travel quotes

Contrary to popular belief, I don’t spend a whole lot of time following soccer. But as I have traveled around the world to better understand global development and health, I’ve learned that soccer is truly universal. No matter where I go, that’s what kids are playing. That’s what people are talking about.

Today, we have private airline companies, but if you take a look at a Boeing plane next time you travel, you’ll see that you are basically taking a ride on a modified bomber.

I’ve been everywhere in the world, seen everything, had everything a man can have.

My experiences in life are getting bigger and better. The more stuff I do, the more stuff I talk about – having kids, traveling, going through relationship problems, dealing with things in my own family. All that stuff builds character.

I doubt anyone else would have travelled as extensively as I have to meet the citizens of the country.

I still make sure to go, at least once every year, to a country where things cannot be taken for granted, and where there is either too much law and order or too little.

Perhaps travel cannot prevent bigotry, but by demonstrating that all peoples cry, laugh, eat, worry, and die, it can introduce the idea that if we try and understand each other, we may even become friends.

When I have been travelling around to speak in different countries, I am always offered help to write about the specific climate policies in specific countries. But that is not really necessary. Because the basic problem is the same everywhere.

I’ve been waiting over 40 years to come to Cyprus, and it has not disappointed – the birthplace of Aphrodite, the Crossroads of Civilization, and, I might add, a genuine strategic partner to the United States of America.

I have been on the road and visited numerous places and met people from all over the globe. I can say that it looks nearly the same everywhere I have been: The climate crisis is ignored by people in charge, despite the science being crystal clear.

I had rather have a fool to make me merry than experience to make me sad and to travel for it too!

Against my will, in the course of my travels, the belief that everything worth knowing was known at Cambridge gradually wore off. In this respect my travels were very useful to me.

I’ve been to those places where it’s ‚poor, pitiful me.‘

I really miss having a routine because now I’ve been on the road constantly for several months. I like routines, so it would be nice to get those routines back.

I came to China to follow my star and to steep myself in the raw regions of the universe.

When I’m home, I spend Sunday with my husband. If we’re not cooking, we travel around in our camper, stop at fast-food restaurants, and picnic. We love that stuff that will harden your arteries in a hurry.

To start with, I love New York… It’s a little bit of the whole world… In New York, the whole world comes to you.

Italy, and the spring and first love all together should suffice to make the gloomiest person happy.

If you had your life to live over again, do it overseas.

I mean, Hawaii is beautiful, but the world is full of beautiful places.

I’m one of the most adaptable guys I know in as much as travelling is my favourite thing to do in life. With every place I go, I try to stay there long enough to do it justice, long enough so that I can at least imagine what it would be like to live there. Once I imagine that, then it’s OK for me to return home.

Rebellion is what you make of it. When you’ve been on a tour bus for two months straight, and then you get in your car and drive wherever you want, that can feel rebellious.

Travel teaches toleration.

No place is better than Akron.

I never write about the road. I never write about hotels or anything like that.

Just got back from a pleasure trip: I took my mother-in-law to the airport.

I’m not saying that people should stop flying. I’m just saying it needs to be easier to be climate neutral.

Every time I come to Europe, I’m just as excited as I was my very first time, which was many, many years ago. I love that part of the world, and I especially love the fans.

That’s one of the biggest things. Never being home, always traveling, having different interests and focusing on different things, just the time aspect of going back home and seeing them, you don’t have that at all. It was a big sacrifice but, at the end of the day, it was worth it.

Anyone who’s traveled with me to Afghanistan knows why I love this book: ‚War,‘ by Sebastian Junger.

I once went on the most grueling radio tour. Living in hotel rooms, sleeping in the backs of rental cars as my mom drove to three different cities in one day.

Buy the ticket, take the ride.

Anywhere I go, there is always an incredible crowd that follows me. In Rome, as I land at the airport, even the men kiss me. I love Rome.

I did not wish to take a cabin passage, but rather to go before the mast and on the deck of the world, for there I could best see the moonlight amid the mountains. I do not wish to go below now.

Adventures are to the adventurous.

I’ve been to Uganda and to North Korea and to Eritrea, countless horror spots around the world.

I’m touring the world, not doing nothing against the law, getting money to feed my family. I got employees that have felonies, and they can’t get jobs. They work for me.

Sevier County is a great area.

I’m never in the same place for more than, like, three days at a time. Things can change from one minute to the next.

Work aside, we come to New York for the possibility of interaction and inspiration.

To walk through the ruined cities of Germany is to feel an actual doubt about the continuity of civilization.

Not all those who wander are lost.

The penalty for getting mugged in an American city and losing your ID is that you can’t fly home.

A lot of people can’t stand touring but to me it’s like breathing. I do it because I’m driven to do it.

I could do one show after another in China for the rest of my life and still die ignorant. There’s a lot of places left to go.

I dislike feeling at home when I am abroad.

Over the last 15 months, we’ve traveled to every corner of the United States. I’ve now been in 57 states? I think one left to go.

With the casino and the beds, our passengers will have at least two ways to get lucky on one of our flights.

People from all over the world come to London wanting to make their own mark on it, and they add to the energy and vitality of the capital. It’s got a bit busier since the ’60s, but the more the merrier!

Fuel prices are at the center of our lives. They affect our ability to travel, stay warm, and feed ourselves.

The traveler sees what he sees, the tourist sees what he has come to see.

More understand China, then more people will have interest in China and more people will come to China to visit us because I am a tourist ambassador.

I would wear the blue overalls of the fieldworker and often wore round, rimless glasses known as Mazzawati teaglasses. I had a car, and I wore a chauffeur’s cap with my overalls. The pose of chauffeur was convenient because I could travel under the pretext of driving my master’s car.

My life is the road, man. I need to keep moving.

I’m really good at sleeping on planes. I mean, I smell jet fuel and I’m out; I’m asleep for takeoff.

I think it’s a very good thing to leave your country and look at it from afar.

Big stuff and little: learning how to order breakfast in a country where I don’t speak the language and haven’t been before – that’s really satisfying to me. I like that.

There have been times that I’ve wept as I’ve gone from city to city and I’ve seen how far people have wandered from God.

A good traveler has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving.

I’ll bring my grits when I travel, because I get so hungry on the road.