Travel Purpose Quotes

The whole object of travel is not to set foot on foreign land; it is at last to set foot on one's own country as a foreign land.

A route differs from a road not only because it is solely intended for vehicles, but also because it is merely a line that connects one point with another. A route has no meaning in itself; its meaning derives entirely from the two points that it connects. A road is a tribute to space. Every stretch of road has meaning in itself and invites us to stop. A route is the triumphant devaluation of space, which thanks to it has been reduced to a mere obstacle to human movement and a waste of time.

I go to L.A. three or four times a year. It's great for research.

The trail is the thing, not the end of the trail. Travel too fast, and you miss all you are traveling for.

An English man does not travel to see English men.

I go back to L.A. as often as I can, and even if I'm there on business, I always add on a few extra days for pleasure.

Men may be very learned, and yet very miserable; it is easy to be a deep geometrician, or a sublime astronomer, but very difficult to be a good man. I esteem, therefore, the traveller who instructs the heart, but despise him who only indulges the imagination. A man who leaves home to mend himself and others, is a philosopher; but he who goes from country to country, guided by the blind impulse of curiosity, is only a vagabond.

I think there is some methodology in my travels.

People often ask us what we get by our frequent travel to countries. I want to tell them we do not travel to have fun; we travel to build our relationship with other countries, and it is because of our ties with these countries that we were able to rescue 7,000 people from Yemen.

We went to Japan and stayed an extra day just to go shopping. New York is one of those places where we never get that. If we're there, we're working.

You can't out-travel sadness. I travel not to get away from my troubles but to see how they look in front of famous buildings

But so far as countries are concerned, I don't go to a place to see what's there, but who is there.

I will not be just a tourist in a world of images.

I love traveling. But I haven't had big, transformative experiences while on the road. When I go out on the road, it's to go out and get a story or do a promotional event.

I'd like to invoke the Native American Navajo because their word for road is used as a verb. Their whole relationship to road has to do with how you travel it, who you are traveling it with, what the environment might be, where you're headed, in what direction, the weather and so on.

I state the threefold purpose of my travels in Arabia: to see the country, to write about it and to be of some service to its people and their cause - that is what brought me from beyond the seas, from America.

Travel, in the younger sort, is a part of education; in the elder, a part of experience. He that travelleth into a country before he hath some entrance into the language, goeth to school, and not to travel.

I travel a lot, but I don't come away with new inspiration.

... the grand tour is just the inspired man's way of heading home.

Connecting with people, getting things done - that's what makes the travel worthwhile.

Touch and away, Jack?’ asked Stephen. ‘Touch and away? Do you not recall that I have important business there? Enquiries of the very first interest?’ To do with our enterprise? To do with this voyage?’ Perhaps not quite directly.

All travel is circular. I had been jerked through Asia, making a parabola on one of the planet's hemispheres. After all, the grand tour is just the inspired man's way of heading home.

I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move.

What is it we want out of travel? Is it to take snapshots of ourselves in front of famous monuments, surrounded by other tourists? To eat unfamiliar food chosen from unintelligible menus? To earn frequent-flier miles? No. It's to glimpse what life is like somewhere else.

Destinations are less important than the spirit you bring to them.