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.

Bury Oneself in South America

“What an absurdity to go and bury oneself in South America, where they are always having revolutions” – Agatha Christie | Travel Quote of the Day

A Country That Teaches Me Nothing

“Any country where I am not bored is a country that teaches me nothing” – Albert Camus | Travel Quote of the Day

Committed To Be Able To Travel

“Once you’re in the game and it’s a part of your life, you never want to leave it. But you have to be committed to be able to travel and do the things you need to do to be successful in whatever role you’re doing” – Joe Sakic | Travel Quote of the Day

A Price Ticket On Everything

“For there is a price ticket on everything that puts a whizz into life, and adventure follows the rule. It’s distressing, but there you are” – Leslie Charteris | Travel Quote of the Day

Luxury Is The Enemy Of Observation

“Luxury is the enemy of observation, a costly indulgence that induces such a good feeling that you notice nothing. Luxury spoils and infantilizes you and prevents you from knowing the world. That is its purpose, the reason why luxury cruises and great hotels are full of fatheads who, when they express an opinion, seem as […]

Seems Like A Part Of The Sky

“It reflects like an optical instrument and responds to changes in the weather so sensitively that it seems like a part of the sky rather than of the land. And along with all that, Baikal is distinctly Asiatic: if a camel caravan could somehow transport Baikal across Siberia to Europe, and curious buyers unwrapped it […]

I’m Goin’ To Take A Little Trip

“I’m goin’ to take a little trip, down paradise’s endless shores. They say that travel broadens the mind, till you can’t get your head out of doors” – Elvis Costello (God’s Comic) | Travel Quote of the Day

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Work, Play, Travel, Be Joyful

“Summer is a period of luxurious growth. To be in harmony with the atmosphere of summer, awaken early in the morning and reach to the sun for nourishment to flourish as the gardens do. Work, play, travel, be joyful, and grow into selfless service. The bounty of the outside world enters and enlivens us” – […]

See The World

“See the world. It’s more fantastic than any dream made or paid for in factories. Ask for no guarantees, ask for no security” – Ray Bradbury | Travel Quote of the Day

A Good Traveler Has No Fixed Plans

“A good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent on arriving” – Lao Tzu | Travel Quote of the Day

Metaphorically Barricaded In America

“It seems that the most fearful people in our country are those who don’t travel and are metaphorically barricaded in America. If we all stayed home and built more walls and fewer bridges between us and the rest of the world, eventually we would have something to actually be fearful of” – Rick Steves | […]

The World Is A Country

“The world is a country which nobody ever yet knew by description; one must travel through it one’s self to be acquainted with it” – Lord Chesterfield | Travel Quote of the Day

Places Are So Much Lovelier When One Is Alone

“I wondered why it was that places are so much lovelier when one is alone” – Daphne du Maurier | Travel Quote of the Day

Welcome To New York

“Walking through a crowd, the village is aglow. Kaleidoscope of loud heartbeats, under coats. Everybody here wanted something more. Searching for a sound we hadn’t heard before. And it said, ‘Welcome to New York,’ It’s been waiting for you. It’s a new soundtrack, I could dance to this beat forevermore. The lights are so bright, but they never blind me” – Taylor Swift (Welcome To New York) | Travel Quote of the Day

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Places Every Traveler Has Missed

“Everyone is a Wordsworth in certain moods, and every traveler seeks out places that every traveler has missed” – Pico Iyer | Travel Quote of the Day

Don’t Take Everything For Granted

“Don’t take everything for granted, and do not always count on finding everything you need” – Larry Herzberg | Travel Quote of the Day

Every Mode Of Travel

“Every mode of travel has its signature mental aberration” – Mary Roach | Travel Quote of the Day

An Amazing Hunt from Beginning to End

“For me, a journey to Damascus is an amazing hunt from beginning to end, a slice through layers of history in search of treasure” – Tahir Shah | Travel Quote of the Day

A Place That Could Not Exist

“As a very young man, I thought of Europe as a place that could not exist except in the imagination, in glorious dreams, and through the careful lies of the silver screen” – Roman Payne | Travel Quote of the Day

Free To Travel

“Treat all men alike…. give them all the same law. Give them all an even chance to live and grow. You might as well expect the rivers to run backward as that any man who is born a free man should be contented when penned up and denied liberty to go where he pleases. We […]

Two For The Road

“If you’re feeling fancy free, come wander through the world with me, and any place we chance to be, will be a rendezvous.

Two for the road, we’ll travel through the years, collecting precious memories, selecting souvenirs and living life the way we please” – Henry Mancini (Two For The Road) | Travel Quote of the Day

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The Long Trip Home

“Think of the long trip home. Should we have stayed at home and thought of here? Where should we be today? Is it right to be watching strangers in a play in this strangest of theatres? What childishness is it that while there’s a breath of life in our bodies, we are determined to rush to see the sun the other way […]

A Cost-Effective Way To Travel

“Amtrak offers riders a cost-effective way to travel throughout the country” – Tim Bishop | Travel Quote of the Day

Riding On A Chicken Bus

“Somewhere along the dust-choked Guatemalan road between Santa Elena and Bethel was where I confirmed that I preferred traveling around the slow, bone-rattling way: by bus, with ordinary people. The bus we were riding in had been repainted in bright reds and blues. The inside was colorful too; the seats had springs popping out of […]

The Pleasure In Being Alone

“Karen, her elbows folded on the deck-rail, wanted to share with someone the pleasure in being alone: this is the paradox of any happy solitude. She had never landed at Cork, so this hill and that hill beyond were as unexpected as pictures at which you say “Oh look!” Nobody was beside her to share […]

Landscape Of Human Emotion

“If the landscape of human emotion were to exist in country, it would be in Italy” – Lisa Fantino | Travel Quote of the Day

When Life Flowed At Full Tide

“It is not because I do not love my adopted land – it is the natural feeling of one far from home, who remembers those happy, carefree days when life flowed at full tide, without responsibility, flashing past one like the drama in a fascinating story of adventure and romance” – Erich von Stroheim | […]

Playin’ In A Travelin’ Band

“737 comin’ out of the sky, won’t you take me down to Memphis on a midnight ride? I want to move. Playin’ in a travelin’ band. Well I’m flyin’ ‘cross the land, tryin’ to get a hand, playin’ in a travelin’ band” – Creedence Clearwater Revival (Travelin’ Band) | Travel Quote of the Day

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Almost Instant Contact

“During the past few decades, modern technology, with radio, TV, air travel, and satellites, has woven a network of communication which puts each part of the world in to almost instant contact with all the other parts” – David Bohm | Travel Quote of the Day

No Land In The World Can Inspire Such Love

“When I come out on the road of a morning, when I have had a night’s sleep and perhaps a breakfast, and the sun lights a hill on the distance, a hill I know I shall walk across an hour or two thence, and it is green and silken to my eye, and the clouds […]

Humility Is A Virtue

“In Chinese business culture, humility is a virtue” – Stefan H. Verstappen | Travel Quote of the Day

Helpful As A New Jersey Road Sign

“Our conversation with the supermarket manager had been about as helpful as a New Jersey road sign, and if you’ve ever been there, you know the signs don’t tell you the exit you’re coming up to, they only point out the exits you’ve just missed” – Neal Shusterman | Travel Quote of the Day

Pursuing His Destiny?

“Why is it that when Robert Redford-cum-Denys Finch Hatton flies away in the golden glow out of Africa, he is pursuing his destiny? And when I walk away I’m just a chick who’s scared of commitment and on the run, who’s weird for ignoring Glamour magazine’s predictions of my eggs drying up? Learning is an […]

Experiencing Different Environments

“If somebody asked me about my inspiration I would say that it’s not the people and it’s not the things, it’s travel and experiencing different environments” – Marc Newson | Travel Quote of the Day

A Carnival Of Sights

“I’ve walked these streets, in a carnival of sights to see. All the cheap thrill seekers, the vendors & the dealers, they crowded around me. Have I been blind? Have I been lost, inside myself and my own mind? Hypnotized, mesmerized, by what my eyes have seen? I’ve walked these streets, in a spectacle of wealth & poverty. In the diamond market, the scarlet welcome carpet that they just rolled out for me” – Natalie Merchant | Travel Quote of the Day

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Words One Associated With The Sahara

“If asked which words one associated with the Sahara, only the most dedicated surrealist might be expected to offer “whale”” – Eamonn Gearon | Travel Quote of the Day

Lost, Like Sheep

“It would be nice to travel if you knew where you were going and where you would live at the end or do we ever know, do we ever live where we live, we’re always in other places, lost, like sheep” – Janet Frame | Travel Quote of the Day

Lighted Candles At Wayside Inns

“It had been agreed between them that lighted candles at wayside inns, in strange countries amid mountain scenery, gave the evening meal a peculiar poetry” – Henry James | Travel Quote of the Day

Yearning For Great Voyages

“Writing is an affair of yearning for great voyages and hauling on frayed ropes” – Israel Shenker | Travel Quote of the Day

Whatever There Is, Is Only Here

“Travel in all the four quarters of the earth, yet you will find nothing anywhere. Whatever there is, is only here” – Ramakrishna | Travel Quote of the Day

Luggage On The Carousel

“Did you ever notice that the first piece of luggage on the carousel never belongs to anyone?” – Erma Bombeck | Travel Quote of the Day

Things To Do In Denver When You’re Dead

“LeRoy says there’s something you should know, not everybody has a place to go. And home is just a place to hang your head, and dream of things to do in Denver when you’re dead” – Warren Zevon (Things to Do In Denver When You’re Dead) | Travel Quote of the Day

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Glory In Their Wings

“So many birds sitting around, on a dead wire, a bare branch, a cold ground, a drifting seashore; never realizing the glory in their wings and where it can take them, nor the envy as we look on them” – Anthony Liccione | Travel Quote of the Day

Know The Rhythms Of The Place

“And so I told him how living in Japan would give him a leisure no mere tourist has, to know the rhythms of the place, a land of tiny poems” – Donna George Storey | Travel Quote of the Day

On The Road To Somewhere

“If you have enthusiasm, you have a very dynamic, effective companion to travel with you on the road to Somewhere” – Loretta Young | Travel Quote of the Day

Do The Opposite Of What Would Be Normal

“Where does one go in a tremendous city like Calcutta to find insider information? I recalled India’s golden rule: do the opposite of what would be normal anywhere else” – Tahir Shah | Travel Quote of the Day

London On Your Own

“London on your own actually seems more exotic than Egypt on a tour” – Laura Fraser | Travel Quote of the Day

Nearer Than I Was Yesterday

“I nearer than I was yesterday and further than I am today, tomorrow I’ll be square one” – Racquel McDonnell | Travel Quote of the Day

All The Roads We Have To Walk

“All the roads we have to walk are winding, and all the lights that light the way are blinding. There are many things that I would like to say to you, but I don’t know how” – Oasis (Wonderwall) | Travel Quote of the Day

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Knowledge Of One Other Culture

“As the traveler who has once been from home is wiser than he who has never left his own doorstep, so a knowledge of one other culture should sharpen our ability to scrutinize more steadily, to appreciate more lovingly, our own” – Margaret Mead | Travel Quote of the Day

Maybe God Is A He

“Come to think of it, maybe God is a He after all, because only a cruel force would create something this beautiful and make it inaccessible to most people” – Raquel Cepeda | Travel Quote of the Day

Clearly See The Passage Of Time

“Travel gives me the opportunity to walk through the sectors of cities where one can clearly see the passage of time” – Jerzy Kosinski | Travel Quote of the Day

Skidding On Butterflies

“What I remembered most clearly about this Jinja road was that on portions of it, for reasons no one could explain, butterflies settled in long fluffy tracts. There might be eighty feet of road carpeted by white butterflies, so many of them that if you drove too fast your tires lost their grip, and some […]

Distances Our Dreams Travel

“Our work is directly proportional to the distances our dreams travel across, as force (power) is a constant factor” – Israelmore Ayivor | Travel Quote of the Day

In Search Of What He Needs

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

Floodin’ Down In Texas

“Well there’s floodin’ down in Texas. All of the telephone lines are down. Well, I’ve been tryin’ to call my baby, Lord, and I can’t get a single sound” – Stevie Ray Vaughn (Texas Flood) | Travel Quote of the Day

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One Must Travel To Learn

“One must travel to learn. Every day, now, old Scriptural phrases that never possessed any significance for me before, take to themselves a meaning” – Mark Twain | Travel Quote of the Day

To Travel and Enjoy Myself

“I am awfully greedy; I want everything from life. I want to be a woman and to be a man, to have many friends and to have loneliness, to work much and write good books, to travel and enjoy myself, to be selfish and to be unselfish… You see, it is difficult to get all […]

Speed With Which People Travel The Planet

“But today we become aware of other readings of the human experience very quickly because of the media and the speed with which people travel the planet” – Chaim Potok | Travel Quote of the Day

Clean-Named Place Like Wisconsin

“I’m heading for a clean-named place like Wisconsin, and mad as a jack-o’-lantern, will get there without help and nosy proclivities” – John Ashbery | Travel Quote of the Day

Homeless Enough In This World

“We are homeless enough in this world under the best of circumstances without going to any special effort to test our capacity to be more so” – Harold Edmund Stearns | Travel Quote of the Day

Members Of A Different Income Bracket

“We checked our bags and got on line with some of our fellow passengers. Judging from the looks of them, it was clear that they were members of a different income bracket from the people I preferred to surround myself with. But since I also wasn’t from the income bracket I preferred, I held off […]

(Sittin On) The Dock Of The Bay

“Sittin’ here resting my bones, this loneliness won’t leave me alone. Two thousand miles I roam, just to make this dock my home. I’m just gon’ sit at the dock of the bay, watching the tide roll away. Sittin’ on the dock of the bay, wastin’ time” – Otis Redding (Sittin On The Dock Of The Bay) | Travel Quote of the Day

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Firing Into A Continent

“In the empty immensity of earth, sky, and water, there she was, incomprehensible, firing into a continent” – Joseph Conrad | Travel Quote of the Day

A Perpetual Journey

“I tramp a perpetual journey” – Walt Whitman | Travel Quote of the Day

Belgium! Name Unromantic

“Belgium! name unromantic and unpoetic, yet name that whenever uttered has in my ear a sound, in my heart an echo, such as no other assemblage of syllables, however sweet or classic, can produce. Belgium! I repeat the word, now as I sit alone near midnight. It stirs my world of the past like a […]

Go Always Towards The Summer

“Bad, or good, as it happens to be, that is what it is to exist! . . . It is as though I have been silent and fuddled with sleep all my life. In spite of all, I know now that at least it is better to go always towards the summer, towards those burning […]

Next Crazy Venture Beneath The Skies

“What is that feeling when you’re driving away from people and they recede on the plain till you see their specks dispersing? It’s the too-huge world vaulting us, and it’s good-bye. But we lean forward to the next crazy venture beneath the skies” – Jack Kerouac | Travel Quote of the Day

Afraid Of The Primitive

“I had been afraid of the primitive, had wanted it broken gently, but here it came on us in a breath, as we stumbled up through the dung and the cramped and stinking huts to our lampless sleeping place among the rats. It was the worst one need fear, and it was bearable because it […]

Daniel Is Traveling Tonight On A Plane

“Daniel is traveling tonight on a plane. I can see the red tail lights heading for Spain and I can see Daniel waving goodbye. God it looks like Daniel, must be the clouds in my eyes.

They say Spain is pretty though I’ve never been, well Daniel says it’s the best place that he’s ever seen. And he should know, he’s been there enough. Lord I miss Daniel, oh I miss him so much” – Elton John | Travel Quote of the Day

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The Pull I Feel

“Will I ever get over the pull I feel to both of these places?” – Sara Ferguson | Travel Quote of the Day

What You Inhabit

“You are what you inhabit” – Lawrence Millman | Travel Quote of the Day

Thoughts Live; They Travel Far

“We are what our thoughts have made us; so take care about what you think. Words are secondary. Thoughts live; they travel far” – Swami Vivekananda | Travel Quote of the Day

Pretty Fortunate To Travel

“Yeah. I’ve been pretty fortunate to travel I guess, all around the place” – Ben E. King | Travel Quote of the Day

A Thorough Soaping

“Since we left Kyirong (10 weeks ago) we had not been able to wash or bathe, and our hair and beards were frozen stiff… We came to a regular lake whose black bubbling waters flowed off to a clear brook. Of course we decided to bathe, and walked into the water at a point where […]

‎I Have Panicked Unnecessarily

“‎I have panicked unnecessarily in all four corners of the globe” – Jon Ronson | Travel Quote of the Day

Staring From A View

“Staring from a view, keeping out the pieces that you knew, every night is a nice escape from tomorrow” – Turtle Giant (Travel) | Travel Quote of the Day

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Don’t Ever Live Vicariously

“Don’t ever live vicariously. This is your life. Live” – Lavinia Spalding | Travel Quote of the Day

In the Arabian Desert for 9 Months

“We were in the Arabian Desert for nine months. And I was having the time of my life” – Peter O’Toole | Travel Quote of the Day

Many Interesting Experiences

“Travel provided many interesting experiences, but perhaps the most useful lesson I learned was that I really had no proficiency for learning the thousands of characters of the written Chinese language” – Eric Allin Cornell | Travel Quote of the Day

Admit You Have No Idea

“Here’s the thing about travel: You have to admit you have no idea, and ask strangers for help” – Pam Mandel | Travel Quote of the Day

When Adventure Starts

“The word adventure has gotten overused. For me, when everything goes wrong, that’s when adventure starts” – Yvon Chouinard | Travel Quote of the Day

The World Ripples Across You

“That day, I really believed that I had grasped something and that henceforth my life would be changed. But insights cannot be held for ever. Like water, the world ripples across you and for a while you take on its colours. Then it recedes, and leaves you face to face with the void you carry […]

Las Vegas Turnaround

“Sara’s off on a turnaround. Flying gambling fools to the holy land, Las Vegas. Sometimes she’s home, and sometimes she can’t be found, turnaround” – Hall & Oates (Las Vegas Turnaround – The Stewardess Song)

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No Amount Of Wet-Wiping Could Bring True Hygiene

“One senses that, in these conditions, no amount of wet-wiping could bring true hygiene” – Tahir Shah

I Like To Travel

“I never subscribe to the stay-at-home policy. I’m not sick of the road or sick of eating in good restaurants around the country. I like to travel” – Levon Helm

“To Go Far, Go Together

“If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together” – African Proverb

Travel Is More Valuable

“To me, travel is more valuable than any stupid piece of bling money can buy” – Raquel Cepeda

Travel Is Very Subjective

“Travel is very subjective. What one person loves, another loathes” – Robin Leach

Travel All The Time

“I just travel all the time” – Ivan Lendl

Going The Distance

“The sun has gone down and the moon has come up, and long ago somebody left with the cup. But he’s driving and striving and hugging the turns, and thinking of someone for whom he still burns.

He’s going the distance, he’s going for speed. She’s all alone, in her time of need.
Because he’s racing and pacing and plotting the course, he’s fighting and biting and riding on his horse, he’s going the distance” – Cake (The Distance)

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The Red Sands Of Marrakesh

“The red sands of Marrakesh, sprawling at the foot of the Atlas like a wounded Leviathan…” – Rosita Forbes

To Travel Far You Had To Be Detached

“Perhaps everyone loved someone; I didn’t now, I couldn’t give much thought to love; in order to travel far you had to be detached, and I had the long road back to the campus before me” – Ralph Ellison

I Still Want To Travel

“I am blessed for what I have, but I believed in it from the beginning. Today, the dream is the same: I still want to travel, I still want to entertain, and I most certainly still want to have fun” – Guy Laliberte

Classic Sign Of The American Tourist

“I wore only black socks, because I had heard that white ones were the classic sign of the American tourist. Black ones though,- those’ll fool ’em. I supposed I hoped the European locals’ conversation would go something like this: PIERRE: Ha! Look at that tourist with his camera and guidebook! JACQUES: Wait, but observe his […]

I Want To Go Places

“I want to go places, and see people. I want my mind to grow. I want to live where things happen on a big scale” – F. Scott Fitzgerald

Someone You’ve Barely Met

“The person you have known a long time is embedded in you like a jewel. The person you have just met casts out a few glistening beams & you are fascinated to see more of them. How many more are there? With someone you’ve barely met, the curiosity is intoxicating” – Naomi Shihab Nye

King Of The Road

“Trailer for sale or rent, rooms to let, fifty cents. No phone, no pool, no pets, ain’t got no big regrets. Two hours of pushin’ broom, buys an eight by twelve, four-bit room. I’m a man of means, by no means, king of the road” – Roger Miller (King of the Road)

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Traveler’s Heart

“Traveler’s heart. Never settled long in one place. Like a portable fire” – Basho

True Travel

“That’s because true travel, the kind with no predetermined end, is one of the most selfish endeavors we can possibly undertake-an act in which we focus solely on our own fulfillment, with little regard to those we leave behind. After all, we’re the ones venturing out into the big crazy world, filling up journals, growing […]