Charles Tennyson Turner Quotes

There's something about the sound of a train that's very romantic and nostalgic and hopeful.

Come dress yourself in love, let the journey begin.

Railway termini are our gates to the glorious and the unknown. Through them we pass out into adventure and sunshine, to them, alas! we return.

Movement has been one of the few constants in my life, and I always feel a great sense of optimism when I set off to a new place.

I see my path, but I don't know where it leads. Not knowing where I'm going is what inspires me to travel it.

There comes a moment on a journey when something sweet, something irresistible and charming as wine raised to thirsty lips, wells up in the traveller's being.

There is no situation like the open road, and seeing things completely afresh. I'm used to traveling. It's not a question of meeting or seeing new faces particularly, or hearing new stories, but of looking at life in a different way. It's the curtain coming up on another act.

To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive.

Buy an atlas and keep it by the bed - remember you can go anywhere.

Being on the road is very inspiring.

...who can say where a voyage starts - not the the actual passage but the dream of a journey and its urge to find a way?

If there is nothing new on the earth, still the traveler always has a resource in the skies. They are constantly turning a new page to view. The wind sets the types on this blue ground, and the inquiring may always read a new truth there.

There is nothing more thrilling than arriving in a new place on your own and feeling the sense of possibility and excitement that brings with it.

I am going to that country which I have all my life wished to see.

Every man can transform the world from one of monotony and drabness to one of excitement and adventure.

I try to travel as much as I can... I'm always looking for a reason to.

Writing allows me the time to travel and see the world, which is what I always wanted to do. I'd really like to have been Sir Richard Francis Burton, but it's the wrong century.

Ever since childhood, when I lived within earshot of the Boston and Maine, I have seldom heard a train go by and not wished I was on it.

I just want pieces of the world.

There's a lot of optimism in changing scenery, in seeing what's down the road.

The story of 'Highway' is completely about travel. It is about the fascination of travel to an extent that I don't want to even reach the destination and also being away from society gives you a certain view of the society, so that was the intention of the film.

I am a voyager - and the voyage cannot mean that I stay at home.

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

Climb the mountains and get their good tidings.

Travel is glamorous only in retrospect.