“I’ve met the most interesting people while flying or on a boat. These methods of travel seem to attract the kind of people I want to be with” – Hedy Lamarr | 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.
I’ve Got A Hard Road To Travel
“I’ve got a hard road to travel and a rough, rough way to go. Said, it’s a hard road to travel and a rough, rough way to go. But I can’t turn back, my heart is fixed, my mind’s made up, I’ll never stop, my faith will see me through” – Jimmy Cliff (Hard Road To Travel) | Travel Quote of the Day
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Happily As In A Train
“Nowhere can I think so happily as in a train” – A. A. Milne | Travel Quote of the Day
Books Are The Plane,Train and Road
“Books are the plane, and the train, and the road. They are the destination, and the journey. They are home” – Anna Quindlen | Travel Quote of the Day
Enforced Travel Of Disappearances
“Ours is the century of enforced travel of disappearances. The century of people helplessly seeing others, who were close to them, disappear over the horizon” – John Berger | Travel Quote of the Day
Travel While You’re Young
“Travel while you’re young and able. Don’t worry about the money, just make it work. Experience is far more valuable than money will ever be” – David Avocado Wolfe | Travel Quote of the Day
Adventure Is A State Of Mind
“I have found adventure in flying, in world travel, in business, and even close at hand… Adventure is a state of mind – and spirit” – Jacqueline Cochran | Travel Quote of the Day
To Live Is To Travel
“To live is to travel, on a voyage more epic than the odysseys of myth – not from place to place, but through the poignant strangeness of time” – T.L. Rese | Travel Quote of the Day
Make This Place Your Home
“Hold on to me as we go, as we roll down this unfamiliar road. And although this wave is stringing us along, just know you’re not alone, ’cause I’m gonna make this place your home” – Phillip Phillips (Home) | Travel Quote of the Day
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Trip To The Mainland
“A trip to the mainland was a big event and happened maybe once a year, although now you can get across in a speed boat in seven minutes but then it was a long way away” – Jeremy Irons | Travel Quote of the Day
Lost In The Forest Together
“Wish you were here, we can get lost in the forest together and eat bamboo rice” – Winna Efendi | Travel Quote of the Day
You Take A Step, Then Another
“You take a step, then another. That’s the journey. But to take a step with your eyes open is not a journey at all, it’s a remaking of your own mind” – Orson Scott Card | Travel Quote of the Day
Make Voyages – Attempt Them
“Make voyages. Attempt them. There’s nothing else” – Tennessee Williams | Travel Quote of the Day
Taking Pictures Of Their Stuffed Sheep
“The only other white people we saw during the three days we stayed there were a German couple intent on taking pictures of their stuffed sheep in a variety of locations around the world” – Tynan | Travel Quote of the Day
Gritty, Fearful Destinations
“As a travel writer I’ve specialized in gritty, fearful destinations, the kind of places that make a reader’s hair stick on end” – Tahir Shah | Travel Quote of the Day
Don’t Be Messin’ With The Jet Set
“This really is a pretty place, but I’m happy I don’t live here. Hey what’s the matter with the waiter’s face? Can you say it in English? ‘Cause we’re the Jet Set – get out of our way. And don’t be messin’ with the Jet Set – get out of our way. We got a lot of things to see” – Joe Jackson (Jet Set) | Travel Quote of the Day
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For An Occurrence To Become An Adventure
“For an occurrence to become an adventure, it is necessary and sufficient for one to recount it” – Jean-Paul Sartre | Travel Quote of the Day
A Good Opportunity To Travel
“It’s cool to meet your idols. It’s a good opportunity to travel. Those kinds of things are good” – Meg White | Travel Quote of the Day
A Trip Where I Wasn’t A Tourist
“After 13 years of life on the half shell in Hollywood, I have made a trip where I wasn’t a tourist” – Edgar Bergen | Travel Quote of the Day
Fall Into An Animal Stupor
“People commonly travel the world over to see rivers and mountains, new stars, garish birds, freak fish, grotesque breeds of human; they fall into an animal stupor that gapes at existence and they think they have seen something” – Soren Kierkegaard | Travel Quote of the Day
Reared In The Great City
“For I was reared in the great city, pent with cloisters dim, and saw naught lovely but the sky and stars. But thou, my babe! Shalt wander like a breeze by lakes and sandy shores. Beneath the crags of ancient mountains, and beneath the clouds, which image in their bulk both lakes and shores and mountain […]
Packed Your World Up Inside A Canvas Sack
“Do you remember the church across the sands? You stood outside and planned to travel the lands, where the pilgrims go. So you packed your world up inside a canvas sack, set off down the highway with your rings and Kerouac. Someone said they saw you in Nepal a long time back. Tell me why you look away, don’t you have a word to say?” – Al Stewart (Modern Times) | Travel Quote of the Day
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Space Offers Extraordinary Potential
“Space offers extraordinary potential for commerce and adventure, for new innovations and new tests of will. As Americans, we can’t help but reach for the stars. It’s our nature. It’s our destiny” – Bill Frist | Travel Quote of the Day
Who Will Travel Far
“He who will travel far spares his steed” – Jean Racine | Travel Quote of the Day
Looking For Something I Have Lost
“I keep going back as if I’m looking for something I have lost. Back to the motherland, sisterland, fatherland. Back to the beacon, the breast, the smell and taste of the breeze, and the singing of the rain” – Heather Nova | Travel Quote of the Day
Take A Journey Into Yourself
“To travel is to take a journey into yourself” – Danny Kaye | Travel Quote of the Day
I Shall Make That Trip
“I shall make that trip. I shall go to Korea” – Dwight D. Eisenhower | Travel Quote of the Day
Traveling Down South Looking For Good Times
“In a Ramada Inn near the grapevine, they stop to rest for the night. Traveling down south, looking for good times. Visiting old friends feels right” – Neil Young (Ramada Inn) | Travel Quote of the Day
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A Smell Remembered
“I heard word of bellied sailcloth, creak of oars, and gold in Eastland. Then I smelled, a smell remembered: Salt of spray and black-pitched boat’s keel” – Frans G. Bengtsson | Travel Quote of the Day
To At Last Contact The Core
“To know a person in his home is not to know him at all: to meet him on a country road with only his baggage is to at last contact the core, the inner cell of his personality” – John Tibbetts | Travel Quote of the Day
Getting Out Of Bed To Become A Tourist
“But nothing will persuade me that the mere fact of being in a place is enough in itself to justify the effort of getting out of bed to become a tourist, or even a traveller. I don’t have the slightest wish to be intrepid. I don’t want to prove myself to myself or anyone else. […]
As Many Worlds As Kinds Of Days
“There are as many worlds as there are kinds of days, and as an opal changes its colors and its fire to match the nature of a day, so do I” – John Steinbeck | Travel Quote of the Day
Streets Of London
“So how can you tell me you’re lonely, and say for you that the sun don’t shine? Let me take you by the hand, and lead you through the streets of London. I’ll show you something to make you change your mind” – Ralph McTell | Travel Quote of the Day
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I Can Go Anywhere On The Planet
“My restlessness makes me a far better day-to-day traveler than he will ever be. I am infinitely curious and almost infinitely patient with mishaps, discomforts, and minor disasters. So I can go anywhere on the planet—that’s not a problem. The problem is that I just can’t live anywhere on the planet” – Elizabeth Gilbert | […]
I’ve Always Preferred The City At Night
“I’ve always preferred the city at night. I believe that San Judas, or any city, belongs to the people who sleep there. Or maybe they don’t sleep – some don’t – but they live there. Everybody else is just a tourist. Venice, Italy, for instance, pulls in a millions tourists for their own Carnival season but the actual […]
Remoteness And Seclusion Are Many Worlds Apart
“Bhutan all but bases its identity upon its loneliness, and its refusal to be assimilated into India, or Tibet, or Nepal. Vietnam. At present, is a pretty girl with her face pressed up against the window of the dance hall, waiting to be invited in; Iceland is the mystic poet in the corner, with her […]
Begin At The Beginning
“Begin at the beginning and go on till you come to the end, then stop.” – Lewis Carroll (The King of Hearts – Alice in Wonderland) | Travel Quote of the Day
Instinct For Preservation
“Traveling makes you realize what an immeasurably nice place much of America could be if only people possessed the same instinct for preservation as they do in Europe” – Bill Bryson | Travel Quote of the Day
Turned Our Gaze Seaward
“With no other choices open to us, we’d turned our gaze seaward. The oceans were our America: they reached farther than any prairie, untamed as on the first day of creation. Nobody owned them” – Carsten Jensen | Travel Quote of the Day
Gotta Get Away
“I went from San Berdoo to Kalamazoo, just to get away from you. I searched far and wide, hopin’ I was wrong, but baby all the good women are gone” – The Black Keys | Travel Quote of the Day
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The Dream Was About Traveling
“Originally the dream was about traveling and developing a job that would permit me to travel. And I decided to go into street performing because it was a traveling job; it would let me go around the world” – Guy Laliberte | Travel Quote of the Day
That Untraveled World
“Yet all experience is an arch where through gleams that untraveled world whose margin fades, forever and forever when I move. How dull it is to pause, to make an end, to rust unburnished, not to shine in use! As though to breathe were life!” – Alfred Tennyson | Travel Quote of the Day
Doesn’t Matter If You Don’t Know Where You Are
“My true travelers heart only knows – doesn’t matter if you don’t know where you are, just as long as you always know where home is” – Kim Goudy | Travel Quote of the Day
When You Don’t Belong Anywhere
“If character is destiny, I was fated to be carried off into the desert. From the deck of the ship I had imagined my own ghost and seen my unvanishing footsteps. When you don’t belong anywhere it doesn’t matter where you are or where you go, if you stay or move on. You arrive at […]
That’s Where I Belong – Anywhere
“Born at Letterman Army Hospital. I never actually lived in San Francisco. It’s not my home town, but then, I don’t have one. I’m a nomad…a gypsy…an Army Brat. Put me on an airplane, send me anywhere. That’s where I belong…anywhere” – Marc Curtis | Travel Quote of the Day
Every Perfect Traveler
“Every perfect traveler always creates the country where he travels” – Nikos Kazantzakis | Travel Quote of the Day
Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For
“I have climbed, the highest mountains, I have run, through the fields, only to be with you. I have run, I have crawled, I have scaled, these city walls, only to be with you. But I still haven’t found what I’m looking for” – U2 (I Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For) | Travel Quote of the Day
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Get The Most Out Of Life
“One way to get the most out of life is to look upon it as an adventure” – William Feather | Travel Quote of the Day
Great Lands Stretching Endlessly
“Sun and wind and beat of sea, great lands stretching endlessly… Where be bonds to bind the free? All the world was made for me!” – Adelaide Crapsey | Travel Quote of the Day
Sicily Is Paradise
“Sicily is paradise. I live in paradise. Now pass the pasta please” – Alfred Zappala | Travel Quote of the Day
A Hazardous Adventure
“In any age, there is no shortage of people willing to embark on a hazardous adventure. Columbus and Magellan filled eight ships between them for voyages into the void. One hundred and fifty years ago, the possibilities offered by missionary service were limitless and first-rate. Later, Scott and Shackleton turned away droves after filling their […]
Whither Will My Path Yet Lead Me?
“Whither will my path yet lead me? This path is stupid, it goes in spirals, perhaps in circles, but whichever way it goes, I will follow it” – Hermann Hesse | Travel Quote of the Day
If I’m Not on A Cruise
“If I’m not on a cruise, I’m either thinking about my last one or planning my next!” – Anonymous | Travel Quote of the Day
Holiday in Spain
“Oh, well happy New Years, baby. We could probably fix it, if we clean it up all day. Or we could simply pack our bags, and catch a plane to Barcelona, ’cause this city’s a drag.
I may take a holiday in Spain, leave my wings behind me. Flush my worries down the drain, and fly away to somewhere new” – Counting Crows (Holiday in Spain) | Travel Quote of the Day
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The Room Would Fill Like A Railway Station
“Back at the Chateau Windsor there was a rat-like scratching at the door of my room. Vinod, the youngest servant, came in with a soda water. He placed it next to the bag of toffees. Then he watched me read. I was used to being observed reading. Sometimes the room would fill like a railway […]
Tourism Can Be Extremely Negative
“Practiced poorly, tourism can be extremely negative” – Edward Norton | Travel Quote of the Day
The Road Embraced Me
“The open road. Seemingly my only friend for years upon end since leaving war. The road embraced me, let me breathe, and more importantly, did not judge me” – M.B. Wilmot | Travel Quote of the Day
As You Think, You Travel
“As you think, you travel, and as you love, you attract. You are today where your thoughts have brought you; you will be tomorrow where your thoughts take you” – James Lane Allen | Travel Quote of the Day
A Contagion of Travel
“A journey, after all, neither begins in the instant we set out, nor ends when we have reached our door step once again. It starts much earlier and is really never over, because the film of memory continues running on inside of us long after we have come to a physical standstill. Indeed, there exists […]
Every Time You Go Away
“Can’t go on singing the same theme, ’cause baby, can’t you see, we’ve got everything going on? Every time you go away, you take a piece of me with you” – Paul Young (Every Time You Go Away) | Travel Quote of the Day
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The Tourist Was the Great Conservative
“The tourist was the great conservative who hated novelty and adored dirt” – Henry Adams | Travel Quote of the Day
To Travel Hopefully
“Christmas to a child is the first terrible proof that to travel hopefully is better than to arrive” – Stephen Fry | Travel Quote of the Day
Be Right About The Place
“If you write about a place, you need to be right about the place!” – Laurence Bradbury | Travel Quote of the Day
Freer To Travel The World
“If I had children, I would be very selfish. I wouldn’t be out doing things. But by not having kids, it makes me freer to travel the world and talk about things I feel are important” – Linda Blair | Travel Quote of the Day
The Wanderlust Has Got Me
“The Wanderlust has got me… by the belly-aching fire” – Robert W. Service | Travel Quote of the Day
My Home, America
“When it was time to board my flight, I took one last glance back. I knew that I had everything with me so it was not a ‘make sure I have everything’ glance. It was more like a parting glance to Philadelphia, my home, America – for I would not be coming back for ten […]
The Free Love Freeway
“Free love on the free love freeway, the love is free and the freeway’s long. I got some hot love on the hot-love freeway, I ain’t going home cos’ my baby’s gone” – Ricky Gervais – as David Brent (Free Love Freeway) | Travel Quote of the Day
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Things Learned No Other Way
“People travel because it teaches them things they could learn no other way” – Lance Morrow | Travel Quote of the Day
Worn Out His Life In Journeys
“He who has never left his hearth and has confined his researches to the narrow field of the history of his own country cannot be compared to the courageous traveller who has worn out his life in journeys of exploration to distant parts and each day has faced danger in order to persevere in excavating […]
Adventure Wherever You Find It
“I’m still a kid inside, and adventure is adventure wherever you find it” – Jim Dale | Travel Quote of the Day
No One Likes A Straight Road
“No one likes a straight road but the man who pays for it, or who, when he travels, is brute enough to wish to get to his journey’s end” – Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu | Travel Quote of the Day
A Distorted Opinion Of A Place
“A tourist can’t help but have a distorted opinion of a place: he meets unrepresentative people, has unrepresentative experiences, and runs around imposing upon the place the fantastic mental pictures he had in his head when he got there” – Michael Lewis | Travel Quote of the Day
In A Frenzy And A Dream
“We wandered in a frenzy and a dream” – Jack Kerouac | Travel Quote of the Day
I Don’t Believe In Guarded Borders
“I don’t believe in guarded borders and I don’t believe in hate
I don’t believe in generals or their stinking torture states
And when I talk with the survivors of things too sickening to relate
If I had a rocket launcher, I would retaliate…
On the Rio Lacantun, one hundred thousand wait.
To fall down from starvation — or some less humane fate.
Cry for Guatemala, with a corpse in every gate.
If I had a rocket launcher, I would not hesitate” – Bruce Cockburn (If I Had A Rocket Launcher) | Travel Quote of the Day
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The Map?
“The map? I will first make it” – Patrick White | Travel Quote of the Day
Safely Traveled From Star To Star
“The vast distances that separate the stars are providential. Beings and worlds are quarantined from one another. The quarantine is lifted only for those with sufficient self-knowledge and judgment to have safely traveled from star to star” – Carl Sagan | Travel Quote of the Day
The Most Courageous Things In Nature
“The sense of a small courageous community barely existing above the desert of trees, hemmed in by a sun too fierce to work under and a darkness filled with evil spirits – love was an arm round the neck, a cramped embrace in the smoke, wealth a little pile of palm-nuts, old age sores and […]
Chess Nuts Boasting In An Open Foyer
“A group of chess enthusiasts had checked into a hotel, and were standing in the lobby discussing their recent tournament victories. After about an hour, the manager came out of the office and asked them to disperse. ‘But why?’ they asked, as they moved off. “Because,” he said, “I can’t stand chess nuts boasting in […]
We Got Plenty Of Attention
“Everywhere we walked we got plenty of attention due to the camera and sound men. The locals love to get on camera. […] I’d seen footage of Gandhi surrounded like this and always thought it was because he was very popular, but now I wonder if it was just because he had a camera crew […]
Life Is Beautiful
“Life is beautiful if you are on the road to somewhere” – Orhan Pamuk | Travel Quote of the Day
Gotta Get Down On Friday
“7:45, we’re drivin’ on the highway, cruisin’ so fast, I want time to fly. Fun, fun, think about fun. You know what it is, I got this, you got this. My friend is by my right. I got this, you got this, now you know it. Kicking’ in the front seat, sitting’ in the back seat, gotta make my mind up, which seat can I take? It’s Friday, Friday, gotta get down on Friday. Everybody’s lookin’ forward to the weekend” – Rebecca Black (Friday) | Travel Quote of the Day
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It Takes Time To See The Desert
“It takes time to see the desert; you have to keep looking at it. When you’ve looked long enough, you realise the blank wastes of sand and rock are teemming with life. Just as you can keep looking at a person and suddenly realise that the way you see them has completely changed: from being […]
Best Ways Of Exploring The Mind
“Suddenly I came out of my thoughts to notice everything around me again-the catkins on the willows, the lapping of the water, the leafy patterns of the shadows across the path. And then myself, walking with the alignment that only comes after miles, the loose diagonal rhythm of arms swinging in synchronization with legs in […]
London Is A Riddle
“London is a riddle. Paris is an explanation” – G. K. Chesterson | Travel Quote of the Day
A Pretty Good Little Old Place
“It’s a pretty good little old place after all, and I have little time for the gloomers who are eternally shrieking that this old mud ball is rolling to the bow wows. I am satisfied to take my chances with this one, thank you, and not worry about the next . . . You must […]
I Want To Go To Martha’s Vineyard
“I want to go to Martha’s Vineyard. I have an aunt named Martha. And an uncle by that name. Neither one is related to me” – Jarod Kintz | Travel Quote of the Day
Patriarchy Is Prevalent
“I wish she’d said something different, but patriarchy is as prevalent around the world as racism and xenophobia are. We can’t hide from it, not even here” – Raquel Cepeda | Travel Quote of the Day
Call Me The Breeze
“Now they call me the breeze, I keep blowin’ down the road. I ain’t got me nobody, I don’t carry me no load.
There ain’t no change in the weather, ain’t no changes in me. And I ain’t hidin’ from nobody, nobody’s hidin’ from me – that’s the way it’s supposed to be.
I got that green light baby, I got to keep movin’ on. Well I might go out to California, might go down to Georgia, I don’t know” – Lynyrd Skynyrd (Call Me The Breeze) | Travel Quote of the Day
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What Gives Value To Travel Is Fear
“What gives value to travel is fear. It breaks down a kind of inner structure we all have” – Elizabeth Benedict | Travel Quote of the Day
The Helicopter Is A Fine Way To Travel
“The helicopter is a fine way to travel, but it induces a view of the world that only God and CEOs share on a regular basis” – Morley Safer | Travel Quote of the Day
Tolerable Examples Of Local Color
“Perhaps, like most of us in a foreign country, he was incapable of placing people, selecting a frame for their picture, as he would at home; therefore all Americans had to be judged in a pretty equal light, and on this basis his companions appeared to be tolerable examples of local color and national character” […]
Beauty Lies In The Simplest Of Things
“Most of the time, beauty lies in the simplest of things” – Winna Efendi | Travel Quote of the Day
Cities Have Revealed Themselves
“How many cities have revealed themselves to me in the marches I undertook in the pursuit of books!” – Walter Benjamin | Travel Quote of the Day
Life Enhancing Thoughts
“Instead of bringing back 1600 plants, we might return from our journeys with a collection of small unfêted but life-enhancing thoughts” – Alain de Botton | Travel Quote of the Day
They Call Me A Gypsy Man
“They call me a gypsy man, ’cause I don’t stay in one place too long. I’m searchin’ for a brand new world to make and call my home” – War (Gypsy Man) | Travel Quote of the Day
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