Quotes about Travel
How do you do, ma'am?" said the captain. "I am very glad to see you. I have come a long way to see you.
- Charles Dickens
One travels more usefully when alone, because he reflects more.
- Thomas Jefferson
roads were made for journeys not destinations
- Confucius
He keeps from off the king's road for fear of citizenry.
- Cormac McCarthy
The point, Squire, is that where they used to be confined to State institutions or to the mudrooms and attics of remote country houses they are now abroad everywhere. The government pays them to travel. To procreate, for that matter. I've seen entire families here that can best be explained as hallucinations. Hordes of drooling dolts lurching through the streets. Their inane gibbering. And of course no folly so deranged or pernicious as to escape their advocacy.
- Cormac McCarthy
I have travelled, and looked at the world, and loved it. Now I don't want to look at the world anymore, there seems nothing there. In not-looking, and in not-seeing comes a new strength and undeniable new gods share their life with us, when we cease to see.
- DH Lawrence
I'd rather hop freights around the country and cook my food out of tin cans over wood fires, than be rich and have a home or work.
- Jack Kerouac
The only time I really eat out is when I'm on the road. Then, I make the same choices that I would make at home - salmon and lots of oily fish and veggies.
- Yolanda Adams
I am not going to Egypt,' said the bird. 'I am going to the House of Death.' He kissed the prince and fell down dead at his feet.
- Oscar Wilde
Travel improves the mind wonderfully, and does away with all one's prejudices." "The
- Oscar Wilde
I get a friend to travel with me... I need somebody to bring me back to who I am. It's hard to be alone.
- Leonardo DiCaprio
He's crossed all the oceans all around the world.
- William Faulkner