Travel Quotes
“I had rather have a fool to make me merry than experience to make me sad and to travel for it too!”
-- William Shakespeare
“I like reading, free diving and hiking. But my favorite thing to do is travel anywhere in Greece. I love everything about that place.”
-- Max Irons
“Everywhere I travel throughout Eastern Washington, I hear from people demanding we do a better job of controlling our borders and reducing illegal immigration.”
-- Cathy McMorris
“Every job has its downside. For example, being in a band the travel part of it - getting picked up from your house in a car, going to the airport, getting on a plane, going from the airplane to a van, then going from the van to a hotel.”
-- Dave Lombardo
“At American Airlines, we have built a business around the love of travel that has lasted three quarters of a century. And I'm pretty sure we're just getting started.”
-- Gerard Arpey
“When you're a kid, I think you want to be a film star. And I'm not as enamoured with that any more. The reality of that life is a lot of travel, and a lot of being away, which is impractical because I have four children, so I don't want to be away that much, not the other side of the world away.”
-- Rob Brydon
“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 subject matter of the stories on the surface... there seem to be a number of stories about travel.”
-- Kenneth Koch
“Mark Twain was a great traveler and he wrote three or four great travel books. I wouldn't say that I'm a travel novelist but rather a novelist who travels - and who uses travel as a background for finding stories of places.”
-- Paul Theroux
“I associate going to an airport with work because I travel so much with my job. So when I have a few days free from work, I tend to stay at home.”
-- Evelyn Glennie
“Travel aesthetics should be just as comfortable and practical as they are fashionable.”
-- Miguel Jontel Pimentel
“Travel, which was once either a necessity or an adventure, has become very largely a commodity, and from all sides we are persuaded into thinking that it is a social requirement, too.”
-- Jan Morris