World Travel Quotes

“You can handle just about anything that comes at you out on the road with a believable grin, common sense and whiskey.”
― Bill Murray, Common Sense and Whiskey: Travel Adventures Far from Home

“People all around the world look different, they wear different kinds of clothes, prepare their food differently, and speak different languages, but their hearts beat for the same emotions -- this is the one and only universal human connection.”
― Sanjay Madan

“The whole world is like an opened candy jar, and we're plunging in for the best treats”
― Vicki Alayne Bradley, Finding Home: A Creative Journey on a Trip Around the World

“Food stall owners reach out with menus, calling out their dinner selections like midway prizes”
― Vicki Alayne Bradley, Finding Home: A Creative Journey on a Trip Around the World

“My town, populated almost entirely by the descendants of white Christian Europeans, had few connections to the outside world, perhaps by choice, and so their resentments and fears festered with little reason to ever be expressed to anyone but one another. I don’t remember much talk of foreign affairs, or of other countries, rarely even of New York, which loomed like a terrifying shadow above us, the place Americans went either to be mugged or to think they were better than everyone else. That was my sense of the outside world: where Americans went to be hurt or to hurt others. When I got into an elite college, I took this small-town defensiveness with me, but slowly discovered that the world was actually kaleidoscopic, full of possibilities.”
― Suzy Hansen

“This was something I began appreciating about life abroad: how much more malleable we become to chance encounters.”
― Manon Rinsma, A Far Cry from Yesterday: Finding Tomorrow in Distant Lands

“Even the most gilded dreams must eventually give way to the light of day.”
― Manon Rinsma, A Far Cry from Yesterday: Finding Tomorrow in Distant Lands

“My heart balloons with admiration for these talented artists, which I so desperately want to be”
― Vicki Alayne Bradley, Finding Home: A Creative Journey on a Trip Around the World

“Will you be traveling there again? To Istanbul and Arabia and the places where they follow the Koran?"
"I hope so," he said, laying aside the golden book very carefully. "The air is so hot there, warm and fragrant, the sky so blue, and the food tastes like nothing here. They have olives and dates and soft cheeses. I think you would like it, my Séraphine. You could dress in pink and gold and mahogany and lounge on silken pillows, listening to strange music. I'd buy you a little monkey with a vest and a hat to make you laugh and I'd sit and watch you and feed you juicy grapes."
She smiled sadly and drew off her stays. "And how would we get there, Val?"
"I'd hire a ship," he said taking a sip of his red wine. "No, I'd buy a ship- one of our very own. It'll have blue sails and a flag with a rooster on it. We'll take your mongrel and Mehmed and all his cats and set sail with fifty strong men. During the day we'll sit on deck and watch for mermaids and monsters in the waves, and at night we'll stare at the stars and then I'll make love to you until dawn."
"And after far Arabia?" she whispered as she drew off her chemise and stood nude save for her stockings and shoes. "What then?"
His smile faded and he looked very grave as she took off her shoes and stockings. "Why, Séraphine, then we would journey on to Egypt or India or China or indeed wherever else you please. Or even come round about here, back to foggy, bustling London, where, if nothing else, the pies and sausages are quite good, if that was what you wished. Just as long as I were with you and you with me, my sweet Séraphine.”
― Elizabeth Hoyt, Duke of Sin

“Holy mother of sanity, magic was real”
― Elle Thrasher, Cavendish

“You do know that I have an Iranian passport and from the looks of things, we aren’t welcome in a lot of places in the world.”
― Soroosh Shahrivar, Tajrish