
It’s midnight up in Harlem.”
– Tedeschi Trucks Band (Midnight in Harlem) | Travel Quote of the Day
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Return A Different Person
“You go away for a long time and return a different person – you never come all the way back” – Paul Theroux | Travel Quote of the Day
Disadvantages Of Good Roads
“All the disadvantages of good roads: high speed, and almost total lack of that inspiring factor in travel – the welcoming hand of the interested stranger” – Robert Edison Fulton Jr. | Travel Quote of the Day
The Joy Of Life
“The very basic core of a man’s living spirit is his passion for adventure. The joy of life comes from our encounters with new experiences, and hence there is no greater joy than to have an endlessly changing horizon, for each day to have a new and different sun” – Christopher McCandless | Travel Quote […]
Essential Humanity Of Different Cultures
“As a traveler, I’ve often found that the more a culture differs from my own, the more I am struck by its essential humanity” – Rick Steves | Travel Quote of the Day
Walking Down The Road In Bali
“When you are walking down the road in Bali and you pass a stranger, the very first question he or she will ask you is, ‘Where are you going?’ The second question is, ‘Where are you coming from?’ To a Westerner, this can seem like a rather invasive inquiry from a perfect stranger, but they’re […]
To See Wonders
“It behooves a man who wants to see wonders sometimes to go out of his way” – John Mandeville | Travel Quote of the Day
Aeroplane Over The Sea
“What a beautiful face
I have found in this place
That is circling all round the sun
What a beautiful dream
That could flash on the screen
In a blink of an eye and be gone from me
Soft and sweet
Let me hold it close and keep it here with me
And one day we will die
And our ashes will fly from the aeroplane over the sea
But for now we are young
Let us lay in the sun
And count every beautiful thing we can see
Love to be
In the arms of all I’m keeping here with me”
– Neutral Milk Hotel (Aeroplane Over The Sea) | Travel Quote of the Day
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You Have Never Really Lived
“You have never really lived until you have done something for someone who can never repay you” – Anonymous | Travel Quote of the Day
Travel Begets Infidelity
“I know it’s not strictly sex that accounts for my straying the motive usually attributed to men. I think it’s just too tempting to have two lives rather than one. Some people think that too much travel begets infidelity: Separation and opportunity test the bonds of love. I think it’s more likely that people who […]
When I Travel, I Draw
“When I travel, I draw and paint sketches which is great fun. And as long as you are fully aware that it has nothing to do with actual art, I think that’s all right” – Arne Jacobsen | Travel Quote of the Day
Lies Waiting On The Road Ahead
“Everything I was, I carry with me. Everything I will be lies waiting on the road ahead” – Ma Jian | Travel Quote of the Day
Strange Foreign Fashions
“We wish to learn all the curious, outlandish ways of all the different countries, so that we can “show off” and astonish people when we get home. We wish to excite the envy of our untraveled friends with our strange foreign fashions which we can’t shake off” – Mark Twain | Travel Quote of the […]
Difference Between Tourist And Traveler
“There is a very big difference between a tourist and a traveler. We make Conde Nast Traveler for the latter” – Harry Evans | Travel Quote of the Day
Staring At The Hotel Ceiling
“I’ve been staring at the hotel ceiling, drinking everything I’ve found this evening, trying to hold onto the sweetest feeling, so I’ll never let you go, don’t you leave me lonely” – Rixton (Hotel Ceiling) | Travel Quote of the Day
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A Series Of Moments
“The paradox of love is that to have it is to want to preserve it because it’s perfect in the moment but that preservation is impossible because the perfection is only ever an instant passed through. Love, like travel is a series of moments that we immediately leave behind. Still we try to hold on […]
My Love Caried A Roadmap
“When she was a child, my love carried a road-map in her hand the way other girls carried handkerchiefs” – Roman Payne | Travel Quote of the Day
A Traveller And Not A Tourist
“Every Englishman abroad, until it is proved to the contrary, likes to consider himself a traveller and not a tourist” – Evelyn Waugh | Travel Quote of the Day
Worst Thing About Being A Tourist
“The worst thing about being a tourist is having other tourists recognize you as a tourist” – Russell Baker | Travel Quote of the Day
Too Much Thinking In India
“I probably did too much thinking in India. I blame it on the roads, for they were superb” – Robert Edison Fulton Jr. | Travel Quote of the Day
It’s Important To Travel Around
“I think it’s important to travel around in order to get a notion of what’s going on, to find out what people are thinking about” – Harrison Salisbury | Travel Quote of the Day
Look For America
“Let us be lovers we’ll marry our fortunes together, I’ve got some real estate here in my bag. So we bought a pack of cigarettes, and Mrs. Wagner pies, and we walked off to look for America.
‘Kathy, I’m lost,’ I said, though I knew she was sleeping. I’m empty and aching and I don’t know why. Counting the cars on the New Jersey Turnpike, they’ve all gone to look for America.” – Simon & Garfunkel (America) | Travel Quote of the Day
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Always Travel With A Can Of Tunafish
“If traveling through Kansas, always travel with a can of tunafish” – Michael Kaye | Travel Quote of the Day
As Cards In A Pack
“The travelers have become as intimate with each other as cards in a pack: contiguous, but their paper eyes blind” – Hilary Mantel | Travel Quote of the Day
Missed If He Failed To Arrive
“No one travelling on a business trip would be missed if he failed to arrive” – Thorstein Veblen | Travel Quote of the Day
Heard An Airplane
“I heard an airplane passing overhead. I wished I was on it” – Charles Bukowski | Travel Quote of the Day
Voyage Of Discovery
“It is like a voyage of discovery into unknown lands, seeking not for new territory but for new knowledge” – Frederick Sanger | Travel Quote of the Day
Travel Moulds A Man
“Travel moulds a man, people mould his wisdom and experiences mould his life” – Sujit Lalwani | Travel Quote of the Day
Dirty Old Town
“Clouds a drifting across the moon. Cats a prowling on their beat. Spring’s a girl in the street at night. Dirty old town.
Heard a siren from the docks. Saw a train set the night on fire. Smelled the spring on the smoky wind. Dirty old town” – The Dubliners | Travel Quote of the Day
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50 Miles To Canton
“You know it’s only 50 miles from Grand River to Canton, but it took me 67 years to travel that distance” – Don Shula | Travel Quote of the Day
Freedom To Search
“Let those who wish have their respectability – I wanted freedom, freedom to indulge in whatever caprice struck my fancy, freedom to search in the farthermost corners of the earth for the beautiful, the joyous, and the romantic” – Richard Halliburton | Travel Quote of the Day
Glassy Tourist Cafe
“Meanwhile it’s got stormy, the tattered fog even thicker, chasing across my path. Three people are sitting in a glassy tourist cafe between clouds and clouds, protected by glass from all sides. Since I don’t see any waiters, it crosses my mind that corpses have been sitting there for weeks, statuesque. All this time the […]
Meditate On The Gulf
“While I meditate on the gulf towards which I travelled, and reflect on my youthful disobedience, for these things I weep, mine eye runneth down with water” – John Woolman | Travel Quote of the Day
I Like To Travel
“I love to not work. I like to travel. I work maybe half the year, no more” – Catherine Deneuve | Travel Quote of the Day
Lovers Of Air Travel
“Lovers of air travel find it exhilarating to hang poised between the illusion of immortality and the fact of death” – Alexander Chase | Travel Quote of the Day
Drive Our Ships To New Lands
“We come from the land of the ice and snow, from the midnight sun, where the hot springs blow. The hammer of the gods, will drive our ships to new lands. To fight the horde, singing and crying, Valhalla, I am coming. On we sweep, with threshing oar. Our only goal will be the western shore” – Led Zeppelin (Immigrant Song) | Travel Quote of the Day
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Between The Pages Of A Passport
“Of all the books in the world, the best stories are found between the pages of a passport” – Saber Ben Hassen | Travel Quote of the Day
Shun The Mundane
“Stuff and nonsense: you must regard this deviation from your plan as part of the adventure that you sought when you decided embark on it in the first place. True adventure does not follow well-trodden paths. Absence of certainty is its essence. People, like you and I, who choose to shun the mundane must not […]
Wherever You Go
“Wherever you go, you take yourself with you” – Neil Gaiman | Travel Quote of the Day
Rattling Along Route 66
“Oh, I can picture myself rattling along Route 66 on that thing, headphones on, singing along to ZZ Top’s ‘Sharp Dressed Man’ or the opening line from ‘Born to be Wild’ by Steppenwolf – ‘Get your motor running…’ The trike brings out that in all of us, which is no bad thing. Forget Viagra, get […]
Where It Is Unwise To Travel
“There are countries of the world, and regions of one’s own mind, where it is unwise to travel” – Chris Cleave | Travel Quote of the Day
A Thousand New Frontiers
“New discoveries in science will continue to create a thousand new frontiers for those who still would adventure” – Herbert Hoover | Travel Quote of the Day
Walk Like An Egyptian
“All the bazaar men by the Nile, they got the money on a bet.
Gold crocodiles, they snap their teeth on your cigarette.
Foreign types with the hookah pipes say… Walk like an Egyptian.
Blond waitresses take their trays, they spin around and they cross the floor.
They’ve got the moves, you drop your drink and they give you more.
All the school kids so sick of books, they like the punk and the metal band.
When the buzzer rings, they’re walking like an Egyptian.
All the kids in the marketplace say, Walk like an Egyptian”
– The Bangles (Walk like an Egyptian) | Travel Quote of the Day
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Journey Of Unfathomable Distances
“I drift like a cloud, across these venerable eastern lands. A journey of unfathomable distances, an endless scroll of experiences. Lady Zhejiang, here we must part, for the next province awaits my embrace. Sad wanderer, once you conquer the East, where do you go?” – Tom Carter | Travel Quote of the Day
City Near No Mountains or Ocean
“When you build a city near no mountains and no ocean, you get materialism and traditional religion. People have too much time and lack inspiration” – Donald Miller | Travel Quote of the Day
Travel, Largely A Commodity
“Travel, which was once either a necessity or an adventure, has become very largely a commodity, and from all sides we are persuaded into thinking that it is a social requirement, too” – Jan Morris | Travel Quote of the Day