3,660 Quotes About Travel

‎W. H. Auden once suggested that to understand your own country you need to have lived in at least two others. One can say something similar for periods of time: to understand your own century you need to have come to terms with at least two others. The key to learning something about the past might be a ruin or an archive but the means whereby we may understand it is--and always will be--ourselves.

Linda Heavner Gerald received a silver medal for Fiction from FAPA (Florida Authors and Publishers Association)

Alone wasn’t just a closed dark room anymore but a whole wide world full of opportunities. I needed to explore and occupy the vastness of the world inside of me, which until now I hadn’t truly understood.

The prettiest, selfless, adorable and innocent smiles I have ever received are from the people whom I met traveling alone

Every spot on earth is particular, detailed, and incomprehensibly complex.

Au contraire, and because I said that, that makes me French, unlike the Englishman at a Paris auction house who raised his '3' paddle after a Frenchman yelled, 'I bid you adieu.

It is better to travel on right road than the wrong way.

It is better to travel on the rough right road than smooth wrong way.

When you travel, there really are no mistakes--just learning opportunities.