- Dad
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- Nov 07, 2020
Travel Quotes
Miles, memories, and the pull of somewhere else.
These travel quotes range from the practical, packing a favorite philosophy book for the road, to the personal, like a parent sacrificing rent money so a child could go away for athletic training. A few speak to travel as genre obsession, chasing time-travel stories more than actual destinations. Read more in our Jokes collection.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
I still go out, but not a lot. If I go to see music, it's usually to the Blue Note, jazz clubs, things like that. When I travel, I find out where the jazz clubs are.
- Heaven
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- Nov 07, 2020
The way to Heaven is ascending; we must be content to travel uphill, though it be hard and tiresome, and contrary to the natural bias of our flesh.
- Person
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- Nov 07, 2020
A journey is a person in itself; no two are alike. And all plans, safeguards, policing, and coercion are fruitless. We find that after years of struggle that we do not take a trip; a trip takes us.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
The desire to become a journalist came really because I very much like living abroad, and like to travel, and wanted to be paid for it.
- Unity
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the Arctic, the Inuit are saying water and land are the same; they're an unbroken unity. In the winter, you travel on the ice because it's the linkage and the easiest way, and in the summer, you move around on the water.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
My family went to Toronto to visit relatives when I was 13 or 14. It was the first time we had ever been abroad. This was the early Eighties, and I remember the impossible glamour of air travel - my mum spending days trying to decide what she was going to wear on the plane.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
We all know we have a problem, a broad problem. Ninety-eight percent of the fuel that is used by our vehicles, our autos and trucks for personal and commercial purposes, for highway and air travel operates on oil. The world has the same problem.
- Nature
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- Nov 07, 2020
I never saw a discontented tree. They grip the ground as though they liked it, and though fast rooted they travel about as far as we do.
- Wilderness
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- Nov 07, 2020
To the lover of wilderness, Alaska is one of the most wonderful countries in the world.
- End
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- Nov 07, 2020
In all my wild mountaineering, I have enjoyed only one avalanche ride; and the start was so sudden, and the end came so soon, I thought but little of the danger that goes with this sort of travel, though one thinks fast at such times.
- Heart
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- Nov 07, 2020
Only by going alone in silence, without baggage, can one truly get into the heart of the wilderness. All other travel is mere dust and hotels and baggage and chatter.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020