Quotes about Travel
As I travel across the country speaking about MS, perhaps I can offer others comfort and hope.
— Annette Funicello
They had spent a year in France for no particular reason, and then drifted here and there unrestfully wherever people played polo and were rich together.
— F Scott Fitzgerald
They were both overwhelmed by the sudden flatness that comes over American travellers in quiet foreign places. No stimuli worked upon them, no voices called them from without, no fragments of their own thoughts came suddenly from the minds of others.
— F Scott Fitzgerald
Standing in the station, with Paris in back of them, it seemed as if they were vicariously leaning a little over the ocean, already undergoing a sea-change, a shifting about of atoms to form the essential molecule of new people.
— F Scott Fitzgerald
After lunch they were both overwhelmed by the sudden flatness that comes over American travellers in quiet foreign places. No stimuli worked upon them, no voices called them from without, no fragments of their own thoughts came suddenly from the minds of others, and missing the clamor of Empire they felt that life was not continuing here.
— F Scott Fitzgerald
As the President has indicated, my life has been a life of travel - for 60 years constantly moving over the wide world on journeys which first and last have taken me to 83 countries, and, what is more significant, to most of them again and again.
— John Mott
People commonly travel the world over to see rivers and mountains, new stars, garish birds, freak fish, grotesque breeds of human; they fall into an animal stupor that gapes at existence and they think they have seen something.
— Soren Kierkegaard
Whether I'm at the office, at home, or on the road, I always have a stack of books I'm looking forward to reading.
— Bill Gates
June. June is a good time to go off into the world.
— Alice Walker
I cannot rest from travel; I will drink Life to the lees.
— Alfred Lord Tennyson
Milton! thou should'st be living at this hour: England hath need of thee! . . . . . . Thy soul was like a star, and dwelt apart: So didst thou travel on life's common way In cheerful godliness.
— William Wordsworth
May the road rise to meet you. May the wind be ever at your back.
— Anonymous