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Travel Quotes

Shakespeare, Samuel Johnson, George Eliot, Dejan Stojanovic and Ray Bradbury lead the page. The line that rewards a second look is Chesterton’s, in Tremendous Trifles (1909): the whole object of travel is not to set foot on foreign land but at last to set foot on one’s own country as a foreign land. Wilde’s Importance of Being Earnest (1895) has a character who never travels without her diary, so that she has something sensational to read on the train.

“A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes” is credited to Mark Twain and marked misattributed. Swift wrote something close to it in 1710, that falsehood flies and truth comes limping after. A rolling stone gathering no moss, credited to Publilius Syrus, is disputed.

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“It gives us a good time to travel around, see our family and avoid the horrendous heat.”

Caroline Brooks

You never read about the real pain. It lives where no word can travel.

Vanna Bonta Rewards of Passion (Sheer Poetry) (1981)

In my travels, I have found that those who keep heaven in view remain serene and cheerful in the darkest day.

Billy Graham Hope for the Troubled Heart: Finding God in the Midst of Pain (1991)

Reading sheds light on our dark path ahead. By traveling into the past, I enhance my grasp of the present.

Jim Mattis Call Sign Chaos: Learning to Lead (2019)

Part of our job is teaching. We travel all over the country to major institutions and help organize conferences to teach people about Rwanda.

Mathilde Mukantabana

Truth lies beyond the mountains. You must travel to find it.

Ferdinand Oyono Houseboy (1956)

How cruel the voice
that bars me from traveling
the way of dreams.
Not a man, but still a gate guard
is that wind in the reeds.

Shotetsu

Direct your eye right inward, and you'll find
A thousand regions in your mind
Yet undiscovered. Travel them, and be
Expert in home-cosmography.

William Habington

To me the most important thing is the sense of going on. You know how beautiful things are when you're traveling.

Edward Hopper

There’s a certain
amount of traveling
in a dream deferred.

Langston Hughes Montage of a Dream Deferred (1951)

I’m strapped at home, strapped when I travel I pop my trunk and make these bitches spread like cattle.

Lil Wayne Da Drought 3 (2007)

I travel light; as light,
That is, as a man can travel who will
Still carry his body around because
Of its sentimental value.

Christopher Fry The Lady's Not for Burning (1949)

When I was a little baby, my mama she said "Son.
Travel where you will and grow to be a man
And sing what must be sung, poor boy
Sing what must be sung."

Hoyt Axton Greenback Dollar (1963)

The nomad or immigrant who learns something rightly must always ponder travel and movement, just as the grief-stricken must inevitably ponder death.

Edwidge Danticat Create Dangerously: The Immigrant Artist at Work (2010)

To get away from one's working environment is, in a sense, to get away from one's self; and this is often the chief advantage of travel and change.

Charles Cooley

If your country is wiped off the map and your language is banned, if your literature has to serve a cause, it becomes, however brilliant, rather hard to travel.

Olga Tokarczuk

"Activists travel - we are the voice of the voiceless and speak the truth,"

Rita Nyampinga

This is a film we made very independently by ourselves and to be able to see it travel like this and be seen, has been beautiful.

Anisia Uzeyman

I want to tell children to never stop dreaming; cinema is a vehicle for openness that helps them grow and travel

Eye Haidara

[I]f I ever travel again, I shall trust to none but natives, as the climate of Africa is too trying to foreigners.

John Hanning Speke Discovery of the Source of the Nile (1863)

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