Travel quote

Excellent quote. All of my trip journals begin with this quote:

“Twenty years from now,
you will be more disappointed
by the things you didn’t do
than by the ones you did do.

So throw off the bowlines,
sail away from the safe harbor,
catch the trade winds in your sails.

Explore, Dream discover!”
---Mark Twain

"We can sleep at home" ~ me

“Travel keeps me sane” ~ me

“Postpone nothing.” ~ me

"I'll sleep when I'm dead." ~ me

Song of the Open Road
BY WALT WHITMAN
1
Afoot and light-hearted I take to the open road,
Healthy, free, the world before me,
The long brown path before me leading wherever I choose.

Henceforth I ask not good-fortune, I myself am good-fortune,
Henceforth I whimper no more, postpone no more, need nothing,
Done with indoor complaints, libraries, querulous criticisms,
Strong and content I travel the open road.

The world is a book, and those who don't travel only read one page. - St. Augustine

If ye dinnae go ,ye'll never ken.
My late mother about 40 odd years ago when I first started travelling outside of my own country.
translation ,"if you don't go you will never know"

There’s a voice that keeps on calling me
Down the road is where I’ll always be

Every stop I make, I’ll make a new friend
Can’t stay for long, just turn around and I’m gone again.

Maybe tomorrow, I’ll want to settle down,
Until tomorrow, I’ll just keep moving on.
~Terry Bush

Shout out to all my Gen X and older Canadian peeps...lol (I will also have this stuck in my head all weekend)
;)

“It’s a dangerous business, Frodo, going out of your door. You step into the Road, and if you don’t keep your feet, there is no knowing where you might be swept off too.”

J.R.R.Tolkien The Fellowship of the Ring

I'm with Unclegus's mother, my gran waa the same, and I'm proud to say I did not need the translation.

Don't Panic - Douglas Adams (or Cpl Jones)

Wow, I'm impressed. Thanks, everyone, and keep them coming!

From cantankerous Uncle Matthew, who hated travel, in Nancy Mitford's novel, "The Pursuit of Love".

"Bloody Abroad"

I love this thread!

If not now, when? - me

"The sum of the whole is this:

Walk and be happy; walk and be healthy.
The best way to lengthen out our days is to walk steadily and with a purpose. . . ."

Charles Dickens

“To move, to breathe, to fly, to float,
To gain all while you give,
To roam the roads of lands remote,
To travel is to live.”

― Hans Christian Andersen, The Fairy Tale of My Life: An Autobiography

"Trust Your Journey"

Here are my contributions: (I couldn't pick just one.....)
--“Differences of habit and language are nothing at all if our aims are identical and our hearts are open.”
— Albus Dumbledor, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
--“I see my path, but I do not know where it leads. Not knowing where I’m going is what inspires me to travel.”— Rosalia de Castro
-“The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.”
— Marcel Proust

“Travel is the only thing you can spend your money on that makes you richer”
💜💜💜
Sorry don’t know author

I get quotes daily from a travel count down app - and what do you think comes to mind today?
Hakuna Matata - Timon or Pumba - depending on the day.

Not as eloquent as some posted here, but something to aspire to when things go wrong on a trip - and the do tend to go wrong.....

"Go your ways, knowing not the answers to all things, yet seeking always the answer to one more thing than you know. Be seekers with your friends. Be adventurers in ways untrod. Hold the hope of discovery high within you, sharing the hope, and whatever discovery may come, with others." John W. Brigham

"See the world. It's more fantastic than any dream made or paid for in factories. Ask for no guarantees, ask for no security."

Ray Bradbury

Enjoying all the quotes. Thanks Jane!

~ "The traveler sees what he sees, the tourist sees what he has come to see." Gilbert K. Chesterton
~ "All journeys have secret destinations of which the traveler is unaware." Martin Bubar
~ "Take only memories, leave only footprints." Chief Seattle

Although this poem talks specifically about sailing the seas, it always made me feel the same way I feel when I want to travel. I especially like the middle 2 lines of the second stanza and the final line of the poem.

Sea Fever
By John Masefield
I must go down to the seas again, to the lonely sea and the sky,
And all I ask is a tall ship and a star to steer her by;
And the wheel’s kick and the wind’s song and the white sail’s shaking,
And a grey mist on the sea’s face, and a grey dawn breaking.

I must go down to the seas again, for the call of the running tide
Is a wild call and a clear call that may not be denied;
And all I ask is a windy day with the white clouds flying,
And the flung spray and the blown spume, and the sea-gulls crying.

I must go down to the seas again, to the vagrant gypsy life,
To the gull’s way and the whale’s way where the wind’s like a whetted knife;
And all I ask is a merry yarn from a laughing fellow-rover,
And quiet sleep and a sweet dream when the long trick’s over.

The brevity of life brings this to mind - Loveliest of Trees
A. E. Housman, 1859 - 1936
Loveliest of trees, the cherry now

Is hung with bloom along the bough,

And stands about the woodland ride

Wearing white for Eastertide.

Now, of my threescore years and ten,
Twenty will not come again,

And take from seventy springs a score,

It only leaves me fifty more.

And since to look at things in bloom

Fifty springs are little room,
About the woodlands I will go

To see the cherry hung with snow.

A year or two ago, someone on this forum started a thread called "Do you yearn?" Well, these quotes are filling my heart with yearning. Yearning for travel, for fresh air, for new experiences, and for reliving past experiences.

Thanks, everyone. And happy travels to all.

Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry and narrow-mindedness.... - Mark Twain

All that is gold does not glitter
Not all those who wander are lost
JRR Tolkein

“My heart is warm with the friends 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, The Selected Poetry

(or plane, preferably with sufficient leg room)

Love the poetry. Thank you, all.

‘Tell everybody I’m on my way
New friends and new places to see
With blue skies ahead, I’m on my way
And there’s no where else I’d rather be’

Phil Collins. It’s a song I’ve definitely connected with travel and I hope I’ll be able to listen to it again. It’s still too connected with a special someone.

Here is a link to more travel quotes and contained with in it are links to more travel quotes if you just can’t get enough of them.

https://community.ricksteves.com/travel-forum/trip-reports/famous-travel-quotes

Loving these quotes! Not loving the ear worm! Thanks Nicole from one of those Canadians ‘of an age’!

Travel summed up for me:
“But that's the glory of foreign travel, as far as I am concerned. I can't think of anything that excites a greater sense of childlike wonder than to be in a country where you are ignorant of almost everything. Suddenly you are five years old again. You can't read anything, you have only the most rudimentary sense of how things work, you can't even reliably cross a street without endangering your life. Your whole existence becomes a series of interesting guesses.”

• Bill Bryson

As I read through these responses, I couldn't keep Robert Frost's "The Road Not Taken" out of my head, especially the lines highlighted below.

Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth;

Then took the other, as just as fair,
And having perhaps the better claim,
Because it was grassy and wanted wear;
Though as for that the passing there
Had worn them really about the same,

And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black.
Oh, I kept the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way,
I doubted if I should ever come back.

I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.

Sometimes I think my life and travel choices have been rather mundane. Then I meet someone who thinks those choices have been quite adventurous. I guess it's all a matter of perspective, as so many of our chosen quotes indicate.

Funny:

"When you get to a fork in the road, take it." - Yogi Berra

Serious:

"Life is either a daring adventure, or it is nothing at all." - Helen Keller

Lo, I find it interesting how my interpretation of Frost's poem has changed over the years. I probably first read it when I was 10 or so, then we studied it in High School, then again in college... and of course I have run into it many times in the years since. And I always interpret it differently.

BTW, in the book "Up the Down Staircase," there's an interesting interpretation of the poem itself, especially the last two lines.

Thanks for the memories.

Like Frost's " The Road Not Taken " , the protagonist Benjamin Stone , in Stephen Sondheim's " Follies " ( 1971 ) similarly reminisces over his life from his twenties to his fifties . Much to consider about choices - https://youtu.be/unD0InY8-Xo

”I Haven’t Been Everywhere, but It’s on My List.” – Susan Sontag