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Travel Quote of the Day Archive
Travel Quote of the Day publishes a different travel quote every day to provide travel inspiration for those who yearn to explore the world. These travel quotes range in source from the world's greatest authors, to icons of popular culture, prominent recording artists, and the occasional blogger.
Grab A Backpack And Unplug
May 4, 2014 By Leave a Comment
“There is a part of me that still wants to go out and grab a backpack and unplug – not take a cellphone or even a camera and just get out there and experience the world and travel. I have yet to do that, but someday I hope” – Emilio Estevez
Come On and Take A Free Ride
May 3, 2014 By Leave a Comment
“The mountain is high, the valley is low, and you’re confused on which way to go. So I’ve come here to give you a hand, and lead you into the promised land. So, come on and take a free ride, come on and sit here by my side, come on and take a free ride!” – Edgar Winter (Free Ride)
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You Have To Have A Global Attitude
May 2, 2014 By Leave a Comment
“No one’s going to be able to operate without a grounding in the basic sciences. Language would be helpful, although English is becoming increasingly international. And travel. You have to have a global attitude” – Rupert Murdoch
One Travels More Usefully When They Travel Alone
May 1, 2014 By Leave a Comment
“I think one travels more usefully when they travel alone, because they reflect more” – Thomas Jefferson
Negotiate A Hostage Situation In Quebec
April 30, 2014 By Leave a Comment
“You ever want to negotiate a hostage situation in Quebec, I’m your man. Send me in for a little parley and the francophone miscreants will flee, hands over bleeding ears” – Will Ferguson
Know How To Travel
April 29, 2014 By Leave a Comment
“Know how to travel from your town to a nearby town without a car, either by bus or by rail” – Marilyn vos Savant
They Seem To Have That Light In Australia
April 28, 2014 By Leave a Comment
“It was the kind of pure, undiffused light that can only come from a really hot blue sky, the kind that makes even a concrete highway painful to behold and turns every distant reflective surface into a little glint of flame. Do you know how sometimes on very fine days the sun will shine with […]
I Should Not Leave The Country
April 27, 2014 By Leave a Comment
“On general principles, it is best that I should not leave the country. Scotland Yard feels lonely without me, and it causes an unhealthy excitement among the criminal classes” – Arthur Conan Doyle
The World At Large
April 26, 2014 By Leave a Comment
“I like songs about drifters – books about the same – they both seem to make me feel a little less insane. Walked on off to another spot, I still haven’t gotten anywhere that I want. Did I want love? Did I need to know? Why does it always feel like I’m caught in an undertow?” – Modest Mouse (The World at Large)
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The Perfect Journey Is Never Finished
April 25, 2014 By Leave a Comment
“The perfect journey is never finished, the goal is always just across the next river, round the shoulder of the next mountain. There is always one more track to follow, one more mirage to explore” – Rosita Forbes
The Pacific, Greatest Of Oceans
April 24, 2014 By Leave a Comment
“The Pacific, greatest of oceans, has an area exceeding that of all dry land on the planet. Herman Melville called it “the tide-beating heart of earth.” Covering more than a third of the planet’s surface–as much as the Atlantic, Indian, and Arctic oceans combined–it’s the largest geographical feature in the world. Its awesome 165,384,000 square […]
Globalization By The Way Of McDonald’s
April 23, 2014 By Leave a Comment
“Globalization by the way of McDonald’s and KFC has captured the hearts, the minds, and from what I can see through the window, the growing bellies of the folks here” – Raquel Cepeda
A Road Trip Was A Great Escape
April 22, 2014 By Leave a Comment
“I sometimes rented a car and drove from event to event in Europe; a road trip was a great escape from the day-to-day anxieties of playing, and it kept me from getting too lost in the tournament fun house with its courtesy cars, caterers, locker room attendants, and such all amenities that create a […]
Three-Dimensional Details Of This Moment
April 21, 2014 By Leave a Comment
“While National Geographic magazine had given me a taste of the world, the three-dimensional details of this moment – the tickle of the rain drops, the suck sound of my feet in the mud, the challenge of getting photographs of the monkeys, my immature urge to make the driver wait even longer because he was […]
I Would Always Travel
April 20, 2014 By Leave a Comment
“When I had money in the past, I would always travel rather than spend it on big apartments or cars. And I still feel exactly the same way” – Robin Wright Penn
The Travelling People
April 19, 2014 By Leave a Comment
“I’m a freeborn man of the travelling people. Got no fixed abode, and no man is my master. Country lanes and byways were always my ways. I never fancied going faster” – Liam Clancy (The Travelling People by Ewan McColl)
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What Contempt, The People Who Think Up Souvenirs
April 18, 2014 By Leave a Comment
“Statuettes of drunken sailors, velvet pictures of island maidens, plastic seashell lamps made in Taiwan. What contempt the people who think up souvenirs have for other people” – Diane Johnson
You Can Return To The Scene Of A Love
April 17, 2014 By Leave a Comment
“Perhaps it’s true you can’t go back in time, but you can return to the scene of a love, of a crime, of happiness, and of a fateful decision; the places are what remain, are what you can possess, are what is immortal” – Eric Weiner
He Who Would Travel Happily Must Travel Light
April 16, 2014 By Leave a Comment
“He who would travel happily must travel light” – Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
47 Different Points Of Abuse
April 15, 2014 By Leave a Comment
“From the moment you decide to go somewhere, until the time you return, there are about 47 different points of abuse that are awaiting you” – Peter Greenberg
Anyone Who Does Not Intend To Finish
April 14, 2014 By Leave a Comment
“On a harsh expedition, there’s no space for anyone who does not intend to finish” – Tahir Shah
Man Explores The Universe Around Him
April 13, 2014 By Leave a Comment
“Equipped with his five senses, man explores the universe around him and calls the adventure Science” – Edwin Powell Hubble
As The Train Rolls Down The Track, I Say Goodbye
April 12, 2014 By Leave a Comment
“It’s so hard to listen to these trains outside my window, here it comes again. And it’s calling me, begging me, follow me down the track. And it moans so dark and low, baby ain’t comin’ back… It sounds like crying, it sounds like letting go. Breathing and lying, sinking and dying slow. And I watch from my window, touching the cold glass sky. As the train rolls down the track, I say goodbye” – Melissa Etheridge (Royal Station 4/16)
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Why Don’t I Carry That For You?
April 11, 2014 By Leave a Comment
“She said her heavy luggage had wheels, so I said, ‘Here, why don’t I carry that for you?’ I was in stupid love. ” – Jarod Kintz
Sometimes A Bus Is Your Bus
April 10, 2014 By Leave a Comment
“Sometimes a bus is your bus, and sometimes it ain’t, and it’s important that you can tell the difference” – Steven J. Carroll
Many Places Defy Description
April 9, 2014 By Leave a Comment
“It’s an irritating reality that many places and events defy description. Angkor Wat and Machu Picchu, for instance, seem to demand silence, like a love affair you can never talk about. For a while after,you fumble for words, trying vainly to assemble a private narrative, an explanation, a comfortable way to frame where you’ve been […]
I Was Here, I Saw This
April 8, 2014 By Leave a Comment
“A dominant impulse on encountering beauty is to wish to hold on to it, to possess it and give it weight in one’s life. There is an urge to say, ‘I was here, I saw this and it mattered to me” – Alain de Botton
Many Definitions of Hell
April 7, 2014 By Leave a Comment
“There have been many definitions of hell, but for the English the best definition is that it is the place where the Germans are the police, the Swedish are the comedians, the Italians are the defense force, Frenchmen dig the roads, the Belgians are the pop singers, the Spanish run the railways, the Turks cook […]
Travel Is A Joy, Full Of Surprises
April 6, 2014 By Leave a Comment
“Travel is a joy, full of surprises. Perhaps some of the most enjoyable times are those where one comes close to disaster: the risks add spice, and make for great stories when you are safely back home again” – Jane Wilson-Howarth
Go Your Own Way
April 5, 2014 By Leave a Comment
“If I could, baby I’d give you my world. Open up, everything’s waiting for you. You can go your own way, go your own way. You can call it another lonely day. You can go your own way, go your own way” – Fleetwood Mac
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Adventure Is Just Bad Planning
April 4, 2014 By Leave a Comment
“Adventure is just bad planning” – Roald Amundsen
See The Whole Sky
April 3, 2014 By Leave a Comment
“You can’t see the whole sky through a bamboo tube” – Japanese Proverb
What Gives Value To Travel Is Fear
April 2, 2014 By Leave a Comment
“What gives value to travel is fear. It is the fact that, at a certain moment, when we are so far from our own country… We are seized by a vague fear, and an instinctive desire to go back to the protection of old habits… This is why we should not say that we travel […]
Travel Makes A Wise Man Better
April 1, 2014 By Leave a Comment
“Travel makes a wise man better, and a fool worse” – Thomas Fuller
I Travel Around The World Constantly
March 31, 2014 By Leave a Comment
“I travel around the world constantly promoting my projects and endorsing products. Yes, I do get paid to go to parties; in fact, I’m the person who started the whole trend of paid appearances” – Paris Hilton
A Meal Without Wine
March 30, 2014 By Leave a Comment
“A meal without wine is called breakfast” – Anonymous
Any Road Will Take You There
March 29, 2014 By Leave a Comment
“But I’ve been traveling on a boat and a plane, in a car on a bike with a bus and a train. Traveling there, traveling here, everywhere in every gear. But oh Lord we pay the price, with the spin of the wheel with the roll of the dice. Ah yeah you pay your fare. And if you don’t know where you’re going, any road will take you there” – George Harrison (Any Road)
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Travel Is The Only Context In Which Some People Ever Look Around
March 28, 2014 By Leave a Comment
“Travel is the only context in which some people ever look around. If we spent half the energy looking at our own neighborhoods, we’d probably learn twice as much” – Lucy R. Lippard
When The Two Of US Are Off Exploring
March 27, 2014 By Leave a Comment
“I can speak to my soul only when the two of us are off exploring deserts or cities or mountains or roads” – Paulo Coelho
There is Only Adventure
March 26, 2014 By Leave a Comment
“There is no certainty; there is only adventure” – Roberto Assagioli
The Passion For Travelling
March 25, 2014 By Leave a Comment
“The passion for travelling is, I believe, instinctive in some natures. We have seen men persevere in their enterprises against the most formidable obstacles; and, without means or friends, and even ignorant of the languages of the various countries through which they passed, pursue their perilous journeys into remote places, until, like the knight in […]
The Fastest Way To Travel
March 24, 2014 By Leave a Comment
“The fastest way to travel is to be there already” – Terry Pratchett
One Resort After Another In A Hunt For Peace
March 23, 2014 By Leave a Comment
“The man who spends his time choosing one resort after another in a hunt for peace and quiet will in every place he visits find something to prevent him from relaxing” – Lucius Annaeus Seneca
I’m an Englishman In New York
March 22, 2014 By Leave a Comment
“I don’t drink coffee I take tea my dear, I like my toast done on one side. And you can hear it in my accent when I talk, I’m an Englishman in New York.
See me walking down Fifth Avenue, a walking cane here at my side. I take it everywhere I walk, I’m an Englishman in New York.
I’m an alien I’m a legal alien, I’m an Englishman in New York” – Sting
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Wherever You Go Becomes A Part Of You
March 21, 2014 By Leave a Comment
“Wherever you go becomes a part of you somehow” – Anita Desai
Not Handling Things Well When I Travel
March 20, 2014 By Leave a Comment
“I’m still at the end of my rope because I find myself not handling things well when I travel” – Stephen Lewis
Americans In Particular Are Myopic
March 19, 2014 By Leave a Comment
“Americans in particular are myopic. They’re not traveling as much. When you were a college student, the next thing you would do on graduation was to take a year off and travel. That’s what I did. I went to Indonesia” – Julie Taymor
Every Wanderer Started In A Garden
March 17, 2014 By Leave a Comment
“I suppose that every wanderer started in a garden somewhere. So few of us are born into motion” – Candas Jane Dorsey
Horrid Italian Bears
March 16, 2014 By Leave a Comment
“I have a good mind not to take Aloysius to Venice. I don’t want him to meet a lot of horrid Italian bears and pick up bad habits” – Evelyn Waugh
Take The “A” Train
March 15, 2014 By Leave a Comment
“Hurry, get on board, it’s comin’, listen to those rails a-thrumming all aboard. Get on the “A” train, soon you will be on Sugar Hill in Harlem” – Duke Ellington (Take The “A” Train)
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We Confronted Extraordinary Beauty
March 13, 2014 By Leave a Comment
“My sisters and I were fortunate to travel through Asia and Europe at very young ages. We confronted extraordinary beauty in Athens and unspeakable poverty in India” – Mary Chapin Carpenter
The Contagion Of An Unknown Atmosphere
March 12, 2014 By Leave a Comment
“He blushed to see other Frenchmen overcome with joy whenever they met a compatriot abroad. The would fall on each other, cluster in a raucous group, and pass whole evenings complaining about the barbarity of the locals. These were the few who actually noticed that locals did things differently. Others managed to travel so ‘covered […]
We May Sit In Our Library
March 11, 2014 By Leave a Comment
“We may sit in our library and yet be in all quarters of the earth” – John Lubbock
A Good Place To Start
March 10, 2014 By Leave a Comment
“The beginning is always a good place to start” – Munchkin (The Wizard of Oz)
The Past Is Buried Deep Within The Ground
March 9, 2014 By Leave a Comment
“The past is buried deep within the ground in Rabat, although the ancient walls in the old city are still standing, painted in electrifying variations of royal blue that make the winding roads look like streamlets or shallow ocean water” – Raquel Cepeda
Roadrunner, Going Faster Miles An Hour
March 8, 2014 By Leave a Comment
“Roadrunner, roadrunner, going faster miles an hour. Gonna drive past the Stop ‘n’ Shop, with the radio on. I’m in love with Massachusetts and the neon when it’s cold outside. And the highway when it’s late at night. Got the radio on, I’m like the roadrunner” – Jonathan Richman & the Modern Lovers (Roadrunner)
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Sometimes You Need To Move Away
March 7, 2014 By Leave a Comment
“Sometimes you need to move away before you can see where you are” – Benny Bellamacina
Chance To Travel The World
March 6, 2014 By Leave a Comment
“But when I really look back on my life, being really honest about it and now that I’ve got the chance to travel the world, seeing how a lot of little kids grow up – my life wasn’t so bad” – Coolio
If You Travel First Class
March 5, 2014 By Leave a Comment
“If you travel first class, you think first class and you are more likely to play first class” – Ray Floyd
Not Knowing What The Hell I’m Going To Do
March 4, 2014 By Leave a Comment
“As is often the case when I travel, my vulnerability — like not knowing what the hell I’m going to do upon arrival — makes me more open to outside interactions than I might be when I’m at home and think I know best what needs to be done. On the road, serendipity is given […]
A Series Of interesting Guesses
March 3, 2014 By Leave a Comment
“But that’s the wonderful thing about foreign travel, suddenly you are five years old again. You can’t read anything, you have only the most basic sense of how things work, you can’t even reliably cross the street without endangering your life. Your whole existence becomes a series of interesting guesses.” – Bill Bryan
The Farther You Go, The Harder It Is To Return
March 2, 2014 By Leave a Comment
“The farther you go, however, the harder it is to return. The world has many edges, and it’s easy to fall off” – Anderson Cooper
Everybody Go, “Ho-tel, Mo-tel, Holiday Inn”
March 1, 2014 By Leave a Comment
“Go ho-tel, mo-tel, whatcha gonna do today? (Say what?) I’m gonna get a fly girl, gonna get some spank, drive off in a def OJ. Everybody go, “Ho-tel, mo-tel, Holiday Inn.” You say if your girl starts actin’ up, then you take her friend” – Sugarhill Gang
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There’s A Call To Adventure
February 27, 2014 By Leave a Comment
“There’s a call to adventure. It’s something in the inner psyche of humanity, particularly males” – Gary Gygax
Her Soul Expanded With Her Eyeballs
February 26, 2014 By Leave a Comment
“When, from the mountain-top, she beheld, far off, across the Sea of Marmara the plains of Greece, and made out (her eyes were admirable) the Acropolis with a white streak or two which must, she thought, be the Parthenon, her soul expanded with her eyeballs, and she prayed she might share the majesty of the […]
What It’s Like To Be On A Plane For 22 Hours
February 25, 2014 By Leave a Comment
“You want to know what it’s like to be on a plane for 22 hours? Sit in a chair, squeeze your head as hard as you can, don’t stop, then take a paper bag and put it over your mouth and nose and breath your own air over and over and over” – Lewis Black
Venice Is Like…
February 24, 2014 By Leave a Comment
“Venice is like eating an entire box of chocolate liqueurs in one go” – Truman Capote
I Like To Travel
February 23, 2014 By Leave a Comment
“I like to travel. I love touring, I love playing” – Lita Ford
These Two Lanes Will Take Us Anywhere
February 22, 2014 By Leave a Comment
“Well now I’m no hero, that’s understood. All the redemption I can offer girl, is beneath this dirty hood. With a chance to make it good somehow, hey what else can we do now? Except roll down the window, and let the wind blow back your hair. Well the night’s busting open, these two lanes will take us anywhere. We got one last chance to make it real” – Bruce Springsteen (Thunder Road)
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Remember To Do As The Locals Do
February 21, 2014 By Leave a Comment
“When you’re in another country, remember to do as the locals do, since it is your ways that may seem strange or offensive to them” – Tracey Wilen
How And When To Start Vagabonding
February 20, 2014 By Leave a Comment
“Thus, the question of how and when to start vagabonding is not really a question at all. Vagabonding starts now. Even if the practical reality of travel is still months or years away, vagabonding begins the moment you stop making excuses, start saving money, and begin to look at maps with the narcotic tingle of […]
Removed From My Comfort Zone
February 19, 2014 By Leave a Comment
“One thing that I love about traveling is feeling disoriented and removed from my comfort zone” – Sarah Glidden
You Have To Taste A Culture
February 18, 2014 By Leave a Comment
“You have to taste a culture to understand it” – Deborah Cater
It’s A Big World Out There
February 17, 2014 By Leave a Comment
“It’s a big world out there. It would be a shame not to experience it” – J. D. Andrews
It’s Who You Travel With
February 16, 2014 By Leave a Comment
“In life, it’s not where you go, it’s who you travel with” – Charles Schulz
Ska Train
February 15, 2014 By Leave a Comment
“Ska train… ska train… ska train… ska train… – The Beatmasters (Ska Train)
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One Travels Long Distances
February 14, 2014 By Leave a Comment
“One travels long distances not solely for large gatherings, but for something more intangible. I have always gone out on a limb for love. A dangerous, romantic, disappointing way to live” – Jennifer Ball
To Be So Friendly Towards Anyone
February 13, 2014 By Leave a Comment
“The very fact that a Frenchman was prepared, after two minutes of conversation, to be so friendly towards anyone, especially one who had come from England, made me restless” – Tahir Shah
Whoever Created The World Went To A Lot Of Trouble
February 12, 2014 By Leave a Comment
“Whoever created the world went to a lot of trouble. It would be downright rude not to go out and see as much of it as possible” – Edward Readicker-Henderson
You Could Take Your Treasure With You
February 11, 2014 By Leave a Comment
“To have come on all this new world of writing, with time to read in a city like Paris where there was a way of living well and working, no matter how poor you were, was like having a great treasure given to you. You could take your treasure with you when you traveled too, […]
You Either Get The Point Of Africa Or You Don’t
February 10, 2014 By Leave a Comment
“You either get the point of Africa or you don’t. What draws me back year after year is that it’s like seeing the world with the lid off” – A. A. Gill
Nothing Had Prepared Me For Honolulu
February 9, 2014 By Leave a Comment
“But there are people who take salt with their coffee. They say it gives a tang, a savour, which is peculiar and fascinating. In the same way there are certain places, surrounded by a halo of romance, to which the inevitable disillusionment you experience on seeing them gives a singular spice. You had expected something […]
Traveller Blues
February 8, 2014 By Leave a Comment
“I’ve got a broken down old traveller, though she really breaks my heart. She gets me around from place to place, but most of the time, she just won’t start” – Nigel Mooney
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Look Beautiful By The Smile In Your Heart
February 7, 2014 By Leave a Comment
“India – a land where the last thing one needs to bother with is looking good. In India – at least in the circles I moved in – it’s natural to look beautiful by the smile in your heart and the way you move through the world” – Erin Reese
Adventures Bore Me
February 6, 2014 By Leave a Comment
“Adventures bore me. I have no idea how to talk about countries, how to make people wish they had been there. I am not a good travelling salesman. Countries? Where are they, whatever became of them. When I was twelve, I dreamed of Hong Kong. That tedious, commonplace little provincial town! Shops sprouting from every […]
Evolve Yourself As An Internationalist
February 5, 2014 By Leave a Comment
“I want to urge you very strongly to travel as much as you can, and to evolve yourself as an internationalist. It’s as important a part of your education as a radical as the reading of any book” – Christopher Hitchens
Anything Is Possible On A Train
February 4, 2014 By Leave a Comment
“Ever since childhood, when I lived within earshot of the Boston and Maine, I have seldom heard a train go by and not wished I was on it. Those whistles sing bewitchment: railways are irresistible bazaars… Anything is possible on a train…” – Paul Theroux
Set Out From Any Point
February 3, 2014 By Leave a Comment
“Set out from any point. They are all alike. They all lead to a point of departure” – Antonio Porchia
More Value For A True Traveller Than A Jet
February 2, 2014 By Leave a Comment
“Rocinante was of more value for a true traveller than a jet plane. Jet planes were for business men” – Graham Greene
The Long Way Around
February 1, 2014 By Leave a Comment
“I hit the highway in a pink RV with stars on the ceiling. Lived like a gypsy, six strong hands on the steering wheel. I’ve been a long time gone now. Maybe someday, someday I’m gonna settle down, but I’ve always found my way somehow. By taking the long way, taking the long way around” – Dixie Chicks
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Look Out Over The Immense Sea
January 31, 2014 By Leave a Comment
“At night, after the exhausting games of canasta, we would look out over the immense sea, full of white-flecked and green reflections, the two of us leaning side by side on the railing, each of us far away, flying in his own aircraft to the stratospheric regions of our own dreams. There we understood that […]
Explore The World And Her People
January 30, 2014 By Leave a Comment
“You are only given one life, one chance at fully living it…take risks, believe in your dreams, explore the world and her people, live out loud!” – Danell Lynn
Your True Traveler Finds Boredom Rather Agreeable
January 29, 2014 By Leave a Comment
“Your true traveler finds boredom rather agreeable than painful. It is the symbol of his liberty – his excessive freedom” – Aldous Huxley
Having New Eyes
January 28, 2014 By Leave a Comment
“The only real voyage of discovery consists not in seeing new landscapes, but in having new eyes, in seeing the universe with the eyes of another” – Marcel Proust
Why Do You Go Away?
January 27, 2014 By Leave a Comment
“Why do you go away? So that you can come back. So that you can see the place you came from with new eyes and extra colors. And the people there see you differently, too. Coming back to where you started is not the same as never leaving” – Terry Pratchett
Travel Is Discovery of Truth
January 26, 2014 By Leave a Comment
“Travel is the discovery of truth; an affirmation of the promise that human kind is far more beautiful than it is flawed. With each trip comes a new optimism that where there is despair and hardship, there are ideas and people just waiting to be energized, to be empowered, to make a difference for good” […]
