Dave Barry Quotes

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

I see that it is by no means useless to travel, if a man wants to see something new

Much as I love the northeast, I didn't want to spend my life there. I wanted to experiment. Savour everything you can while you're here! Touring, seeing the world... That in itself gives you a different perspective.

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

The journey is my home.

We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls.

A good friend of mine told me you should take a break and you should go see the world. Go somewhere. That is when I chose to go to Egypt, and so I took this beautiful trip to Egypt. It was the first time ever in my whole life I took three weeks off, and I sailed down the Nile and I saw the tombs and the temples, and I experienced a place that was so magical and so incredibly powerful and intelligent and inspiring.

Voyage, travel, and change of place impart vigor

Of the gladdest moments in human life...is the departure upon a distant journey into unknown lands.

To travel, to experience and learn: that is to live.

When you are starting away, leaving your more familiar fields, for a little adventure like a walk, you look at every object with a traveler's, or at least with historical, eyes; you pause on the first bridge, where an ordinary walk hardly commences, and begin to observe and moralize like a traveler. It is worth the while to see your native village thus sometimes, as if you were a traveler passing through it, commenting on your neighbors as strangers.

Travelling carries me to the surface, away from the deeps of home-thoughts.

You must go on a long journey before you can really find out how wonderful home is.

Oh, the places you will go.

Some journeys take us far from home. Some adventures lead us to our destiny.

People travel because it teaches them things they could learn no other way.

Once you have traveled, the voyage never ends.

Of journeying the benefits are many: the freshness it bringeth to the heart, the seeing and hearing of marvelous things, the delight of beholding new cities, the meeting of unknown friends, and the learning of high manners.

On the road again, goin' places that I've never been. Seein' things that I may never see again, and I can't wait to get on the road again.

I wanted real adventures to happen to myself. But real adventures, I reflected, do not happen to people who remain at home: they must be sought abroad.

Almost everyone is dying to leave home, eventually; and almost everyone needs to.

It's hard to go. It's scary and lonely...and half the time you'll be wondering why the hell you're in Cincinnati or Austin or North Dakota or Mongolia or wherever your melodious little finger-plucking heinie takes you. There will be boondoggles and discombobulated days, freaked-out nights and metaphorical flat tires. But it will be soul-smashingly beautiful... It will open up your life.

One of the gladdest moments of human life, methinks, is the departure upon a distant journey into unknown lands. Shaking off with one mighty effort the fetters of habit, the leaden weight of routine, the cloak of many cares and the slavery of home, man feels once more happy.

I have been very fortunate to be a part of tours with other artists that have exposed me to new places that I've never been before. Once you discover something beautiful, you just want to keep coming back.

I'm more obsessed with the idea of vacation than any one particular vacation spot. I love to explore new places and cultures.