Intercontinental Travel Quotes

Railroads have more than realized the fabulous conception of the eastern imagination which picture the genii as transporting inhabited palaces through the air. They take a train of inhabited palaces from the Atlantic coast, and with marvelous swiftness deposit it on the shores that are washed by the Pacific seas.

I've played matches in Mexico, Canada and the United States. The people of North America have always welcomed me.

In the Space Age, man will be able to go around the world in two hours—one hour for flying, and one hour to get to the airport.

If transportation technology was moving along as fast as microprocessor technology, then the day after tomorrow I would be able to get in a taxi cab and be in Tokyo in 30 seconds.

I think of the world as geographical regions, and it excites me to think about the opportunity that Europe can have if we consider it to be the 500-million-people region that it is.

A transcontinental railroad will not be built in my lifetime, or my children’s lifetime, or their children’s lifetime.

If the Almighty were to rebuild the world and asked me for advice, I would have English Channels round every country. And the atmosphere would be such that anything which attempted to fly would be set on fire.

Point-to-point transit via low orbit could dramatically speed up international flights, connecting the world even further. And safe, consistent space travel opens up the possibility of commercial space stations, trips to the moon and exploration beyond.

Spending years between America and Israel, I have gained a global view, and the planet is my home.

The 20th Century was the century of Aviation and the century of Globalization. The next century will be the century of Space.

The only thing to be said for air travel is speed. It makes possible travel on a scale unimaginable before our present age. Between the ages of 20 and four-score I visited every country in Europe, all save two in Latin America, ditto in Africa, and most of Asia, not counting eight trips to Australia and 60 to the United States - all by air.

A good example of the modern world is the Eurotunnel. And mobile phones - I like them.

Utah may well be the most cosmopolitan state in America. Vast numbers of young Mormons - increasingly women as well as men - spend a couple of years abroad as missionaries and return jabbering in Thai or Portuguese and bearing a wealth of international experience.

When I was nine years old, my father went to Spain to work for three years, and I was in Portugal. He has a sports store. I only saw him once a month, which was difficult. I was alone with my mother and my sister, who is younger than me.

We left Egypt when I was seven, and we didn't return until I was 21. My teen years were divided between the United Kingdom and Saudi Arabia. Up until we left the U.K., it was like your regular teenage years. The one thing I remember is that I couldn't date. That was one thing my parents made very clear.

Hyperloop One wants to make the world one, wants to make the world smaller.

Measured in time of transport and communication, the whole round globe is now smaller than a small European country was a hundred years ago.

My mom is from Ghana, and my dad is from Detroit, so I would go back and forth to Africa a lot.

Punditry has taken me across the world, it is wonderful to have interaction with new people, and it's a very small world now. I've worked for companies in the Middle East, America, and Europe.

I got the travel bug when I was quite young. My parents took me and my sisters out of school and we travelled all over Europe. It was an eye-opening experience and, although I love Norway, I also enjoy visiting new countries. I don't get homesick.

I seemed to belong to three countries: I had an apartment in Paris, a house in Hollywood, and when I married British theater director Peter Hall, I moved to London.

I might live in Europe, but I sleep in Africa.