Travel quotes

[Lynda]

Here are a few travel quotes, perhaps you would like to add some of your own.


Travel Quotes

"A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step"

"It is good to have an end to journey towards, but it is the journey that matters in the end"

"If you reject the food, ignore the customs, fear the religion and avoid the people, you might better stay home"

"To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries"

"We wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfilment"

[kari]

I came. I saw. I left.

Just say yes.

Auntie Em, hate you, hate Kansas, taking dog.

[Passenger Mark]

These are great Lynda! I am going to add one to my signature. Thanks for posting them!

[FO4SWAinPHX]

"There's no way on earth we're gonna get outta here tonight. We'd have more luck playing pick-up-sticks with our butt cheeks than we will gettin' a flight outta here before daybreak." Dell Griffith, shower curtain ring salesman (John Candy), Planes Trains and Automobiles. Dell and Neal Page (Steve Martin) are stuck in Wichita KS after a snowstorm shuts down mid western airports in the US during Thanksgiving. :lol:

[noflyingfan]

It's not very much in the TF spirit, but I've always liked this one.

"If God had meant man to fly, he would have given him more money."

Here are some others that are certainly in the TF spirit. The second one reminds me of Jeff, for obvious reasons.

"Flying is the second greatest thrill known to man. Landing is the first."

When once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward, for there you have been, and there you will always long to return. — Leonardo da Vinci


The airplane is just a bunch of sticks and wires and cloth, a tool for learning about the sky and about what kind of person I am, when I fly. An airplane stands for freedom, for joy, for the power to understand, and to demonstrate that understanding. Those things aren't destructable. — Richard Bach, 'Nothing by Chance,' 1963


I've never known an industry that can get into people's blood the way aviation does. — Robert Six, founder of Continental Airlines


I ask people who don't fly, "How can you not fly when you live in a time in history when you can fly?" — William Langewische, 2001


Don't let the fear of falling keep you from knowing the joy of flight. — Lane Wallace, 'Flying' magazine, January 2001


Pilots track their lives by the number of hours in the air, as if any other kind of time isn't worth noting. — Michael Parfit, 'The Corn was Two Feet Below the Wheels', Smithsonian Magazine, May 2000

[EyesSkyward]

These were pulled off the net, and so could be inaccurate and/or misattributed. Still, I like 'em...


"A journey is like marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think you control it." -- John Steinbeck

"He who would travel happily must travel light." -- Antoine de St. Exupery

"The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page." -- St. Augustine

"All journeys have secret destinations of which the traveler is unaware." -- Martin Buber

"Hitler didn't travel. Stalin didn't travel. Saddam Hussein never traveled. They didn't want to have their orthodoxy challenged." -- Howard Gardner

"The whole object of travel is not to set foot on foreign land. It is at least to set foot on one's own country as a foreign land." -- G. K. Chesterton



- Jeff

[EyesSkyward]

The second one reminds me of Jeff, for obvious reasons.

Yup, that's where my nick came from. Love that quote! And the Langewische one too. :thumbsup:

Here's another of my fave flying-related quotes:

"Science, freedom, beauty, adventure... what more could you ask of life? Aviation combined all the elements I loved." -- Charles Lindberg

A few paragraphs later in the book, he went on to say this, which isn't really in the TF spirit either (or is it?), but bear in mind that this was back in the days when flying wasn't nearly as safe as it is today:

"Who valued life more highly, the aviators who spent it on the art they loved, or these misers who doled it out like pennies through their ant-like days? I decided that if I could fly for ten years before I was killed in a crash, it would be a worthwhile trade for an ordinary lifetime."


- Jeff

[AZO-FA]

When once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward, for there you have been, and there you will always long to return. — Leonardo da Vinci

I absolutely love that one.

This sounds dorky...but...

Do any of you have quotes about leaving the nest? LOL I've never been away from home (besides vacations) and I am beginning to get nervous and starting to think about how much I will miss my family.

[WillFlyToDisney]

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I absolutely love that one.

This sounds dorky...but...

Do any of you have quotes about leaving the nest? LOL I've never been away from home (besides vacations) and I am beginning to get nervous and starting to think about how much I will miss my family.

You will miss them but your new adventures will be SO worth it!

[EyesSkyward]

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Do any of you have quotes about leaving the nest?

Quotes? How about a whole song (http://www.singulartists.com/artist_s/suzy_bogguss_lyrics/letting_go_lyrics.html)! :cool:

- Jeff

[kari]

Jeff do you mind I've just had my lunch!

That song really really makes me wanna puke.