“An English man does not travel to see English men” – Laurence Sterne
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.
See Things While You Still Can
August 12, 2014 By Leave a Comment
“Perhaps it’s my natural pessimism, but it seems that an awfully large part of travel these days is to see things while you still can” – Bill Bryson
I Kinda Start Liking It Here
August 11, 2014 By Leave a Comment
“And guess what? I have to admit.. I kinda start liking it here” – Winna Efendi
Muster The Courage
August 10, 2014 By Leave a Comment
“A life lesson for me is, how do you muster the courage to take on a new risk? Whether it’s starting up a business or taking on a new project or expedition. I think the risks that we take are all relative to the risk-taker” – Ann Bancroft
Where Everything’s Better
August 9, 2014 By Leave a Comment
“We spotted the ocean at the head of the trail, where are we going, so far away. And somebody told me that this is the place where everything’s better, everything’s safe” – Toad the Wet Sprocket (Walk on the Ocean)
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The Terrible Engine Of Authority
August 8, 2014 By Leave a Comment
“Why do you need that thing?” September asked. “None of the airports back home have them.” “They do. You just can’t see them right,” Betsy Basilstalk said with a grin. “All customs agents have them, otherwise, why would people agree to stand in line and be peered at and inspected? We all live inside the […]
At The End Of A Quest
August 7, 2014 By Leave a Comment
“What’s supposed to happen, at the end of a quest? Cheers and accolades, Josh knew; people throw their hats in the air, and you glow with pride as they lift you to their shoulders. What else? Medals, speeches and a great feast, and then a ballad about your exploits, and finally, as the fireworks go […]
Men Who Have Really Lived
August 6, 2014 By Leave a Comment
“Most men who have really lived have had, in some share, their great adventure. This railway is mine” – James J. Hill
Those To Whom She Felt Indifferent
August 5, 2014 By Leave a Comment
“As her time in Florence drew to a close, she was only at ease amongst those to whom she felt indifferent” – E.M. Forster
The Journey of 1,000 Miles
August 4, 2014 By Leave a Comment
“The journey of 1,000 miles usually begins with ‘Get outta my house!’” – Capp O’Connell
I Would Travel Only By Horse
August 3, 2014 By Leave a Comment
“I would travel only by horse, if I had the choice” – Linda McCartney
Spanish Castle Magic
August 2, 2014 By Leave a Comment
“It’s very far away, it takes about a half and a day to get there – if we travel by my dragon-fly. No, it’s not in Spain, but all the same you know, it’s a groovy name. And the wind’s just right. Hang on, my darling, hang on if you wanna go. Hear it’s a really groovy place. It’s, uh, just a little bit of uh, Spanish Castle Magic” – Jimi Hendrix (Spanish Castle Magic)
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Hours Will Not Seem So Long
August 1, 2014 By Leave a Comment
“A five-hour flight works out to three days and nights on land, by rail, from sea to shining sea. You can chalk off the hours on the back of the seat ahead. But seventy-some hours will not seem so long to you if you tell yourself first: This is where I am going to be […]
Real Travel
July 31, 2014 By Leave a Comment
“Real travel is not about the highlights with which you dazzle your friends once you’re home. It’s about the loneliness, the solitude, the evenings spent by yourself, pining to be somewhere else. Those are the moments of true value. You feel half proud of them and half ashamed and you hold them to your heart” […]
Serendipity Was My Tour Guide
July 30, 2014 By Leave a Comment
“Serendipity was my tour guide, assisted by caprice” – Pico Iyer
Tell Me How Much You Traveled
July 29, 2014 By Leave a Comment
“Don’t tell me how educated you are, tell me how much you traveled” – Mohammed
Heaven Is Where…
July 28, 2014 By Leave a Comment
“Heaven is where the Police are British, the Chefs are French, the Mechanics are German, the Lovers Italian and it’s all organised by the Swiss” – Anonymous
Grateful For A Strong Tailwind
July 27, 2014 By Leave a Comment
“Always grateful for a strong tailwind and early arrival” – Glenn Gruber
I’d Walk A Thousand Miles
July 26, 2014 By Leave a Comment
“Making my way downtown, walking fast, faces pass, and I’m home bound. Staring blankly ahead, just making my way, making a way, through the crowd. And I need you, and I miss you, and now I wonder… If I could fall, into the sky. do you think time, would pass me by? ‘Cause you know I’d walk a thousand miles, if I could, just see you tonight” – Vanessa Carlton (A Thousand Miles)
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Journeys They Failed To Make
July 25, 2014 By Leave a Comment
“Sluggish and sedentary peoples, such as the Ancient Egyptians– with their concept of an afterlife journey through the Field of Reeds– project on to the next world the journeys they failed to make in this one” – Bruce Chatwin
How Few Had Made It This Far
July 24, 2014 By Leave a Comment
“I thought about how many people had started off on this same journey, and how few had made it this far. I thought about how, of all the possible destinations this was the farthest outpost, the most remote spot of all – Kathmandu was the end of the road” – Terry Tarnoff
Books Were Better Than Travel
July 22, 2014 By Leave a Comment
“…books were better than travel” – Pseudonymous Bosch [Editors Note: He was wrong…]
The Explorer Who Will Not Come Back
July 22, 2014 By Leave a Comment
“The explorer who will not come back or send back his ships to tell his tale is not an explorer, only an adventurer; and his sons are born in exile” – Ursula K. Le Guin
Traveling Outgrows Its Motives
July 21, 2014 By Leave a Comment
“Traveling outgrows its motives. It soon proves sufficient in itself. You think you are making a trip, but soon it is making you – or unmaking you” – Nicolas Bouvier
There Is Travel And There Are Babies
July 20, 2014 By Leave a Comment
“There is travel and there are babies; everything else is drudgery and death” – Dave Eggers
I Go Flying So High
July 19, 2014 By Leave a Comment
“You see, she was gonna be an actress and I was gonna learn to fly. She took off to find the footlights, and I took off for the sky. And here, she’s acting happy, inside her handsome home. And me, I’m flying in my taxi, taking tips, and getting stoned. I go flying so high, when I’m stoned” – Harry Chapin (Taxi)
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What A Consummate Ass He Can Become
July 18, 2014 By Leave a Comment
“The gentle reader will never, never know what a consummate ass he can become until he goes abroad. I speak now, of course, in the supposition that the gentle reader has not been abroad, and therefore is not already a consummate ass. If the case be otherwise, I beg his pardon and extend to him […]
Life Of Centuries Past
July 17, 2014 By Leave a Comment
“From the pleasure podium of Ali Qapu, beyond the enhanced enclosure, the city spread itself towards the horizon. Ugly buildings are prohibited in Esfahan. They go to Tehran or stay in Mashhad. Planters vie with planners to outnumber buildings with trees. Attracting nightingales, blackbirds and orioles is considered as important as attracting people. Maples line […]
Fall Silent In Its Midst
July 16, 2014 By Leave a Comment
“The Sierra, a region so quiet and pristine that we have the sense of being the first human beings ever to set foot in it. We fall silent ourselves in its midst, as if conversation in a place of such primeval solitude would be like talking in church” – Jim Fergus
I Don’t Want To Be In A Hotel Room
July 15, 2014 By Leave a Comment
“Interesting things come your way but as you get older, your lifestyle changes. I don’t want to travel; I don’t want to be in a hotel room away from my family” – Gary Oldman
In Order To Visit Cambodia
July 14, 2014 By Leave a Comment
“Here was something I already knew to be true about myself: Just as there are some wives who will occasionally need a break from their husbands in order to visit a spa for the weekend with their girlfriends, I will always be the sort of wife who occasionally needs a break from her husband in […]
Travelling Without Moving
July 12, 2014 By Leave a Comment
“I know all we’re doing is travelling without moving. Speed freak faster than a speedin’ bullet, slow down. If I don’t, I might just lose it, locked up. You’ve got me honey, locked up under heavy brakin’, yeah. You know I’ve got to hang on, drive too fast, I might be last” – Jamiroquai (Travelling Without Moving)
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The Moon, Risen At Our Departure
July 11, 2014 By Leave a Comment
“Those horses must have been Spanish jennets, born of mares mated with a zephyr; for they went as swiftly as the wind, and the moon, which had risen at our departure to give us light, rolled through the sky like a wheel detached from its carriage” – Théophile Gautier
Compelled Into This Country
July 10, 2014 By Leave a Comment
“I am compelled into this country. I will cross the continent from one end to the other. I have every intention to know it with my heart” – Patrick White
Travel Opens Your Mind
July 9, 2014 By Leave a Comment
“Travel opens your mind as few other things do. It is its own form of hypnotism, and I am forever under its spell” – Libba Bray
The Sad Self That I Fled From
July 8, 2014 By Leave a Comment
“I pack my trunk, embrace my friends, embark on the sea and at last wake up in Naples, and there beside me is the stern fact, the sad self, unrelenting, identical, that I fled from” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
Right There With Magellan
July 7, 2014 By Leave a Comment
“It was as if I was right there with Magellan, following every curve of his pen as he wrote down his words to his beloved ones confiding his secret. I had become the ink, and the tip was tattooing my path. I was going to follow his dream, but still, I wished I knew why” […]
The Time When I Can Return Home
July 6, 2014 By Leave a Comment
“Look at that wonderful moonlight. It makes me long for the time when I can return home” – Wu Cheng’en
I Call This The Traveller’s Chant
July 5, 2014 By Leave a Comment
“I call this the traveller’s chant. Whether you sitting on a train or in the back of a car, thinking, maybe it’s me, yes I do have places to be, and I’ll be there. Do I start at the end or do I end at the start, and in this little bit of time will […]
There Will One Day Be Time Travel
July 4, 2014 By Leave a Comment
“I myself believe that there will one day be time travel because when we find that something isn’t forbidden by the over-arching laws of physics we usually eventually find a technological way of doing it” – David Deutsch
Where You Have Endured Hardship
July 2, 2014 By Leave a Comment
“Usually, there is nothing more pleasing that returning to a place where you have endured hardship” – Tahir Shah
Cold Not Only For The Different Climate
July 1, 2014 By Leave a Comment
“People going from Southern Italy to the North say that they feel cold not only for the different climate, but for the less “warm” approach in relationships” – Geert Hofstede
Adventure Rewrites The Routine
June 30, 2014 By Leave a Comment
“Adventure rewrites the routine of our lives and wakes us sharply from the comforts of the familiar. It allows us to see how vast the expanse of our experience. Our ability to grow is no longer linear but becomes unrestricted to any direction we wish to run” – Josh Gates
A Strange Place
June 29, 2014 By Leave a Comment
“This wasn’t a strange place; it was a new one” – Paolo Coehlo
Let’s Find Another Place That’s Free
June 28, 2014 By Leave a Comment
“My world is spinning around, everything is lost that I found. People run, come ride with me, let’s find another place that’s free. Ride, ride my see-saw, take this place, on this trip, just for me” – The Moody Blues (Ride My See-Saw)
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Time Together… Is Time Invested
June 27, 2014 By Leave a Comment
“Japan never considers time together as time wasted. Rather, it is time invested” – Donald Richie
Strange Travel Suggestions
June 26, 2014 By Leave a Comment
“Strange travel suggestions are dancing lessons from God” – Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
The Poorest Details Of The World
June 25, 2014 By Leave a Comment
“This is the way you look at the poorest details of the world resurfaced, after you’ve been driving for a long time — you feel their singleness and precise location and the forlorn coincidence of you being there to see them” – Alice Munro
Hungry For Reality
June 24, 2014 By Leave a Comment
“What I am in search of is not so much the gratification of a curiosity or a passion for worldly life, but something far less conditional. I do not wish to go out into the world with an insurance policy in my pocket guaranteeing my return in the event of a disappointment, like some cautious […]
I Wandered Everywhere
June 23, 2014 By Leave a Comment
“I wandered everywhere, through cities and countries wide. And everywhere I went, the world was on my side” – Roman Payne
There Are No Tips For Life
June 22, 2014 By Leave a Comment
“There are no tips for life, neither for travelling” – Guido Colombo
Gotta Mind To Travel
June 21, 2014 By Leave a Comment
“Gotta mind to travel, gotta mind to go back home. Gotta mind to travel, gotta mind to go back home. You see, I ‘ve been so downhearted, I found my little girl had gone.
I threw my breakfast out this morning, poured coffee all in my hair. Threw my breakfast out this morning, poured coffee all in my hair. I’ve been so downhearted, I found my little girl wasn’t there.
I got my suitcase packed, I’m heading down the railroad track. I got my suitcase packed, I’m heading down the railroad track. I’m looking for my baby, gotta try to get my baby back.
Gotta mind to travel, gotta mind to go back home. Gotta mind to travel, gotta mind to go back home. You see, I ‘ve been so downhearted, ever since my girl been gone” – Coco Montoya (Gotta Mind to Travel)
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Happiest Finding My Own Way
June 20, 2014 By Leave a Comment
“I was happiest finding my own way and did not require a liaison man. It had been my intention to stay on the train, without bothering about arriving anywhere. Sight-seeing was a way of passing the time, but, as I had concluded in Istanbul, it was an activity very largely based on imaginative invention, like […]
Travel is Rebellion In Its Purest Form
June 19, 2014 By Leave a Comment
“Travel is rebellion in its purest form. We follow out heart. We free ourselves of labels. We lose control willingly. We trade a role for reality. We love the unfamiliar. We trust strangers. We own only what we can carry. We search for better questions, not answers. We truly graduate. We, sometimes, choose never to […]
Writing Allows Me The Time To Travel
June 18, 2014 By Leave a Comment
“Writing allows me the time to travel and see the world, which is what I always wanted to do. I’d really like to have been Sir Richard Francis Burton, but it’s the wrong century” – Alan Dean Foster
The Tragedy Of Plants – They Have Roots
June 17, 2014 By Leave a Comment
“Quite possibly there’s nothing as fine as a big freight train starting across country in early summer… That’s when you learn that the tragedy of plants is that they have roots” – Mark Helprin
Yearning For Some Place That Doesn’t Exist
June 16, 2014 By Leave a Comment
“It’s funny. When you leave your home and wander really far, you always think, ‘I want to go home.’ But then you come home, and of course it’s not the same. You can’t live with it, you can’t live away from it. And it seems like from then on there’s always this yearning for some […]
Map Of The World Ceases To Be A Blank
June 15, 2014 By Leave a Comment
“There are several other sources of enjoyment in a long voyage, which are of a more reasonable nature. The map of the world ceases to be a blank; it becomes a picture full of the most varied and animated figures. Each part assumes its proper dimensions: continents are not looked at in the light of […]
It’s A Long Way Down The Holiday Road
June 14, 2014 By Leave a Comment
“I found out long ago, it’s a long way down the holiday road. Holiday road, holiday road. Jack be nimble, Jack be quick. Take a ride on the West Coast kick. Holiday road” – Lindsay Buckingham (Holiday Road)
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We Travel To Learn
June 13, 2014 By Leave a Comment
“We travel to learn; and I have never been in any country where they did not do something better than we do it, think some thoughts better than we think, catch some inspiration from heights above our own” – Maria Mitchell
To Travel Beyond Our World
June 12, 2014 By Leave a Comment
“To travel beyond our world is to change this present one forever” – Steven J. Carroll
Economists Travel On Infrastructure
June 11, 2014 By Leave a Comment
“You and I come by road or rail, but economists travel on infrastructure” – Margaret Thatcher
The Chief Advantage Of Travel
June 10, 2014 By Leave a Comment
“To get away from one’s working environment is, in a sense, to get away from one’s self; and this is often the chief advantage of travel and change” – Charles Horton Cooley
Lifeblood Of Many States Around The Country
June 9, 2014 By Leave a Comment
“The travel and tourism industry is the lifeblood of many states around the country” – Mark Foley
Places On The Edges Of The Imagination
June 8, 2014 By Leave a Comment
“I speak to maps. And sometimes they something back to me. This is not as strange as it sounds, nor is it an unheard of thing. Before maps, the world was limitless. It was maps that gave it shape and made it seem like territory, like something that could be possessed, not just laid waste […]
Wanted To Sail Upon Your Waters, Since I Was Three Feet Tall
June 7, 2014 By Leave a Comment
“Mother, mother ocean, I have heard you call. Wanted to sail upon your waters, since I was three feet tall. You’ve seen it all, you’ve seen it all. Watched the men who rode you, switch from sails to steam. In your belly, you hold the treasure that few have ever seen, most of them dreams, most of them dreams” – Jimmy Bufffet (A Pirate Looks at Forty)
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Better Than To Have Arrived
June 6, 2014 By Leave a Comment
“To travel hopefully is better than to have arrived” – Robert Louis Stevenson
Elsewhere Is A Negative Mirror
June 5, 2014 By Leave a Comment
“Elsewhere is a negative mirror. The traveller recognizes the little that is his, discovering the much he has not had and will never have” – Italo Calvino
I Will See All The Peoples And All The Countries In The World
June 4, 2014 By Leave a Comment
“I will go to France, to Yugoslavia, to China and continue my profession. ‘As sanitary engineer?’ No, Monsieur. As adventurer. I will see all the peoples and all the countries in the world” – Bruce Chatwin
Foreign Lands Never Yield Their Secrets
June 3, 2014 By Leave a Comment
“Foreign lands never yield their secrets to a traveller. The best they offer are tantalising snippets, just enough to inflame the imagination. The secrets they do reveal are your own – the ones you have kept from yourself. And this is reason enough to travel, to leave home” – Graeme Sparkes
Suddenly You Get A Whole New City
June 2, 2014 By Leave a Comment
“You meet a new person, you go with him and suddenly you get a whole new city. You go down new streets, you see houses you never saw before, pass places you didn’t even know were there. Everything changes” – Samuel R. Delany
My Work Required An Enormous Amount Of My Time
June 1, 2014 By Leave a Comment
“The one thing I regret was that my work required an enormous amount of my time, and a lot of travel” – Neil Armstrong
It’s A Battered Old Suitcase To A Hotel Someplace
May 31, 2014 By Leave a Comment
“It’s a battered old suitcase to a hotel someplace, and a wound that will never heal. No prima donna, the perfume is on an old shirt that is stained with blood and whiskey. Goodnight to the street sweepers, the night watchmen flame keepers and goodnight, Matilda, too” – Tom Waits (Tom Traubert’s Blues)
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Walking Is The Perfect Way Of Moving
May 30, 2014 By Leave a Comment
“Walking is the perfect way of moving if you want to see into the life of things. It is the one way of freedom. If you go to a place on anything but your own feet you are taken there too fast, and miss a thousand delicate joys that were waiting for you by the […]
Get Married At The Airport
May 29, 2014 By Leave a Comment
“If you have someone that you think is the one, don’t just sort of think in your ordinary mind, ok, let’s make a date, let’s plan this and make a party, get married. Take that person and travel around the world. Buy a plane ticket for the two of you to travel all around the […]
I Don’t Want To Go To Peru
May 28, 2014 By Leave a Comment
“I don’t want to go to Peru.” How do you know? You’ve never been there.” I’ve never been to hell either and I’m pretty sure I don’t want to go there” – Richard Paul Evans
Select Travel Destinations According To Their Usefulness
May 27, 2014 By Leave a Comment
“I select my travel destinations according to their degree of usefulness to my work” – Jose Saramago
Adventure is Now Reactionary
May 26, 2014 By Leave a Comment
“All adventure is now reactionary” – William F. Buckley, Jr.
Everything Will Be Alright In The End
May 25, 2014 By Leave a Comment
“Everything will be alright in the end, so if it is not alright, it is not the end” – Deborah Moggach
We’re Riding On The Marrakesh Express
May 24, 2014 By Leave a Comment
“Looking at the world through the sunset in your eyes, traveling the train through clear Moroccan skies. Ducks and pigs and chickens call, animal carpet wall to wall, American ladies five-foot tall in blue. Sweeping cobwebs from the edges of my mind, had to get away to see what we could find. Hope the days that lie ahead, bring us back to where they’ve led, listen not to what’s been said to you. Wouldn’t you know we’re riding on the Marrakesh Express? Wouldn’t you know we’re riding on the Marrakesh Express, they’re taking me to Marrakesh. All aboard the train, all aboard the train…” – Graham Nash (Marrakesh Express)
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The Earth Is A Beautiful Place
May 23, 2014 By Leave a Comment
“And, obviously as one who likes to travel around myself a lot, I think the Earth is a beautiful place. And, I’m looking forward to some new perspectives” – Duane G. Carey
If Two Ladies Travel Alone
May 22, 2014 By Leave a Comment
“I was a little doubtful about the propriety of going to the Mammoth Cave without a gentleman escort, but if two ladies travel alone they must have the courage of men” – Maria Mitchell
Venice Appeared To Me
May 21, 2014 By Leave a Comment
“Venice appeared to me as in a recurring dream, a place once visited and now fixed in memory like images on a photographer’s plates so that my return was akin to turning the leaves of a portfolio: a scene of the gondolas moored by the railway station; the Grand Canal in twilight; the Rialto bridge; […]
Mind-Blowingly Beautiful
May 20, 2014 By Leave a Comment
“I didn’t know that the world could be so mind-blowingly beautiful” – Justina Chen
Carry Yourself Around
May 19, 2014 By Leave a Comment
“How can you wonder your travels do you no good, when you carry yourself around with you?” – Socrates
A Passport
May 18, 2014 By Leave a Comment
“A passport, as I’m sure you know, is a document that one shows to government officials whenever one reaches a border between countries, so the officials can learn who you are, where you were born, and how you look when photographed unflatteringly” – Lemony Snicket
Nothing Comes Close To The Golden Coast
May 17, 2014 By Leave a Comment
“You could travel the world, but nothing comes close to the golden coast. Once you party with us, you’ll be falling in love, Oooooh Oh Oooooh!” – Katy Perry (California Gurls)
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Best Barbecue Place Between The Airport And My Hotel
May 16, 2014 By Leave a Comment
“Whenever I travel to the South, the first thing I do is visit the best barbecue place between the airport and my hotel. An hour or two later I visit the best barbecue place between my hotel and dinner” – Jeffrey Steingarten
A Trip To Space Is A Big Motivator
May 15, 2014 By Leave a Comment
“A trip to space is a big motivator to give up some things in your personal life. Obviously, you can’t give up everything and you don’t want to” – Mark Kelly
Always Stay Sharp On Railways And Cruise Ships
May 14, 2014 By Leave a Comment
“Always stay sharp on railways and cruise ships for transit has a way of making everything clear” – Anna Godbersen
What I Love Most About This Crazy Life
May 13, 2014 By Leave a Comment
“What I love most about this crazy life is the adventure of it” – Juliette Binoche
See China Off The Beaten Track
May 12, 2014 By Leave a Comment
“When given the chance to see China off the beaten track, definitely take it” – Larry Herzberg
Its Own Special Sunset
May 11, 2014 By Leave a Comment
“Every one of a hundred thousand cities around the world had its own special sunset and it was worth going there, just once, if only to see the sun go down” – Ryu Murakami
I Will Sail My Vessel ‘Til The River Runs Dry
May 10, 2014 By Leave a Comment
“You know a dream is like a river, ever changin’ as it flows. And a dreamer’s just a vessel, that must follow where it goes. Trying to learn from what’s behind you and never knowing what’s in store, makes each day a constant battle just to stay between the shores. And I will sail my vessel, ’til the river runs dry. Like a bird upon the wind, these waters are my sky. I’ll never reach my destination, if I never try, so I will sail my vessel, ’til the river runs dry” – Garth Brooks (The River)
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Beneath The Sky Shall Be Our Bed
May 9, 2014 By Leave a Comment
“Fare well we call to hearth and hall, though wind may blow and rain may fall, we must away ere break of day, over the wood and mountain tall, to Rivendell where Elves yet dwell. In glades beneath the misty fell, through moor and waste we ride in haste, and wither then we cannot tell, […]
No Matter How You Travel… You Always Learn…
May 8, 2014 By Leave a Comment
“No matter how you travel, how ‘successful’ your tour, or foreshortened, you always learn something and learn to change your thoughts” – Jack Kerouac
Restore Human Legs As A Means Of Travel
May 7, 2014 By Leave a Comment
“Restore human legs as a means of travel. Pedestrians rely on food for fuel and need no special parking facilities” – Lewis Mumford
No, I’m Traveling Light
May 6, 2014 By Leave a Comment
A Photon checks into a hotel and the bellhop asks him if he has any luggage. The Photon replies “No I’m traveling light” – Anonymous
