Quote Lady's Quotes by Subject, Travel

Travel

Afoot and light-hearted I take to the open road,
Healthy, free, the world before me,
The long brown path before leading wherever I choose.--Walt Whitman ("Song of the Open Road" Leaves of Grass)
Any successful journey begins by packing your luggage full of imagination.--Kathrine Palmer Peterson
As the traveler who has once been from home is wiser than he who has never left his own doorstep, so a knowledge of one other culture should sharpen our ability to scrutinize more steadily, to appreciate lovingly, our own.--Margaret Mead
Certainly, travel is more than the seeing of sights; it is a change that goes on, deep and permanent, in the ideas of living.--Miriam Beard (Realism in Romantic Japan)
For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move.--Robert Louis Stevenson ("Cheylard and Luc" Travels with a Donkey)
He used often to say there was only one Road; that it was like a great river: its springs were at every doorstep, and every path was its tributary. "It's a dangerous business, Frodo, going out of your door," he used to say. "You step into the Road, and if you don't keep your feet, there is no knowing where you might be swept off to."--J. R. R. Tolkien (The Fellowship of the Ring)
He who is outside his door already has the hard part of his journey behind him.--Dutch proverb
He who would travel happily must travel light.--Antoine Saint-Exupery (Wind, Sand, and Stars)
I don't think I'll travel anymore. Travel is nothing but an inconvenience. There is always enough trouble where you are.--Charles Bukowski
The impulse to travel is one of the hopeful symptoms of life.--Agnes Repplier ("The American Takes a Holiday" Time and Tendencies)
A man travels the world in search of what he needs and returns home to find it.--George Moore
The more I traveled the more I realized that fear makes strangers of people who should be friends.--Shirley MacLaine
My favorite thing is to go where I've never been.--Diane Arbus
My heart is warm with the friend I make,
And better friends I'll not be knowing;
Yet there isn't a train I wouldn't take,
No matter where it's going.--Edna St. Vincent Millay ("Travel" Second April)
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 to understand each other, we may even become friends.--Maya Angelou ("Passports to Understanding" Wouldn't Take Nothing for My Journey Now)
Sooner or later we must realize there is no station, no one place to arrive at once and for all. The true joy of life is the trip.--Robert J. Hastings ("The Station")
Strong and content I travel the open road.--Walt Whitman
To take a journey of a thousand miles, you have to begin with the first step from the place where you stand; the romantic description of the journey and the things the body sees on the way and the description of the scenery are of no use unless you lift your foot and take the first step.--Vimala Thakar
Travel gives a character of experience to our knowledge, and brings the figures on the tablet of memory into strong relief.--Henry Tuckerman
Travelling is not just seeing the new; it is also leaving behind. Not just opening doors; also closing them behind you, never to return, But the place you have left forever is always there for you to see whenever you shut your eyes.--Jan Myrdal (The Silk Road)
Trips do not end when you return home--usually this is the time when in a sense they really begin.--Agnes E. Benedict and Adele Franklin (The Happy Home)
The world is a book, and those who do not travel, read only one page.--Saint Augustine
You gotta be careful if you don't know where you're going, because you might not get there.--Yogi Berra