“If you can walk away from a landing, it’s a good landing. If you can use the aircraft the next day, it’s an outstanding landing.”
- Chuck Yeager
"The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails."
- William Arthur Ward
"Ships at a distance have every man’s wish on board."
- Zora Neale Hurston
"Like gum to a shoe, you’re stuck with me and I’m stuck with you."
"I love those days when my only decision is whether to go to the beach in the morning or in the afternoon."
"I take my children everywhere, but they always find their way back home."
– Robert Orben
“The best car safety device is a rear-view mirror with a cop in it.”
— Dudley Moore
“The worst thing about being a tourist is having other tourists recognize you as a tourist!”
– Russell Baker
"If you want your children to turn out well, spend twice as much time with them and half as much money."
– Abigail Van Buren
“When preparing to travel, lay out all your clothes and all your money. Then take half the clothes and twice the money.”
— Susan Heller
“It’s my car now, but as soon as it’s fixed, it’ll be my daughter’s again.”
– Jeff Stahler
"Like all bad drivers, he thought he was the best driver in the world."
- Rebecca West
"It's amazing how much stuff we get done the day before vacation?"
- Zig Ziglar
“I travel a lot, I hate having my life disrupted by routine.”
– Caskie Stinnett
“Too bad that all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving taxicabs and cutting hair.”
– George Burns
“Driving at night is about communicating with lights.”
— Lukhman Pambra
"Teaching kids to count is fine, but teaching them what counts is best."
— Bob Talbert
“The inventor of cobblestones was clearly not communicating with the inventor of luggage wheels.”
"A journey is like marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think you control it."
- John Steinbeck
"You never really learn to swear until you learn to drive."
"Love may be the best driving wheel, but anger is a pretty good second."
– Steven Tyler
Of all the books in the world, the best stories are found between the pages of a passport.
“I love road trips. You get into this Zen rhythm; throw the sense of time out the window.”
– Miriam Toews
"There are two kinds of travel – first class and with children."
– Robert Benchley
"We travel, initially, to lose ourselves, and we travel, next to find ourselves."
- Pico Iyer
“Straight roads are for fast cars, turns are for fast drivers.”
— Colin McRae
"Yeah, working is great… but have you tried traveling?"
“A road trip is a way for the whole family to spend time together and annoy each other in interesting new places.”
– Tom Lichtenheld
"When traveling with someone, take large doses of patience and tolerance with your morning coffee."
– Helen Hayes
"If anyone is Christmas shopping for me, I wear a size 7-day Caribbean cruise."
"You call it a pandemonium. We call it a family vacation."
"Drive slow and enjoy the scenery - drive fast and join the scenery."
- Douglas Horton
"Stop worrying about the potholes in the road and enjoy the journey."
– Babs Hoffman
"The devil himself had probably redesigned hell in the light of information he had gained from observing airport layouts."
- Anthony Price
"Europeans: I drove 40 minutes to spend the weekend in Paris, then popped to Germany to visit family on the way home. Australians: I was in Queensland and drove for 18 hours. Now I’m still in Queensland."
“Boy, those French. They have a different word for everything.”
– Steve Martin
“If you don’t like how I drive, get off the sidewalk.”
“I’m getting used to wearing flip-flops everywhere. It’s a dangerous place to be. Next thing you know, I’m gonna show to a board meeting in sandals.”
"Airplane travel is nature's way of making you look like your passport photo."
- Al Gore
"I need 6 months of vacation. Twice a year."
“Forget champagne and caviar – taste the world instead!”
"You call it chaos. We call it a family vacation."
“Patience is something you admire in the driver behind you and scorn in the one ahead.”
— Mac McCleary
"I’m getting tired of waking up and not being at the beach."
"Help me! I'm on a family vacation!"
"I wish I was a postcard. For under a dollar, I could travel to any location in the world."
“Why do they call it rush hour when nothing moves?”
– Robin Williams
“There is nothing safer than flying, it’s crashing that is dangerous.”
- Theo Cowan
"Okay, we’re all like 90% happy and 10% sunburnt."
"Getting out of bed would be 10x easier if there was a Caribbean ocean and 30 degree weather waiting outside for you."