Traveler Quotations

I have been a frequent air traveler since I was a few months shy of my sixth birthday, when my parents packed me off to boarding school two plane rides away from home. Those days of being willingly handed from air hostess to air hostess as an 'unaccompanied minor' made me blase about the rigors of air travel.

In reality, we are all travelers - even explorers of mortality.

A wise traveler never depreciates their own country.

When the traveler goes alone he gets acquainted with himself.

What I discovered in Auschwitz is the human condition, the end point of a great adventure, where the European traveler arrived after his two-thousand-year-old moral and cultural history.

Writers and travelers are mesmerized alike by knowing of their destinations.

For a traveler going from any place toward the north, that pole of the daily rotation gradually climbs higher, while the opposite pole drops down an equal amount.

Thus, that one can find no place to walk through the breadth of the earth is not because the earth is not tranquil but because the danger to every step of the traveler lies generally with words.

A traveler is really not someone who crosses ground so much as someone who is always hungry for the next challenge and adventure.

I traveled enormously during the 1960's, when you measured everything by where you traveled and what you did as travelers.

I am sure that no traveler seeing things through author spectacles can see them as they are.

A good traveler has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving.

We're making this investment because Verified is not only first, but the only private provider of Registered Traveler services. So far the program has been very successful.

What's offensive to me is that you have the government selling Registered Traveler on the basis that we will get you through security lines faster, when they created the inconvenience on dubious grounds in the first place.

What the Registered Traveler achieves is convenience for some but at the expense of security for all. It's a false sense of security.

Traveling is, and has always been, more popular than the traveler.

The Registered Traveler Program is a significant step forward in the effort to balance aviation security and traveler convenience. It's a win-win proposition for consumers, businesses, airports, airlines and for the government. While travelers enjoy a more relaxing, less time consuming security screening process, the government can focus its security resources on more likely potential threats.

The true traveler never arrives.

Travelers with naught sing in the robber's face

Traveler, there is no path, the path must be forged as you walk.

There is meaning in every journey that is unknown to the traveler.

I think there's a big market in North America [with travelers] going to Lisbon and connecting over Lisbon.

Like a traveler encountering a succession of mountain ranges we found the scope of our project seeming to expand with every step we took.

One of the things I'm fascinated by as a traveler is watching how different countries control how they let the world encounter them.

No doubt, the European traveler does not easily cross the vast extents of territory, deserted or supporting only ferocious peoples.

The traveler without money will sing before the robber. [Lat., Cantabit vacuus coram latrone viator.]

PILGRIM, n. A traveler that is taken seriously. A Pilgrim Father was one who, leaving Europe in 1620 because not permitted to sing psalms through his nose, followed it to Massachusetts, where he could personate God according to the dictates of his conscience.

I stumbled on this little scene. And little by little, that scene took over my life, ... You could make a living being a blues musician. There were a lot of clubs where you could play this type of music every night. And a lot of roots rock clubs, and bands like the Holmes Brothers, Chris Whitley and Blues Traveler playing opposite sides of the street corner. And a lot of camaraderie. Nobody was thinking of record deals, so there wasn't any feeling of competition.

The traveler feels at home everywhere, because she is never at home anywhere.

Most important, though, I had to wait until I found the perfect traveling/eating/drinking/napping companion. And I did finally find him, two years ago - my Brazilian-born, French-speaking, wine-worshipping, tripe-consuming, uncomplaining traveler of a sweetheart.

When it comes to travel, everyone's threshold is different. A $1,000 trip may be less valuable to an affluent traveler than to someone who saved their money all year.

Those who don't want to give up this information -- or who can't afford the costs -- will have to deal with other airport screening lines growing exponentially longer. This isn't a choice any traveler should be forced to make.

We are concluding the pilot program and we are going to review the results to determine how Registered Traveler would fit as a link in the security chain,

This would have to be measured against the commitment to privacy. We will carefully analyze the TSA requirement and proceed appropriately to maintain the commitment to privacy and to make sure the Registered Traveler program stays on track.

Tourists see, and travelers seek.

I feel like I'm a time traveler from the future who has been sent back to be annoyed.

Hymns are companions for life travelers.

Wherever you go becomes a part of you somehow.

Air travel efficiency would improve if more travelers started going to less popular places.

We will enable the private sector to launch Registered Traveler programs.

We've designed every aspect of the Eos experience specifically with the business traveler in mind.

We believe that a nationwide Registered Traveler program can provide expedited screening for many travelers and enhance aviation security, as well.

We see it as a trusted traveler program.

While the general consumer has no problem using general travel portals, we feel that the affluent traveler has specific information needs that can only be found by providing a deeper level of service that is closer to concierge level than typically provided by the mass travel market.

TWELVE Hotels is targeting the 24-to-45-year-old traveler or any traveler who requires a robust technological infrastructure to assist business needs or enhance leisure travel. We will be able to meet those needs, while also delivering the comforts of traditional hotel services.

Bird flu today is not a problem for travelers. There is no case of a traveler contracting the virus. The day a pandemic will start, the picture will change totally.

Every business traveler has a unique set of preferences when they take technology on the road. We have developed advanced GPS solutions for every form factor so mobile professionals can enjoy precise location and navigation assistance on the hardware that suits their needs.

As the world's leading travel service provider, Expedia, Inc. has the unique privilege of being able to quickly support our travel industry partners in the Yucatan Peninsula during times of need by sharing timely information and education that helps to rebuild international traveler confidence. We look forward to continuing to work closely with our travel partners to provide the latest information, updates and trip ideas to our travelers -- reassuring them that one of their most beloved destinations is indeed open for business.

A traveler case could happen in any town, anywhere in the country, ... With the Internet, the kid could be from anywhere.

Five years ago the business traveler who stayed over Saturday who didn't want to was very small. It's grown tremendously over that time.

The traveler wants to be able to communicate everywhere, and you never know what mode will be required,

The traveler to the United States will do well to prepare himself for the class-consciousness of the natives. This differs from the already familiar English version in being more extreme and based more firmly on the conviction that the class to which the speaker belongs is inherently superior to all others.

The traveler sees what he sees, the tourist see what he has come to see.

The traveler has reached the end of the journey! In the freedom of the infinite he is free from all sorrows, the fetters that bound him are thrown away, and the burning fever of life is no more.

They are all trying to respond to what the business traveler wants.

It was a light-bulb moment, ... For the first time, the business traveler had a real opportunity to get good sleep overnight.

Radisson is quickly earning a reputation as a leader in the global hospitality industry by striving to achieve total guest satisfaction and keeping attune to the needs of today's independent-minded frequent traveler who desires to have some control over their hotel experience. And that is evident in the amenities and service we offer at the Radisson University Hotel.

As for freedom, it will soon cease to exist in any shape or form. Living will depend upon absolute obedience to a strict set of arrangements, which it will no longer be possible to transgress. The air traveler is not free. In the future, life's passengers will be even less so: they will travel through their lives fastened to their (corporate) seats.

They eventually closed that and opened up Carroll's Western Wear and the Western Traveler restaurant on Hwy. 90.

It will be a complete departure from anything a business traveler has seen so far.

It's something that the business traveler really, really needs. When you get in line behind 200 tourists waiting to go home, it's just miserable.

It's sort of a one-stop shopping experience, and the idea is to make the traveler feel like he or she is truly traveling on one airline.

The average ticket value of a business traveler is about twice that of a leisure customer's ticket.

It's definitely for the adventurous traveler who wants to get off the beaten track. This is a total leap into the past. If you're looking for a luxurious vacation, I wouldn't necessarily recommend Romania. But if people want to educate themselves and see someplace really different, it's a great place to go.

Any traveler looking for a hotel with a truly advanced and relevant personal technology platform, large suites, comfort and personalized service, all within walking distance to Atlanta's hottest shopping and entertainment district, will find everything he or she is looking for at TWELVE.

Every traveler knows too well the endless quest for the perfect travel bag: the one that's stylish enough to carry through Paris, sturdy enough to tote around Peru, and - most important - doesn't make your shoulder sag even before you've loaded it up with everything you need for a day of sightseeing.

The Internet has given people a control over prices, options, information and deals. It's given the traveler leverage. People feel it's worth dedicating the time to hunting for better hotel rates or flight times. They want not just to save money but to control their travel. People are being ever-more self-reliant.

I'm not sure that Registered Traveler should be a research program.

It has never been, and never will be easy work! But the road that is built in hope is more pleasant to the traveler than the road built in despair, even though they both lead to the same destination.

Hotels have lost a major revenue stream because nobody's using hotel phones to make calls. This is the kind of thing that is in the fine print in a hotel manual, but the average business traveler doesn't read.

Life is what we make of it. Travel is the traveler. What we see isn't what we see but what we are.

The overdressed traveler betrays more interest in being seen than in seeing, while the true traveler knows that the novel world about her serves as the most appropriate accessory.

The psychiatrist must become a fellow traveler with his patient.

Along the way I saw the evidence that J.B. was dealing with depression. I was coping with my own depression, ... It was not so difficult to bring it up with J.B., because I knew I was almost with a fellow traveler on this very tough journey.

The Dallas CVB has created this site to speak directly to the interests of GLBT travelers. It's an approach that underscores our city's accepting, gay-friendly environment. We understand that the GLBT traveler wants to know if they are going to a place that welcomes them unconditionally, and this website is our city's answer. Yes.

A nationwide registered traveler program can provide expedited screening for many travelers and enhance aviation security as well.

A good traveler is one who does not know where he is going to, and a perfect traveler does not know where he came from

Parents remain our touchstones, fellow travelers, even after death. They are both missing and present.

The disease is spread from face-to-face contact with known cases of SARS, ... So the average traveler is not going to be at risk.

If you will be a traveler, have always two bags very full. That is one of patience and another of money.

Now and then in travel, something unexpected happens that transforms the whole nature of the trip and stays with the traveler.

A French traveler with a sore throat is a wonderful thing to behold, but it takes more than tonsillitis to prevent a Frenchman from boasting.

Travelers are the greatest ambassadors of tolerance.

Even I, as sick as I am, I would never be you. Even I, sick and depraved, a traveler to the grave, I would never be you.

A traveler enters the world into which he travels, but a tourist brings his own world with him and never sees the one he's in.

We cannot truly love God if we do not love our fellow travelers on this mortal journey.

The road recedes as the traveler advances, leaving a continuous present.

The wise traveler is he who is perpetually surprised.

I love to go out. I love the outdoors. I love outdoor sports. I'm a big traveler.

Pluck not the wayside flower; It is the traveler's dower.

I am inclined to think from my own experience that the difficulty to eminence lies not in the road, but in the timidity of the traveler.

I am not free and independent; I am a traveler with duties.

The good traveler has the gift of surprise.

Travelers must be content.

But that the dread of something after death, the undiscovered country from who bourn no traveler returns, puzzles the will and makes us rather bear those ills we have than to fly to others that we know not of?

Usually speaking, the worst bred person in company is a young traveler just returned from abroad

The traveler has to knock at every alien door to come to his own, and he has to wonder through all the outer worlds to reach the innermost shrine at the end.

[death]...the abyss from where no traveler is permitted to return

Before he sets out, the traveler must possess fixed interests and facilities to be served by travel.

I am very little of a traveler.