“Travel is wishing for one more bite of whatever that just was” – Nick Miller | Travel Quote of the Day
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.
Passenger With A Death Wish
“The mere mention of the Farakka Express, which jerks its way eastward each day from Delhi to Calcutta, is enough to throw even a seasoned traveller into fits of apoplexy. At a desert encampment on Namibia’s Skeleton Coast, a hard-bitten adventurer had downed a peg of local fire-water then told me the tale. Farakka was […]
Observe A Lot By Watching
“You can observe a lot by watching” – Yogi Berra | Travel Quote of the Day
I Fly Like Paper
“I fly like paper, get high like planes.
If you catch me at the border, I got visas in my name.
If you come around here, I make ’em all day.
I get one down in a second if you wait.
Sometimes I think sitting on trains,
every stop I get to I’m clocking that game.
Everyone’s a winner, we’re making our fame.
Bona fide hustler making my name”
– M.I.A. (PaperPlanes) | Travel Quote of the Day
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Make Good Time
“We want to make good time, but for us now this is measured with the emphasis on “good” rather than on “time”…” – Robert M. Pirsig | Travel Quote of the Day
Traveling Leaves You Speechless
“Traveling leaves you speechless, then turns you into a storyteller” – Ibn Battuta | Travel Quote of the Day
The Glory Of Foreign Travel
“But that’s the glory of foreign travel, as far as I am concerned. I don’t want to know what people are talking about. I can’t think of anything that excites a greater sense of childlike wonder than to be in a country where you are ignorant of almost everything. Suddenly you are five years old […]
Adventure Is A Path
“Adventure is a path. Real adventure, self-determined, self-motivated, often risky, forces you to have firsthand encounters with the world” – Mark Jenkins | Travel Quote of the Day
Kiss Your Ass Good-bye
“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 | Travel Quote of the Day
The Real Home Of Man
“The real home of man is not his house but the road. Life itself is a travel that has to be done by foot” – Bruce Chatwin | Travel Quote of the Day
Better Not Look Down
“Better not look down
If you want to keep on flying
Put the hammer down
Keep it full speed ahead
Better not look back
Or you might just wind up crying
You can keep it moving
If you don’t look down” – BB King | Travel Quote of the Day
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You Thought Too Hard
“You thought too hard. Same with travel. You can’t work too much at it, or it feels like work. You have to surrender yourself to the chaos. To the accidents” – Gayle Forman | Travel Quote of the Day
Two Kinds Of Adventurers
“There are two kinds of adventurers: those who go truly hoping to find adventure and those who go secretly hoping they won’t” – William Trogdon | Travel Quote of the Day
In Desperate Need Of Adventure
“Restless, and in desperate need of adventure, I quit my job at an insurance company to travel west with a couple of guys I smoked pot with, scandalizing my family” – Mink Stole | Travel Quote of the Day
Never To Revisit A Wilderness
“It is part of wisdom never to revisit a wilderness, for the more golden the lily, the more certain that someone has gilded it” – Aldo Leopold | Travel Quote of the Day
Trips Take People
“People don’t take trips – trips take people” – John Steinbeck | Travel Quote of the Day
Carolina In The Morning
“Nothing could be finer than to be in Carolina in the morning. No one could be sweeter than my sweetie when I meet her in the morning. Where the morning glories twine around the door,
whispering pretty stories I long to hear once more” – Dean Martin (Carolina in the Morning) | Travel Quote of the Day
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Travel Seems To Me A Waste Of Time
“I can create countries just as I can create the actions of my characters. That is why a lot of travel seems to me a waste of time” – Jerzy Kosinski | Travel Quote of the Day
Travel Experiences Are Emotionally Loaded
“Travel experiences are emotionally loaded. Often there is excitement and stimulation. The tingle-factor though comes partly from the fact that we’re stressed, just a little” – Jane Wilson-Howarth | Travel Quote of the Day
Travel Feels Magnetic
“The urge to travel feels magnetic. Two of my favorite words are linked: departure time. And travel whets the emotions, turns upside down the memory bank, and the golden coins scatter” – Frances Mayes | Travel Quote of the Day
Mysterious Game Of Hide-And-Seek
“Finding a taxi, she felt like a child pressing her nose to the window of a candy store as she watched the changing vista pass by while the twilight descended and the capital became bathed in a translucent misty lavender glow. Entering the city from that airport was truly unique. Charles de Gaulle, built nineteen […]
Deck Hands On Tramp Steamers
“If travel were so inspiring and informing a business…then the wisest men in the world would be deck hands on tramp steamers, Pullman porters, and Mormon missionaries” – Sinclair Lewis | Travel Quote of the Day
Being Unattached Was Exhilarating
“While she was in transit, being unattached was exhilarating, but the moment she stopped, so did the high” – Whitney Otto | Travel Quote of the Day
They Paved Paradise
“They paved paradise and put up a parking lot.
With a pink hotel, a boutique and a swinging hot spot.
Don’t it always seem to go, that you don’t know what you’ve got till it’s gone?
They paved paradise and put up a parking lot” – Joni Mitchell (Big Yellow Taxi) | Travel Quote of the Day
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Always Arriving In The Same Place
“I travel, always arriving in the same place” – Dejan Stojanovic | Travel Quote of the Day
While In Transit
“While she was in transit, being unattached was exhilarating, but the moment she stopped, so did the high” – Whitney Otto | Travel Quote of the Day
Time To Leave Town
“My remedy is long. But the last item on the list says: When you wake up and find yourself living someplace where there is nobody you love and trust, no community, it is time to leave town – to pack up and go (you can even go tonight). And where you need to go is […]
Talk About This Beautiful Country
“This is my first opportunity to visit this part of North Africa, so I am going to be able to go back home and talk about this beautiful country and encourage Americans to travel here” – Donald Evans | Travel Quote of the Day
How Much I Still Need To See
“I travel because it makes me realize how much I haven’t seen, how much I’m not going to see, and how much I still need to see” – Carew Papritz | Travel Quote of the Day
The Train As Eternal Metaphor
“For Delta blueman Robert Johnson and his contemporaries, the train was the eternal metaphor for the travelling life, and it still holds true today. There is no travel like it. Train lines carve through all facets of a nation. While buses stick to major highways and planes reduce the unfolding of lives to a bird’s […]
She Came Here From Memphis
“The day since I met her, I can’t believe it’s true. She came here from Memphis across the ocean sailing. And I saw her as I pleaded, why do you come so far? And she said, trying to get to you, how I tried to get you, trying to get you” – Pixies (Letter To Memphis) | Travel Quote of the Day
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Intrinsic Value Of The Past
“The French know the intrinsic value of holding on to the past, its pleasures, its promises, and its tender mercies” – Peggy Kopman-Owens | Travel Quote of the Day
A Horse That Will Take You Anywhere
“You sell off the kingdom piece by piece and trade it for a horse that will take you anywhere” – Colin Wright | Travel Quote of the Day
I Don’t See Myself As A Travel Writer
“I just don’t see myself as a travel writer. I can’t. I don’t” – Robyn Davidson | Travel Quote of the Day
Faith Really Takes You Places
“Credentials are like potential energy, the compliments of a name on paper, in documents, word of mouth, but faith is like kinetic energy, the motion and the force that which is witnessed. Hence in the end it is the faith rather than the credentials that really takes you places” – Criss Jami | Travel Quote […]
Impulse to Travel
“The impulse to travel is one of the hopeful symptoms of life” – Agnes Repplier | Travel Quote of the Day
Pretty As An Airport
“It can hardly be a coincidence that no language on earth has ever produced the expression, ‘As pretty as an airport’” – Douglas Adams | Travel Quote of the Day
I Still Love You New York
“Love don’t play any games with me
anymore like she did before.
The world won’t wait, so I better shake
that thing right out there through the door.
Hell, I still love you, New York” – Ryan Adams (New York, New York) | Travel Quote of the Day
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The Only Thing To Do Was Go
“There was nothing to talk about anymore. The only thing to do was go” – Jack Kerouac | Travel Quote of the Day
An Urge For The Foreign And Strange
“We are torn between a nostalgia for the familiar and an urge for the foreign and strange. As often as not, we are homesick most for the places we have never known” – Carson McCullers | Travel Quote of the Day
The Compelling Zest Of High Adventure
“It is in the compelling zest of high adventure and of victory, and in creative action, that man finds his supreme joys” – Antoine de Saint-Exupéry | Travel Quote of the Day
Mountains Were Once My Big Adventure
“Mountains were once my big adventure but is is over since a long time; I still dream from the wonderful days sometimes, read also a few pages from a mountain book. But the thought of doing again active mountain climbing has faded” – Fritz Zwicky | Travel Quote of the Day
Night Falls Over Machu Picchu
“Night falls over Machu Picchu to the sound of Abba’s ‘Dancing Queen’” – Michael Palin | Travel Quote of the Day
A Trip To The United States
“I never make a trip to the United States without visiting a supermarket. To me they are more fascinating than any fashion salon” – Wallis Simpson | Travel Quote of the Day
I Wanna Travel
“The teachers I had growing up told me things about people and places to go.
But a lot of that talk was them repeating things about things that they didn’t even know.
I wanna travel. I wanna travel. I wanna travel. I wanna thank them for all of their help.
I wanna travel. I wanna travel. I wanna travel. I wanna find out those things for myself.
I’m from the East Coast. I’ve been here and there. But I still haven’t seen very much.
I know as I go and as old as I get there’s places I’ll never forget.
The world’s getting smaller and smaller they say. Pretty soon it’ll all be the same.
But I hope that’s not true. There’s too much to do and a world like that just seems so lame” – Paleface (I Wanna Travel) | Travel Quote of the Day
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The Desert Doesn’t Care
“The desert doesn’t care who you are, and neither does anyone or anything who lives in it” – Deanne Stillman | Travel Quote of the Day
Hurrying From Place To Place
“So long, in fact, as you remain in ignorance of what to aim at and what to avoid, what is essential and what is superfluous, what is upright or honorable conduct and what is not, it will not be travelling but drifting. All this hurrying from place to place won’t bring you any relief, for […]
The Overdressed Traveler
“The overdressed traveler betrays more interest in being seen than in seeing, while the true traveler knows that the novel world about her serves as the most appropriate accessory” – Gregory Maguire | Travel Quote of the Day
I Travel A Lot
“I travel a lot, my team travel a lot, but I wouldn’t have it any other way” – Victoria Beckham | Travel Quote of the Day
A Strong Sense of Place
“Unless there is a strong sense of place there is no travel writing, but it need not come from topographical description; dialogue can also convey a sense of place. Even so, I insist, the traveler invents the place. Feeling compelled to comment on my travel books, people say to me, ‘I went there—China, India, the […]
Chose The Road Less Traveled
“I chose the road less traveled, and now I don’t know where the hell I am” – Anonymous | Travel Quote of the Day
Long Train Running
“Well the Illinois Central and the Southern Central Freight, got to keep on pushin’ mama, you know they’re running late. Without love, where would you be now? Well, the pistons keep on turning and the wheels go round and round. The steel rails are cold and hard. For the miles that they go down, without love, where would you be now? – The Doobie Brothers (Long Train Running) | Travel Quote of the Day
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Turn Your Life Into A Story
“If you don’t turn your life into a story, you just become a part of someone else’s story” – Terry Pratchett | Travel Quote of the Day
Nice People, Like Us
“All good people agree, and all good people say, all nice people, like us, are We. And everyone else is They. But if you cross over the sea, instead of over the way, you may end by (think of it!) looking on We as only a sort of They!” – Rudyard Kipling | Travel Quote […]
Always An Outsider
“No matter where you are, you’re always a bit on your own, always an outsider” – Banana Yoshimoto | Travel Quote of the Day
It’s Hard To Walk Away
“It’s hard to walk away from a winning streak, even harder to leave the table when you’re on a losing one” – Cara Bertoia | Travel Quote of the Day
Thrift And Adventure Seldom Go Hand In Hand
“We owe something to extravagance, for thrift and adventure seldom go hand in hand” – Jennie Churchill | Travel Quote of the Day
The Sky Is So Beautiful
“No one ever seems to wonder what happens if it turns out we hate living on a planet? What if the sky’s too big? What if the air stinks? What if we go hungry?’ ‘And what if the air tastes of honey? What if there’s so much food we all get too fat? What if […]
End Of The Line
“Well it’s all right, riding around in the breeze. Well it’s all right, if you live the life you please. Well it’s all right, even if the sun don’t shine. Well it’s all right, we’re going to the end of the line” – The Traveling Wilburys (End of the Line) | Travel Quote of the Day
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Kissimmee Has The Best Name
“Kissimmee has the best name, other than Hugsburg and Fornicatesville ” – Jarod Kintz | Travel Quote of the Day
Suddenly Transported To A New Land
“Even people whose lives have been made various by learning sometimes find it hard to keep a fast hold on their habitual views of life, on their faith in the Invisible – nay, on the sense that their past joys and sorrows are a real experience, when they are suddenly transported to a new land, […]
Give Me An Adventure
“Sure, give me an adventure and I’ll ride it” – Melissa Auf der Maur | Travel Quote of the Day
Travel As Exploration
“My writing is a combination of three elements. The first is travel: not travel like a tourist, but travel as exploration. The second is reading literature on the subject. The third is reflection” – Ryszard Kapuściński | Travel Quote of the Day
Roam This Breathtaking Planet
“Hip-hop… has been the proverbial key that’s opened the door for me to roam this breathtaking planet” – Raquel Cepeda | Travel Quote of the Day
Leave This Terrifying Place
“We must leave this terrifying place tomorrow and go searching for sunshine” – F. Scott Fitzgerald | Travel Quote of the Day
She Had To Leave Los Angeles
“She had to leave Los Angeles. She found it hard to say goodbye to her own best friend. She bought a clock on Hollywood blvd the day she left. It felt sad she had to get out” – X (Los Angeles) | Travel Quote of the Day
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Robinson Crusoe Syndrome
“For a long time I had wanted to take leave of Planet Tourism, to find one of those places that occasionally turn up in the middle pages of newspapers in far-flung cities, in which–we are told–a mad loner has been discovered who has lost all contact with the modern world. It seems inevitable that this […]
Everyone’s Adventure Is Original
“It is very difficult to generalise. Everyone’s adventure is original” – Bernard Pivot | Travel Quote of the Day
Traveling Is A Fool’s Paradise
“Traveling is a fool’s paradise. Our first journeys discover to us the indifference of places. At home I dream that at Naples, at Rome, I can be intoxicated with beauty, and lose my sadness. I pack my trunk, embrace my friends, embark on the sea, and at last wake up in Naples, and there beside […]
Hard To Find A Good Place To Eat
“When I travel I normally eat club sandwiches or I bring my own food. When you go into a new town, it’s very hard to find a good place to eat” – Paul Prudhomme | Travel Quote of the Day
A Rolling Stone Gathers No Moss
“Travel and society polish one, but a rolling stone gathers no moss, and a little moss is a good thing on a man” – John Burroughs | Travel Quote of the Day
I Am A Wanderer
“Alexander the Great slept with ‘The Iliad’ beneath his pillow. Though I’ve never led an army, I am a wanderer. I cradle ‘The Odyssey’ nights while the moon is waning, as if it were the sweet body of a woman” – Roman Payne | Travel Quote of the Day
Home Sings Me Of Sweet Things
“Traveling at night, the headlights were bright, but soon the sun came through the trees. Around the next bend, the flowers will send, the sweet scene of home in the breeze. Home sings me of sweet things, life there has its own wings. Fly over the mountains, though I’m standing still” – Karla Bonoff (Home) | Travel Quote of the Day
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Glad You Didn’t Just Sit Home
“Traveling in a third-world country is the closest thing there is to being married and raising kids. You have glorious hikes and perfect days on the beach. You go on adventures you would never try, or enjoy, alone. But you also can’t get away from each other. Everything is unfamiliar. Money is tight or you […]
Not Built With A Ramp
“The world isn’t built with a ramp” – Walt Balenovich | Travel Quote of the Day
I Wasn’t Homesick
“I suspected, however, that I wasn’t homesick for anything I would find at home when I returned. The longing was for what I wouldn’t find: the past and all the people and places there were lost to me” – Alice Steinbach | Travel Quote of the Day
I Like To Be At Home
“I like to be at home because I just travel so much” – Denise Richards | Travel Quote of the Day
On Trips He Thought Most Clearly
“Whenever he was en route from one place to another, he was able to look at his life with a little more objectivity than usual. it was often on trips that he thought most clearly, and made the decisions that he could not reach when he was stationary” – Paul Bowles | Travel Quote of […]
I Should Take Major Trips
“I travel for work, but recently, friends said I should take major trips” – Jeff Goldblum | Travel Quote of the Day
No Particular Place to Go
“Riding along in my automobile, my baby beside me at the wheel. I stole a kiss at the turn of a mile, my curiosity runnin’ wild. Crusin’ and playin’ the radio, with no particular place to go” – Chuck Berry (No Particular Place to Go) | Travel Quote of the Day
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Allowing The Unexpected To Happen
“Adventure is allowing the unexpected to happen to you. Exploration is experiencing what you have not experienced before. How can there be any adventure, any exploration, if you let somebody else – above all, a travel bureau – arrange everything before-hand?” – Richard Aldington | Travel Quote of the Day
Live Among The Local People
“To become a writer a person must read constantly, the more varied the writers and their material then all the better. One must also have a lot of life experience, travel to exotic locations and live among the local people. Yet most importantly a writer needs the determination to keep at their writing regardless of […]
The Earth Seems More Exhausted
“My needle… always settles between west and south-southwest. The future lies that way to me, and the earth seems more exhausted and richer on that side” – Henry David Thoreau | Travel Quote of the Day
The Seemingly Elsewhere
“What he was after hangs between the visible and the invisible, between the here and now and the seemingly elsewhere” – André Aciman | Travel Quote of the Day
Travel Empties Out Everything
“Travel empties out everything you’ve put into the box called your life, all the things you accumulate to tell you who you are” – Claire Fontaine | Travel Quote of the Day
The Sky Is The Same Everywhere
“They say the sky is the same everywhere. Travellers, the shipwrecked, exiles, and the dying draw comfort from the thought” – Virginia Woolf | Travel Quote of the Day
I Am The Passenger
“I am the passenger, I stay under glass. I look through my window so bright, I see the stars come out tonight. I see the bright and hollow sky, over the city’s ripped backsides and everything looks good tonight” – Iggy Pop (The Passenger) | Travel Quote of the Day
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Don’t Know Anything Anymore
“I don’t know anything anymore” – Kim Culbertson | Travel Quote of the Day
Motive For Staying On The Ship
“For me, boviscopophobia (=the morbid fear of being seen as bovine) is an even stronger motive than semi-agoraphobia for staying on the ship when we’re in port” – David Foster Wallace | Travel Quote of the Day
He Wished To Go
“Then something Tookish woke up inside him, and he wished to go and see the great mountains, and hear the pine-trees and the waterfalls, and explore the caves..” – J. R. R. Tolkien | Travel Quote of the Day
Photograph Reverses The Purpose Of Travel
“The photograph reverses the purpose of travel, which until now had been to encounter the strange and unfamiliar” – Marshall McLuhan | Travel Quote of the Day
Do It All
“See it, learn it, do it ALL” – Jamie McCall | Travel Quote of the Day
You Have To Get Lost
“You have to get lost before you can be found” – Jeff Rasley | Travel Quote of the Day
I Would Walk 500 Miles
“I would walk 500 miles, and I would walk 500 more. Just to be the man who walks a thousand miles, to fall down at your door” – The Proclaimers (I’m Gonna Be – 500 Miles) | Travel Quote of the Day
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Travel Does This:
“Travel does this: it creates space that allows thoughts and memories to intrude and assert themselves with impunity. Smells and sights, the quality of light, the honk of a horn — can all act as touchstones when least expected” – Andrew McCarthy | Travel Quote of the Day
Only The Road
“Only the road and the dawn, the sun, the wind, and the rain, and the watch fire under stars, and sleep, and the road again” – John Masefield | Travel Quote of the Day
Never Be Content With A Sedentary Life
“Now more than ever do I realize that I will never be content with a sedentary life, that I will always be haunted by thoughts of a sun-drenched elsewhere” – Isabelle Eberhardt | Travel Quote of the Day
I Urge You To Travel
“If you’re twenty-two, physically fit, hungry to learn and be better, I urge you to travel – as far and as widely as possible. Sleep on floors if you have to. Find out how other people live and eat and cook. Learn from them – wherever you go” – Anthony Bourdain | Travel Quote of […]
Affordable Space Travel
“We need affordable space travel to inspire our youth, to let them know that they can experience their dreams, can set significant goals and be in a position to lead all of us to future progress in exploration, discovery and fun” – Burt Rutan | Travel Quote of the Day