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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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No farther will I travel: once again
My brethren I will see, and that fair plain
Where I and song were born.

George Eliot The Legend of Jubal (1869)

This job offers broad opportunity for travel—around and around and around the block. And to think—some girls settle for Europe.

Valerie Solanas A Young Girl's Primer (1966)

"If you travel, do it smart. I need as many of you alive to buy as many things as possible. It's a cycle, you see, shaped like a pyramid."

Brian Clevinger

Sometimes, if you stand very still in the shadows of those places, you can hear songs on the wind, whispers in the trees. That is why I travel.

Valya Dudycz Lupescu The Silence of Trees (2010)

This path is so delightful and delectable that anyone who knows it will lovingly travel it at his own cost and expense. Such happiness is beyond words.

John of St. Samson

Then on a certain day I went out [from Amsterdam, c. 1881-82]. I traveled to Dongen, brought some interior studies back, to try to make something good of them.

Suze Robertson Onder de Menschen: Suze Robertson (1912)

create art ,make money, travel the world, meet people, Learn new things, repeat the cycle.

Wavy the Creator

No one is an environmentalist by birth. It is only your path, your life, your travels that awaken you.

Sunita Narain

Getting to travel a lot and meeting new people. For me, that’s the best part of the experience of being a music artist.

Nandy

GUIL: (broken): We’ve traveled too far, and our momentum has taken over; we move idly towards eternity, without possibility of reprieve or hope of explanation.

Tom Stoppard Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead (1966)

Without thermals, [raptors] can't travel far. But the snow geese fly on... They navigate by the stars.

David Attenborough The Life of Birds (1998)

Over the past few years as First Lady, I have had the extraordinary privilege of traveling all across this country.

Michelle Obama Democratic National Convention speech (2012)

We need to urgently travel to US to engage with Executives and plead our case.

Mokhethi Shelile

Tourism is not just about travel—it’s about infrastructure, services, creativity, and entrepreneurship,.

Motlatsi Maqelepo

What it means to be British and the emotions that unite us all when we travel.

Caleb Femi

My generation of writers speak truth to power, travel the world and find inspiration for creativity wherever they go

Sabata-Mpho Mokae

If my country has bigger priorities to attend to, paying for my and my coach’s travel and accommodation costs to Manchester isn’t a big deal.

Frankie Fredericks

Whoe'er has travel'd life's dull round,
Where'er his stages may have been,
May sigh to think he still has found
The warmest welcome, at an inn.

William Shenstone

Before I traveled my road I was my road.

Antonio Porchia Voces (1943)

African governments have to change how they think. Travel grants are great, but $10 to $20,000 is not going to fund research at the cutting-edge level.

Evelyn Gitau

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