Travel Risk Quotes

Airport security exists to guard us against terrorist attacks.

Traveling anywhere in the world involves some risk. You could always opt to spend your life cowering under your bed.

When I leave the country, I'm very, very cautious about what I eat and drink. No vegetables, no fruit.

I wouldn't want to roll the dice on Kabul by myself, because I really think getting killed is definitely a possibility there. A very good possibility.

I'm not a nervous flier. I realize it's still the safest form of travel.

Russia can be quite a dangerous place sometimes, but I never think about it.

You can't take a knife on a plane anymore, but you can get on carrying a virus.

When I read that Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 had disappeared - a state-of-the-art Boeing 777, said to be an incredibly safe way to travel - I waited patiently for the chance to learn what happened.

Remember that any meal can be your last. You chose to travel with us, so tonight you will eat fish. Tomorrow, you may die.

I am not going to pretend that flying a spaceship will be as safe as getting in a 747 with four engines for a flight across the Atlantic.

I do not use airplanes. They strike me as unsporting. You can have an automobile accident-and survive. You can be on a sinking ship-and survive. You can be in an earthquake, fire, volcanic eruption, tornado, what you will-and survive. But if your plane crashes, you do not survive. And I say the heck with it.

Despite living in this post-9/11 age of transnational terrorism, the risk of death during air travel has plummeted to the point where we now measure it in the 'per billions' of passengers.

The road can be hard on a kid if he's not careful.

Anyone who is contemplating going to Afghanistan does need to think very carefully about the consequences, both to them and their families in terms of the grief they may suffer, as well as contemplate the legal action that might follow on their return, if they were to return.

If I'm in America, I'm safe. I feel very safe. But if I step outside of America, it will be a very dangerous situation.

As regards to personal safety, you do have to be careful not to put yourself at risk when travelling in South Africa. You don't want to go out exploring at night, for example.

I quit flying years ago. I don't want to die with tourists.

People who go to the polar regions are statistically less likely to die than salesmen who drive on motorways in England.

While learning the language in France a young man's morals, health and fortune are more irresistibly endangered than in any country of the universe.

I love the hamster but I think if I took him on tour he might die.

If the security personnel do their job properly, they just might cause you to miss your plane, thereby possibly saving your life.

I was undeterred by the danger of traveling as a single American woman through Taliban-governed land. I believed in the stories I wanted to tell, the stories I felt were underreported, and I was convinced that that belief would keep me alive.

Lovers of air travel find it exhilarating to hang poised between the illusion of immortality and the fact of death.

There's a number of places I've wanted to go but it's been determined too risky or that I'm relatively well-known, and therefore it might not be wise for me to pop up in this place.

Cairo has flights into JFK, and they're going to open another one at Dulles... As long as we have flights coming directly to the United States, I think it's putting Americans at risk.