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85 Travel With Kids Quotes to Inspire Family Adventure

Best family travel quotes that will inspire you to live the life of your dreams!

Traveling with kids (and parenting in general) is a wild ride filled with unexpected twists, hilarious mishaps, and heartwarming moments that make it all worthwhile.

If there’s one thing that can make a travel experience even more memorable (and occasionally hilarious), it’s exploring the world with kids in tow. Family travel is a rollercoaster ride of excitement, chaos, and unforgettable moments.

These family trip quotes are guaranteed to make you smile, nod in agreement, and maybe even inspire your next adventure. And they make pretty great Instagram captions as well. 😉

Best Travel With Kids Quotes

1. The best things in life are the people we love, the places we’ve been, and the memories we’ve made along the way.

2. Don’t count the days. Make the days count. – Muhammad Ali

3. The two greatest gifts we can give our children are roots and wings. – Hodding Carter

4. Collect memories. Not things.

5. Blessed are the curious for they shall have adventures . – Lovelle Drachman

6. There will never be a perfect time to travel with your children, so you might as well do it now!

7. Every day we make deposits in the memory banks of our children. – Charles Swindoll

8. Not all classrooms have four walls.

9. You will never regret making family memories.

10. Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all. – Helen Keller

11. Sometimes you never know the value of a moment until it becomes a memory. – Dr. Seuss

12. Travel gives your children things that can never be taken away – experience, exposure, and a way of life.

13. In the end, kids won’t remember the fancy toy you bought them, but they will remember the time you spent with them. – Kevin Heath

14. Actually, the best life you could have given her was a lifetime of adventures. – Lewis Carroll

15. There is no time to be bored in a world as beautiful as this.

16. If we were meant to stay in one place, we would have roots instead of feet.

17. Having kids is a reason to travel, never a reason to stop.

18. Deciding not to travel with kids because they won’t remember the trip is like refusing to read them books because they won’t remember the stories.

19. As soon as I saw you, I knew a grand adventure was about to happen. – Winnie the Pooh

20. Together is our favorite place to be.

21. Travel is the only thing you buy that makes you richer.

22. Jobs fill your pockets, but adventure fills your soul. -Jamie Lyn Beatty

23. The greatest legacy we can leave our children is happy memories. – Og Mandino

24. Not all who wander are lost.

25. Never get so busy making a living that you forget to make a life. – Dolly Parton

26. You are our greatest adventure.

27. A family that travels together stays together.

28. Traveling with kids comes with challenges, but the reward of seeing the world through your child’s eyes is immeasurable.

29. The best education you will ever get is traveling. Nothing teaches you more than exploring the world and accumulating experiences. – Mark Paterson

30. There is a whole world out there. Pack the diaper bag and go.

31. Memories made together last a lifetime.

32. Kids won’t remember their best day of television.

33. Don’t just tell your children about the world. Show them.

34. We travel not to escape life, but for life not to escape us.

35. If we experienced life through the eyes of a child, everything would be magical and extraordinary. Let our curiosity, adventure, and wonder of life never end. – Akaine Kramarik

36. We were together. I forget the rest. – Walt Whitman

37. We all smile in the same language.

38. Life is more fulfilling when we fill it with experience, not things. Have stories to tell, not stuff to show.

39. Good company in the journey makes the way seem shorter. – Izaak Walton

40. Happiness is experiencing a new place with those you love.

41. Two roads diverged in a wood, and I took the one less traveled by. And that has made all the difference. – Robert Frost

42. Don’t be the person who is too busy when you are young and too tired when you are old.

43. Life begins at the end of your comfort zone. – Neale Donald Walsch

44. Traveling in the company of those we love is home in motion. – Leigh Hunt

45. May your adventures bring you closer together, even as they take you far away from home. -Trenton Lee Stewart

46. The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page. – St. Augustine

47. Because in the end, you won’t remember the time you spent working in the office or mowing your lawn. Climb that goddamn mountain. – Jack Kerouac

48. We do not stop playing because we grow old. We grow old because we stop playing. – Ben Franklin

49. You’re off to great places, today is your day. Your mountain is waiting, so get on your way. – Dr. Seuss

50. Oh the places you’ll go. – Dr. Seuss

51. At the end of the day, your feet should be dirty, your hair messy, and your eyes sparkling. – Shanti

52. We have not traveled everywhere, but it’s on our list.

53. Live life with no excuses. Travel with no regret. – Oscar Wilde

54. The world is your playground.

55. Travel is like an endless university. You never stop learning. – Harvey Lloyd

56. You will never regret spending time with your children.

57. You don’t have to be rich to travel well. – Eugene Fodor

58. To be in your children’s memories tomorrow, you have to be in their lives today. – Barbara Johnson

59. Life is short and the world is wide. – Simon Raven

60. In the wilderness lies the hope of the world. – John Muir

61. Just like a bee needs a flower, a child needs nature. – Brandi Rondinelli

62. If we want our children to move mountains, we first have to let them get out of their chairs. – Nicolette Sowder

63. Sad child? Nature. Cranky child? Nature. Bored Child? Nature.

64. There are no seven wonders of the world in the eyes of a child. There are seven million. – Walt Straigtiff

65. Tell me and I’ll forget. Teach me and I’ll remember. Involve me and I’ll learn. – Benjamin Franklin

66. Teaching kids to count is fine, but teaching them what counts is best. – Bob Talbert

67. Once a year, go someplace you’ve never been before. – Dalai Lama

68. Don’t tell me the sky is the limit when there are footprints on the moon. – Paul Brandt

69. Of all the books in the world, the best stories are found between the pages of a passport.

70. Do more things that make you forget to check your phone.

71. Prioritize spending time with people you love in places you love.

72. The biggest adventure you can ever take is to live the life of your dreams. -Oprah Winfrey

73. Kids are the future and deserve to be part of our everyday lives.

74. Travel isn’t always pretty. It isn’t always comfortable. Sometimes it hurts, it even breaks your heart. But that’s OK. The journey changes you; it should change you. It leaves marks on your memory, on your consciousness, on your heart, and on your body. You take something with you. Hopefully, you leave something good behind. -Anthony Bourdain

Funny Family Vacation Quotes

75. A road trip is a way for the whole family to spend time together and annoy each other in interesting new places! – Tom Lichtenheld

76. Traveling without kids is a vacation. Bring them along and it’s a trip.

77. I have found out that there ain’t no surer way to find out whether you like people or hate them than to travel with them. -Mark Twain

78. My favorite childhood memory is my parents paying for my vacations.

79. Families who hike together always take the high road.

80. 90% of traveling with kids is finding bathrooms and snacks.

81. On my last flight, I asked the flight attendant to switch my seat as I was sitting next to a screaming baby. Apparently, you’re not allowed to do that if it’s your own baby.

82. You’ll never be more thankful for technology than when you are on a long flight with kids.

83. Summer vacation: when parents realize that teachers are grossly underpaid.

84. You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for instance. – Franklin P. Jones

85. You call it chaos. We call it a family vacation.

I hope you enjoyed these travel with kids quotes & they leave you feeling inspired to plan/take on your next family adventure! Happy travels!

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70 Uplifting Family Travel Quotes to Inspire You to Travel with Kids

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Who doesn’t love a good inspirational quote?! Whether you are looking for the perfect Instagram caption for your family travel photos or simply want a little inspiration to take that trip with your kids, we’ve compiled a list of the best family travel quotes and quotes about trips with family.

These quotes about family travel capture the joy, inspiration, and even the struggle of traveling with kids.

The best family travel quotes by topic

Every family is different, and our reasons for traveling are different. Some families travel primarily for educational purposes. In fact, worldschooling, a form of homeschooling while traveling full-time, is becoming an increasingly popular alternative to a traditional education. 

Other families simply travel to make memories with their children , relax, have fun, and get away from the day-to-day stresses of normal life.

Not all family travelers fit into the same box, so not all of these family vacation quotes will apply to every family. For this reason, we have categorized our list of travel quotes to make it easier to find the best quote or family travel caption for you!

Family travel quotes about making memories

One of our main reasons for travel is to make memories with our daughter. After all, we work full-time jobs, and our daughter is now in full-time school and extra-curricular activities. Our lives at home are busy. So travel is a good way for us to go off the grid and reconnect with what is most important – family. H

ere are some of our favorite family holiday quotes about making memories with our kids.

“Each day of our lives we make deposits in the memory banks of our children.” – Charles R Swindoll

This has long been one of our favorite quotes about traveling with kids. In fact, we even have it in the footer of our website. For us, it is a reminder to try to make each day with our daughter count. 

“The greatest legacy we can leave our children is happy memories.” – Og Mandino

Some of my own favorite memories from childhood are of family vacations. My family didn’t have a lot of money growing up, but those long road trips and inexpensive family camping trips are still some of my happiest memories.

(They’re even better when you have the right kids’ camping gear .)

The point I’m trying to make is that a family trip doesn’t have to cost a lot of money to be memorable. You can leave a legacy for your children regardless of how much money you have in the bank.

“Build traditions of family vacations and trips and outings. These memories will never be forgotten by your children. “ – Ezra Taft Benson

“Memories made together last a lifetime.” – Unknown

“in the end, kids won’t remember the fancy toy you bought them, they will remember the time you spent with them.” – kevin heath.

We have made it a family mission to invest in travel instead of toys. We prioritize travel because we believe that the lessons learned and the memories made will far outweigh any toy or item we could ever give our daughter.

“Fill your life with experiences, not things. Have stories to tell, not stuff to show.” – Unknow n

“actually, the best gift you could have given her is a lifetime of adventures.” – lewis carroll.

Another one of our personal favorite travel adventure quotes . As the parents of a very adventurous little girl, this quote speaks directly to my heart. Parents of boys – you could easily replace the word her with he and the quote has the same valuable meaning!

“The family that travels together, stays together.” – Unknown

I’m sure this family trip quote isn’t always true. But for us, traveling is the greatest bonding experience as a family. Even before we were parents, traveling as a couple made our relationship stronger.

While traveling comes with it’s fair share of challenges, I guarantee you, all the stressful moments of a family trip are worth it!

Family travel quotes about learning through travel

We truly believe that travel makes kids smarter. In fact, there have been actual studies on this that have proven it true. But travel doesn’t just help you retain knowledge, travel teaches lessons that you cannot learn any other way.

As our society has become more global-minded, many parents have realized family travel is a form of education.

We have compiled quite a few quotes on the educational benefits of travel, because travel has been a learning experience for us and for our daughter. Here are some of our favorite educational trips with kids quotes.

“Not all classrooms have four walls.” – Unknown

“There are no seven wonders of the world in the eyes of a child. There are seven million.” – Walt Streightiff

We have a family travel bucket list that we created soon after our daughter was born. Basically it is a list of places we want to visit as a family. From that bucket list, we have created a plan to take our daughter to all seven continents and all seven wonders of the world.

But one of the great things about traveling with kids, is that a hiking trail just outside of your hometown can create just as much wonderment for a child as seeing the Taj Mahal.

Seeing the world through our daughter’s eyes has made travel that much more rewarding as parents.

“The best education you will ever get is traveling. Nothing teaches you more than exploring the world and accumulating experiences.” – Mark Patterson

“Travel is rich with learning opportunities, and the ultimate souvenir is a broader perspective.” – Rick Steves

This family travel quote hits me like a gut punch.

You can buy your kids lots of souvenirs from your family vacation, but the greatest gift you’re giving them comes from simply showing them the world and introducing them to new cultures, foods, languages , and people.

“Experience, travel –  these are as education in themselves.” – Euripides

“of all the books in the world, the best stories are found between the pages of a passport.” – unknown.

I mean, who doesn’t love going back through your passport and looking at all the different passport stamps?! Each one brings back a flood of memories from trips you’ve taken. 

“Travel is a great teacher.” – Unknown

“Travel is not reward for working. It is education for living.” – Anthony Bourdain

So many of us treat a family vacation as a reward for hard work. As a dual-income family and parents with very demanding jobs, we understand why.

While travel can be very rewarding and a welcomed break from work, it is also nourishment for the soul and the brain. In fact, our brains probably work harder on an international trip than they do when we are sitting at our desks dreaming of one. 

“Then I realized adventures are the best way to learn.” – Unknown

“Travel is like an endless university. You never stop learning.” – Harvey Lloyd

Even as adults, we are still learning through travel. Every time we visit a new country, we step out of our comfort zone and into someone else’s. 

Travel is the best teacher. The only way to an open mind is by taking a plane out into the open world. – C. JoyBell C.

“There is no time to be bored in a world as beautiful as this.” – Unknown

Every parent has heard the complaint “I’m bored!” from their children. But travel reminds us just how much fun this planet is!

“The world is your playground – Play with a sense of destiny.” – Edward Boyden

A great way to learn about your country is to leave it. – Henry Rollins

When you travel with your kids, they don’t just learn about other places, they learn about their homeland.

Perhaps, they will learn to appreciate the privileges and freedoms they have in their own country. Or perhaps, they will realize there is more than one way of doing things, and both may be OK, or the alternative may even be better. 

“Don’t tell me how educated you are. Tell me how much you’ve traveled.” – Prophet Muhammad

“at the end of the day, your feet should be dirty, your hair messy and your eyes sparkling.” – shanti.

We probably have a thousand pictures of our daughter that perfectly illustrate this family travel quote.

Her hair is always messy, she won’t wear shoes to save her life, so her feet are always dirty, but man, do her eyes sparkle with wonder!

“The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page.” – Saint Augustine

“Teaching kids to count is fine, but teaching them what to count is best.” – Bob Talbert

Reading is important, so is counting and math. We are strong believers in academia, but we also believe that many of life’s real lessons are learned through travel.

“A mind stretched by travel can never go back to old dimensions.” – Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr .

“travel sparks our imagination, feeds our curiosity, and reminds us how much we all have in common.” – deborah lloyd.

This is another personal favorite family travel quote of ours. We love visiting new places that looks like settings from a Disney movie and watching our daughter’s imagination come to life.  Even better, watching our child make friends at playgrounds around the world with kids who do not look like her or even speak the same language, but they find commonality and friendship regardless. 

“We know that travel is essential to a complete education. Traveling abroad teaches understanding of other people, cultures, and communities, and these types of experiences offer young people a greater ability to be successful in today’s global society.”  – Michael Palmer

I’m often embarrassed by the things I may have said or done as a young adult simply because I didn’t know any better. Travel has changed by perspective on a lot of things.

When you travel abroad, you are no longer ignorant to the ways of the world, to the conditions in other countries, or the views of other people. You learn, you grow, and you are better equipped for conversing or even doing business with those from other countries.

By traveling with your children you are planting the seed for a global perspective. 

“Traveling is the best education. You see the world through another lens. You realize your homeland isn’t the only reality. There are many.” – Unknown

“And suddenly you realize your travels were more education than vacation.” – Unknown

And there it is friends! Even the trip that started as a family vacation can hold significant educational value for kids . New sounds, textures, and experiences all help a child’s ever-expanding mind grow!

Family travel quotes about the struggle of traveling with kids

We pride ourselves in showing the good, the bad, and the very, very ugly aspects of family travel. Traveling with kids can be extremely rewarding, but it can also be extremely tough, especially in the early years . After all, the tiniest humans have the biggest emotions!

If we had a dollar for every time we heard someone ask “ how do you do it? ”, “ Why do you do it? ” or tell us, “I don’t know how you do it!” when speaking about traveling with kids, we would probably have enough money to book a trip around the world.

Here are some of our favorite quotes and captions for family trips that may give you some encouragement through the travel struggles and stresses.

“Deciding not to travel with your children because they won’t remember the trips you take is like saying don’t read them books because they won’t remember the stories you read.” – Unknown

We have heard so many times that our money spent on traveling has been wasted because our daughter was too young to remember the trips from her early years.

Each trip and experience shapes you, no matter how young or old you are. 

“Excuses will always be there for you. Opportunity won’t.” – Unknown

“you call it chaos, we call it making memories.” – unknown.

There is a bit of chaos that goes into doing anything with kids. Whether you are getting them ready for school in the morning, or boarding a flight to a new continent, some level of chaos should be expected.

Unfortunately, for many the fear of chaos keeps them from traveling with their kids. But it shouldn’t. Plan for it, embrace the chaos and make those memories!

“Having kids is reason to travel. Never a reason to stop.” – Unknown

There are two kinds of travel: First class and with children. – Robert Benchley

To be fair, we have never traveled first class. Even before children, we were budget backpackers.

With children, we are still budget travelers who often stay in hostels with kids . But this family travel quote still has a lot of truth, because once you’ve traveled with kids, traveling without your kids feels like first class!

“It is never too early to begin exploring the world.” – Unknown

“i have found out that there ain’t no surer way to find out whether you like people or hate them than to travel with them.” – mark twain.

We always recommend before you marry someone and have kids, go on an extended trip together to a place that feels very foreign to you. How you navigate the stress of being in a new country will teach you a lot about each other.

If you make it through traveling as a couple and still love each other, go ahead and start planning a life together. You’ve found a good one! 

Family travel quotes about changing your perspective

Travel will change your perspective on a lot of things, even if you do not intend for it to. We are different people than we were before we started traveling, and we will likely continue to change, evolve, and grow with each trip we take. Your children will, too.

Except, children are like sponges, they absorb so much more, and their minds are more open because they are not yet set in their ways, so travel stands to have an even greater impact on kids. 

“The purpose of life is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience.” – Eleanor Roosevelt

“Do more things that make you forget to check your phone.” – Unknown

The average person touches their smartphone 2,617 times per day!  Each of those swipes and taps adds up to 145 minutes spent consumed by a device.

Sometimes, as a family, we physically have to remove ourselves from the constant distraction by traveling off the grid to a remote area where the WiFi is weak or non-existent. It forces us to stop checking our phone. But regardless of where you travel, travel in and of itself can make you completely forget to check your phone. And for this reason, we should all travel more!

You will never look back on your life and think “I spent too much time with my kids.” – Kimberly Mcleod

“there are no foreign lands. it is the traveler only who is foreign.” – robert louis stevenson.

This is a great lesson to teach kids early in life. When you visit a new country it is you who is foreign, not the people you meet there.

When we visited Morocco with kids , it was a huge culture shock. There was a language barrier, transportation challenges, and a lot of cultural differences that seemed “foreign” to us. However, we went to bed the first night in Morocco determined to wake up with a different outlook. Our ways of life were not their ways of life. But we were in their homeland, not ours.

We, as visitors to their country, were the foreign ones. Once we embraced that, we had a wonderful time in the North African country.

“Time is precious. Waste it wisely.” – Unknown

Traveling in the company of those we love is home in motion. – leigh hunt.

Home doesn’t have to be a physical place. It is a feeling we can carry with us anywhere as long as we are with the people who are and will always be our home.

“You are my home and my adventure all at once.” – Unknown

We had to use a picture of Iceland to illustrate this quote because the country perfectly captures the meaning for us. In so many ways Iceland was a wonderful, out-of-this-world adventure, but somehow this wild island nation felt so comfortably like home to us.

“I take my children everywhere but they always find their way back home.” – Robert Orben

Again, home doesn’t always have to be a physical place, and the concept of returning home to the people you love, is a beautiful thing.

We hope our daughter always knows, she can always come “home” to us, even as an adult, no matter where we may live. 

“The world is full of wonderful things you haven’t seen yet. Don’t ever give up on the chance of seeing them.” – JK Rowling

Two of the greatest gifts we give our children are roots and wings. – Hodding Carter

Nothing will give your children the confidence to fly like traveling. And having their parents there with them on every journey will give them roots. Book. That. Trip.

“It’s a big beautiful world. Most of us live and die in the same corner where we were born and never get to see any of it. I don’t want to be most of us.” – Oberyn Martell

“don’t listen to what they say. go see.” – unknown.

Misconceptions will always exist. For example, we had always heard Mexico City was a dangerous place to visit. But after visiting the capital of Mexico, we realized that much of the city is very safe, and visiting Mexico City with kids is a great vacation!

“Once the travel bug bites there is no known antidote and I know that I shall be happily infected until the end of my life.” – Michael Palin

Funny family travel quotes

Our list of quotes about travel with family wouldn’t be complete without a few funny ones thrown in there. Laughter and kids go hand-in-hand, so here are a few of the funniest quotes about family travel.

I wish travel therapy was covered by health insurance.

Don’t we all!?

You can’t make everyone happy. You are not a plane ticket.

Every parent knows you can’t always please your kids.

We would have to make macaroni and cheese every night in order to please our daughter. (Just kidding, she has actually always been an adventurous eater – thanks in part to traveling.) But knowing just how hard it is to please our children sometimes, this family travel quote makes us giggle.

“A road trip is a way for the whole family to spend time together and annoy each other in interesting new places.” – Tom Lichtenheld

Travel becomes a strategy for accumulating photographs. – Susan Sontag

We take so many pictures on trips, and most of them are of our kid! It basically looks like she started traveling solo at the age of 2. 

If you’re like us and have 4 million travel photos, invest in an external hard drive to store your memories all in one place.

Education is important. But travel is importanter. 

My favorite memory from childhood is my parents paying for my holidays. .

Travel can get expensive unless you’ve learned the art of travel hacking… Hence why we often stay in hostels as a family rather than springing for a fancy hotel. 

Mondays are better at the beach.

No list of travel quotes would be complete with at least one or two beach quotes . Also, can we just make beach Mondays a thing? Please. 

I love those days when my only decision is window or aisle.

Let’s be real… as a mom, you rarely get the window seat. This is a containment strategy that anyone who has ever had to fly with a toddler quickly learns. But regardless, I’ll take a day in the middle seat over a day at home!

If you look like your passport picture you probably need a trip.

All parents who travel with their kids look like their passport photo. Traveling with kids is exhausting! But it is so worth dealing with jet lag !

Also read: how to take the perfect baby passport photo  

I’m making sure my daughter travels a lot so when she’s older she won’t be impressed by a weekend in Miami with your dusty son.

Another great girl mom quote. Nothing against Miami, it’s more about showing your kids the world so they choose their significant other wisely. After all, you want them to marry their perfect match!

Going on a trip. Need about 5 outfits. I’ll pack 35 just to be safe. 

While this quote is funny, it definitely doesn’t apply to us. Even packing for a baby, we pack only the baby travel essentials !

My mom watches a special type of news program that only reports on horrible incidents happening in places I’m about to visit.

You never stop being a mom, and moms never stop worrying about their kids. You know how I know that? As an almost-40-year-old woman, my mother still calls me to tell me about some terrifying thing that JUST happened in whatever country we are traveling to.

She was even worried when we took our child to Iceland. One of the fun facts about Iceland : it’s the safest country in the world! 

Our own family travel quotes

Overtime, as you travel as a family, you develop a few of your own travel quotes. I’m sure plenty of other traveling parents have used these quotes or something similar, as well.

But for us, these are things we have said without knowing the origin. They are more so observations we have had during our travels.

Play is a universal language.

We first said this while watching our child at a playground in Prague, Czech Republic . She was playing with a little girl who spoke French, a girl who spoke Chinese, and a local kid from Czech Republic. None of them spoke the same language, yet it didn’t seem to matter.

Traveling with kids is a trip – not a vacation.

As we’ve mentioned traveling with kids can be a challenge. It is not a vacation . In fact, you might feel like you need a vacation after your “vacation”.

Of all the paths you take on life, make sure a few of them are on skis!

We are a family of a skiers. In fact, our child was only a toddler when we taught her to ski .

For this reason, we believe at least some of the life’s paths should be through snow, and preferably on skis!

How to display your favorite family travel quotes

While most people use family travel quotes as captions for family trips, you can also display your favorite family holiday quotes in several other ways.

Wall canvas

Whether you create a travel-themed nursery or kids’ room, or just want to bring a little inspiration to your home so you can feel like you’re traveling even when you can’t , a wall hanging with a decorative font is a great way to incorporate your favorite travel quote into your home decor. You can even find some pre-made on a canvas!

Photo frame

For a cheaper option, buy an inexpensive picture frame, use an online graphic design program, like Canva, and design and print your travel quotes to frame and display throughout your home or office. (Or in your home office if you work remotely.) 

Travel photo book

Creating a book of your travel memories on Shutterfly or Amazon Photos is a great way to reminisce about a trip or family vacation.

Incorporate a few of your favorite travel quotes into your photo book, and you’ve got the perfect gift for moms who love to travel or travel-loving dads !

Customized coffee mug

Finally, there is no better way to perk up your morning than by adding a dose of inspiration with your coffee. Customize a coffee mug on Airportag.com with your favorite travel quote, and you’ll wake up happier every day!

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100 Traveling with Kids Quotes to Inspire You to Travel More

Traveling with kids is an extraordinary adventure that brings families closer, creates lasting memories, and instills a sense of wonder in young hearts. It’s a journey where every moment is an opportunity for discovery, learning, and bonding.

To inspire families around the world to embark on their own unforgettable journeys, I’ve compiled a collection of 100 Traveling with Kids Quotes that celebrate the joys, challenges, and the sheer magic of exploring the world together.

In this treasure trove of quotes, you’ll find wisdom and insights from parents, adventurers, and storytellers who understand the unique joys of traveling with little explorers.

• “Adventure is worthwhile in itself.” – Amelia Earhart
• “Traveling with kids is an adventure that never ends.” – Unknown
• “To travel is to live.” – Hans Christian Andersen
• “Traveling with kids is like a rollercoaster ride – full of ups and downs, but always worth it.” – Unknown
• “Adventure is calling, and I must take my children.” – Unknown
• “Traveling with kids gives you the opportunity to see the world through their eyes.” – Unknown
• “Life is short, so travel with your kids and create lasting memories.” – Unknown
• “Travel far, travel wide, and travel with your children by your side.” – Unknown
• “Exploring the world with your kids is the greatest gift you can give them.” – Unknown
• “Traveling with kids may be challenging at times, but the rewards are endless.” – Unknown
• “A family that travels together grows together.” – Unknown
• “Adventure awaits, and my kids are my favorite travel companions.” – Unknown
• “Traveling with kids teaches them valuable life lessons and creates priceless memories.” – Unknown
• “Traveling with children is not about the destination; it’s about the journey.” – Unknown
• “Traveling with kids is an investment in their future.” – Unknown
• “Children are the best travel buddies – curious, adventurous, and always ready for new experiences.” – Unknown
• “Traveling with your kids allows you to explore not only the world but also the depths of your family bonds.” – Unknown
• “Wander often, wonder always – especially when traveling with kids.” – Unknown
• “The best travel moments are the ones shared with your children.” – Unknown
• “Traveling with kids is like a treasure hunt – you discover precious moments along the way.” – Unknown
• “Traveling with kids turns ordinary trips into extraordinary adventures.” – Unknown
• “Exploring the world with your kids is a beautiful way to show them the magic of the world.” – Unknown
• “Adventure is out there, and I’m taking my kids with me.” – Unknown
• “Traveling with kids means experiencing the world through their laughter, curiosity, and wonder.” – Unknown
• “Traveling with children is not about the miles you cover but the smiles you create.” – Unknown
• “The best family vacations are the ones where you explore, learn, and grow together.” – Unknown
• “Traveling with kids is a journey of love, patience, and unforgettable moments.” – Unknown
• “Family trips are not about the destination; they’re about the memories you make along the way.” – Unknown
• “Traveling with kids is like writing a book – each trip is a new chapter of their education.” – Unknown
• “Adventure is better when shared with the ones you love most.” – Unknown
• “Traveling with your children is an investment in their happiness and growth.” – Unknown
• “Traveling with kids is an opportunity to create a lifetime of stories together.” – Unknown
• “Adventure is the best way to learn, and my kids are my favorite travel companions.” – Unknown
• “Traveling with children is like having front-row seats to their wonder-filled world.” – Unknown
• “A family vacation is the perfect time to create memories that will last a lifetime.” – Unknown
• “Traveling with kids is an art – you paint your journey with love, laughter, and unforgettable moments.” – Unknown
• “Exploring the world with your children is the most beautiful way to teach them about life.” – Unknown
• “The world is your playground when you travel with your kids.” – Unknown
• “Traveling with children is a journey that teaches them about diversity, tolerance, and empathy.” – Unknown
• “Adventure is not about the destination; it’s about the people you meet along the way.” – Unknown
• “Traveling with kids is like opening a door to endless possibilities and discoveries.” – Unknown
• “Life is a journey, and I’m grateful to share it with my children.” – Unknown
• “Traveling with kids means you’re not just visiting a place; you’re immersing yourself in its culture.” – Unknown
• “Traveling with your children allows you to see the world through their eyes and experience its magic anew.” – Unknown
• “Traveling with kids is not about perfection; it’s about making beautiful memories together.” – Unknown
• “The world is a classroom, and traveling with your children is the best education they can receive.” – Unknown
• “Adventure is the best way to bond with your children and create a lifetime of shared memories.” – Unknown
• “Traveling with kids is an adventure of a lifetime, filled with love, laughter, and exploration.” – Unknown
• “Every journey with my children is an opportunity to teach them about the world and themselves.” – Unknown
• “Traveling with kids is like reading a book with endless chapters of wonder and discovery.” – Unknown
• “Traveling with children allows you to witness their growth and transformation.” – Unknown
• “Adventure is a journey, and my kids are my favorite travel companions.” – Unknown
• “Traveling with kids is not just about seeing new places; it’s about creating lasting memories together.” – Unknown
• “The best souvenirs from family trips are the stories you share and the love that grows.” – Unknown
• “Traveling with your children is an investment in their future and a gift to their hearts.” – Unknown
• “Adventure is where you find it, and I find it wherever I go with my kids.” – Unknown
• “Traveling with kids is an opportunity to teach them to embrace diversity and appreciate the beauty of the world.” – Unknown
• “Family trips are not about escaping life; they’re about experiencing it together.” – Unknown
• “Traveling with your children is the best way to make the world their classroom.” – Unknown
• “Adventure is about discovering the extraordinary in the ordinary, especially when you travel with kids.” – Unknown
• “Traveling with kids turns every day into an adventure.” – Unknown
• “The world is a canvas, and traveling with your children is the art of creating memories.” – Unknown
• “Family vacations are the moments that strengthen the bonds of love and create unforgettable memories.” – Unknown
• “Traveling with kids is about teaching them to explore, respect, and appreciate the world’s wonders.” – Unknown
• “Adventure is not just about the destination; it’s about the people you meet, the experiences you have, and the love you share.” – Unknown
• “Traveling with children is a gift that keeps on giving – in love, laughter, and life lessons.” – Unknown
• “The best way to teach your children about the world is to show it to them.” – Unknown
• “Adventure is the art of making the ordinary extraordinary, especially when you’re with your kids.” – Unknown
• “Traveling with kids is like writing a beautiful story filled with love, laughter, and unforgettable adventures.” – Unknown
• “Life is a journey, and I’m grateful to travel it with my children by my side.” – Unknown
• “Traveling with kids is a treasure hunt for life’s most precious moments.” – Unknown
• “Adventure is calling, and my children are my favorite travel companions.” – Unknown
• “Traveling with kids is a journey of love, learning, and limitless possibilities.” – Unknown
• “Traveling with your children is like opening a book to a world of adventure.” – Unknown
• “Adventure is not about the miles you cover but the smiles you create, especially with your kids.” – Unknown
• “Traveling with kids is not just about the destination; it’s about the beautiful journey.” – Unknown
• “The best family vacations are the ones filled with love, laughter, and shared adventures.” – Unknown
• “Traveling with your children is an opportunity to teach them about the beauty of the world and the love of family.” – Unknown
• “Adventure is the best way to create beautiful memories with your children.” – Unknown
• “Traveling with kids is not about the miles you cover but the love you share.” – Unknown
• “Exploring the world with your children is a gift that lasts a lifetime.” – Unknown
• “Adventure is where you find it, especially when you’re with your kids.” – Unknown
• “Traveling with kids is an adventure that adds color to your family’s story.” – Unknown
• “The best family trips are the ones filled with love, laughter, and precious memories.” – Unknown
• “Adventure is a journey of love and discovery, especially when you travel with your children.” – Unknown
• “Traveling with kids is like writing a book of adventures, one page at a time.” – Unknown
• “The world is a playground, and traveling with your children is the best game.” – Unknown
• “Adventure is not about the destination; it’s about the journey of love and discovery with your kids.” – Unknown
• “Traveling with kids is an opportunity to teach them about the beauty of diversity and the value of love.” – Unknown
• “Adventure is about experiencing the world’s wonders, especially when you’re with your children.” – Unknown
• “Traveling with your children is the best way to explore, learn, and create memories together.” – Unknown
• “Traveling with kids is not just about seeing new places; it’s about creating beautiful stories together.” – Unknown
• “The best souvenirs from family trips are the love and laughter you bring back home.” – Unknown
• “Adventure is about finding the extraordinary in the everyday, especially when you’re with your kids.” – Unknown
• “Traveling with children is a journey of love, discovery, and creating cherished memories.” – Unknown
• “Family vacations are not about escaping life; they’re about living it to the fullest with your loved ones.” – Unknown
• “Adventure is not about the destination; it’s about the journey of love and exploration.” – Unknown
• “Traveling with kids is like painting a masterpiece filled with love, laughter, and adventure.” – Unknown
• “The world is a beautiful place, especially when you explore it with your children by your side.” – Unknown

As you delve into these 100 Traveling with Kids Quotes, let them serve as a source of inspiration and encouragement for your family’s future adventures. Remember that traveling with kids is not about the destination, it’s about the journey, the moments of wonder, and the shared experiences that shape young minds and create strong bonds.

Each trip is a unique chapter in your family’s story, filled with laughter, discovery, and the joy of togetherness.

So, as you pack your bags, set out on the open road, or board that plane with your little adventurers in tow, let these quotes be a reminder that the world is a vast and wondrous playground waiting to be explored by curious minds.

Embrace the opportunities, treasure the time spent together, and let the magic of travel create a tapestry of beautiful memories for your family to cherish for a lifetime. Happy travels!

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Family Travel Quotes for You and Your Loved Ones

When I was little, my parents would take me on adventures around the world. And while I may not remember every single trip, it’s always a delight to look back on old pictures.

Whether you need ideas for your scrapbook collection, or you need some convincing for your next vacay, these traveling with family quotes are sure to spark wanderlust.

Best Travel with Family Quotes

• Family vacation is one of the best things in life!
• Nothing beats spending time with the people you love most in the world!
• Seeing your kids smile makes all the stress and planning worth it.
• Spending quality time with your family is priceless.
• Home is not a place, it is wherever your family is.
• Family trips are simple, crazy, stressful, fun, and totally worth it.
• A weekend away with my family is just what I need right now.
• Grateful for this chance to travel with my family.
• Our family getaways are always filled with good food and lots of laughter.
• Living my best life with my family by my side.  
• This family trip is my new favorite memory.
• Making memories with you is my favorite thing to do. 

Short Travel Quotes with Family

• Vacation time is family time.
• We’re out of the house and having fun!
• Always say yes to family travel.
• We’re off on a family trip!
• Having a blast with my family!
• Best. Family. Trip. Ever.
• Dreaming of my next family vacation.
• Family vacation goals!
• Time to go on a family vacation!
• Give your kids memories, not things. 
• Families that travel together stay together.
• Family vacations are always a good idea.
• Family bonding time!
• Let’s make some memories!
• Vacation mode activated.
• We’re off to explore the world!

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• Vacations are meant to be shared with the people we love the most.
• “What’s your favorite place?” I don’t have a favorite place. I have my favorite people. And, whenever I’m with my favorite people, it becomes my favorite place.
• Instead of sitting at home on our phones, we were out making priceless memories.
• Living life to the fullest right now and I could not be happier.
• Life is meant to be enjoyed alongside your family.
• “We didn’t realize we were making memories, we just knew we were having fun.” – Winnie the Pooh.
• Living in the moment and enjoying this family vacation.
• “Any day spent with you is my favorite day” – A.A. Milne.
• The most beautiful things in life are not things. They are people, places, memories, and pictures. They are feelings and moments, smiles and laughter.
• I live to explore the world with the people I love the most.

Family Beach Vacation Quotes

• Paradise consists of a warm beach and my family.
• The best family getaway is a trip to the beach!
• Nothing beats relaxing on the beach with my family next to me.
• Life is better barefoot with your family hand in hand.
• My toes in the sand, the sun on my face, and my family by my side. This is paradise.

Family Weekend Getaway Quotes

• Weekend getaway with the family is always a good idea.  
• There’s nothing like a weekend getaway with your favorite people in the world.  
• Can’t wait to have fun with my awesome family this weekend!
• It’s so important to make time for your family, even when it’s just a quick weekend getaway.
• All set for a weekend getaway with my family!
• I’m so happy to be here with my family this weekend!
• Family + adventure = the best kind of weekend!
• Weekend getaway is all about family bonding.
• Nothing like a fun family weekend getaway!
• It’s time to go on a weekend getaway with my family!

More Classic Family Travel Quotes

• “Don’t count the days. Make the days count.” – Muhammad Ali.
• “Happiness is only real when shared.” – Jon Krakauer.
• “Home is people. Not a place.” – Robin Hobb.
• “Take only memories, leave only footprints.” – Chief Seattle.  
• “Oh, the places you’ll go” – Dr. Seuss.

Family Adventure Quotes

• This weekend, we’re going on a family adventure!
• Let’s go get lost!
• The best thing you can give your family is a lifetime of adventures.
• Teach your kids the importance of going on adventures by doing it with them.
• Life is about the adventures you take and the memories you make. So travel often and live life with open eyes and an open heart.
• “May your adventures bring you closer together, even as they take you far away from home.” – Trenton Lee Stewart.
• Today is a good day for a family adventure.
• Adventures are the best ways to learn.
• Going on an adventure is only considered an adventure if your family is involved. 
• We are a family of adventurers.
• We are going on a little adventure.
• It’s time to go on a family adventure!
• What can I say, we love our little family adventures.
• “Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all.” – Helen Keller.
• Adventures are the best gift you could ever give to kids.
• Life was made for good family and great adventures.
• “Blessed are the curious as they shall have adventures.” – Lovelle Drachman.
• No Wi-Fi out here, but I found a better connection.

Family Road Trip Quotes

• We’re about to hit the road for a weekend getaway!
• “A road trip is a way for the whole family to spend time together and annoy each other in interesting new places.” – Tom Lichtenheld.
• No road is long with good company.
• “Life is too short to not go on that spontaneous road trip with your family.” – Fred Connors.
• Some roads aren’t meant to be traveled alone.

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• My favorite childhood memory is my parents paying for my holidays.
• “There are two kinds of travel: first class and with children.” – Robert Benchley.

Other Quotes About Travel and Family

• You won’t regret going on that family trip. But you will regret not going.
• If you want your family to love each other more, go on a family trip.
• Having kids is a reason to travel, never a reason to stop.
• A vacation with my family is always the best way to spend my time!
• In order to have a successful trip, you only need your family. The rest is minor details.
• Not all classrooms have four walls.
• Don’t just tell your children about the world. Show them.
• Nothing shows your love more to your kids than spending time with them.
• Forget the stress of the vacation, just soak up all the memories together.
• Family trips will not be perfect. There will be bumps along the way. But the memories you make are unlike anything else. 
• Deciding not to travel with kids because they won’t remember is like not reading them books because they won’t remember the stories you read them.
• You won’t look back and wish you worked more. Go on that family trip.

• Nothing grows our family bond stronger than these family vacations.
• We ate delicious food, laughed till we cried, explored new places, and tried new things. We enjoyed this family trip to its fullest.
• You can’t buy happiness, but this sure did come close.
• I’ll keep these memories in my heart until our next family trip.
• My favorite family selfie out of this entire trip.
• If only we could stay like this forever.

Famous Quotes About Traveling with Family

• “When you travel with children, you are giving something that can never be taken away… Experience, exposure and a way of life.” – Pamela T. Chandler.
• “Build traditions of family vacations and trips and outings. These memories will never be forgotten by your children.” – Ezra Taft Benson.
• “Travel is not a reward for working, it’s education for living.” – Anthony Bourdain.
• “We have such a brief opportunity to pass on to our children our love for this Earth, and to tell our stories. These are the moments when the world is made whole. In my children’s memories, the adventures we’ve had together in nature will always exist.” – Richard Louv.
• “Traveling in the company of those we love is home in motion.” – Leigh Hunt.
• “There are no perfect parents and there are no perfect children, but there are plenty of perfect moments along the way.” – Dave Willis.
• “Happiness is planning a trip to somewhere new, with someone you love.” – Marty Rubin.
• “Every day of our lives we make deposits in the memory banks of our children.” – Charles R. Swindoll.
• “Travel is like an endless university. You never stop learning.” – Harvey Lloyd.
• “Children will not remember you for the vacation you provided, but for the way you made them feel during that vacation.” – Allen Richardson.
• “And at the end of the day, your feet should be dirty, your hair messy and your eyes sparkling.” – Shanti.
• “The greatest legacy we can leave our children is happy memories.” – Og Mandino.
• “Traveling is like going to the library! The more you travel, the more you will feel as if reading books!” – Mehmet Murat İldan.
• “My ideal travel companions are my family.” – Pharrell Williams.

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The best family travel quotes are a great reminder of why traveling together as a family has so many benefits. Not only will you create lasting memories for your kids and (literally) broaden their horizons, but you’ll also get the chance to bond as a family as you ride out all the ups and downs of your adventure together.

On top of that, traveling with your kids will allow you to see the world through new eyes and watch as they learn more about the world and themselves. This collection of family vacation quotes includes everything from hilarious family vacation sayings and motivational family adventure quotes to brief but beautiful family getaway quotes .

I hope these quotes about family trips are meaningful and inspire you to plan your next great family adventure. Save your favorites to use as photo captions, travel wisdom, or future travel inspiration. Also, don’t forget that we have a list of the top 100 quotes about travel that will fuel your wanderlust!

• Short family travel quotes
• Family adventure quotes
• Funny family vacation sayings
• Inspirational family trip quotes
• Family travel memories quotes

Short Family Travel Quotes

Concise yet powerful, these short family travel quotes are the perfect kickstarter for an epic family vacation.

1. “Having kids is a reason to travel, never a reason to stop.” – Anonymous

This lovely traveling with family quote overturns the usual assumption that having children can limit traveling. Instead, as this quote expresses, traveling with kids is so important because it teaches them more about the world.

2. “A family that travels together stays together.” – Unknown

This family holidays quote works both literally (in that you physically can’t escape your family when you’re on vacation together!) and figuratively (travel, as I’ve mentioned, is an amazing way to bond). Either way you look at it, you and your family will get to spend lots of time together when you travel.

3. “This is my road. I’m so happy you came and traveled with me.” – Rachel Hartman

Share this lovely family road trip quote with your family to express your gratitude for their company.

4. “What child has not travelled by spinning the globe.” – Anonymous

Children have such vivid imaginations that they can travel places in their minds, but it’s also great for them to physically travel the globe!

5. “It is never too early to begin exploring the world.” – Unknown

This quote about family and travel is a wonderful reminder that traveling has no age minimum or limit.

6. “Adventures: they’re the best gift you could ever give your kids.” – Unknown

As this family love travel quote shows, travel experiences are valuable and memorable gifts that your children will cherish.

7. “Two of the greatest gifts we can give our children are roots and wings.” – Hodding Carter

This quote on family travel reminds us that children need a good mix of both stability and adventure.

8. “The world is your playground.” – Anonymous

As this happy family travel quote suggests, you should embrace your inner child and adopt a sense of playfulness as you explore. After all, you’re never too old to be young at heart!

9. “And at the end of the day, your feet should be dirty, your hair messy and your eyes sparkling.” – Shanti

Travel and adventure aren’t always pretty (or clean!). In the end, though, it’s how happy you are that counts.

10. “Traveling in the company of those we love is home in motion.” – Leigh Hunt

This lovely family travel bonding quote shows that we can find a sense of home, even when we’re somewhere abroad, just by being with the people we love.

Family Adventure Quotes

These adventures with family quotes should be just the inspiration you need to keep exploring the world with your family.

11. “When you travel with children you are giving something that can never be taken away: experience, exposure, and a way of life.” – Pamela Chandler

As this family vacation trip quote points out, vacations with children aren’t just fun family bonding time. They’re also a chance for kids to learn, grow, and experience new things.

12. “‘What’s your favorite place?’ ‘I don’t have a favorite place, I have my favorite people. And, whenever I’m with my favorite people, it becomes my favorite place.'” – Nivaz Ahmad

As the famous saying goes, home is where the heart is, so it’s no surprise that anywhere we find the people we love is a place we love too.

13. “My ideal travel companions are my family.” – Pharrell Williams

Sweet and simple, this family travel saying makes the perfect caption for your favorite family vacation photo.

14. “Travel is rich with learning opportunities, and the ultimate souvenir is a broader perspective.” – Rick Steves

This travel and family quote works for just about any traveler. Whether you’re young or old, travel is sure to be a learning experience.

15. “Together is our favorite place to be.” – Anonymous

As this quote for traveling with family expresses, exploring becomes so much better when you have the people you love by your side.

16. “Don’t wait to retire. Pack up your family, and go on adventures.” – Unknown

This quote about family trips reminds us to live in the present and travel now, while we can, instead of putting off adventures for later.

17. “Ohana means family and family means nobody gets left behind.” – Lilo and Stitch

This family travel quote from the beloved Disney movie Lilo and Stitch expresses the loyalty and togetherness of being a family.

18. “Life is too short to not go on that spontaneous road trip with your family.” – Fred Connors

Don’t put off your adventures until some unknown future date. Seize the moment and plan a trip with your family for sooner rather than later.

19. “Don’t just tell your children about the world. Show them.” – Anonymous

As this travelling with family quote reminds us, we learn best by experiencing things for ourselves. Travel is a way of giving your children knowledge about the world around them.

20. “A family vacation is a good time to bond and make memories that last a lifetime.” – Steve Harvey

As this family travel bonding quote suggests, the memories you make on a family vacation will last forever, whether you capture them on film or simply hold them in your mind.

Funny Family Vacation Sayings

These funny family travel quotes will hopefully amuse you, make you laugh, and maybe even be a little relatable.

21. “I take my children everywhere, but they always find their way back home.” – Robert Orben

As this funny family vacation quote points out, every parent traveling with kids gets a little fed up sometimes. Try to take a little time for yourself if you can!

22. “And that’s the wonderful thing about family travel: it provides you with experiences that will remain locked forever in the scar tissue of your mind.” – Dave Barry

The fact that memories of family vacations last forever can be both a good and bad thing. The best we can do is to try and make as many good memories as possible.

23. “There are two kinds of travel: first class and with children.” – Robert Benchley

This tongue-in-cheek family adventure quote may not be true for all families. Hopefully, you’re one of the lucky parents that get to travel first-class with kids!

24. “A road trip is a way for the whole family to spend time together and annoy each other in interesting new places.” – Tom Lichtenheld

Spending all day, every day with your family can lead to lovely bonding moments but can also mean that people start to get on each other’s nerves. Hopefully, your next trip involves more bonding than getting annoyed!

25. “Of all the paths in life you take, make sure a few of them are dirt.” – John Muir

While it’s wonderful to travel just about anywhere, this vacation quote with family is a good reminder to spend some time in nature too.

26. “You call it chaos. We call it a family vacation.” – Unknown

As this quote about traveling with family suggests, things won’t go smoothly all the time, but we can still make the best of any chaos.

27. “I can’t think of anything that excites a greater sense of childlike wonder than to be in a country where you are ignorant of almost everything. Suddenly you are five years old again. You can’t read anything, you have only the most rudimentary sense of how things work, you can’t even reliably cross a street without endangering your life. Your whole existence becomes a series of interesting guesses.” – Bill Bryson

I love this quote for family trips because it reminds us that we all become children in a way when we travel.

28. “Parents don’t really go on vacation. They just take care of their kids in a different city.” – Unknown

As this family getaway quote points out, parenting doesn’t stop just because you’re in a new place. Ideally, though, you’ll still find at least a bit of time to relax and enjoy yourself.

29. “Are we there yet?”

Who hasn’t heard this famous question on a road trip or long journey? While it’s normal to get impatient, don’t forget to enjoy the little moments that make up your journey.

30. “Family traveling together means a little bit of crazy, a little bit of loud. A whole lot of love.” – Anonymous

I think this family vacation memories quote captures exactly what it feels like to travel as a family .

Inspirational Family Trip Quotes

These lovely family vacation trip quotes will hopefully help motivate you to start planning your next big family adventure.

31. “There are no seven wonders of the world in the eyes of a child. There are seven million.” – Walt Streightiff

As this quote on family travel suggests, children are in awe of so many things that may simply seem natural or familiar to you. Whether you go far away or to the next town over, there will always be something new and exciting for kids to see.

32. “Travel is not reward for working; it’s education for living.” – Anthony Bourdain

The legendary Anthony Bourdain was a world-class traveler, and he left us with this great reminder that travel is an important way of making us better, more informed human beings.

33. “Children have always travelled, and because they are young and bright and full of contradictions, they haven’t always restricted their travel to the possible. Children follow the foxes, and open the wardrobes, and peek beneath the bridge. Children climb the walls and fall down the wells and run the razor’s edge of possibility until sometimes, just sometimes, the possible surrenders and shows them the way to go home.” – Seanan McGuire

This quote for vacations with family expresses the vastness of children’s imaginations. You don’t even have to leave home to have a wonderful adventure with your kids.

34. “There are no perfect parents and there are no perfect children, but there are plenty of perfect moments along the way.” – Dave Willis

This quote about travel and family reminds us that even if things go wrong while we’re traveling, we should still enjoy the perfect moments as they arise.

35. “Teaching kids to count is fine, but teaching them what counts is best.” – Bob Talbert

This wanderlust family travel quote is all about priorities. If you want your kids to travel and be curious, model that for them by taking them on adventures.

36. “If we experienced life through the eyes of a child, everything would be magical and extraordinary. Let our curiosity, adventure, and wonder of life never end.” – Akiane Kramarik

This family travel quote is a good reminder to all of us that we should be curious, imaginative, and adventurous like children, especially when we travel.

37. “You are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth.” – Unknown

As this quote about family vacation suggests, parents play a key role in shaping their children’s lives and personalities. If you love traveling, you’re probably fostering a little traveler-in-the-making.

38. “The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but having new eyes.” – Marcel Proust

This family travel saying expresses how much we can learn by seeing the world through our children’s eyes.

39. “Vacations are meant to be shared with the people we love the most.” – Unknown

Good company makes everything better, which is why vacations with family can be so lovely.

40. “Road trips are the equivalent of human wings. Ask me to go on one, anywhere. We’ll stop in every small town and learn the history and stories, feel the ground, and capture the spirit. Then, we’ll turn it into our own story that will live inside our history to carry with us always. Because stories are more important than things.” – Victoria Erickson

This family road trip quote is as good a motivation as any to plan a family road trip. Not only will you see new places, but you’ll also hear others’ stories and make your own story in the process .

Family Travel Memories Quotes

Hopefully, your family vacation creates a ton of wonderful memories that you’ll cherish forever. These family travel memories quotes express just how powerful family travel memories can be.

41. “The best memories are those of people you love, the places you have seen together, and the experiences you have shared with one another.” – Anonymous

This family on vacation quote is a great reminder that people, places, and experiences all become linked through travel.

42. “Travel in the younger sort is a part of education; in the elder, a part of experience.” – Francis Bacon

As this quote for family travel expresses, travel serves different purposes for people of different ages. For kids, it’s a way to learn, and for adults, it’s a way of increasing their wisdom.

43. “Own only what you can always carry with you: known languages, known countries, known people. Let your memory be your travel bag.” – Alexandr Solzhenitsyn

While a camera can capture so many incredible travel moments, the best memories will always be in your head.

44. “The greatest legacy we can leave our children is happy memories.” – Og Mandino

If you take anything away from these quotes about family vacations , hopefully, it’s that giving your kids new experiences and good memories is one of the best things you can do as a parent.

45. “Take only memories, leave only footprints.” – Chief Seattle

This family trip quote reminds us to keep our impact on the world minimal so that future generations can enjoy the same beauty we have.

46. “Deciding not to travel with kids because they won’t remember is like not reading them books because they won’t remember the stories you read them.” – Unknown

As this traveling with family quote suggests, worrying that your kids won’t remember a family vacation is no reason to stop you from traveling.

47. “Build traditions of family vacations and trips and outings. These memories will never be forgotten by your children.” – Ezra Taft Benson

I love this family travel quote because I have so many good memories of my own family vacations. Hopefully, your kids will have years of good vacation memories too!

48. “We have such a brief opportunity to pass on to our children our love for this Earth and to tell our stories. These are the moments when the world is made whole. In my children’s memories, the adventures we’ve had together in nature will always exist.” – Richard Louv

This family adventure quote shows that parents teach their children how to value and interact with the world around them.

49. “Children will not remember you for the vacation you provided, but for the way you made them feel during that vacation.” – Allen Richardson

This quote about vacation with family is a fantastic reminder that feelings are important. You could be in the most beautiful place in the world, but it’s the way people treat you that will make you love where you are or not.

50. “In the end, kids won’t remember that fancy toy you bought them. They will remember the time you spent with them.” – Kevin Heath

As this family holiday quote points out, spending time with your kids means so much to them. And what better way to spend time together than on a family vacation?

I hope you’ve enjoyed these quotes about family vacations as much as I enjoyed finding and sharing them with you! Whether they inspire you to plan a family road trip or just serve as great photo captions, be sure to save the family travel quotes you love the most. That way, you can return to them again and again, and maybe even share them with your family.

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70 Inspiring Travel With Kids Quotes

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Looking for travel with kids quotes? We researched the internet to put together this list of inspiring quotes about travel with children. Hope our compilation inspires you enough to travel with kids more often.

Traveling with family is one of the most rewarding and unique experiences you can ever have. It strengthens the family bond and makes everyone in the family appreciate the little things in life. Plus, kids learn way beyond what they learn in school. Kids who travel are well-rounded. We, thus, aspire to inspire people to travel with kids.

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Travel With Kids Quotes

If you want to raise well-rounded kids, who grow up to become global citizens, you must explore the world with kids. ~ Travel Melodies

1. Deciding not to travel with kids because they won’t remember is like not reading the books because they won’t remember the stories you read them.

2. It’s never too early to begin exploring the world.

3. Two of the greatest gifts we can give our children are roots and wings. ~ Hodding Carter

4. In the end, kids won’t remember that fancy toy you bought them, they will remember the time you spent with them. ~ Kevin Heath.

5. Nature is a tool to get children to experience not just the wider world, but themselves. ~ Stephen Moss

6. The best way to get a child outside is to go with them.

7. What child has not travelled by spinning the globe.

8. Each day of our lives we make deposits in the memory banks of our children. ~ Charles R. Swindoll

9. When you travel with your children you are giving them something that can never be taken away – experience, exposure, and a way of life. ~ Pamela T. Chandler

10. Kids don’t remember their best day of television.

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11. Kid, you’ll move mountains. ~ Dr Seuss

12. The greatest legacy we can leave our children is happy memories. ~ Og Mandino

13. Not all classrooms have four walls.

14. Traveling is learning. ~ Kikuyu Wisdom

15. It’s a wondrous thing how the wild calms the child.

16. Children learn more from what you are than what you teach. ~ W.E.B. DuBois

17. If a child is to keep alive his inborn sense of wonder, he needs the companionship of at least one adult who can share it, rediscovering with him the joy, excitement, and mystery of the world we live in. ~ Rachel Carson

18. We have such a brief opportunity to pass on to our children our love for this Earth and to tell our stories. These are the moments when the world is made whole. In my children’s memories, the adventures we’ve had together in nature will always exist. ~ Richard Louv

19. There are two kinds of travel – first class and with children. ~ Robert Benchley

20. Let children walk with Nature, let them see the beautiful blendings and communions of death and life, their joyous inseparable unity, as taught in woods and meadows, plains and mountains and streams of our blessed star, and they will learn that death is stingless indeed, and as beautiful as life. ~ John Muir

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21. I think that the best thing we can do for our children is to allow them to do things for themselves, allow them to be strong, allow them to experience life on their own terms, allow them to take the subway… let them be better people, let them believe more in themselves. ~ JoyBell C.

22. Summer vacations are a time when parents realize that teachers are grossly underpaid.

23. You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for instance. ~ Franklin P. Jones

24. I take my children everywhere, but they always find their way back home. ~ Robert Orben

25. Children have always travelled, and because they are young and bright and full of contradictions, they haven’t always restricted their travel to the possible. Children follow the foxes, and open the wardrobes, and peek beneath the bridge. Children climb the walls and fall down the wells and run the razor’s edge of possibility until sometimes, just sometimes, the possible surrenders and show them the way to go home. ~ Seanan McGuire

26. If we experienced life through the eyes of a child, everything would be magical and extraordinary. Let our curiosity, adventure, and wonder of life never end. ~ Akiane Kramarik

27. We must go beyond textbooks, go out into the bypaths and untrodden depths of the wilderness, and travel and explore and tell the world the glories of our journey. ~ John Hope Franklin

28. Listen to the must not, child. Listen to the don’ts. Listen to the shouldn’t, the impossibles, the wont’s. Listen to the never haves, then listen close to me. Anything can happen, child. Anything can be. ~ Shel Silverstein.

29. It is a magical world, pack up your kids and get exploring.

30. We do not inherit the Earth from our ancestors. We borrow it from our children. ~ Chief Seattle

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31. You will never look back in your life and think, I spent too much time with my kids. ~ Kimberly Mcleod

32. In fairy tales, it’s always the children who have fine adventures. ~ Audrey Niffenegger

33. Having kids is a reason to travel, never a reason to stop.

34. When in doubt, choose the kids. There will be plenty of time later to choose work. ~ Anna Quindlen

35. Our children should be properly introduced to the world in which they live. ~ Thomas Berry

36. To be in your children’s memories tomorrow, you have to be in their lives today. ~ Barbara Johnson

37. The most precious jewels you’ll ever have around your neck are the arms of your children.

38. There are no seven wonders of the world in the eyes of a child. There are seven million. ~ Walt Streightiff

39. You don’t have to go far from home with your kids. Spend some time with them because they see things in amazing new ways.

40. If we want our children to move mountains, we first have to let them get out of their chairs. ~ Nicolette Sowder

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41. Travel in the younger sort is a part of education; in the elder, a part of the experience. ~ Francis Bacon

42. As soon as I saw you, I knew a grand adventure was about to happen. ~ A.A.Milne

43. What do parents owe their young that is more important than a warm and trusting connection to the Earth? ~ Theodore Roszak

44. If you want your children to turn out well, spend twice as much time with them and half as much money. ~ Abigail Van Buren

45. The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you’ll go. ~ Dr. Seuss

46. Your greatest contribution to the kingdom of God may not be something you do, but someone you raise. ~ Andy Stanley

47. He who travels has stories to tell. ~ Irish proverb

48. I hope my children grow up to be ‘look at the moon!’ type of people.

49. Don’t just tell your children about the world. Show them.

50. On a journey with your child, take every moment to enjoy the ride.

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51. Children must be taught how to think, not what to think. ~ Margaret Mead

52. The earlier and the more often children are exposed to nature, the happier, healthier, and brighter they become.

53. Teaching children about the natural world should be seen as one of the most important events in their lives. ~ Thomas Berry

54. Travel is like an endless university. You never stop learning. ~ Harvey Lloyd

55. While we try to teach our children all about life, our children teach us what life is all about. ~ Angela Schwindt

56. Rather than books and lectures, nature itself is the children’s best teacher.

57. Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all . ~ Aristotle

58. The best education you will ever get is travelling. Nothing teaches you more than exploring the world and accumulating experiences. ~ Mark Paterson

59. The soul begins to travel when the child begins to think. ~ Agnes Reppler

60. Travel, in the younger sort, is a part of education; in the elder, a part of the experience. ~ Francis Bacon

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61. Teaching kids to count is fine, but teaching them what counts is best. ~ Bob Talbert

62. Travel is not a reward for working, It’s education for living. ~ Anthony Bourdain

63. Travel is rich with learning opportunities, and the ultimate souvenir is a broader perspective. ~ Rick Steves

64. A child, more than anyone else, is a spontaneous observer of nature. ~ Maria Montessori

65. If you can repair a child, you don’t have to spend years repairing an adult.

66. The world is your playground.

67. Blessed are curious for they shall have adventures. ~ Lovelle Drachman

68. Holidays with young kids isn’t about the holiday, it’s about making memories.

69. Vacations are necessities, not luxuries. ~ Linda Bloom

70. Are we there yet?

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50 Inspiring Quotes about Travel and Family

Getting to know our children through travel has been one of the best decisions we have made as a family. Travel allows us to slow down, create memories, and learn about the world in new and different ways. Collected here are quotes about travel and family that inspire us to continue to adventure and journey with our children. I hope these family travel quotes will encourage you take the leap to “Just Go”!

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These famous quotes about adventure remind us of the value of the journeys we take with our children. Travel increases the experiences they will carry into the future. Our children learn and grow through lessons beyond the four walls of a classroom.

1. “Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all.” – Helen Keller

2. “Children deserve to grow and learn in a place and alongside a force that is as wild and alive as they are.” – Nicolette Sowder

3. “Kids don’t need more toys – they need more adventures.” – Sarah Mueller

4. “When you travel with children, you are giving something that can never be taken away…experience, exposure and a way of life.” – Pamela Chandler

5. “Blessed are the curious as they shall have adventures.” – Lovelle Drachman

6. “We must take adventures to know where we truly belong.”

7. “To live would be an awfully big adventure” – Peter Pan

8. “The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.” – Marcel Proust

9. “Your kids will remember the adventures you went on, not the stuff you bought them. Kids outgrow stuff, they never outgrow adventures.”

10. “If you think adventure is dangerous, try routine, its lethal” – Paul Coelho

These notable quotes about travelling with family inspire us of the longstanding impact that family trips can have on children, and remind us that experience is the best teacher.

11.”If we want our children to move mountains, first we have to let them get out of their chairs.” Nicole Sowder

12. “Never go on trips with anyone you do not love.” – Ernest Hemmingway

13. “Live with no excuses and travel with no regrets.” – Oscar Wilde

14. “It is not the destination where you end up but the mishaps and memories you create along the way.” – Penelope Riley

15. “We travel not to escape life but for life not to escape us.”

16. “Travelling in the company of those we love is home in motion.” – Leigh Hunt

17. “If we want our children to move mountains, we first have to let them get out of their chairs.” – Nicolette Sowder

18. “Let the children free; encourage them; let them run outside when its raining; let them remove their shoes when they find a puddle of water; and, when the grass of the meadows is damp with dew, let them run on it and trample it with their bare feet; let them rest peacefully when a tree invites them to sleep beneath its shade; let them shout and laugh when the sun wakes them in the morning.” – Dr. Maria Montessori

19. “Happiness is only real when shared.” – Jon Krakauer

20. “In the end, kids won’t remember that fancy toy you bought them, they will remember the time you spent with them.” – Kevin Heath

These family journey quotes capture the wonder and beauty that comes from exploring the natural world with children. They remind us to just go and get outside, appreciating the small things in life, as they are the big things.

21. “I like people who get excited about the change of seasons, the sound of the ocean, watching the sunset, the smell of rain and starry nights.” – Brooke Hampton

22. “Jobs fill your pocket, but adventures fill your soul.” – Jamie Lyn Beatty

23. “The greatest legacy we can leave our children is happy memories.” – Og Mandino

24. “The more risks you allow your children to take, the better they learn to take after themselves.” – Roald Dahl

25. “Of all the paths you take in life, make sure a few of them are dirt.” – John Muir

26. “Don’t just tell children about the world. Show them.” – Penny Whitehouse

27. “No matter how old you get, may you always stop to fill your pockets with smooth stones, empty snail shells and other little treasures.” – Nicolette Sowder

28. “Why do you go away?” So that you can come back. So that you can see the place you came from with new eyes and extra colors.” – Terry Pratchett

29. “Two of the greatest gifts we can give our children are roots and wings.” – Hodding Carter

30. “Each day of our lives we make deposits in the memory banks of our children.” -Charles R. Swindoll

These kid adventure quotes remind us that the best lessons that children learn are often taught beyond the four walls of a classroom. Experiences and enrichment stay with children forever in their memories.

31. “Teaching kids to count is fine, but teaching them what counts is better.” – Bob Talbert

32. “Let them once get in touch with nature and a habit is formed which will be a source of delight through life.” Charlotte Mason

33. “Children still need a childhood with dirt, mud, puddles, trees, sticks, and tadpoles.” – Brooke Hampton

34. “Children cannot bounce off the walls if we take away the walls.” – Erin Kenny

35. “Sunsets, like childhood, are viewed with wonder not just because they are beautiful but because they are fleeting.” – Richard Paul Evans

36. “There is a garden in every childhood, an enchanted place where the colors are brighter, the air is softer and the morning more fragrant than ever again.” – Elizabeth Lawrence

37. “Keep your children wild – don’t make them grow up too fast. Let them spend their days in the sunshine using their imagination. They are the change! Those wild children daydreaming in the sunshine will grow into grounded adults with minds and spirits capable of creating a better future.” – Brooke Hampton

38. “Kids don’t remember their best day of television.”

39. “Tell me and I’ll forget. Teach me and I’ll remember. Involve me and I’ll learn.” – Benjamin Franklin

40. “Not all classrooms have four walls.”

These family trip quotes encourage you to just go. Adventure, journey, take the first leap and live life to the fullest.

41. “Travel is the only thing you buy that makes you richer.”

42. “The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page.” – Saint Augustine

43. “Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us, or we find it not.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

44. “People forget the years and remember moments.” – Ann Beattie

45. “We leave something of ourselves behind when we leave a place, we stay there, even though we go away. And there are things in us that we can find again only by going back there.” – Pascal Mercier

46. “To move, to breathe, to fly, to float, to gain all while you give, to roam the roads of lands remote, to travel is to live.” – Hans Christian Andersen

47. “Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. Nature’s peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees.” – John Muir

48. “When a child gives you a gift, even if it’s a rock, they just picked up, exude gratitude. It may be the only thing they have to give, and they have chosen to give it to you.” – Dean Jackson

49. “Wherever you go becomes a part of you somehow.” – Anita Desai

50. “The earth has music for those who listen.” – Shakespeare

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200+ Family Vacation Quotes & Captions to Inspire Your Next Adventure

Looking for the motivation you need to just get out there and plan that family adventure? Or perhaps you’re seeking the ideal wording to add to an Instagram caption or a personalized travel gift.

This is an absolute bumper selection of quotes for family travel; we’ve broken our travel quotes guide down into a few different sections, depending on what sort of motivation and inspiration you are looking for – plus simple and easy family vacation captions at the end!

Inspiring Family Vacation Quotes

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There are so many reasons we’ve made travel an important part of our lives, not just taking a vacation, but to learn, explore, and add adventure to our lives. We hope the following selection of family travel quotes and family travel captions for Instagram will help you feel the same.

“Oh the places you’ll go.” – Dr. Seuss

“It doesn’t matter where you are going. It’s who you have beside you.” – Unknown

“The world is full of wonderful things you haven’t seen yet. Don’t ever give up on the chance of seeing them.” — J.K. Rowling

“Having kids is a reason to travel, never a reason to stop.” – Unknown

“Traveling in the company of those we love is home in motion.” – Leigh Hunt

“Travel sparks our imagination, feeds our curiosity and reminds us how much we all have in common.” – Deborah Lloyd

“We travel not to escape life, but for life not to escape us.” – Unknown

“ Build traditions of family vacations and trips and outings. These memories will never be forgotten by your children.” – Ezra Taft Benson

“You don’t need magic to disappear, all you need is a destination.” – Unknown

“The moment you doubt whether you can fly, you cease forever to be able to do it.” – Peter Pan

“A family that travels together stays together.” – Unknown

“If we want our children to move mountains, we first have to let them get out of their chairs.” – Nicolette Sowder

“Fill your life with experiences, not things. Have stories to tell, not stuff to show.” – Unknown

“Every day we make deposits in the memory banks of our children.” – Charles R Swindoll

“There is no time to be bored in a world as beautiful as this.” – Unknown

“If we were meant to stay in one place, we’d have roots instead of feet.” – Rachel Wolchin

“People don’t take trips, trips take people.” – John Steinback

“The only trip you will regret is the one you don’t take.” – Unknown

“Don’t tell me the sky’s the limit when there are footsteps on the moon.” – Paul Brandt

“To the tourist, travel is a means to an end; to the traveller, it’s an end in itself.” — Marty Rubin

“Of all the books in the world, the best stories are found between the pages of a passport.” – Unknown

“Happiness in planning a trip to somehwere new, with someone you love” – Marty Rubin

“It is never too early to begin exploring the world.” – Unknown

“Wherever you go, go with all your heart.” – Confusius

“Do more things that make you forget to check your phone.” – Unknown

“A great way to learn about your country is to leave it.” –  Henry Rollins

“Home is people. Not a place.” – Robin Hobb

“If we experienced life through the eyes of a child, everything would be magical and extraordinary. Let our curiosity, adventure, and wonder of life never end.” – Akiane Kramarik

“When all else fails, take a vacation.” – Betty Williams

“To move, to breathe, to fly, to float, To gain all while you give, To roam the roads of lands remote, To travel is to live.” –  Hans Christian Andersen

“Home is where you pitch your tent.” – Unknown

“ Better to see something once than hear about it a thousand times.” – Asian Proverb

“ My idea of dealing with stress is to book tickets for a family getaway.” – Unknown

“Once the travel bug bites there is no known antidote, and I know that I shall be happily infected until the end of my life.” – Michael Palin

“I have wandered all my life, and I have also travelled; the difference between the two being this, that we wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfilment.” – Hilaire Belloc

“Happiness is… planning a trip to somewhere new, with someone you love.” – Unknown

“If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together.” – African Proverb

“Two of the greatest gifts we can give our children are roots and wings.” – Hodding Carter

“Fill your life with experiences, not things. Have stories to tell, not stuff to show.” – Unknown 

“Deciding not to travel with kids because they won’t remember is like not reading them books because they won’t remember the stories you read them” – Unknown

Looking for some awesome adventure quotes for kids , or inspiration for your whole family to undertake a new adventure? Maybe some of these will get you inspired:

“Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all.” – Helen Keller

“May your adventures bring you closer together, even as they take you far away from home.” – Trenton Lee Stewart

“Actually, the best gift you could have given her was a lifetime of adventures.” – Lewis Carroll

“Blessed are the curious for they shall have adventures.” – Lovelle Drachman

“As soon as I saw you, I knew an adventure was going to happen”  – A. A. Milne

“We must take adventures in order to know where we truly belong.” – Unknown

“Exploration is really the essence of the human spirit.” – Frank Bowma n

“Children have always travelled, and because they are young and bright and full of contradictions, they haven’t always restricted their travel to the possible. Children follow the foxes, and open the wardrobes, and peek beneath the bridge. Children climb the walls and fall down the wells and run the razor’s edge of possibility until sometimes, just sometimes, the possible surrenders and show them the way to go home.” – Seanan McGuire

“Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

“If we experienced life through the eyes of a child, everything would be magical and extraordinary. Let our curiosity, adventure and wonder of life never end.” – Akiane Kramarik

Many families look to travel not just as an extended vacation and a series of experiences but as a way of life. In this section of family travel quotes, we look at family travel as education and broader life experiences from world schooling your kids.

“Travel is rich with learning opportunities, and the ultimate souvenir is a broader perspective.” – Rick Steves

“When you travel with your children you are giving them something that can never be taken away … experience, exposure and a way of life.” – Pamela T. Chandler

“Not all classrooms have 4 walls.” – Unknown

“The best education you will ever get is traveling. Nothing teaches you more than exploring the world and accumulating experiences.” – Mark Paterson

“Don’t tell me how educated you are. Tell me how much you’ve travelled.” –  Prophet Muhammad

“Travel is like an endless university. You never stop learning.” – Harvey Lloyd

“Experience, travel – these are as education in themselves.” – Euripides

“ We have such a brief opportunity to pass on to our children our love for this Earth and to tell our stories. These are the moments when the world is made whole. In my children’s memories, the adventures we’ve had together in nature will always exist.” – Richard Louv

“Then I realized adventures are the best way to learn.” – Unknown

“We must go beyond textbooks, go out into the bypaths and untrodden depths of the wilderness and travel and explore and tell the world the glories of our journey.” – John Hope Franklin

“If you don’t try new things, you stay stupid.” – Alexander Watson

“ If you want your children to turn out well, spend twice as much time with them and half as much money.” – Abigail Van Buren

“I can’t think of anything that excites a greater sense of childlike wonder than to be in a country where you are ignorant of almost everything. Suddenly you are five years old again. You can’t read anything, you have only the most rudimentary sense of how things work, you can’t even reliably cross a street without endangering your life. Your whole existence becomes a series of interesting guesses.” – Bill Bryson

“What do parents owe their young that is more important than a warm and trusting connection to the Earth?” – Theodore Roszak

“Own only what you can always carry with you: Known languages, known countries, known people. Let your memory be your travel bag.” – Alexandr Solzhenitsyn

“Our children should be properly introduced to the world in which they live.” – Thomas Berry

“While we try to teach our children all about life, our children teach us what life is all about.” – Angela Schwindt

“Teaching kids to count is fine, but teaching them what counts is best.” – Bob Talbert

“Travel, in the younger sort, is a part of education; in the elder, a part of experience.” – Francis Bacon

“The whole object of travel is not to set foot on foreign land; it is, at last, to set foot on one’s own country as a foreign land.” – G. K. Chesterton

“Earth and sky, woods and fields, lakes and rivers, the mountain and the sea, are excellent schoolmasters, and teach of us more than we can ever learn from books.” – John Lubbock

“Traveling is learning.” – Kiyuyu Wisdom

“I guess the lesson is you can’t go everywhere. You should still go everywhere you can.” — Charles Finch

From hitting nature trails and National Parks to camping and enjoying the ocean spray on your face, there are soooo many fabulous reasons to get your kids out in nature and some brilliant quotes to support and inspire this. Here’s our selection of the best nature quotes to inspire family travel.

You can find our full collection of nature and camping quotes over here , as well as a great collection of beach inspiration quotes and captions over here .

“The earlier and the more often children are exposed to nature, the happier, healthier, and brighter they become.” – Unknown

“Nature is a tool to get children to experience not just the wider world, but themselves.” – Stephen Moss

“There’s no wi-fi in the mountain but I promise you’ll find a better connection.” – Unknown

“Teaching children about the natural world should be seen as one of the most important events in their lives. ” – Thomas Berry

“Time camping isn’t time spent, it’s invested.” – Unknown

“Without the intense touch of nature, you can never fully freshen yourself! Go for a camping and there both your weary mind and your exhausted body will rise like a morning sun!” – Mehmet Murat ildan

“At the beach, life is different. Time doesn’t move hour to hour but mood to moment. We live by the currents, plan by the tides and follow the sun.” – Sandy Gingras

“I Googled my symptoms… turned out I just need to go camping.” – Unknown

“Of all the paths you take in life, make sure a few of them are dirt.” – John Muir

“Take only memories, leave only footprints” – Unknown

“After a visit to the beach, it’s hard to believe that we live in a material world.” – Pam Shaw

“Advice from the Ocean: Be shore of yourself. Come out of your shell. Take time to coast. Avoid pier pressure. Sea life’s beauty. Don’t get so tide down on work that you miss out on life’s beautiful waves.” – Unknown

“I go to nature to be soothed and healed, and to have my sense put in order.” – John Burroughs

“A child, more than anyone else, is a spontaneous observer of nature.”   – Maria Montessori

“If there’s heaven for me, I’m sure it has a beach attached to it.” – Jimmy Buffett

“Wilderness is not a luxury but necessity of the human spirit.” – Edward Abbey

“Thousands of tired, nerve-shaken, over-civilized people are beginning to find out going to the mountains is going home; that wilderness is a necessity.” – John Muir

“The wilderness holds answers to questions we have not yet learned to ask.” – Nancy Wynne Newhall

“Nature has been for me, for as long as I remember, a source of solace, inspiration, adventure, and delight; a home, a teacher, a companion.” – Lorraine Anderson

“Take nothing but pictures, leave nothing but footprints, kill nothing but time.” – Aliyyah Eniath

“Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.” – Albert Einstein

“Life takes you down many paths, but my favorite ones lead to the beach.”  – Unknown

“The ocean stirs the heart, inspires the imagination and brings eternal joy to the soul.”  – Robert Wyland

“The outside is the only place we can truly be inside the world. ” – Daniel J. Rice

“Sleep under a blanket of stars, and your heart will forever be kept warm by your love of life.” – Anthony T. Hincks

“We can never have enough of nature.” – Henry David Thoreau

“It’s impossible to go for a walk in the woods and be in a bad mood at the same time.” – Unknown

“If people sat outside and looked at the stars each night, I’ll bet they’d live a lot differently.” – Bill Watterson

“In nature, nothing is perfect and everything is perfect. Trees can be contorted, bent in weird ways, and they’re still beautiful.” – Alice Walker

“Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

Find our complete collection of camping & outdoor adventures with kids advice over here

Road trips are a special sort of family experience – they allow us to cover vast distances at our own pace – and spend many, many hours as a family together in a car – for better or for worse! Here are the best inspirational quotes to see the beauty in this type of family travel:

You can find our full collection of family road trip quotes over here.

“A road trip is a way for the whole family to spend time together and annoy each other in interesting new places .” – Tom Lichtenheld

“That’s why I love family road trips, dude. It is like doing something without actually doing anything.” – John Green

“ The freedom of the open road is seductive, serendipitous and absolutely liberating. ” –  Aaron Lauritsen

“Road trips are the equivalent of human wings. Ask me to go on one, anywhere. We’ll stop in every small town and learn the history and stories, feel the ground and capture the spirit. Then we’ll turn it into our own story that will live inside our history to carry with us, always. Because stories are more important than things.” – Victoria Erickson

“The road is there, it will always be there. You just have to decide when to take it.” – Chris Humphrey

“ No road is long with good company. ” –  Turkish Proverb

“ We all have that one friend who is either on a road-trip or planning a road-trip or thinking about a road-trip or talking to people who are on road-trip or posting quotes about road-trip. ” –  Crestless Wave

“Nothing behind me, everything ahead of me, as is ever so on the road.” – Jack Kerouac

“ You can be writing every day. When you go on a road trip, the trip itself becomes part of the story. ” ―  Steve Rushin

“Road trips aren’t measured by mile markers, but by moments.” — Unknown

“ Roads were made for journeys, not destinations. ” –  Confucius

“Good company in a journey makes the way seem shorter.” – Izaak Walton

“Life is like a road trip – Enjoy each day and don’t carry too much luggage.” – Unknown

“ Road trips required a couple of things: a well-balanced diet of caffeine, salt and sugar and an excellent selection of tunes—oh, and directions. ” –  Jenn McKinlay

“ Some roads aren’t meant to be travelled alone. ” ―  Chinese Proverb

“ That’s why I love road trips, dude. It’s like doing something without actually doing anything . ” –  John Green

“ The best part of a road trip isn’t arriving at your destination … it’s the fast food along the way. ” —  Unknown

“The freedom of the open road is seductive, serendipitous and absolutely liberating.” – Aaron Lauritsen

“ I love road trips. You get into this Zen rhythm; throw the sense of time out the window. ” –  Miriam Toews

“Life is one big road with lots of signs. So when you’re riding through the ruts, don’t complicate your mind.” – Bob Marley

“When all’s said and done, all roads lead to the same end. So it’s not so much which road you take, as how you take it.” – Charles de Lint

“ God made the world round so we would never be able to see too far down the road. ” – Isak Dinesen

“Sometimes the most scenic roads in life are the detours you didn’t mean to take .” – Angela N. Blount

“ Some beautiful paths can’t be discovered without getting lost. ” –  Erol Ozan

“ Look for chances to take the less-traveled roads. There are no wrong turns. ” — Susan Magsamen

“No matter how far you have gone on the wrong road, turn around.” – Turkish Proverb

“ If you don’t know where you are going, any road will get you there. ” –  Lewis Carroll

“ What it takes to realize everything is fine around you? A road trip to the mountains where your soul dwells in the echoes of the winds that carry fragments of clouds with them. What it takes to realize world is going back to chaos and infinite hurry? End of the aforementioned road trip. ” –  Crestless Wave

“ Because the greatest part of a road trip isn’t arriving at your destination. It’s all the wild stuff that happens along the way. ” —  Emma Chase

We’re not saying traveling with kids is perfect all the time! There will, of course, be ups and downs, detours along the way and challenges to overcome.

Seek out this collection of fun family travel quotes to keep looking on the brighter side or get you through the darker moments – or those dreaded “we’re lost” or “Are we there yet?” moments. Don’t you just love family?

“Parent’s don’t really go on holidays. They just look after their kids in a different country for a while.” – Unknown

“ I have found out that there ain’t a no surer way to find out whether you like people or hate them than to travel with them.” – Mark Twain

“Sometimes the most scenic roads in life are the detours you didn’t mean to take.” – Angela N. Blount

 “ Sometimes the road less traveled is less traveled for a reason. ” – Jerry Seinfeld

“A good traveller has no fixed plans and is not intent on arriving.” – Lao Tzu

“There are no perfect parents and there are no perfect children, but there are plenty of perfect moments along the way. ” — Dave Willis

“ I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I intended to be. ” – Douglas Adams

“The journey, not the arrival matters.” – T.S. Eliot

“I honestly think the beach is the only place children actually entertain themselves.”  – Donna McLavy

“You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for instance.” – Franklin P. Jones

“When traveling with someone, take large doses of patience and tolerance with your morning coffee.” – Helen Hayes

“Some beautiful paths can’t be discovered without getting lost.” – Erol Oza

“Stop worrying about the potholes in the road and enjoy the journey.” – Babs Hoffman

“Summer vacations are a time when parents realise that teachers are grossly underpaid.” – Unknown

“Parents don’t really go on vacation. They just take care of their kids in a different city.” – Unknown

“In a well-ordered universe… camping would take place indoors.” –  Morgan Matson

“Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city.” – George Burns

“Camping is nature’s way of promoting the motel business.” – Dave Barry

“I miss being on vacation and never knowing what day of the week it is ” – Unknown

“There are two kinds of travel: first class and with children.” –  Robert Benchley

“I’m not lost. I’m exploring.” – Jana Stanfield

Working too hard but never sure it’s the right time to travel? Here’s why we don’t put it off.

Pandemic aside, adventures can be close to home too. Maybe it’s just a motivated mindset you need to change your family’s future? Or tuning out the opinions of others and societal norms of needing a 9 to 5 so you can discover what lies on your road ahead.

“Travel is not reward for working, it’s education for living.” – Anthony Bourdain

“Never get so busy making a living that you forget to make a life.” – Dolly Parton

“Don’t wait to retire, pack up your family and go on adventures.” – Unknown

“Build traditions of family vacations and trips and outings. These memories will never be forgotten by your children.” – Unknown

‘Because in the end, you won’t remember the time you spent working in the office or mowing your lawn. Climb that goddam mountain.” – Jack Kerouac

“The biggest adventure you can ever take is to live the life of your dreams.” – Oprah Winfrey

“Kids don’t remember their best day of television.” – Unknown

“If you think adventure is dangerous, try routine, it’s lethal.” – Paul Coehlo

“There are seven days in a week, some day isn’t one of them” – Unknown

“Jobs fill your pocket, but adventures fill your souls.” – Jamie Lyn Beatty

“Sometimes in the waves of change we find our true direction.” – Unknown

“A bad day camping is still better than a good day working.” – Unknown

“When in doubt, choose the kids. There will be plenty of time later to choose work.” – Anna Quindlen

“Map out your future – but do it in pencil. The road ahead is as long as you make it. Make it worth the trip.” – Jon Bon Jovi

“You can never cross the ocean until you have the courage to leave the shore.” – Christopher Columbus

“Sometimes, the people around you won’t understand your journey. They don’t need to – it’s not for them.” – Joubert Botha

“At the end of your life, you will never regret not having passed one more test, not winning one more verdict, or not closing one more deal. You will regret time not spent with a husband, a friend, a child, a parent.” – Barbara Bush

Family vacations are about making memories, right? Here’s our selction of favourites, these make wonderful short captions for printing on home decor items or captioning your family photo albums.

“And at the end of the day, your feet should be dirty, your hair messy and your eyes sparkling.” – Shanti

“Sometimes you will never know the value of a moment until it becomes memory.” – Dr Suess

“Your children get only one childhood. Make it memorable.” – Unknown

“People forget the years and remember moments.” –  Anne Beattie

“In the end, kids won’t remember that fancy toy you bought them, they will remember the time you spent with them.”  – Kevin Heath  

“Each day of our lives we make deposits in the memory banks of our children.” — Charles R Swindoll

“And that’s the wonderful thing about family travel. It provides you with experiences that will remain locked forever in the scar tissue of your mind. ” – Dave Berry

“Take only memories, leave only footprints.” – Chief Seattle

“The tans fade, but the memories last a lifetime.”  – Unknown

“Never let your memories be greater than your dreams.” – Doug Ivester

“Our memories of the ocean will linger on, long after our footprints in the sand are gone.”   – Unknown

“The sand may brush off, the salt may wash clean, the tans may fade, but the memories will last forever.” – Unknown

“The greatest legacy we can leave our children is happy memories.” – Og Mandino

“To be in your children’s memories tomorrow, you have to be in their lives today.” – Barbara Johnson

“Remember that happiness is a way of travel – not a destination.” – Roy M. Goodman

“There are no seven wonders of the world in the eyes of a child. There are seven million.” – Walt Streightiff

“Once you have travelled, the voyage never ends. But it is played out over and over again in the quietest chambers. The mind can never break off from the journey.” – Pat Conroy

“Travel isn’t always pretty. It isn’t always comfortable. Sometimes it hurts, it even breaks your heart. But that’s okay. The journey changes you; it should change you. It leaves marks on your memory, on your consciousness, on your heart, and on your body. You take something with you. Hopefully, you leave something good behind.” – Anthony Bourdain

These ones are great for cute and fun Instagram family vacation captions to cap out your family travel adventures.

“Family vacations are my happy place.”

“There’s no place like home except for the beach.”

“It’s bad manners to keep a vacation waiting.”

“Friends, sun, sand and sea. That sounds like summer to me.”

 “B.E.A.C.H.: Best Escape Anyone Can Have.”

“If it scares you, it might be a good thing to try.”

“A good beach day keeps the doctor away.”

“There Is No Time To Be Bored In A World As Beautiful As This.”

“Eat. Beach. Sleep. Repeat.”

“Happiness is a day at the beach!” 

“The best way to get a child outside is to go with them.”

“Family vacations are always a good idea.”

“Joy is portable, bring it with you .”

“The ony trip you will regret is the one you didn’t take.”

“Memories made together last a lifetime.”

“Time waits for no one. Take your family for adventures.”

“Work. Travel. Save. Repeat.”

“Life is short and the world is wide.”

“You are my home and my adventure all at once.”

“No road is long with good company.”

“Even adults need a time out chair.”

“Don’t just tell your children about the world. Show them.” 

“ You call it chaos. We call it a family vacation. “

Looking for more travel inspiration?

If you’ve enjoyed this page of family travel quotes, you may like to dig further into our website with these inspiring reads:

• World’s Best Family Travel Destinations – we have roundups for the best beach destinations, epic family road trips, snorkelling destinations, best city breaks, educational experiences and the best-hidden gems for families around the world – unmissable reading if you need location inspiration.
• How to narrow down your family bucket list – sometimes the variety and choices of what the world has to offer for our families can be overwhelming; here’s how we narrow down our overseas family travel wishlist.

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Best Family Travel Quotes: 30 Inspiring Quotes for Travel with children (2023)

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Traveling with babies and children is an epic adventure filled with laughter, fun, new experiences and memories that last a lifetime. As we planned our first international trip with baby J we sought inspiration and motivation from our favourite family travel quotes: from bravery inducing adventure travel quotes to wonderful wanderlust quotes, we hope that our collection of the best family travel quotes will inspire you on your travels and encourage your wandering soul!

The 30 best family travel quotes to inspire your adventures!

If you love these family travel quotes feel free to pin and share them for inspiration!

1 | “As soon as I saw you, I knew an adventure was about to happen.” – A. A. Milne, Winnie the Pooh

2 | “Travelling in the company of those we love is home in motion” – Leigh Hunt

3 | “ Oh the places you’ll go” –  Dr. Seuss

4 |  “What child has not travelled by spinning the globe” – Anon

5 |  “And at the end of the day, your feet should be dirty, your hair messy and your eyes sparkling.” – Shanti

6 |  “Not all classrooms have 4 walls” – Anon

7 |  “Actually, the best gift you could have given her was a lifetime of adventures” – Lewis Carroll

8 |  “The moment you doubt whether you can fly, you cease forever to be able to do it” – Peter Pan J.M. Barrie

9 |  “Wherever you go becomes a part of you somehow”  – Anita Desai

10 |  “Kid, you’ll move mountains” – Dr. Seuss

11 |  “The best education you will ever get is traveling. Nothing teaches you more than exploring the world and accumulating experiences.”  – Mark Paterson

12 |  “Every day we make deposits in the memory banks of our children” – Charles R Swindoll

13 |  “It’s a magical world, Hobbes, ol’ buddy… Let’s go exploring!” – Calvin from Calvin and Hobbes

14 |  “The biggest adventure you can ever take is to live the life of your dreams.” – Oprah Winfrey

15 | “ To travel is to live”  – Hans Christian Anderson

16 |  “Can you remember who you were before the world told you who you should be.” – Danielle Laporte

17 |  “Don’t tell me the sky’s the limit when there are footsteps on the moon” – Paul Brandt

18 |  “People do not decide to become extraordinary. They decide to accomplish extraordinary things.” – Edmund Hillary

19 |  “Take only memories, leave only footprints” – Chief Seattle

20 |  “Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all” – Helen Keller

21 |  “Because when you stop and look around, this life is pretty amazing.” –  Dr. Seuss

22 |  “Travel is like an endless university. You never stop learning”  – Harvey Lloyd

23 |  “I do believe it’s time for another adventure.” –  Unknown

24 |  “Every sunset is also a sunrise. It all depends on where you stand” –  Karl Schmidt

27 |  “From there to here, and here to there, funny things are everywhere.” – Dr. Seuss

25 | “ Wherever you go, go with all your heart. ” – Confucius

26 |  “Where you lead, I will follow.” –  Carole King

28 | “Teaching kids to count is fine, but teaching them what counts is best.” –  Bob Talbert.

29 |  “The greatest legacy we can leave our children is happy memories” –  Og Mandino

30 |  “ Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all” – Aristotle

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“Teaching kids to count is fine, but teaching them what counts is best.” This one is my favourite Looking forward to more recap posts from you!

Thanks Steve, love the quote!

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155 Fantastic Family Travel Quotes For Your Family Trip Inspiration

If you are looking for fantastic family travel quotes , you have come to the right place as I love collecting beautiful quotes, among many other things.

I enjoy travelling solo , which I have been doing most of the time, but family trips are still a big part of my life.

If you are planning a trip with your loved ones and you are looking for cute quotes about travel with family or a caption for family trips, I have collected around 150+ family getaway quotes for you. 

These quotes about traveling with family will not only inspire your trip but will also think and influence your future family trips.

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Best Family Travel Quotes

Here are some of the most beautiful quotes about traveling with family that describe what it means to travel with your loved ones.

These family travel quotes will leave you in awe, and nodding your head in agreement!

‘Travelling in the company of those we love is home in motion.’ – Leigh Hunt

I think the above is one of the best travel quotes with family, that perfectly describes the emotions of how enriching our trips can be when we travelled with our loved ones.

They could be friends or family or your partner – The joy of traveling with some you care and love is absolute bliss.

‘There are no perfect parents, and there are no perfect children, but there are plenty of perfect moments along the way.’ – Dave Willis.

‘Build traditions of family vacations and trips and outings. These memories will never be forgotten by your children.’ – Unknown

‘Deciding not to travel with kids because they won’t remember, is like not reading the books because they won’t remember the stories you read them.’ – Unknown

There is no better analogy that can be given apart from these family travel quotes above.

Many people think that travelling with kids when they are too young is not a good idea as they don’t remember anything. 

While it is true that they might not remember if they are out on the roads at a very young age – the experiences they are going to accumulate.

The foreign cultures, food, all kinds of adventure activities, traditions, and experiences like hiking amidst beautiful national parks, climbing mountains, camping, and watersports will not make them happy but will expose them to the world and enhances their maturity and wisdom beyond our comprehension.

The family travel quote below perfectly describes the thoughts further.

‘In the end, kids won’t remember that fancy toy you bought them, they will remember the time you spent with them.’ – Kevin Heath.

You may have to keep buying new toys as they grow bored of the ones, which they will not even remember – How about planning family trips with them instead?

‘The best things you can give your family is a lifetime of adventures.’ – Unknown

One of the beautiful family adventure quotes which elucidate how there is no better gift than adventures

‘Actually, the best gift you could have given her was a lifetime of adventures.’ – Lewis Carroll .

‘The best things in life are the people you love, the places you have seen, and the memories you have made along the way.’ – Unknown

‘Nature is a tool to get children to experience not just the wider world, but themselves’ – Stephen Moss

‘Every day of our lives we make deposits in the memory banks of our children.’ – Charles R. Swindoll

‘Two of the greatest gifts we can give our children are roots and wings.’ – Hodding Carter

‘May your adventures bring you closer together, even as they take you far away from home.’ – Trenton Lee Stewart.

‘When you travel with your children you are giving them something that can never be taken away – experience, exposure and a way of life.’ – Pamela T. Chandler

‘We should live every day like it is a holiday, being thankful and spending time with family, and looking hopefully to the future.’ – Unknown

Short Travel Quotes

Below are some of the short quotes on family, and also some family holidays quote that you can relate to!

Share these holiday with family quotes as perfect captions for your trip pictures.

‘Family is a life jacket in the stormy sea of life.’ – J.K.Rowling

‘The best way to get a child outside is to go with them.’ – Unknown

‘Life was made for good family and great adventures.’ – Unknown

‘Family vacations are always a good idea.’ – Unknown

‘When we have each other we have everything.’ – Unknown

‘Time is precious. Waste it wisely.’ – Unknown

‘The only trip you will regret is the one you didn’t take.’ – Unknown

‘Time waits for no one. Take your family for travel adventures.’- Unknown

‘May your adventures bring you closer together.’ – Unknown

‘Road trips aren’t measured by mile markers but by moments.’ – Unknown

‘You are my home and my adventure all at once.’ – Unknown

‘Not All Classrooms Have Four Walls.’ – Unknown

‘No road is long with good company.’ – Unknown

‘It Is Never Too Early To Begin Exploring The World.’ – Unknown

‘A Family That Travels Together Stays Together.’ – Unknown

‘Traveling Is Learning.’ – Kiyuyu Wisdom

‘Memories made together lasts a lifetime.’ – Unknown

‘What child has not travelled by spinning the globe.’ – Unknown

‘It’s a wondrous thing how the wild calms the child.’ – Unknown

‘My ideal travel companions are my family.’ – Pharrell Williams

‘Home is people. Not a place.’ – Robin Hobb

‘Children learn more from what you are than what you teach.’ – W.E.B. DuBois

‘Good company in a journey makes the way seem shorter.’ – Izaak Walton

‘Then I Realized Adventures Are The Best Way To Learn.’ – Unknown

‘A great way to learn about your country is to leave it.’ – Henry Rollins

‘The mother’s heart is the child’s schoolroom.’ – Henry Ward Beecher

‘Make voyages! Attempt them. There’s nothing else.’ – Tennesee Williams

‘The greatest tragedy of the family is the unlived lives of the parents.’ – Carl Jung

‘Never get so busy making a living that you forget to make a life.’ – Unknown

‘Little by little, one travels far.’ – Mexican proverb

‘Kids don’t remember their best day of television.’ – Unknown

‘Kid, you’ll move mountains.’ – Dr Seuss

‘The greatest legacy we can leave our children is happy memories.’ – Og Mandino

Long Family Vacation quotes

These inspiring traveling with family quotes gives us insights on all the aspects of how travelling with your family is one of the best things to do in life. Some of these are deep and thoughtful and while others make you think and reflect on many things, not just by travelling.

“To leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch, or a redeemed social condition, to know that even one life has breathed better because you have lived, this is to have succeeded.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

‘If a child is to keep alive his inborn sense of wonder, he needs the companionship of at least one adult who can share it, rediscovering with him the joy, excitement, and mystery of the world we live in.’ – Rachel Carson

‘The most beautiful things in life are not things. They are people, places, memories, and pictures. They are feelings and moments, smiles and laughter.’ – Unknown

‘We have such a brief opportunity to pass on to our children our love for this Earth and to tell our stories. These are the moments when the world is made whole. In my children’s memories, the adventures we’ve had together in nature will always exist.’ – Richard Louv

‘Life is about the adventures you take and the memories you make. So travel often and live life with open eyes and an open heart.’ – Unknown

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‘I can’t think of anything that excites a greater sense of childlike wonder than to be in a country where you are ignorant of almost everything. Suddenly you are five years old again. You can’t read anything, you have only the most rudimentary sense of how things work, you can’t even reliably cross a street without endangering your life. Your whole existence becomes a series of interesting guesses.’ – Bill Bryson

‘And that’s the wonderful thing about family travel. It provides you with experiences that will remain locked forever in the scar tissue of your mind.’ – Dave Berry

‘At the end of your life, you will never regret not having passed one more test, not winning one more verdict, or not closing one more deal. You will regret time not spent with a husband, a friend, a child, a parent.’ – Barbara Bush

‘Let children walk with Nature, let them see the beautiful blendings and communions of death and life, their joyous inseparable unity, as taught in woods and meadows, plains and mountains and streams of our blessed star, and they will learn that death is stingless indeed, and as beautiful as life.’ – John Muir

‘I think that the best thing we can do for our children is to allow them to do things for themselves, allow them to be strong, allow them to experience life on their own terms, allow them to take the subway… let them be better people, let them believe more in themselves.’ – JoyBell C.

‘What you’ve done becomes the judge of what you’re going to do – especially in other people’s minds. When you’re travelling, you are what you are right there and then. People don’t have your past to hold against you. No yesterdays on the road.’ – William Least Heat-Moon

‘Children have always travelled, and because they are young and bright and full of contradictions, they haven’t always restricted their travel to the possible. Children follow the foxes, and open the wardrobes, and peek beneath the bridge. Children climb the walls and fall down the wells and run the razor’s edge of possibility until sometimes, just sometimes, the possible surrenders and show them the way to go home.’ – Seanan McGuire

More about family quotes in this section for you.

‘The young do not know enough to be prudent, and therefore they attempt the impossible and achieve it, generation after generation.’-Pearl S. Buck

‘If we experienced life through the eyes of a child, everything would be magical and extraordinary. Let our curiosity, adventure and wonder of life never end.’ – Akiane Kramarik

‘To get away from one’s working environment is, in a sense, to get away from one’s self; and this is often the chief advantage of travel and change.’ – Charles Horton Cooley

“Through travel, I first became aware of the outside world; it was through travel that I found my own introspective way into becoming a part of it.” – Eudora Welty

These are beautiful trip with family quotes that share the emotions about how these journeys can deepen the bond and educate the kids at the same time.

‘We must go beyond textbooks, go out into the bypaths and untrodden depths of the wilderness and travel and explore and tell the world the glories of our journey.’ – John Hope Franklin

‘I have wandered all my life, and I have also travelled; the difference between the two being this, that we wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfilment.’ – Hilaire Belloc

Listen to the must not, child. Listen to the don’ts. Listen to the shouldn’t, the impossibles, the wont’s. Listen to the never haves, then listen close to me. Anything can happen, child. Anything can be.’ – Shel Silverstein.

‘Own Only What You Can Always Carry With You: Known Languages, Known Countries, Known People. Let Your Memory Be Your Travel Bag.’– Alexandr Solzhenitsyn.

‘Once you have travelled, the voyage never ends. But it is played out over and over again in the quietest chambers. The mind can never break off from the journey.’ – Pat Conroy

‘Own Only What You Can Always Carry With You: Known Languages, Known Countries, Known People. Let Your Memory Be Your Travel Bag.’ – Alexandr Solzhenitsyn .

‘We finally move into our destiny when we understand that we are to live in and as adventurous play. Perhaps the whole natural world is a party, a festival, and we, the long-awaited champagne.’ – Brian Swimme

Funny Quotes About Travelling With Family

All the best experiences aside, it is not an easy feat to travel with kids. You need to plan various things well in advance with minimum chances for spontaneous travel.

With tantrum-throwing toddlers or stubborn adolescents, you need tons of patience and the ability to get going without throwing towels, but travelling as a family is another level adventure, right?

The best way to enjoy family trips is to take things on a light note and be open to having fun in your crazy terms.

Here are some of the fun vacation quotes and quotes about family fun!

Use these funny quotes about a family in your captions and laugh with your loved ones.

‘I have found out that there ain’t a no surer way to find out whether you like people or hate them than to travel with them.’ – Mark Twain

‘There are two kinds of travel – first class and with children.’– Robert Benchley

‘Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city.’ – George Burns

‘Summer vacations are a time when parents realise that teachers are grossly underpaid.’ – Unknown

‘You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for instance.’ – Franklin P. Jones

‘Family – a little bit of crazy, a little bit of loud. A whole lot of love.’ – Unknown

‘When traveling with someone, take large doses of patience and tolerance with your morning coffee.’ – Helen Hayes

‘You call it chaos. We call it a family vacation.’ – Unknown

The list below includes some amazing family trip quotes which are hilarious too.

Don’t laugh alone, share these funny family travel quotes with everyone.

‘Have you ever noticed how parents can go from the most wonderful people in the world to totally embarrassing in three seconds?’ – Rick Riordan

‘I take my children everywhere, but they always find their way back home.’ – Robert Orben

‘My family is temperamental – half temper, half mental.’ – Unknown

‘Parent’s don’t really go on holidays. They just look after their kids in a different country for a while.’ – Unknown

‘A road trip is a way for the whole family to spend time together and annoy each other in interesting new places.’ – Tom Lichtenheld

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‘If there’s one thing I’ve learned over the aeons, it’s that you can’t give up on your family, no matter how tempting they make it.’ – Rick Riordan

‘Silence is golden. Unless you have kids. Then silence is suspicious.’ – Unknown

‘Passports, pineapples, and vacation with my people.’ – Unknown

Best Adventure Travel Quotes With Your Loved Ones

Here are some of children adventure quotes that will inspire you to go on explorations with them!

These are exclusive travel quotes for families with young children. 

If you are having second thoughts, these family vacations quotes will surely prep you up a little.

If you are one of those globetrotters that are on the road exploring the planet with your kids, you can definitely relate to these beautiful quotes on world travel with kids.

‘In fairy tales, it’s always the children who have fine adventures.’ – Audrey Niffenegger

‘Don’t wait to retire, pack up your family and go on adventures.’ – Unknown

‘My idea of dealing with stress is to book flight tickets for a family getaway.’ – Unknown

‘I hope my children grow up to be ‘look at the moon!’ type of people.’ – Unknown

‘Don’t just tell your children about the world. Show them.’ – Unknown

‘On a journey with your child, take every moment to enjoy the ride.’ – Unknown

These are some of the best quotes on holidays with family to inspire you.

‘Like anything else in my life, you and the family need to unplug every once in a while. Go. Travel. Enjoy one another.’ – Unknown

‘It is a magical world, pack up your kids and get exploring.’ – Unknown

‘There is no WiFi in the forest but you will find a better connection.’ – Unknown

‘We do not inherit the Earth from our ancestors. We borrow it from our children.’ –Chief Seattle

‘You will never look back in your life and think, I spent too much time with my kids.’ – Kimberly Mcleod

‘The safest place for a child is at the top of a five-foot tree.’ – Unknown

‘Having kids is a reason to travel, never a reason to stop.’ – Unknown

‘For the holidays: the rich’s kids travel the world; the poor’s kids roam around their grandparent’s yard.’ – Unknown

‘No amount of money or success can take the place of time spent with your family.’ – Unknown

‘Rejoice with your family in the beautiful land of life.’ – Unknown

‘When in doubt, choose the kids. There will be plenty of time later to choose work.’ – Anna Quindlen

‘Our children should be properly introduced to the world in which they live.’ – Thomas Berry

‘To be in your children’s memories tomorrow, you have to be in their lives today.’ – Barbara Johnson

‘The most precious jewels you’ll ever have around your neck are the arms of your children.’ – Unknown

‘There are no seven wonders of the world in the eyes of a child. There are seven million.’ – Walt Streightiff

‘Together in our house, in the firelight, we are the world made small.’ – Jennifer Donnely

‘The gift of play is that it invites us to create without attachment, explore without a destination, and enjoy without complexity.’ – Vince Goemon

‘You don’t have to go far from home with your kids. Spend some time with them because they see things in amazing new ways.’ – Unknown

Best Travel With Kids Quotes

As a kid, I remember how eager and enthusiastic I would be for our family getaways.

From planning to packing to enjoying the journey to photographs, there were many too many things to be excited about!

I am grateful that we could regularly go on family trips, sometimes near and many times to faraway places – I owe my love for travel to these trips, which introduced me to the beautiful world.

The kids might feel the same way, and you might be glad that you could watch them grow, spend time with them by taking them to places and wonderful experiences.

The below travel with family quotes beautifully explain these things.

‘If we want our children to move mountains, we first have to let them get out of their chairs.’ – Nicolette Sowder

‘What do parents owe their young that is more important than a warm and trusting connection to the Earth?’ – Theodore Roszak

‘If you want your children to turn out well, spend twice as much time with them and half as much money.’ – Abigail Van Buren

‘Your greatest contribution to the kingdom of God may not be something you do, but someone you raise.’ – Andy Stanley

‘What can you do to promote world peace? Go home and love your family.’ – Mother Teresa

‘That’s why I love family road trips. It is like doing something without actually doing something.’ – Unknown

‘Of All The Paths You Take In Life Make Sure A Few Of Them Are Sandy.’ – Unknown

Beautiful CAptions about Travel with Kids

If there is one thing that travellers are aware of, it is that travel is the greatest teacher.

And taking family trips and vacations is the best way to teach children everything.

Whether it is about the destinations, culture, people, mountains , or beaches , kids observe, grasp, and learn things much quicker. 

Travel with kids will also prepare them for adult life – from simple things like learning the directions or planning trips or adventure.

The family travel quotes are some of the best words out there.

Here are some of the deepest and insightful travel family quotes and family trips quotes.

‘Children must be taught how to think, not what to think.’ – Margaret Mead

‘The earlier and the more often children are exposed to nature, the happier, healthier, and brighter they become.’ – Unknown

‘Teaching children about the natural world should be seen as one of the most important events in their lives.’ – Thomas Berry

‘Travel is like an endless university. You never stop learning.’ – Harvey Lloyd

‘While we try to teach our children all about life, our children teach us what life is all about.’ – Angela Schwindt

‘Rather than books and lectures, nature itself is children’s best teacher.’ – Unknown

‘Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all.’ – –  Aristotle

‘The best education you will ever get is travelling. Nothing teaches you more than exploring the world and accumulating experiences.’ – Mark Paterson

‘The soul begins to travel when the child begins to think.’ – Agnes Reppler

The below family travel quotes emphasise how trips teaches kids more than we can imagine.

‘Travel, in the younger sort, is a part of education; in the elder, a part of the experience.’ -Francis Bacon, Sr.

‘Teaching kids to count is fine, but teaching them what counts is best’ – Bob Talbert.

‘Travel Is Not Reward For Working, It’s Education For Living. – Anthony Bourdain

‘Travel is rich with learning opportunities, and the ultimate souvenir is a broader perspective.’ – Rick Steves

‘A child, more than anyone else, is a spontaneous observer of nature.’ – Maria Montessori

‘If you can repair a child, you don’t have to spend years repairing an adult.’ – Unknown

Awesome Captions

Here are some more quotes about vacation, especially quotes about family vacations that emphasize the value of travelling and its beauty.

These beautiful family travel quotes perfect capture the emotions of travelling together – the ups and downs, what it teaches kids, and much more.

‘Better to see something once than hear about it a thousand times.’ – Asian Proverb

‘Wandering re-establishes the original harmony which once existed between man and the universe.’ – Anatole France

‘Home isn’t where you’re from, it’s where you find light when all grows dark.’ – Pierce Brown

‘The first condition of understanding a foreign country is to smell it.’ – Rudyard Kipling

‘There is freedom waiting for you, On the breezes of the sky, And you ask “What if I fall?” Oh but my darling, What if you fly?’ – Erin Hanson

Ending this list with another set of quotes about families traveling. Whether you want some inspiration or you want captions, these

‘Exploration is really the essence of the human spirit.’ – Frank Bowman

‘The whole object of travel is not to set foot on foreign land; it is, at last, to set foot on one’s own country as a foreign land.’ – G. K. Chesterton

‘There’s dirt on my shirt And leaves in my hair There’s mud on my boots But I don’t really care.’ – Jeff Foxworthy

‘The mud will wash off but the memories will last a lifetime.’ – Unknown

‘It’s not what we have in life, but who we have in our life that matters.’ – Unknown

‘And at the end of the day your feet should be dirty your hair messy and your eyes sparkling.’ – Shanti

‘The world is a playground, and life is pushing my swing.’ – Natalie Kocsis

‘And I think to myself, what a wonderful world.’ – Louis Armstrong

‘Experience, travel – these are as education in themselves.’ – Euripides

‘Travel is never a matter of money but of courage.’ – Paulo Coelho

‘There Is No Time To Be Bored In A World As Beautiful As This.’ – Unknown

‘You lose sight of things, and when you travel, everything balances out.’- Deanna Gidel

‘Fill Your Life With Experiences, Not Things. Have Stories To Tell, Not Stuff To Show.’ 

‘To be a baby elephant must be wonderful. Surrounded by a loving family 24 hours a day. I think it must be how it ought to be, in a perfect world.’ – Daphne Sheldrick

‘Once the travel bug bites there is no known antidote, and I know that I shall be happily infected until the end of my life.’ – Michael Palin.

‘A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions.’ – Oliver Holmes

So that’s all about wonderful quotes about family trips for you. I am sure these inspiring quotes about family trip will entice you to plan your next vacation.

Don’t hesitate to use these captions for trips with family on your Instagram or Facebook. 

Don’t forget to share these epic family travel quotes with your loved ones of course. Use these as family trip quotes for Facebook or family trip quotes for Instagram.

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40 Travel with Kids Quotes for Family Trips in 2024

I love family trip quotes for inspiration and, let's be honest, for Instagram captions! I organized these 40 family travel quotes into 3 categories: 1) Trips with Kids Quotes 2) Family Vacation Quotes and 3) Family Travel Quotes from Famous People . Happy exploring!

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Family Trip Quotes with Kids:

1) “Collect moments. Not things.” - Karen Salmansohn, Author

I am starting off with one of my favorite quotes as a parent and a traveler. I have this quote hanging in our kitchen as a reminder for our family of what really matters. Traveling with kids has its shares of challenges. Its good to have reminders and inspiration as the to why behind traveling with kids.

2) “Blessed are the curious for they shall have adventures.” - Lovelle Drachman

Curiosity is a precious thing to cultivate in kids! Adventuring and traveling can lead to a bigger world for your kids!

3) "Not all classrooms have four walls." - Anonymous

Any parent or educator or anyone who has spent any time with kids can attest to the truth of these words! Kids are innately curious about their surroundings so when their surrounding changes, they are bound to learn!

Love these Wood Flag Pins to add to your world traveling map!

4) "Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all." - Helen Keller

My natural inclination is to seek safety for my kids. But, many times it is the spontaneous adventures that are the most memory-making! One time we were visiting Amsterdam with two small kids. And instead of taking a tram or taxi back to our rental apartment, we chose to walk. The walk ended up taking 3 hours but during that time we got to experience the many rings of canals, markets, and street life that we would have missed!

Family Trip Quotes about Giving Your Kids The World

5) "Travel is like an endless university. You never stop learning."  - Harvey Lloyd Photographer

This is one of my favorite parts of travel for my kids as well as myself! Each new experience leads to new insights and learnings. For instance, on a boat ride in Thailand’s Phi Phi Islands, we learned about the natural wildlife (monkeys and eagles!) but also about the people who call the Islands home from our incredible guide Mars. My then 3 year old might forget the epic islands. But will never forget Mars’ kindness and that mommy monkey holding her baby!

6) “Experience, travel – these are as education in themselves.” – Euripides, Ancient Greek playwright

Well if an Ancient Greek over 2,000 years ago said it, it must be true! Many teachers have found this travel quote to be true around the world.

7) “Two of the greatest gifts we can give our children and roots and wings.”  - Hodding Carter, political author

A beautiful maxim that I’ve seen throughout my life. I moved nearly every year as a child but my mom always reminded us that 2 things remain the same, our family and God. I am so thankful for our experiences to travel as a kid as well as the roots of home, wherever in the world that may have been! These family travel quotes encourage me to follow in my mom's footsteps.

8) “When you travel with children you are giving something that can never be taken away… experience, exposure, and a way of life.”  - Pamela T. Chandler, author of The Adventured Star

Family travel is truly priceless!

Quotes about Stretching Your Horizon Through Family Trips

9) “A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions.” - Oliver Wendell Holmes

This follows the famous Mark Twain travel quote about being fatal to prejudice (in the next section). Such an important aspect to traveling with our kids is that their new experiences broaden not just their memories, but their viewpoints!

10) "If we were meant to stay in one place, we'd have roots instead of feet." - Rachel Wolchin

I love this family travel quote as a reminder to us as parents that part of our role is to encourage our children to grow and explore the world they live in.

11) "Jobs fill your pocket, but adventures fill your soul." – Jamie Lyn Beatty

A caveat is that many jobs can and do fill your soul! But I think this is a great encouragement to prepare our children not just for their future vocation but for their future adventures!

12) “Never get so busy making a living that you forget to make a life.” - Dolly Parton

Of course, we had to finish this section with a Dolly Parton quote! This may not usually be on lists of family travel quotes but I think it deserves to be! She walked the talk with her various educational programs impacting hundreds of thousands. Be sure to check out her Imagination Library program which sends free books monthly to children from birth to Kindergarten.  

13) "Every day we make deposits in the memory banks of our children." - Charles Swindoll

14) "Memories made together last a lifetime." - Unknown

15) "We were together. I forget the rest." - Walt Whitman

16) "Deciding not to travel with kids because they won't remember, is like not reading them books becuase they won't remember the stories you read them." - Unknown

17) "Travel is the only thing that you buy that makes you richer." - Unknown

Maybe not the only thing but makes you richer for sure!

Family Vacation Quotes:

18) “Traveling – it leaves you speechless, then turns you into a storyteller.” - Ibn Battuta, 14th century Explorer

Maybe this is my favorite travel quote right here in the middle of the stack?! The wonder of travel and the stories that come from traveling to different lands cannot be overstated.  

19) “Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one's lifetime.” – Mark Twain

This is one of my favorite family travel quotes because it gets to the heart of the impact of travel on one’s outlook on the world. For our kids, showing them the world is not just about a fancy vacation, but a broadening of their minds. We found this to be true when traveling and living in Taiwan. As a white mom raising biracial children, I assumed too much and learned more of the nuances each day.

One tiny example of my changed understanding was comments from “aunties” in our apartment building. At the beginning, I thought these well-meaning older women were being busybodies to comment if my toddler was wearing enough clothes for the weather etc. I learned though that they really saw us as part of their community and wanted to show their concern in these comments. I got so used to this that when we moved back to the States, I was slightly offended no one in the check-out aisle was commenting on if my kid had the right clothes on!

My Favorite Family Trip Quotes!

20) “To my mind, the greatest regard and luxury of travel is to be able to experience everyday things as if for the first time, to be in a position in which almost nothing is so familiar it is taken for granted.” – Bill Bryson author of many travel memoirs including one of my personal favorites, The Road to Little Dribbling

And this can be opened to local travel as well as dramatic international travel! I love the focus on not taking things for granted, truly a priceless takeaway from a family trip!

21) “What’s your favourite place?” “I don’t have a favourite place, I have my favourite people. And, whenever I’m with my favourite people, it becomes my favourite place.”  - Nivaz Ahemad in Late Night Tales

Family vacations are about the people you travel with much more than the places you go to. I love this quote that makes that emphasis clear!

22) "To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries." - Aldous Huxley

This one might not be on a lot of family vacation quote lists but I have found it to be true! What we grow up thinking about a country is reflected in our first-hand knowledge and nothing can beat visiting in person!

23) "Once you have traveled, the voyage never ends, but is played out over and over again in the quietest chambers. The mind can never break off from the journey." - Pat Conroy

Trips and vacations may end but you (and your kids!) will always have the memories to remember and enjoy! Family travel quotes are so encouraging to me because they help me to see the many ways travel impacts our lives.

Unknown Author Travelling Quotes:

24) “Wanderlust: a strong desire to wander or travel and explore the world.” – Wikipedia definition

Doesn’t get much clearer than that! Wanderlust may be overused as an Instagram hashtag but I will never get tired of exploring the world with my family.

25) "Having kids is reason to travel, not a reason to stop.” – Author Unknown

This gets to the heart of the “why” for family travel. We travel because we have kids not in spite of them!

26) “We travel not to escape life, but for life not to escape us.” – Anonymous

My 7 year old just came in and picked this as her favorite quote of the bunch! Sometimes the simplest is the best!

27) “Travel is not a reward for working, it’s education for living.” – Anthony Bourdain (seen attributed to him or Anonymous)

Oftentimes, I’ve said to myself or others that I need a family vacation or I deserve one. This is one of the family travel quotes that flips that over and says travel is part of our living!

Family Trip Quotes about Travel Expanding Your Mind

28) “Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.” – Scott Cameron

What an important thing for our kids to understand. Their place and space in this world as they grow up!

29) "Remember that happiness is a way of travel - not a destination." - Roy S. Goodman

I probably need this reminder on my living room walls! Focusing on contentment in the present is so important for travel and the rest of life!

Family Travel Quotes from Famous People

30) “Travel and change of place impart new vigor to the mind.” – Seneca, 1st century philosopher

Don’t mess with Seneca on pithy to the point quotes! I think this is one of the great family travel quotes because it gets to the heart of a well rounded childhood.

31) “Don’t count the days. Make the days count.” - Muhammad Ali

This could be a life quote in addition to family travel quotes! In other words, even during the harder parts of travel (jet lag, I’m looking at you!), we can focus on the parts that will be lasting for our children.

32) “Travel, in the younger sort, is a part of education; in the elder, a part of experience.” – Francis Bacon, Sr.

This may be the only family trip quote that I would disagree with. I think for both kids and adults, travel is both an education and an experience! (But hey, I’m no 16th-century philosopher!)

33) "We live in a wonderful world that is full of beauty, charm and adventure. There is no end to the adventures we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open." – Jawaharial Nehru, former prime minister of India

It is truly a wonderful world whether across the ocean or in our own neighborhood backyard. We can teach our kids to appreciate everything with wonder and curiosity!

Wise Words from Terry Pratchett

34) “Why do you go away? So that you can come back. So that you can see the place you came from with new eyes and extra colors. And the people there see you differently, too. Coming back to where you started is not the same as never leaving.” ― Terry Pratchett, A Hat Full of Sky

This is another variation of the Bill Bryson quote. Like the previous one, traveling with kids helps them to see the world but also changes their view of their home too!

35) “Two roads diverged in a wood, and I - I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference.” -  Robert Frost, Poet

Yes, this is one of the most famous American poems, but for good reason! It evokes the wondrous spirit of being spontaneous. Family travel quotes can help encourage us to see travel as not just in the exotic trips but also in our everyday life.

Travel Quotes from Philosophers

36) “The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page.” -  St. Augustine

I didn’t know whether to include this one in the family travel quote list because it sounds a little judgmental. I understand the ability to travel is a luxury. Especially if someone lives in a country that doesn’t allow movement, doesn’t have documentation or financial resources. I don’t think travel is the only way to expand your mind. Education and reading and an open spirit to learning from all can as well.

37) “The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.” - Marcel Proust

Travel doesn’t have to be a huge expedition. It can simply offer a new perspective on a walk in your neighborhood.

38) “Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not.” - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Can’t add much to this encouragement to see the beauty around us.

And now I leave you with 3 final travel with kids quotes:

39) “Not all those who wander are lost.” - J.R.R. Tolkien in The Lord of the Rings

Perhaps the most Instagrammed quote and the one with the most Etsy prints! I couldn’t not include this quote.

40) “Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines, sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.” – Mark Twain

I cannot add anything better to this Mark Twain quote. If I could, I would tattoo this to my arm! (little long and I don’t like permanent things lol!)

41) "Travelling in the company of those we love is home in motion." – Leigh Hunt, English 18thcentury poet

This is the newest family travel quote I added to my collection, and one of the most poignant. It brings together our love for our families and our love of travel!

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51 Insightful Family Travel Quotes & Captions

Travelling with family is one of life’s greatest gifts. These 51 family travel quotes and captions perfectly capture what it’s like to embark on a journey with the best travel companions of all: Your relatives!

Whether you’re taking your kids on vacation, embarking on a trip with your parents or travelling with extended family, a trip in the company of family can be a uniquely fun and fulfilling experience.

Some of my favourite travel memories are of trips taken as a child with my parents and younger sister. Even all these years later, it’s still difficult to put into words how much those holidays meant to me.

To help you perfectly caption your favourite family travel photos, I’ve curated this list of inspiring, meaningful and funny quotes and captions.

Copy and paste them to use in your next social media update, or send them to a friend who’s planning their family trip. However you choose to use these family travel quotes, they’re guaranteed to inspire and entertain!

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Short and sweet family travel quotes

These quick quotes are straight to the point and capture a tonne of emotions and sentiment in a few brief sentences.

These short travel quotes are perfect for captioning family vacation photos and expressing the wonder of travel for the little people in your life.

“There are no seven wonders of the world in the eyes of a child. There are seven million.”

– Walt Streightiff

“Blessed are the curious as they shall have adventures.”

– Lovelle Drachman

“Can we just skip to the part of my life where I travel the world?”

“In fairy tales it’s always the children who have the fine adventures”

– Audrey Niffenegger

“There is no time to be bored in a world as beautiful as this.”

“Home is people. Not a place.”

– Robin Hobb

“Oh, the places you’ll go.”

– Dr. Seuss

“Little by little, one travels far.”

– Mexican proverb

“What child has not travelled by spinning the globe.”

“The world is a playground, and life is pushing my swing.”

– Natalie Kocsis

“Travelling in the company of those we love is home in motion.”

– Leigh Hunt

“Together in our house, in the firelight, we are the world made small.”

– Jennifer Donnelly

“Having kids is a reason to travel, never a reason to stop.”

Long family travel quotes

“I can’t think of anything that excites a greater sense of childlike wonder than to be in a country where you are ignorant of almost everything. Suddenly you are five years old again.

You can’t read anything, you have only the most rudimentary sense of how things work, you can’t even reliably cross a street without endangering your life. Your whole existence becomes a series of interesting guesses.”

– Bill Bryson

“Children have always travelled, and because they are young and bright and full of contradictions, they haven’t always restricted their travel to the possible. Children follow the foxes, and open the wardrobes, and peek beneath the bridge. Children climb the walls and fall down the wells and run the razor’s edge of possibility until sometimes, just sometimes, the possible surrenders and shows them the way to go home.”

– Seanan McGuire

“I think that the best thing we can do for our children is to allow them to do things for themselves, allow them to be strong, allow them to experience life on their own terms, allow them to take the subway… let them be better people, let them believe more in themselves.”

– JoyBell C.

Quotes about life lessons and world schooling

In many ways, deciding to travel with school-aged kids is a big leap of faith. Swapping routine for the great unknown isn’t an easy decision – but it almost always pays dividends.

I’m lucky enough to come from a family where my parents viewed travel as an important part of our upbringing. Immersing yourself in a different culture , hands-on history lessons, learning a new language – these are just some of the incredibly enriching life experiences that can come from travel.

Not to mention all the wonderful lessons you learn about yourself (and your family members) when you’re pushed out of your comfort zone!

No matter how old you are, travel is an important educational experience. These quotes about life lessons and world schooling illustrate how beneficial family travel can be to shaping young minds in particular.

“Travel is rich with learning opportunities, and the ultimate souvenir is a broader perspective.”

– Rick Steves

“Not all classrooms have four walls.”

“Children must be taught how to think, not what to think.”

– Margaret Mead

“Travel is like an endless university. You never stop learning.”

– Harvey Lloyd

“When you travel with children you are giving something that can never be taken away: Experience, exposure and a way of life.”

– Pamela Chandler

“The best education you will ever get is traveling. Nothing teaches you more than exploring the world and accumulating experiences.”

– Mark Paterson

“Don’t tell me how educated you are. Tell me how much you’ve travelled.”

– Prophet Muhammad

“A great way to learn about your country is to leave it.”

– Henry Rollins

“Ideally, travel broadens our perspectives personally, culturally, and politically. Suddenly, the palette with which we paint the story of our lives has more colours.”

We never stop learning, and travel is extremely enriching for adults, too. Travelling with kids and seeing the world through a child’s eyes is a powerful way to gain a fresh perspective on an otherwise familiar environment or culture.

“If we experienced life through the eyes of a child, everything would be magical and extraordinary. Let our curiosity, adventure and wonder of life never end.”

– Akiane Kramarik

“Children learn more from what you are than what you teach.”

– W.E.B. DuBois

“The mother’s heart is the child’s school room.”

– Henry Ward Beecher

Quotes the prove travel is a gift

I’m firmly of the belief that travel is a privilege. Giving the gift of travel to your children is one of the most important and generous things a parent can do. Travel is a way to discover the world, but it’s also a way to form stronger bonds with those most important to you.

Young kids might not realise it now, but the travel experiences you create for them are almost guaranteed to leave a lasting impression into adulthood.

Just be careful how much of a passion for travel you end up cultivating – having now lived abroad for 5 years, I’m sure my parents wish I hadn’t grown up to be quite so interested in travel!

“Two of the greatest gifts we can give our children are roots and wings.”

– Hodding Carter

“The greatest legacy we can leave our children is happy memories.”

– Og Mandino

“Travel in the younger sort is a part of education; in the elder, a part of experience.”

– Francis Bacon

“In the end, kids won’t remember that fancy toy you bought them, they will remember the time you spent with them.”

– Kevin Heath

“Never get so busy making a living that you forget to make a life.”

“The greatest tragedy of the family is the un-lived lives of the parents.”

– Carl Jung

“Jobs fill your pocket, but adventures fill your soul.”

– Jamie Lyn Beatty

“Travel is not reward for working, it’s education for living.”

– Anthony Bourdain

“Never forget that anticipation is an important part of life. Work’s important, family’s important, but without excitement, you have nothing. You’re cheating yourself if you refuse to enjoy what’s coming.”

– Nicholas Sparks

Quotes that prove travel makes family bonds stronger

Travel is, in my opinion, the most rewarding thing you can do – but it also has a way of throwing you head-first into difficult situations. Learning to navigate foreign terrain with your family – to negotiate and to work together towards a common goal – is an equally important part of travel.

These beautiful family travel quotes highlight the importance of relationships and show how journeys taken together can strengthen those family bonds.

“Home isn’t where you’re from, it’s where you find light when all grows dark.”

– Pierce Brown

“Happiness is only real when shared.”

– Jon Krakauer, Into the Wild

“To be a baby elephant must be wonderful. Surrounded by a loving family 24 hours a day…. I think it must be how it ought to be, in a perfect world.”

– Daphne Sheldrick

“What can you do to promote world peace? Go home and love your family.”

– Mother Teresa

“The bond that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each other’s life. Rarely do members of one family grow up under the same roof.”

– Richard Bach

Funny family travel quotes

Let’s face it – travelling with family (especially young kids) isn’t always the path of least resistance!

I hope these comedic family travel captions might lighten the mood next time you’re feeling overwhelmed or fed up.

“I take my children everywhere, but they always find their way back home.”

– Robert Orben

“A road trip is a way for the whole family to spend time together and annoy each other in interesting new places.”

– Tom Lichtenheld

“There are two kinds of travel: first class and with children.”

– Robert Benchley

“Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city.”

– George Burns

“You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for instance.”

– Franklin P. Jones

“I have found out that there ain’t no surer way to find out whether you like people or hate them than to travel with them.”

– Mark Twain

“The mud will wash off but the memories will last a lifetime.”

“Have you ever noticed how parents can go from the most wonderful people in the world to totally embarrassing in three seconds?”

– Rick Riordan

“…If there’s one thing I’ve learned over the eons, it’s that you can’t give up on your family, no matter how tempting they make it.”

And there you have it: My favourite meaningful and inspiring family travel quotes – plus a few to make you chuckle!

Do you have a good quote about family vacations or travel with kids that you’d like to add to the list? I’d love to hear your favourites in the comments below!

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25 Inspiring Travel With Kids Quotes For Families

Looking for inspirational travel with kids’ quotes? I have put together 25 of my favorite family vacation quotes below, and I hope they inspire you as much as they inspire me!

As working parents, we prioritize spending our free time adventuring with kids to create a strong family bond and memories.

Having kids inspired us to travel more with them and learn together as much as possible about the planet we live on. For example, exploring the beauty of Grindelwald and the underwater world of Turks and Caicos through little eyes was much more meaningful and joyful than the trips we took without kids.

I do not claim that traveling with kids is easy. But I promise that at the end of the tantrums and with almost no downtime for parents, you and your children will create memories and experiences that will last forever.

Besides, we love adding a new destination pin to our wall map after coming back home. It brings joy and satisfaction that our family crossed off another bucket list destination and inspired us to keep exploring.

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Travel With Kids Quotes

1. ” There are no seven wonders of the World in the eyes of a child. There are seven million.” – Walt Streightiff.

This quote can go to the top of the list because it highlights the feelings I experience when looking into my son’s eyes when exploring something for the first time, whether it is a new toy, plant, or a real-life airplane.

The excitement in his eyes completely changed my mindset about traveling with kids. We aim to bring out the curiosity and excitement in our children’s eyes through exploring and adventures as much as possible.

Exploring does not always mean traveling with your passport. Simple road trips and getaways close to your house are as meaningful.

2. “Two of the greatest gifts we can give our children are roots and wings.” – Hodding Carter

This picture was taken on a Swiss Gondola while Visiting The First Mountain in Grindelwald. Our 3-year-old son may not have understood our daily excursions, but he was undoubtedly excited about riding the gondolas and trains, and that was enough for us to feel joy.

3. “Not all classrooms have four walls.” – Anonymous While I am not against school education, they spend too much time inside classrooms and so little outdoors. Kids are much better off learning more about our world, different cultures, and a little bit of everything through real-life experiences combined with classroom education.

4. “Each day of our lives we make the deposits in the memory banks of our children.” – Charles R. Swindoll

5. ” Where you live shapes how you see the whole world, but when you see the world it shapes how you see yourself.” – Richie Norton

6. ” Kids don’t remember their best day of television” – Unknown

7. “As soon as I saw you, I knew an adventure was about to happen.” – Winnie the Pooh

8. “Nature is the tool to get Children to experience not a wide world but themselves” – Stephen Moss

9. “Don’t tell me the sky is the limit when there are footprints on the Moon” – Paul Brandt

10. “Collect moments not things” – Karen Salmahson

11. “It is never too early to start exploring the world” – Unknown

12. “And at the end of the day, your feet should be dirty, hair messy, and eyes were sparkling.” – Shanti

13. ” Because when you stop and look around, this life is pretty amazing.”  – Dr. Seuss

14. ” The greatest legacy we can leave our children is happy memories.” – Og Mandino

15. “Teaching kids to count is fine, but teaching them what counts is best.” – Bob Talbert

16. “In the end, kids won’t remember the fancy toy you bought them; they will remember the time you spent with them.” – Kevin Heath

17. “Of all the books in the world, the best stories are found between the pages of a passport.” – Unknown

Family Travel Quotes

18. “May your adventures bring you closer together, even as they take you far away from home.” – Trenton Lee Stewart

It’s one of my absolute favorite family quotes. If you are a working parent, you know how much time we spend away from our children.

We all need help with daily schedules and responsibilities to ensure enough time for family gatherings and playtimes. Day trips, weekend getaways, and longer destinations are crucial for reconnecting with each other.

19. ” Don’t just tell your children about the world. Show them.” – Penny Whitehouse

20. “You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for instance.” – Franklin P. Jones

Traveling with kids will undoubtedly test your patience at some point. You may have already had a moment when you wanted to give up trying to make it a perfect holiday.

We could not believe it was so challenging when we first went on a small road trip within the first year of my son’s life. But guess what? It gets better. One trip after another, we learned to be more patient, accommodate each other, and learn how to enjoy the trip still.

No trip is the same, but we lowered the expectations, which made the traveling so much better!

21. ” Traveling in the company of those we love is home in motion.” – Leigh Hunt

22. “Travel is not a reward for working. It is education for living.” – Anthony Bourdain

23. “Travel sparks our imagination, feeds our curiosity, and reminds us how much we all have in common.” – Deborah Lloyd

24. “Deciding not to travel with your children because they won’t remember the trips you take is like saying don’t read them books because they won’t remember the stories you read.” – Unknown 25. “Travel is the only thing you buy that makes you richer.” – Anonymous.

Is it worth traveling with kids?

Speaking for my family, traveling with kids is worth it. For working parents like us who have limited vacation days, we use most of the time as a family to create the best memories.

You may ask, but will they remember any of it, or is it a waste? Maybe they will, perhaps they won’t. But the point is to create shared experiences and learn throughout the travels as a family.

There are so many benefits of traveling with children. As Nicola has summarized in her article Benefits of travel for kids, you can expect your children to become more adaptable, patient, diverse, responsible, and more.

In conclusion, these quotes encapsulate the adventure, challenges, and priceless family travel experiences, highlighting the lifelong memories and lessons children and adults gain.

Here are some of the Key Takeaways that I believe are true when traveling with kids:

• Shared travel experiences can strengthen the bonds between family members, creating deeper connections through shared adventures and challenges.
• Both children and adults can experience significant personal growth while traveling, gaining confidence, independence, and a sense of adventure.
• Exposure to different cultures and ways of life during travel help children develop a greater appreciation for diversity and understand their place in the world.
• Traveling with kids is an invaluable educational experience, offering lessons that go far beyond the classroom walls. It opens young minds to new cultures, languages, and histories.

What is your Favorite Travel With Kids Quotes?

There you have it, my top inspirational travel with kids quotes. I had so much fun finding them and sorting them out for you. I am currently thinking about our next family vacation to fuel our wanderlust. Save your favorite quotes to inspire you next time you plan your family trip.

Mariam is a full-time working mom based in New Jersey who loves adventuring outside office hours with her husband and two little boys. She started this family travel blog to share family-friendly travel guides, itineraries, and tips to help busy families with kids keep exploring outside their 9-5.

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75 Quotes About Family Travel To Cherish The Memories!

Family travel can be stressful . It doesn’t matter if you are the parent or the child , there are plenty of ways it could go wrong. After all, you don’t always have the same interests and lifestyle. There is nothing worse than having one bad family vacation and having everyone not willing to go to another one. However, there are many good  benefits of family travel . Whether that is bonding with some of the dearest people in your life or just exploring somewhere new together, family travel isn’t always so bad. That is why we have written this post on the 70 best quotes about family travel, so you can be inspired to travel with your family and cherish the precious memories . You will also find some excellent travel with kids quotes!

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Our Favorite Traveling With Family Quotes

These are our 10 favorite traveling with family quotes. Not only do these resonate with us, but they are also very insightful and inspirational !

1. “The greatest legacy we can leave our children is happy memories.” – Og Mandino

2. “Sometimes you will never know the value of a moment until it becomes a memory.” – Dr. Seuss

3. “Fill your life with experiences, not things. Have stories to tell, not stuff to show.”

4. “Traveling in the company of those we love is home in motion.” – Leigh Hunt

5. “Don’t count the days. Make the days count.” – Muhammad Ali.

6. “In the end, kids won’t remember that fancy toy you bought them, they will remember the time you spent with them.” – Kevin Heath

7. “Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all.” – Helen Keller

8. “There are no perfect parents and there are no perfect children, but there are plenty of perfect moments along the way.” – Dave Willis

9. “Every day we make deposits in the memory banks of our children.” – Charles R Swindoll

10. “Take only memories, leave only footprints.” – Chief Seattle

Short Family Trip Quotes

Short family trip quotes are perfect if you don’t want to have long captions that might sound a little too cheesy. They are perfect for every occasion!

1. “I have learned that to be with those I like is enough.” – Walt Whitman

2. “When all else fails, take a vacation.” – Betty Williams

3. “Here’s to a vacation of no regrets!” – Joan Rylen

4. “A family that travels together stays together.”

5. “Adventure awaits.”

6. “Having kids is a reason to travel, never a reason to stop.”

7. “Travel to unravel.” – Richie Norton

8. “To travel is to live. Life’s a trip.” – Richie Norton

9. “Kids don’t remember their best day of television.”

10. “No road is long with good company.”

Funny Quotes About Family Travel

Nothing is easier to remember than humor ! Use one of these funny quotes about family travel to remember those loving memories.

1. “I don’t want to go to Peru.” How do you know? You’ve never been there.” I’ve never been to hell either and I’m pretty sure I don’t want to go there.” – Richard Paul Evans, The Sunflower (2005)

2. “There are two kinds of travel: first class and with children.” – Robert Benchley

3. “Are we there yet?”

4. “That’s why I love road trips, dude. It’s like doing something without actually doing anything.” – John Green, An Abundance of Katherines (2006)

5. “A road trip is a way for the whole family to spend time together and annoy each other in interesting new places.” – Tom Lichtenheld

6. “My favorite childhood memory is my parents paying for my holidays.”

7. “Education is important but travel is importanter!”

8. “I need Vitamin Sea.”

9. “No WiFi out here, but I found a better connection.”

10. “Now is the time to seas the day.”

Inspirational Family Vacation Quotes

Sometimes family travel isn’t all glamorous. In fact, it probably isn’t most of the time. That doesn’t mean you shouldn’t travel! Take in some of these inspirational family vacation quotes and push yourself to do what needs to be done!

1. “Deciding not to travel with kids because they won’t remember, is like not reading them books because they won’t remember the stories you read them.”

2. “Jobs fill your pocket, but adventures fill your soul.” – Jaime Lyn Beatty

3. “In matters of healing the body or the mind, vacation is a true genius!” – Mehmet Murat ildan”

4. “You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for instance.” – Franklin P. Jones

5. “The best education you will ever get is traveling. Nothing teaches you more than exploring the world and accumulating experiences.” – Mark Paterson

6. “Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all.” – Aristotle

7. “May your adventures bring you closer together, even as they take you far away from home.” – Trenton Lee Stewart

8. “Live in this belief: “I am not born for any one corner of the universe; this whole world is my country.” – Seneca, Letters from a Stoic

9. “At the end of your life, you will never regret not having passed one more test, not winning one more verdict, or not closing one more deal. You will regret time not spent with a husband, a friend, a child, a parent.” – Barbara Bush

10. “Experience, travel – these are as education in themselves.” – Euripides

Happy Family Travel Quotes

Cherish those special memories of your vacation using one of our favorite happy family travel quotes! 

1. “Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city.” – George Burns

2. “Happiness [is] only real when shared.” – Jon Krakauer, Into the Wild

3. “Happiness is planning a trip to somewhere new, with someone you love.”

4. “Suntans and sandcastles.”

5. “I live to explore the world with the people I love the most.”

6. “This is my road. I’m so happy you came and traveled with me.” – Rachel Hartman, Tess of the Road (2018)

7. “Joy is portable, bring it with you.”

8. “What’s your favorite place?” “I don’t have a favorite place. I have my favorite people. And, whenever I’m with my favorite people, it becomes my favorite place.”

9. “Oh, the places you’ll go” – Dr. Seuss

10. “Live life with no excuses, travel with no regret” – Oscar Wilde

Profound Travel Quotes With Family

Family travel is more than what you see on the surface. Our profound travel quotes with family will you understand why this is such an incredible experience !

1. “Not all classrooms have 4 walls.”

2. “Adventures are the best ways to learn.”

3. “Travel is like an endless university. You never stop learning.” – Harvey Lloyd

4. “Travel in the younger sort is a part of education; in the elder, a part of experience.” – Francis Bacon

5. “Teaching kids to count is fine, but teaching them what counts is best.” – Bob Talbert

6. “Don’t just tell your children about the world. Show them.”

7. “Where you live shapes how you see the whole world, but when you see the world it shapes how you see yourself.” – Richie Norton

8. “Traveling is like going to the library! The more you travel, the more you will feel as if reading books!” – Mehmet Murat ildan

9. “Two of the greatest gifts we can give our children and roots and wings.” – Hodding Carter

10. “If you think adventure is dangerous, try routine; it is lethal.” – Paulo Coelho

Simple Family Adventure Quotes

Simple family adventure quotes are the best captions for remembering your family vacation memories. Easy and simple , they are perfect for social media !

1. “There is no time to be bored in a world as beautiful as this.”

2. “Wherever you go, go with all your heart.” – Confucius

3. “Adventures are the best gift you could ever give to kids.”

4. “Wherever you go becomes a part of you somehow. ” – Anita Desai

5. “If you don’t try new things, you stay stupid.” – Alexander Watson

6. “Life is too short to not go on that spontaneous road trip.”

7. “People forget the years and remember moments” – Ann Beattie

8. “Some roads aren’t meant to be traveled alone.”

9. “The journey, not the arrival matters.” – T.S. Eliot

10. “Always say yes to family travel!” 

Bonus Family Outing Quotes!

Did you think we were done? Here are 5 bonus family outing quotes that will help you describe that special bonding time on your family vacations!

1. “We have such a brief opportunity to pass on to our children our love for this Earth, and to tell our stories. These are the moments when the world is made whole. In my children’s memories, the adventures we’ve had together in nature will always exist.” – Richard Louv, Last Child in the Woods: Saving Our Children from Nature-Deficit Disorder

2. “Of all the paths you take in life, make sure a few of them are dirt.” – John Muir

3. “There are no seven wonders of the world in the eyes of a child. There are seven million.” – Walt Streightiff

4. “It is never too early to begin exploring the world.”

5. “Own only what you can always carry with you: known languages, known countries, known people. Let your memory be your travel bag.” – Alexandr Solzhenitsyn

How Do You Caption a Family Trip?

Captioning a family trip can be both fun and memorable, allowing you to express the joy and experiences of the journey. Selecting the perfect caption for your family trip photos can be difficult, but we recommend you to select a quote that evokes emotions.

Look for the following characteristics in the quotes:

• Something that emphasizes the significance of shared experiences in strengthening familial bonds
• Something that encapsulates the essence of a family vacation, focusing on love and happiness as the core of a memorable trip
• Something that is humorous and reflects the chaos and fun of traveling with children
• Something that captures the excitement and anticipation of a family trip
• Something that emphasizes the joy of creating lasting memories together

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The 100 Best Inspirational Travel Quotes to Spark Your Next Adventure

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I was a voracious reader when I was growing up, typically reading two books a week on average.

My lower-middle class family didn’t have the money to do much in the way of traveling, outside of the occasional camping trip in North Georgia . Both my parents worked, and my dad worked multiple jobs to support his family of five.

The furthest we ever traveled was a trip to visit my godparents in Virginia when I was 14. So instead I read books about travel and adventure long before I had the financial means to start taking adventures of my own.

It was the written word that originally fueled my travel dreams, from Robert Louis Stevenson’s Treasure Island  and Rudyard Kipling’s The Jungle Books  to Ernest Hemingway’s The Old Man and the Sea .

It was through Henry David Thoreau’s Walden , John Muir’s Our National Parks ,  and Ralph Waldo Emerson’s Nature  that I developed a passion for the environment. Without them, who knows if I would’ve become the advocate for ecotourism and wildlife conservation I am today. 

And when I finally started traveling, the work of travel writers such as Jon Krakauer , Bill Bryson and Paul Theroux greatly influenced the way I did it.

But the first classic quote I remember having a significant impact on me came in the form of a Robert Frost poem: “Two roads diverged in a wood, and I— I took the one less traveled by. And that has made all the difference.” This idea influenced many of my choices, setting me on the path to becoming a full-time professional writer in my twenties.

For me, these inspirational travel quotes aren’t just words: They are the distillation of a philosophy that continues to drive my life and work today. I hope they will prove equally influential for you…   –Bret Love; photos by Bret Love & Mary Gabbett

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Inspirational Travel Quotes

1. “The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.” –Marcel Proust

2. “Once you have traveled, the voyage never ends, but is played out over and over again in the quietest chambers. The mind can never break off from the journey.” –Pat Conroy

3. “Travel does what good novelists also do to the life of everyday, placing it like a picture in a frame or a gem in its setting, so that the intrinsic qualities are made more clear. Travel does this with the very stuff that everyday life is made of, giving to it the sharp contour and meaning of art.” –Freya Stark

4. “Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one’s lifetime.” –Mark Twain

5. “Travel is more than the seeing of sights. It is a change that goes on, deep and permanent, in the ideas of living.” –Miriam Beard

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6. “Tourists don’t know where they’ve been, travelers don’t know where they’re going.” –Paul Theroux

7. “One of the gladdest moments of human life, me thinks, 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 .” –Sir Richard Burton

8. “I travel around the world in a way that tries to open my mind and give me empathy and inspire me to come home and make this world a better place.” – Rick Steves

9. “The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.” –Marcel Proust

10. “I am not the same having seen the moon shine on the other side of the world.” –Mary Anne Radmacher

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Quotes About Adventure Travel

11. “Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.” –Andre Gide

12. “We live in a wonderful world that is full of beauty, charm and adventure. There is no end to the adventures we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open.” –Jawaharial Nehru

13. “Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.” –H. Jackson Brown Jr.

14. “To move, to breathe, to fly, to float, to gain all while you give, To roam the roads of lands remote, To travel is to live.” –Hans Christian Andersen

15. “In the end, you won’t remember the time you spent working in the office or mowing your lawn. Climb that goddamn mountain .” –Jack Kerouac

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16. “If you think adventure is dangerous, try routine; it is lethal.” –Paulo Coelho

17. “Adventure isn’t hanging on a rope off the side of a mountain . Adventure is an attitude that we must apply to the day-to-day obstacles in life.’’ –John Amatt

18.  “Stuff your eyes with wonder, live as if you’d drop dead in 10 seconds. See the world. It’s more fantastic than any dream made or paid for in factories.” –Ray Bradbury

19. “Every man can transform the world from one of monotony and drabness to one of excitement and adventure.” –Irving Wallace

20.  “There’s a race of men that don’t fit in, A race that can’t sit still;

So they break the hearts of kith and kin, And they roam the world at will.

They range the field and rove the flood, And they climb the mountain’s crest;

Theirs is the curse of the gypsy blood, And they don’t know how to rest.”  —Robert W. Service

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21. “Never get so busy making a living that you forget to make a life.” –Anonymous

22.  “Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all.” –Helen Keller

23. “The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page.” –Saint Augustine

24. “Travel brings power and love back into your life.” –Rumi

25.  “Only one who wanders finds new paths.” –Norwegian Proverb

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26. “The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.” –Lao Tzu

27. “Make voyages! Attempt them… there’s nothing else.” –Tennesee Williams

28. “We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls.” –Anais Nin

29.  “Your feet will take you where your heart is.” – Irish proverb

30. “Until you step into the unknown, you don’t know what you’re made of.” –Roy T. Bennett

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31.  “To leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch , or a redeemed social condition, to know that even one life has breathed better because you have lived, this is to have succeeded.” –Ralph Waldo Emerson

32. “No one realizes how beautiful it is to travel until he comes home and rests his head on his old, familiar pillow.” –Lin Yutang

33. “The best education you will ever get is traveling. Nothing teaches you more than exploring the world and accumulating experiences.”  –Mark Paterson

34.  “Travel is like an endless university. You never stop learning.” –Harvey Lloyd

35. “If real, regular, normal, boring life, (when you’re at home every day, seeing the same people, doing the same things) is like sitting at home on the floor surrounded by toys… traveling feels to me like going to Toys R Us with your toy box and getting to trade stuff in and buy new things and explore whole new ideas.” –Alex Day

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36. “We do not inherit the Earth from our ancestors. We borrow it from our children” –Chief Seattle

37. “We must go beyond textbooks, go out into the bypaths and untrodden depths of the wilderness and travel and explore and tell the world the glories of our journey.” –John Hope Franklin

38. “Two of the greatest gifts we can give our children are roots and wings.” –Hodding Carter

39. “When you travel with children you are giving something that can never be taken away… experience, exposure, and a way of life.” –Pamela T. Chandler

40. “A journey is best measured in friends, rather than miles.” –Tim Cahill

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41. “The further I go, the closer to me I get.” – Andrew McCarthy

42. “A person does not grow from the ground like a vine or a tree, one is not part of a plot of land. Mankind has legs so it can wander.”  – Roman Payne, The Wanderess

43 “I am convinced that the jealous, the angry, the bitter and the egotistical are the first to race to the top of mountains. A confident person enjoys the journey, the people they meet along the way and sees life not as a competition. They reach the summit last because they know God isn’t at the top waiting for them. He is down below helping his followers to understand that the view is glorious wherever you stand.” –Shannon L. Alder

44.  “A person susceptible to ‘wanderlust’ is not so much addicted to movement as committed to transformation.” — Pico Iyer

45. “How will I know who I can become if I don’t give myself the chance to try new things, to push myself beyond my normal boundaries? Who might I be if I am away from the things that I currently use to define myself?” ― Eileen Cook, With Malice

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46. “Two roads diverged in a wood and I– I took the one less traveled by… And that has made all the difference.” –Robert Frost

47. “To get away from one’s working environment is, in a sense, to get away from one’s self; and this is often the chief advantage of travel and change.” – Charles Horton Cooley

48. “Through travel I first became aware of the outside world; it was through travel that I found my own introspective way into becoming a part of it.” – Eudora Welty

49. “Travel only with thy equals or thy betters; if there are none, travel alone.” — The Dhammapada

50.  “All I wanted was to live a life where I could be me, and be okay with that. I had no need for material possessions, money, or even close friends with me on my journey. I never understood people very well anyway, and they never seemed to understand me very well either. All I wanted was my art and the chance to be the creator of my own world, my own reality. I wanted the open road and new beginnings every day.” — Charlotte Eriksson, Empty Roads & Broken Bottles: In Search For The Great Perhaps

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51. “As soon as I saw you, I knew an adventure was about to happen.”— A.A. Milne, Winnie the Pooh

52.  “Believe in a love that is being stored up for you like an inheritance, and have faith that in this love there is a strength and a blessing so large that you can travel as far as you wish without having to step outside it.” — Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet

53. “A journey is like marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think you control it.” – John Steinbeck

54.  “And if travel is like love, it is, in the end, mostly because it’s a heightened state of awareness, in which we are mindful, receptive, in dimmed by familiarity and ready to be transformed. That is why the best trips, like the best love affairs, never really end.” — Pico Iyer

55. “The more I traveled the more I realized that fear makes strangers of people who should be friends.” — Shirley MacLaine

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56.  “Actually, the best gift you could have given her was a lifetime of adventures.”– Lewis Carroll

57.  “Traveling is like flirting with life. It’s like saying, “I would stay and love you, but I have to go; this is my station.” — Lisa St. Aubin de Teran

58. “What we find in a soulmate is not something wild to tame, but something wild to run with.” — Robert Brault

59.  “Love is the food of life, travel is dessert.” – Anonymous

60.  “To lose yourself: a voluptuous surrender, lost in your arms, lost to the world, utterly immersed in what is present so that its surroundings fade away. In Benjamin’s terms, to be lost is to be fully present, and to be fully present is to be capable of being in uncertainty and mystery.” — Rebecca Solnit ( A Field Guide to Getting Lost )

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61. “Once in a while it really hits people that they don’t have to experience the world in the way they have been told to.” -Alan Keightley

62.  “Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well-preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming, ‘Wow! What a Ride!'” — Hunter S. Thompson ( The Proud Highway: Saga of a Desperate Southern Gentleman, 1955-1967 )

63. “If you reject the food , ignore the customs, fear the religion, and avoid the people, you might better stay home.” – James Michener

64. “What you’ve done becomes the judge of what you’re going to do — especially in other people’s minds. When you’re traveling, you are what you are right there and then. People don’t have your past to hold against you.  No yesterdays on the road.” -William Least Heat Moon

65. “Traveling is a brutality. It forces you to trust strangers and to lose sight of all the familiar comforts of home and friends. You are constantly off balance. Nothing is yours except the essential things– air, sleep, dreams, the sea, the sky– all things tending towards the eternal or what we imagine of it.” – Cesare Pavese

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66. “ Be fearless in the pursuit of what sets your soul on fire.” – Jennifer Lee

67. “Maybe you had to leave in order to miss a place; maybe you had to travel to figure out how beloved your starting point was.” ― Jodi Picoult

68. “Perhaps travel cannot prevent bigotry, but by demonstrating that all peoples cry, laugh, eat, worry, and die, it can introduce the idea that if we try and understand each other, we may even become friends.” – Maya Angelou

69. “It takes a lot of courage to release the familiar and seemingly secure, to embrace the new. But there is no real security in what is no longer meaningful. There is more security in the adventurous and exciting, for in movement there is life, and in change there is power.” – Alan Cohen

70. “Be spontaneous, never be afraid to try new things or find new ways. Don’t let overplanning and routine poison your life.” ― Mouloud Benzadi

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71. “It’s not what you look at that matters. It’s what you see.” -Henry David Thoreau

72. “Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.” –Ralph Waldo Emerson

73. “Not all those who wander are lost.” –J.R.R. Tolkien

74. “Life begins at the end of your comfort zone.” –Neale Donald Walsch

75.  “Don’t tell me the sky’s the limit when there are footsteps on the moon.” – Paul Brandt

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76.  “Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.” – George Bernard Shaw

77.  “Wandering re-establishes the original harmony which once existed between man and the Universe.” –Anatole France

78. “The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only one page.” –St. Augustine

79. “Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.” — H. Jackson Brown, Jr. in P.S. I Love You

80.  “I find the great thing in this world is not so much about where we stand, as in what direction we are moving… We must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it, – but we must sail, and not drift, nor lie at anchor.” -Oliver Wendell Holmes

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81.  “Stop creating a life that you need a vacation from. Instead, move to where you want to live, do what you want to do, start what you want to start, and create the life you want today. This isn’t rehearsal, people. This is YOUR life.” –Dale Partridge

82. “To my mind, the greatest reward and luxury of travel is to be able to experience everyday things as if for the first time, to be in a position in which almost nothing is so familiar it is taken for granted.” –Bill Bryson

83. “Every dreamer knows that it is entirely possible to be homesick for a place you’ve never been to, perhaps more homesick than for familiar ground.” ―Judith Thurman

84.  “Travel is the antidote to fear. It makes you see the similarities and differences that exist around the world, and it opens your eyes– and mind– to new and different approaches.” –Julia Cosgrove

85. “I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel’s sake. The great affair is to move.” ― Robert Louis Stevenson

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86. “Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us, or we find it not.” ― Ralph Waldo Emerson

87. The very basic core of a man’s living spirit is his passion for adventure . The joy of life comes from our encounters with new experiences, and hence there is no greater joy than to have an endlessly changing horizon, for each day to have a new and different sun.” —Christopher McCandless

88.  “Travel while you are young and able. Don’t worry about the money, just make it work. Experience is far more valuable than money will ever be.” — Anonymous

89. “If I’m an advocate for anything, it’s to move. As far as you can, as much as you can. Across the ocean, or simply across the river. The extent to which you can walk in someone else’s shoes or at least eat their food , it’s a plus for everybody. Open your mind, get up off the couch, move.” – Anthony Bourdain

90. “Why do you go away? So that you can come back. So that you can see the place you came from with new eyes and extra colors. And the people there see you differently, too. Coming back to where you started is not the same as never leaving.” ― Terry Pratchett

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91. “Look deeper into nature , and then you will understand everything better.” –Albert Einstein

92. “I felt my lungs inflate with the onrush of scenery—air, mountains, trees, people. I thought, This is what it is to be happy.” –Sylvia Plath

93. “Compassion for animals is intimately connected with goodness of character, and it may be confidently asserted that he who is cruel to animals cannot be a good man.” –Schopenhauer

94. “Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. Nature’s peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees. The winds will blow their own freshness into you, and the storms their energy, while cares will drop away from you like the leaves of Autumn.” — John Muir, The Mountains of California

95.  “When the blood in your veins returns to the sea, and the earth in your bones returns to the ground, perhaps then you will remember that this land does not belong to you– it is YOU who belongs to this land.” –Native American proverb

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96.  “Only when the last tree has died, and the last river been poisoned, and the last fish been caught will we realize we cannot eat money.” –Cree Indian Proverb

97. “I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.” –Henry David Thoreau

98. “Be not the slave of your own past. Plunge into the sublime seas, dive deep , and swim far, so you shall come back with new self-respect, with new power, and with an advanced experience that shall explain and overlook the old.” —Ralph Waldo Emerson

99. “There is a pleasure in the pathless woods, 

There is a rapture on the lonely shore,

There is society, where none intrudes,

By the deep sea, and music in its roar

I love not man the less, but nature more.” –Lord Byron

100. “We only know a tiny proportion about the complexity of the natural world. Wherever you look, there are still things we don’t know about and don’t understand. There are always new things to find out if you go looking for them.” ―David Attenborough

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95 most inspirational travel quotes ever penned

Our favourite inspirational travel quotes have encouraged us to travel with abandon over the years. Perhaps they will do the same for you…

For us, there is no such thing as luxury travel; travel is, by default, a luxury. It is a privilege provided by the country of our birth, a privilege that many are not as fortunate to enjoy.

Sometimes, we have to pinch ourselves at just how ridiculous our lives have become: an ex-teacher and jobbing writer travelling the world for a living. It is absurd, it is astonishing, it is luxury.

When I first went travelling at 21 years old, my father gave me this quote scrawled on a piece of card.

It infused me with wanderlust. It encouraged me to get out of my comfort zone, make the most of my time, see the world and enjoy the freedom that comes with being on the road. It remains one of the most inspirational travel quotes I’ve read (even if Twain did not actually say it).

Today, 20 years and almost 100 countries later, it’s still in my wallet. Despite its tattered and dishevelled appearance, it’s every bit as important to me now as it was then.

With that in mind, we’ve collated our most beloved inspirational travel quotes to encourage readers to “explore, dream and discover” for themselves.

inspirational travel quotes

1. “To my mind, the greatest reward and luxury of travel is to be able to experience everyday things as if for the first time, to be in a position in which almost nothing is so familiar it is taken for granted.” – Bill Bryson

2. “The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page.” – St. Augustine

3. “Travel is never a matter of money, but of courage.” – Paulo Coelho

4. “With age, comes wisdom. With travel, comes understanding.” – Sandra Lake

5. “When overseas you learn more about your own country, than you do the place you’re visiting.” – Clint Borgen

6. “Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness.” – Mark Twain

7. “Don’t tell me the sky’s the limit when there are footprints on the moon.” – Paul Brandt

8. “The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready.” – Henry David Thoreau

9. “The first condition of understanding a foreign country is to smell it.” – Rudyard Kipling

10. “A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.” – Lao Tzu

11. “When preparing to travel, lay out all your clothes and all your money. Then take half the clothes and twice the money.” – Susan Heller Anderson

12. “No place is ever as bad as they tell you it’s going to be.” – Chuck Thompson

13. “We live in a wonderful world that is full of beauty, charm and adventure. There is no end to the adventures we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open.” – Jawaharlal Nehru

14. “A good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent on arriving.” – Lao Tzu

15. “There is no moment of delight in any pilgrimage like the beginning of it.” – Charles Dudley Warner

16. “A ship in harbor is safe, but that’s not what ships were built for.” – John A. Shedd

17. “Tourists don’t know where they’ve been, travelers don’t know where they’re going.” – Paul Theroux

18. “Not all those who wander are lost.” – J. R. R. Tolkien

19. “Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

20. “Like all great travelers, I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen.” – Benjamin Disraeli

21. “Once a year, go somewhere you’ve never been before.” – The Dalai Lama

22. “No one realizes how beautiful it is to travel until he comes home and rests his head on his old, familiar pillow.” – Lin Yutang

23. “What you’ve done becomes the judge of what you’re going to do – especially in other people’s minds. When you’re travelling, you are what you are right there and then. People don’t have your past to hold against you. No yesterdays on the road.” – William Least Heat Moon

24. “There are no foreign lands. It is the traveller only who is foreign.” – Robert Louis Stevenson

25. “Travel is glamorous only in retrospect.” – Paul Theroux

26. “A traveller without observation is a bird without wings.” – Moslih Eddin Saadi

27. “Your true traveller finds boredom rather agreeable than painful. It is the symbol of his liberty-his excessive freedom. He accepts his boredom, when it comes, not merely philosophically, but almost with pleasure.” – Aldous Huxley

28. “One’s destination is never a place, but a new way of seeing things.” – Henry Miller

29. “All travel has its advantages. If the passenger visits better countries, he may learn to improve his own. And if fortune carries him to worse, he may learn to enjoy it.” – Samuel Johnson

30. “Wandering re-establishes the original harmony which once existed between man and the universe.” – Anatole France

31. “I can’t control the wind but I can adjust the sail.” – Ricky Skaggs

32. “We wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfilment.” – Hilaire Belloc

33. “People travel to faraway places to watch, in fascination, the kind of people they ignore at home.” – Dagobert D. Runes

34. “If you reject the food, ignore the customs, fear the religion and avoid the people, you might better stay at home.” – James Michener

35. “The use of travelling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are.” – Samuel Johnson

36. “You don’t have to be rich to travel well.” – Eugene Fodor

37. “Perhaps travel cannot prevent bigotry, but by demonstrating that all peoples cry, laugh, eat, worry, and die, it can introduce the idea that if we try and understand each other, we may even become friends.” – Maya Angelou

38. “All journeys have secret destinations of which the traveler is unaware.” – Martin Buber

39. “Two roads diverged in a wood and I – I took the one less traveled by.” – Robert Frost

40. “Travel and change of place impart new vigor to the mind.” – Seneca

41. “Traveling is a brutality. It forces you to trust strangers and to lose sight of all that familiar comfort of home and friends. You are constantly off balance. Nothing is yours except the essential things – air, sleep, dreams, the sea, the sky – all things tending towards the eternal or what we imagine of it.” – Cesare Pavese

42. “Once the travel bug bites, there is no known antidote, and I know that I shall be happily infected until the end of my life.” ― Michael Palin

43. “A journey is best measured in friends, rather than miles.” – Tim Cahill

44. “A journey is like marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think you control it.” – John Steinbeck

45. “When you travel, remember that a foreign country is not designed to make you comfortable. It is designed to make its own people comfortable.” – Clifton Fadiman

46. “There are far, far better things ahead than we leave behind.” – C.S. Lewis

47. “Travel does what good novelists also do to the life of everyday, placing it like a picture in a frame or a gem in its setting, so that the intrinsic qualities are made more clear. Travel does this with the very stuff that everyday life is made of, giving to it the sharp contour and meaning of art.” – Freya Stark

48. “To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries.” – Aldous Huxley

49. “All the pathos and irony of leaving one’s youth behind is thus implicit in every joyous moment of travel: one knows that the first joy can never be recovered, and the wise traveller learns not to repeat successes but tries new places all the time.” – Paul Fussell

50. “I have found out that there ain’t no surer way to find out whether you like people or hate them than to travel with them.” – Mark Twain

51. “The whole object of travel is not to set foot on foreign land; it is at last to set foot on one’s own country as a foreign land.” – G.K. Chesterton

52. “Too often travel, instead of broadening the mind, merely lengthens the conversation.” – Elizabeth Drew

53. “People don’t take trips, trips take people.” – John Steinbeck

54. “Stuff your eyes with wonder, live as if you’d drop dead in ten seconds. See the world. It’s more fantastic than any dream made or paid for in factories.” – Ray Bradbury

55. “Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.” – Gustave Flaubert

56. “The journey not the arrival matters.” – T. S. Eliot

57. “Time flies. It’s up to you to be the navigator.” – Robert Orben

58. “The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.” – Marcel Proust

59. “I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train.” – Oscar Wilde

60. “For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel’s sake. The great affair is to move.” – Robert Louis Stevenson

61. “If an ass goes travelling, he’ll not come home a horse.” – Thomas Fuller

62. “Travelling tends to magnify all human emotions.” – Peter Hoeg

63. “To move, to breathe, to fly, to float, To gain all while you give, To roam the roads of lands remote: To travel is to live.” – Hans Christian Andersen

64. “To awaken quite alone in a strange town is one of the pleasantest sensations in the world.” – Freya Stark

65. “I am not the same having seen the moon shine from the other side of the world.” – Mary Anne Radmacher

66. “I always wonder why birds stay in the same place when they can fly anywhere on earth. Then I ask myself the same question.” – Harun Yahya

67. “I dislike feeling at home when I am abroad.” – George Bernard Shaw

68. “A wise traveler never despises his own country.” – Carlo Goldoni

69. “Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.” – Andre Gide

70 “Traveling – it leaves you speechless, then turns you into a storyteller.” – Ibn Battuta

71. “We travel, some of us forever, to seek other places, other lives, other souls.” – Anais Nin

72. “Travel is more than the seeing of sights; it is a change that goes on, deep and permanent, in the ideas of living.” – Miriam Beard

73. “The gladdest moment in human life, methinks, is a departure into unknown lands.” – Sir Richard Burton

74. “A man of ordinary talent will always be ordinary, whether he travels or not; but a man of superior talent will go to pieces if he remains forever in the same place.” – Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

75. “He who would travel happily must travel light.” – Antoine de St. Exupery

76. “Our battered suitcases were piled on the sidewalk again; we had longer ways to go. But no matter, the road is life.” – Jack Kerouac

77. “The more I travelled the more I realised that fear makes strangers of people who should be friends.” – Shirley MacLaine

78. “Live your life by a compass, not a clock.” – Stephen Covey

78. “Our happiest moments as tourists always seem to come when we stumble upon one thing while in pursuit of something else.” – Lawrence Block

80. “Take only memories, leave only footprints.” – Chief Seattle – or Si’ahl

81. “Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all.” – Helen Keller

82. “It is not down in any map; true places never are.” – Herman Melville

83. “We live in a world that is full of beauty, charm and adventure. There is no end to the adventures we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open.” – Jawaharlal Nehru

84. “The most beautiful thing in the world is, of course, the world itself” – Wallace Stevens

85. “Life begins at the end of your comfort zone.” – Neale Donald Walsch

86. “Paris is always a good idea.” – Julia Ormond (although it is often wrongly attributed to Audrey Hepburn)

87. “Stop worrying about the potholes in the road and enjoy the trip.” – Babs Hoffman

88. “Travel isn’t always pretty. It isn’t always comfortable. Sometimes it hurts, it even breaks your heart. But that’s okay. The journey changes you; it should change you. It leaves marks on your memory, on your consciousness, on your heart, and on your body. You take something with you. Hopefully, you leave something good behind.” – Anthony Bourdain

89. “Jobs fill your pocket but adventures fill your soul.” – Jaime Lyn Beatty

90. “It is in our nature to explore, to reach out into the unknown. The only true failure would be not to explore at all.” – Sir Ernest Shackleton

91. “Because in the end, you won’t remember the time you spent working in the office or mowing your lawn. Climb that goddamn mountain.” –  Jack Kerouac

92. “Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things can not be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one’s lifetime.” – Mark Twain

93. “Live with no excuses and travel with no regrets.” – Oscar Wilde

94. “Remember that happiness is a way of travel – not a destination.” – Roy M Goodman

95. “Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines, sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.” – Mark Twain (or possibly H Jackson Brown Jr )

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Say goodbye to scouring the internet in search of inspirational travel quotes to keep you focussed on saving for that next big trip. Instead take a read through our list of every travel quote ever. We dare you to try and not be inspired.

Are we missing one of your favs? Share your own travel quote in the comments and we might just include it!

Inspirational Travel Quotes

“One’s destination is never a place, but a new way of seeing things.” – Henry Miller

“We travel not to escape life, but for life not to escape us.” – Unknown

“I am not a great book, I am not a great artist, but I love art and I love food, so I am the perfect traveller.” – Michael Palin

“I am not the same having seen the moon shine on the other side of the world.” – Mary Anne Radmacher

“He who does not travel does not know the value of men.” – Moorish proverb

“People don’t take trips, trips take people.” – John Steinbeck

“The best journeys in life are those that answer questions you never thought to ask.” ― Rich Ridgeway

“To travel is to evolve.” – Pierre Bernardo

Take the first step, the rest will follow. Book the ticket, apply for the job, send the email, jump into the water. The rest gets easier from there. – Abi from http://www.insidethetravellab.com/

“A person does not grow from the ground like a vine or a tree, one is not part of a plot of land. Mankind has legs so it can wander.” ― Roman Payne, The Wanderess

“Certainly, travel is more than the seeing of sights; it is a change that goes on, deep and permanent, in the ideas of living.” – Miriam Beard

“You don’t have to be rich to travel well.” – Eugene Fodor

“He who is outside his door has the hardest part of his journey behind him.” – Dutch Proverb

“Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one’s lifetime.” – Mark Twain

“He who would travel happily must travel light.” – Antoine de St. Exupery

“Wandering re-establishes the original harmony which once existed between man and the universe.” – Anatole France

“It is not down in any map; true places never are.” – Herman Melville

It’s never too late to have a life you love. Don’t ever feel like you’ve missed the boat, don’t have what it takes or can’t achieve your dreams. Instead of removing your dreams, remove the doubts and fears keeping you from them. It’s never, ever too late. – Phoebe from https://littlegreybox.net

“Without travel I would have wound up a little ignorant white Southern female, which was not my idea of a good life.” – Lauren Hutton

“I met a lot of people in Europe. I even encountered myself.” – James Baldwin

“I was not born for one corner. The whole world is my native land.” – Seneca

“Travelling — it leaves you speechless, then turns you into a storyteller.” – Ibn Battuta

“Our happiest moments as tourists always seem to come when we stumble upon one thing while in pursuit of something else.” — Lawrence Block

“Wherever you go, go with all your heart.” – Confucius

“Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.” – Scott Cameron

“I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train.” – Oscar Wilde

“The first condition of understanding a foreign country is to smell it.” – Rudyard Kipling

“Once in a while it really hits people that they don’t have to experience the world in the way they have been told to.” – Alan Keightley

“Tourists visit. Travellers explore.” – Unknown

If you don’t do it now, when will you do it? -Monica from http://thetravelhack.com/

“Travelling is like flirting with life. It’s like saying, ‘I would stay and love you, but I have to go; this is my station.'” – Lisa St. Aubin de Teran

“I always wonder why birds stay in the same place when they can fly anywhere on Earth. Then I ask myself the same question.” – Harun Yahya

“Never go on trips with anyone you do not love.” – Ernest Hemingway

“Travel can be one of the most rewarding forms of introspection.” – Unknown

“The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready.” – Henry David Thoreau

“Travel and change of place impart new vigor to the mind.” – Seneca

“NOT I – NOT ANYONE else, can travel that road for you, You must travel it for yourself.” – Walt Whitman

“You don’t choose the day you enter the world and you don’t chose the day you leave. It’s what you do in between that makes all the difference.” – Anita Septimus

“Once you have traveled, the voyage never ends… The mind can never break off from the journey.” – Pat Conroy

“When you travel, remember that a foreign country is not designed to make you comfortable. It is designed to make its own people comfortable.” ― Clifton Fadiman

“I haven’t been everywhere but it’s on my list.” – Susan Sontag

“Remember that happiness is a way of travel – not a destination.” – Roy M. Goodman

Adventure Travel Quotes

“To my mind, the greatest reward and luxury of travel is to be able to experience everyday things as if for the first time, to be in a position in which almost nothing is so familiar it is taken for granted.” – Bill Bryson

“My life is shaped by the urgent need to wander and observe, and my camera is my passport.” ― Steve McCurry

“The more I traveled the more I realized that fear makes strangers of people who should be friends.” – Shirley MacLaine

The biggest addiction a person can have is discovering the unknown. Once it takes hold, there is no getting out and the only way to get your fix is by pushing yourself out of your comfort zone and exploring new horizons, cultural, and places. – Stephen from A Backpacker’s Tale 

“Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.”― Andre Gide

“A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions.” – Oliver Wendell Holmes

“If you’re not living on the edge, you’re taking up too much space.” ― Unknown

“A ship in harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are built for.” ― John A. Shedd

“A journey is like marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think you control it.” – John Steinbeck

“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines, sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.” ― Mark Twain

“All journeys have secret destinations of which the traveller is unaware.” ― Martin Buber

“May your adventures bring you closer together, even as they take you far away from home.” ― Trenton Lee Stewart

“Let us step into the night and pursue that flighty temptress, adventure.” ― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

“Make voyages! Attempt them… there’s nothing else.” – Tennessee Williams

“To awaken quite alone in a strange town is one of the pleasantest sensations in the world.” ― Freya Stark

“The whole object of travel is not to set foot on foreign land; it is at last to set foot on one’s own country as a foreign land.” ― G.K. Chesterton

The more borders you cross, the more your mind opens — Paul from Global Help Swap

“One travels to run away from routine, that dreadful routine that kills all imagination and all our capacity for enthusiasm.” – Ella Maillart

“Two roads diverged in a wood and I – I took the one less traveled by.” – Robert Frost

“If you reject the food, ignore the customs, fear the religion and avoid the people, you might better stay at home.” – James Michener

“When overseas you learn more about your own country, than you do the place you’re visiting.” – Clint Borgen

“Stop worrying about the potholes in the road and enjoy the journey.” – Babs Hoffman

“A good traveler has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving.” – Lao Tzu

“Every man can transform the world from one of monotony and drabness to one of excitement and adventure.” – Irving Wallace

“A traveller without observation is a bird without wings.” — Moslih Eddin Saadi

“I travel a lot; I hate having my life disrupted by routine.” – Caskie Stinnett

“We live in a wonderful world that is full of beauty, charm and adventure. There is no end to the adventures we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open.” – Jawaharial Nehru

“Travel is the only thing you buy that makes you richer.” – Unknown (thanks to Melissa Bond for the contribution!)

“Investment in travel is an investment in yourself.” – Matthew Karsten

“It is better to travel well then to arrive.” – Buddha

“Adventure is worthwhile.” – Aristotle

“We all become great explorers during our first few days in a new city, or a new love affair.” – Mignon McLaughlin

“We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls.” – Anais Nin

“Don’t tell me how educated you are, tell me how much you traveled.” – Mohammed

“No one realizes how beautiful it is to travel until he comes home and rests his head on his old, familiar pillow.” – Lin Yutang

“The traveler sees what he sees, the tourist sees what he has come to see.” – Gilbert K. Chesterton

“Adventure without risk is Disneyland.” – Doug Coupland

“If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness and fears.” – Cesare Pavese

“How often I found where I should be going only by setting out for somewhere else.” – R. Buckminster Fuller

“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.” – Rosalia de Castro

“I have wandered all my life, and I have also traveled; the difference between the two being this, that we wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfillment” – Hilaire Belloc

“If all difficulties were known at the outset of a long journey most of us would never start out at all.” – Dan Rather

“The use of travelling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are.” – Samuel Johnson

“Airplane travel is nature’s way of making you look like your passport photo.” – Al Gore

“Tourists don’t know where they’ve been, travellers don’t know where they’re going.” – Paul Theroux

“It is not fit that every man should travel; it makes a wise man better, and a fool worse.” – William Hazlitt

“You develop a sympathy for all human beings when you travel a lot.” – Shakuntala Devi

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60 Inspirational Short Travel Quotes

By: Author Tim Kroeger

Posted on Published: April 30, 2020  - Last updated: September 15, 2023

Do you have go-to getaway quotes that bring inspiration and motivation to travel and to be free? Here are short travel quotes to add to your collection.

Short travel quotes look good on a frame at your office, as a bumper sticker on your car, or even as a permanent tattoo on your skin.

These travel getaway quotes efficiently tell a story of a life lived outside one’s comfort zone.

It speaks of adventures, misadventures, and lessons learned along the way.

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Short Travel Quotes

Do you have good travel slogans that you live by?

Are there motivational quotes about travel and learning that have proven to be true in your life?

There are many cute short quotes and sayings about traveling, taking a break, and exploring the world that is truly inspirational.

Here are short travel quotes that will make you want to pack your bags and have an awesome adventure.

1. “Life begins at the end of your comfort zone”

– Neale Donald Walsch

2. “The biggest risk in life, is not taking one”

– Barfi

3. “A ship in harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are built for.”

– John A. Shedd

4. “If you’re twenty-two, physically fit, hungry to learn and be better, I urge you to travel – as far and as widely as possible. Sleep on floors if you have to. Find out how other people live and eat and cook, learn from them – where you go.”

– Anthony Bourdain

5. “Jobs fill your pocket, Adventures fill your soul”

– Jaime Lyn Beatty

6. “You don’t have to be rich to travel well. ”

– Eugene Fodor

7. “Once a year, go someplace you’ve never been before.”

– Anonymous

8. “Better to see something once than hear about it a thousand times.”

– Asian Proverb

9. “My favorite thing to do is go where I’ve never been”

– Annonymous

10. “Travel and change of place impart new vigor to the mind.”

– Seneca

11. “I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel’s sake. The great affair is to move.”

– Robert Louis Stevenson

12. “I am not the same, having seen the moon shine on the other side of the world.”

– Mary Anne Radmacher

“14. When was the last time you did something for the first time?

– John C. Maxwell

15. “Every exit is an entry somewhere else.”

– Tom Stoppard

16. “Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.”

– Gustave Flaubert

17. “Work, travel, save, repeat.”

18. “A hangover suggests a great night, jet lag suggests a great adventure.”

– J.D. Andrews

19. “To Live will be an awfully big adventure”

– Peter Pan

20. “Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.”

– Andre Gide

21. “Yesterday, I believe I never would have done what I did today”

– David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas

22. “The most beautiful thing in the world is, of course, the world itself”

– Wallace Stevens

23. “If it scares you ,it may be a good thing to try”

– Seth Godin

24. “If you think adventures are dangerous, try routine: It’s lethal.”

– Paulo Coelho.

25. “No place is ever as bad as they tell you it’s going to be.”

– Chuck Thompson

26. “Travel far enough, you meet yourself”

– David Mitchell

27. “To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries.”

– Aldous Huxley

28. “The life you have led doesn’t need to be the only life you have.”

– Anna Quindlen

29. “Traveling tends to magnify all human emotions.”

– Peter Hoeg

30. “When overseas you learn more about your own country, than you do the place you’re visiting.”

– Clint Borgen

More Inspirational Short Travel Quotes

Short travel phrases and inspirational vacation quotes perfectly encapsulate every explorer’s zest for a life on the road.

These groups of words add depth to every photograph and drama to every story told.

Can’t get enough of short but sweet quotes about life through the eyes of a traveler?

Here are more inspirational short travel quotes perfect for every wanderer out there.

31. “Not all those who wander are lost.”

– J.R.R. Tolkien.

32. “The world is big and I want to get a good look at it before it gets dark.”

– John Muir

33. “The gladdest moment in human life, methinks, is a departure into unknown lands.”

– Sir Richard Burton

34. “To awaken alone in a strange town is one of the pleasantest sensations in the world.”

– Freya Stark

36. “Some people are so poor, all they have is money”

– Patrick Meagher

37. “Doing what you like is freedom, liking what you do is happiness.”

– Frank Tyger.

38. “Life offers you a thousand chances… all you have to do is take one.”

– Frances Mayes, Under the Tuscan Sun

39. “Collect Moments, Not Things.”

– Aarti Khurana

40. “He who would travel happily must travel light.”

– Antoine de St. Exupery

41. “Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all.”

– Helen Keller

42. “You’ll miss the best things if you keep your eyes shut.”

– Dr. Seuss

43. “I haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list.”

– Susan Sontag.

44. “We travel, some of us forever, to seek other places, other lives, other souls.”

– Anais Nin

45. “A journey is best measured in friends, rather than miles.”

– Tim Cahill

46. “The journey not the arrival matters.”

– T.S. Eliot

47. “If you reject the food, ignore the customs, fear the religion and avoid the people, you might better stay at home.”

– James Michener

48. “Remember that happiness is a way of travel – not a destination.”

– Roy M. Goodman

49. “Travel makes a wise man better but a fool worse.”

– Thomas Fuller

50. “It is not down in any map; true places never are.”

– Herman Melville

51. “The more I traveled the more I realized that fear makes strangers of people who should be friends.”

– Shirley MacLaine

52. “Travel far enough, you meet yourself.”

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

– Irving Wallace

54. “Life is short and the world is wide, the sooner you start exploring it, the better.”

– Simon Raven

55. “Live your life by a compass, not a clock.”

– Stephen Covey

56. “To travel is to live.”

– Hans Christian Andersen

57. “Take only memories, leave only footprints.”

– Chief Seattle

58. “People don’t take trips, trips take people.”

– John Steinbeck

59. “Stop worrying about the potholes in the road and enjoy the trip.”

– Babs Hoffman

60. “I’m in love with cities I’ve never been to and people I’ve never met.”

– Melody Truong

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40 Sunflower Quotes To Inspire And Brighten Your Day

From short and sweet to inspirational and meaningful, these sunflower quotes will brighten even the dreariest day.

Khara Scheppmann has 12 years of marketing and advertising experience, including proofreading and fact-checking. She previously worked at one of the largest advertising agencies in the southwest.

Inspirational Sunflower Quotes

Short sunflower quotes, cute sunflower quotes for friends, sunflower quotes about beauty.

During difficult days, sometimes we just need to stand tall and press our face to the sun—like the stately sunflower. Seeing a field of giant yellow flowers can't help but make us smile . For a big (no pun intended) impact in your garden, plant sunflowers for some happy inspiration every day. Here are some inspirational and cute sunflower quotes to enjoy.

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• "Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow. It's what sunflowers do." – Helen Keller
• "Flowers have an expression of countenance as much as men or animals. Some seem to smile; some have a sad expression; some are pensive and diffident; others again are plain, honest and upright, like the broad-faced sunflower and hollyhock." – Henry Ward Beecher
• "Who knows what may lie around the next corner? There may be a window somewhere ahead. It may look out on a field of sunflowers." – Joe Hill
• "Which makes it ironic my favorite flower isn't even indigenous to the British Isles, let alone Yorkshire. I don't think there's anything on this planet that more trumpets life that the sunflower. For me, that's because of the reason behind its name. Not because it looks like the sun but because it follows the sun. During the course of the day, the head tracks the journey of the sun across the sky. A satellite dish for sunshine. Wherever light is, no matter how weak, these flowers will find it. And that's such an admirable thing. And such a lesson in life." – Tim Firth
• "If roses tried to be sunflowers, they would lose their beauty; and if sunflowers tried to be roses, they would lose their strength." – Matshona Dhliwayo
• "In the morning the sunflower blossoms due to the sun's rays. This morning I just wanted to remind you that my heart blossoms with love for you every day I wake up and it is going to do that forever." – Sheila Carey
• "Fame is the scentless sunflower, with gaudy crown of gold; But friendship is the breathing rose, with sweets in every fold." – Oliver Wendell Holmes
• "One of the remarkable characteristics of young wild sunflowers, in addition to growing in soil that is not hospitable, is how the young flower bud follows the sun across the sky. In doing so, it receives life-sustaining energy before bursting forth in its glorious yellow color. Like the young sunflower, when we follow the Savior of the world, the Son of God, we flourish and become glorious despite the many terrible circumstances that surround us. He truly is our light and life." – Quentin L. Cook
• “The flower that follows the sun does so even on cloudy days.” – Robert Leighton
• “Advice from a sunflower. Be bright, sunny, and positive. Know your roots. Spread seeds of happiness. Rise, shine, and hold your head up high. Keep on growing. Even on the darkest days, stand tall and find the sunlight.” – Unknown
• “The sunflowers turn their face toward the Sun, the fools, toward the darkness!” – Mehmet Murat Ildan
• "Turn your face to the sun, and shadows follow behind you." – Maori Proverb
• "The sunflower is a favorite emblem of constancy." – Thomas Bulfinch
• "The sunflower is mine, in a way." – Vincent van Gogh
• "The morning glories and the sunflowers turn naturally toward the light, but we have to be taught, it seems." – Richard Rohr
• "I want to be like a sunflower; so that even on the darkest days I will stand tall and find the sunlight." – Unknown
• "Never look directly at the sun. Instead, look at the sunflower." – Vera Nazarian
• "Wherever life plants you, bloom with grace." – Old French Proverb
• “To just have one sunflower would make me happy.” – Unknown
• "Her smile put the sunflower to shame." – Jerry Spinelli
• "We're all golden sunflowers inside." – Allen Ginsberg
• "Sunflowers end up facing the sun, but they go through a lot of dirt to find their way there." – J.R. Rim
• "If I were a flower…I would be a sunflower. To always follow the sun, turn my back to darkness, stand proud, tall and straight even with my head full of seeds." – Pam Stewart
• "And the yellow sunflower by the brook, in autumn beauty stood." – William Cullen Bryant
• "And here the sunflower of the spring burns bright in the morning's beam." – Ebenezer Elliott
• "True friends are like bright sunflowers that never fade away, even over distance and time." – Marie Williams Johnstone
• “A sunflower teaches us so much about love.” – Samrah Ahmad
• "Every friend is to the other a sun, and a sunflower also. He attracts and follows." – Jean Paul Richter
• "Does she realize she looks like a sunflower, ready to rain sunlight on all who look down upon her?" – Simone Elkeles
• “His eyes were the color of gold, of sunflowers and butterscotch and lemons hanging heavy on their boughs.” – Jest Marissa Meyer
• “A sunflower field is like a sky with a thousand suns.” – Corina Abulahm-Negura
• “Despite knowing they won’t be here for long, they still choose to live their brightest lives—sunflowers.” – Rupi Kaur
• “Like a single sunbeam on a warm summer day, there is an exuberance and brilliance in a sunflower.” – Unknown
• “We’re all beautiful golden sunflowers inside, we’re all blessed by our own seed & golden hairy naked accomplishment.” – Allen Ginsberg
• “She is a sunflower—strong and bold, and true to herself.” – Unknown
• "In a crowd of roses, choose to be a sunflower. Thornless. Unwithering. Abundant in seeds." – JaTawny M. Chatmon
• “Like sunflowers, galaxies, and fingerprints, your life is an intricately designed spiral.” – Kristen Lee
• “Which way will the sunflower turn surrounded by millions of suns?” – Allen Ginsberg
• “Then one by one they raised their faces to the sky. Like a field of sunflowers.” – Fiona Valpy
• “My work is the world. Here the sunflowers, there the hummingbird – equal seekers of sweetness. Here the quickening yeast; there the blue plums.” – Mary Oliver

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27 Eye-Opening Quotes From People With Disabilities

"Stop saying I am inspiring or amazing when I do ordinary things."

We spoke to a variety of people from all over the country who have both visible and invisible disabilities about what they wish people outside the community knew, misconceptions that they encounter and things they wish people would stop doing or saying.

What do you wish people outside the disability community knew or understood?

• “ That having a disability can be a positive part of who you are . My disability has shaped my career and has allowed me to meet so many wonderful people! ” — Arielle Silverman, 39, is blind. She is d irector of research at the American Foundation for the Blind.
• “ Deafness does not prevent people from being successful — discrimination is the main barrier we face.” —Sheryl Emery, 64, is deaf. She is President of National Black Deaf Advocates .
• “ Ableist ideas and beliefs affect people with disabilities in all aspects of life , including employment, healthcare, education, housing, transportation, etc. These ideas and beliefs create systems that discriminate and oppress people with disabilities.” —Theo W. Braddy is paralyzed from the neck down. He is executive director of The National Council on Independent Living .
• “Autism can be an incredibly debilitating disability— there’s an extremely high prevalence of loneliness in the autism community. Individuals with autism die 16 years younger than the average human. 85% of college educated autistics are unemployed. I like to say that with autism I can excel at the extraordinary, but I can really struggle with the simple .”— Russell Lehmann , 33, has autism, OCD, depression and anxiety. He is a speaker, poet and activist.
• “ People with disabilities are just as worthy as those without disabilities to live happy, productive lives.” — Sydney Badeau, 30, has dyspraxia, a nonverbal learning disorder and a sensory processing disorder. She is an advocacy and outreach specialist at The Arc Wisconsin .
• “ Recognizing the importance of accessibility and inclusivity is vital . For example, having ramps and wider doorways not only benefits wheelchair users but also individuals with mild cerebral palsy, who may experience difficulty with coordination or movement on one side of their body. This promotes equality and empathy for everyone. —Ashley Glears, 30, has cerebral palsy with right hemiplegia. She is a chapter associate at The Arc of the United States.
• “It’s important to understand that disability is a natural part of the human experience and that people with disabilities deserve equal rights, opportunities, and respect. I wish people outside the disability community understood the significance of inclusive practices and the value of diverse perspectives in all aspects of life. ” —Dr. Yvette Pegues, Ed.D., 45, has a traumatic brain injury and spinal cord injuries. She is D&I Executive & Chief Diversity Officer at Your Invisible Disability Group.
• “ People with disabilities are individually different from each other . We have different goals and views. We have different approaches to life. We are just human beings who want equal access to reach our different goals.” — Sean Pevsner, 53, has cerebral palsy. He is a law firm partner with Whitburn & Pevsner, PLLC .

What do you wish people outside the disability community would stop doing and/or saying?

• “ I wish they would stop saying I am amazing or inspiring when I do ordinary things. ” — Arielle Silverman
• “ Stop asking Deaf people if we can read your lips. Communication is the responsibility of all parties in a conversation . Asking the Deaf person to read your lips places all the responsibility for communicating on the Deaf person. ” —Sheryl Emery
• “ Stop saying people with disabilities are a vulnerable population. People with disabilities are not weak and fragile - this characterization does more harm than good. ” — Theo W. Braddy
• “I wish people would refrain from making assumptions or judgments about individuals with disabilities based solely on their appearance or perceived limitations. It's important to approach each person with respect, understanding, and open-mindedness.” — Ashley Glears
• “I wish people would stop constantly infantilizing adults with disabilities , especially those who are nonspeaking or minimally speaking.” —Elizabeth "Lizzy" Graham, 34, has Asperger’s/Autism, ADHD, Anxiety with OCD tendencies, eczema and obstructive sleep apnea. She is service coordinator for Medicaid HCBS Waiver Services at The Arc of Prince George's County.
• "I wish people would stop using derogatory terms about people with disabilities and assuming that having a disability means you can't do something. For example, I enjoy 20+ adapted sports and my activity is a form of activism." — Dr. Yvette Pegues
• “People should stop automatically assuming that we are brave for dealing with our disabilities. People should stop considering us vulnerable people who cannot work and contribute to our community.” — Sean Pevsner
• “I wish they would stop making fun of and looking down on people with disabilities. I also wish they would stop treating people with disabilities like children . Often time, people with intellectual and developmental disabilities are treated like children. They’re not - they’re adults.” — Melody Cooper, 54, has cerebral palsy and intellectual disability. She is self-advocate specialist at The Arc of Indiana .
• “One thing that I wish people would stop assuming is that people who experience disability are living off the government . This is not the case at all. We need the assistance to live a normal life like everyone else in the world and we are trying to make something for ourselves with the support we have provided to us.” — Ric Nelson, 40, has cerebral palsy. He is an executive director of Peer Power .

What's a misconception people have about you and your abilities?

• “ That I am lacking something or 'living in darkness .' Or that I am perpetually afraid of the world around me just because I can’t see it. My life experience is rich with many other sensations, thoughts and emotions that have nothing to do with vision or lack thereof. ” — Arielle Silverman
• “ There are Deaf people in almost every profession. Don’t assume because a person cannot hear that they are incapable. Not everyone lip reads and we do not have better sight to make up for not being able to hear . We enjoy music, we drive. The biggest barriers we face are attitudes.” —Sheryl Emery
• “ The biggest misconception is they're underestimating me and the 61 million others like me - this comes from a long history of devaluing people like me.” —Theo W. Braddy
• “ Society has taught me from a young age that I can’t show my autism in public . So, a lot of my struggles are in my house, alone. A lot of the struggle is behind the scenes.” — Russell Lehmann
• “One big misconception is that I am not able to follow directions, learn, or be employable . I want to work, so I can be independent and get my own apartment.” —Marcus Stewart, 23, has Down Syndrome.
• “That not everyone with a disability presents in the same way. Some may struggle with something while others may not, and each person may need different or unique accommodations.” — Sydney Badeau

• “One common misconception people have about me and my abilities is assuming that I'm only capable of simple tasks or responses, when in reality, I'm capable of understanding complex concepts and engaging in meaningful conversations across a wide range of topics.” — Ashley Glears
• “I operate at the intersections of a woman of color with visible and non-visible disabilities, so I encounter many layers of misconceptions in my life. Nevertheless, I’m a proud wife, mom, engineer, educator, and advocate. My daily fight for the cessation of stereotypes and stigmatizing language surrounding disability is not for me, but others without the voice to fight for themselves. I wish people understood the innovative contributions that disabled people bring to communities and society .” —Dr. Yvette Pegues
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Northwestern professor, whose school gave in to anti-Israel agitators, is son of notorious terrorist radicals

Zayd ayers dohrn, a professor at northwestern university, is the son of the former leaders of the radical terrorist group, 'weather underground'.

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As anti-Israel protests continue to plague college campuses across the country, Northwestern University has reached a deal with the protesters, sparking concern from many about the conditions.

On Monday, the Chicago school announced an agreement to curb protest activity in return for the reestablishment of an advisory committee on university investments and other commitments.

Some who are protesting the war in Gaza condemned the Northwestern agreement as a failure to stick to the original demands of student organizers, the Associated Press reported. Some supporters of Israel claimed the deal represented "cowardly" capitulation to protesters.

One of Northwestern's radical professors has ties to a history of terror. 

Zayd Ayers Dohrn, is the son of a former radical terrorist group leader, Bernardine Rae Dohrn and Bill Ayers. The group they led for years perpetrated terrorist bombings in Washington, D.C., and elsewhere around the country.

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Young men raise their fists and chant slogans during the 'Days of Rage' demonstrations organized by the Weathermen to protest the Chicago Seven trial and 'to bring the war home,' Chicago, Oct. 11, 1969. The plinth in the background held a statue dedicated to the police officers killed during the Haymarket Riot until the Weathermen bombed it on Oct. 8. It was rebuilt and bombed again in 1970 then rebuilt and moved indoors to the police academy. (Photo by David Fenton/Getty Images)

According to Northwestern's staff directory, Zayd Ayers Dohrn is a writer, professor, and director of the MFA in Writing for Screen and Stage in the Department of Radio/Television/Film at Northwestern University.

He is also creator and host of the original documentary podcast, "Mother Country Radicals," where he details being raised by parents who were leading one of the most notorious domestic radical terrorist groups in the U.S. 

His mother, Bernardine Dohrn, is the former leader of the far-left militant organization, Weather Underground. She reportedly praised Charles Manson and even ended up on the FBI's most wanted list for several years. 

"My parents never hid any of this from me. I knew, from when I was three or four, that we used fake names. I knew we moved around a lot, made calls from public phones, and paid for everything in cash. I knew somebody was chasing us, but didn’t know what "FBI" meant – why they, or it, wanted to catch us or what would happen if they did," Zayd previously told the Guardian.

The Weather Underground group wreaked havoc in the 1960s and 70s, bombing 20 targets, including the Pentagon, the U.S. Capitol and the State Department, all to protest the Vietnam War and support other left-wing causes.

In 1970, the group planted a pipe bomb at the San Francisco Police Department, and one person was killed. The NYPD was also targeted that same year with dynamite, which caused injury to seven people. 

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Students and residents camp outside Northwestern University during an anti-Israel protest, expressing solidarity with Palestinians with banners in Evanston, Ill., on Monday.  (Jacek Boczarski/Anadolu via Getty Images)

"We made mistakes, and we'd do it again. I wish that we'd done more. I wish we'd been more militant. I wish a lot of things. But taken as a whole, we were so lucky to be born into that moment in history," Bernadine Dohrn said. 

Zayd's father, Bill Ayers, was also a member of the group and was an associate of former President Barack Obama. However, Ayers' ties to President Obama have been in dispute since becoming a campaign issue during the 2008 presidential race, though it is known he served with Obama on a Chicago charity's board.

Back in 2008, during Obama's campaign run, Ayers and Dohrn were interviewed on Fox News and asked about their involvement in the radical terrorist group.

Ayers retired in 2010 from his position as a professor of education at the University of Illinois-Chicago. Prior to his career in higher education, he was a fugitive for years for his role with the Weather Underground until surrendering in 1980. Charges against him were dropped because of government misconduct. 

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Chesa Boudin, left, with his father, David Gilbert, in the maximum security prison where he is serving his sentence for the killing of a Brinks guard and two police officers during a robbery by the radical group, The Weather Underground. (Ralf-Finn Hestoft/Corbis via Getty Images)

Northwestern's deal allows protests to continue through June 1, but prohibits all tents except one for aid supplies. The agreement also prevents people without ties to Northwestern from participating and requires school permission to use loudspeakers or similar devices, according to the AP. 

Northwestern said the terms include penalties for students who fail to comply, including suspension.

"This agreement represents a sustainable and de-escalated path forward, and enhances the safety of all members of the Northwestern community while providing space for free expression that complies with University rules and policies," said a statement from President Michael Schill, Provost Kathleen Hagerty and Vice President for Student Affairs Susan Davis.

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Brown University has also implemented a similar deal.  

Fox News Digital reached out to Northwestern University and Dohrn Ayers for comment. 

The Associated Press contributed to this report. 

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Trump can attend his son Barron's high school graduation after all

• Donald Trump will get a break from his criminal trial to attend Barron's high school graduation.
• Trump had asked the judge in his hush-money case for the day off.
• On Tuesday, noting jury selection wrapped up quickly, the judge allowed it.

Former President Donald Trump can attend his son Barron's high school graduation after all.

Trump's lawyers asked New York Supreme Court Justice Juan Merchan on April 15 — the first day of jury selection in his hush-money criminal trial — if the court would recess that day so the former president could attend the milestone event.

Merchan didn't immediately rule on the request, noting that it depended "on if we are on time and where we are in the trial."

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On Tuesday morning, minutes before Trump was found in contempt after nine gag order violations and fined $9,000, Merchan approved the request.

"We picked the jury pretty quickly," the judge said.

Trump's five-woman, seven-man jury was selected in one week, half the time originally estimated.

"So Mr. Trump can certainly attend that date," Merchan said.

Trump said weeks ago — when he told reporters he believed Merchan would keep him from the graduation — that Barron worked "very, very hard" and had been "looking forward, for years, to that graduation with his mother and father there."

After the Tuesday morning rulings, testimony continued in Trump's first criminal trial.

He is charged with 34 felony counts of falsifying business records; prosecutors allege that he lied on documents to disguise payments to adult film actor Stormy Daniels.

Prosecutors say Trump's ex-personal attorney and former fixer, Michael Cohen, facilitated $130,000 in payments to Daniels just days before the 2016 presidential election to buy her silence over a 2006 affair before voters went to the polls.

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