Travel Quotes by John Steinbeck

“You don't even know where I'm going." "I don't care. I'd like to go anywhere.”

— John Steinbeck

People don't take trips . . . trips take people.

— John Steinbeck

A journey is a person in itself; no two are alike.

— John Steinbeck

“Ain’t many guys travel around together,” he mused. “I don’t know why. Maybe ever’body in the whole damn world is scared of…

— John Steinbeck

When we get these thruways across the whole country, as we will and must, it will be possible to drive from New…

— John Steinbeck

Niagara Falls is very nice. I'm very glad I saw it, because from now on if I am asked whether I have…

— John Steinbeck

There are as many worlds as there are kinds of days, and as an opal changes its colors and its fire to…

— John Steinbeck

I am writing this from what we Americans call Yurrp. In Yurrp writers are taken as seriously as Lana Turner's legs are…

— John Steinbeck

Again it might have been the American tendency in travel. One goes, not so much to see but to tell afterward.

— John Steinbeck

Charley is a mind-reading dog. There have been many trips in his lifetime, and often he has to be left at home.…

— John Steinbeck

“A journey is a person in itself; no two are alike. An all plans, safeguards, policies and coercion are fruitless. We find…

— John Steinbeck

I know people who are so immersed in road maps that they never see the countryside they pass through, and others who,…

— John Steinbeck

“In the beginning of this record i tried to explore the nature of journeys, how they are things in themselves, each one…

— John Steinbeck

When I was very young and the urge to be someplace else was on me, I was assured by mature people that…

— John Steinbeck

“In all my travels I saw very little real poverty, I mean the grinding terrifying poorness of the Thirties. That at least…

— John Steinbeck

“Once a journey is designed, equipped, and put in process, a new factor enters and takes over. A trip, a safari, an…

— John Steinbeck