"I don't run a car, have never run a car. I could say that this is because I have this extremely tender environmentalist conscience, but the fact is I hate driving."
- David Attenborough
“Roadtripophobia (n.) The fear of not having any road trips currently booked.“
“I’ve had entire relationships that didn’t get as far as these airport security checkpoints.”
— Michael LeRoux
"You call it chaos. We call it a family vacation."
“A road trip is a way for the whole family to spend time together and annoy each other in interesting new places.”
– Tom Lichtenheld
“Never underestimate the therapeutic power of driving and listening to very loud music.”
“I’m taking 4 kids ages 6 and under on a 9-hour road trip. We’ve already had 2 major tantrums. We haven’t even left yet. Avenge my death.”
— James Breakwell
“Aerodynamics are for people who can’t build engines.”
– Enzo Ferrari
"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 love those days when my only decision is whether to go to the beach in the morning or in the afternoon."
“There is nothing safer than flying, it’s crashing that is dangerous.”
- Theo Cowan
"The main point of a cruise is to eat until you weigh the same as the boat."
"Physically I’m here. Mentally I’m in a pool in Bali ordering my third mojito."
"You call it a pandemonium. We call it a family vacation."
“The mud will wash off but the memories will last a lifetime.”
“How is it that the first piece of luggage on the airport carousel never belongs to everyone?”
— George Roberts
“Why do they call it rush hour when nothing moves?”
– Robin Williams
“The best car safety device is a rear-view mirror with a cop in it.”
— Dudley Moore
“Both optimists and pessimists contribute to our society. The optimist invents the airplane and the pessimist the parachute.”
- Gil Stern
"I’m getting tired of waking up and not being at the beach."
"Airplane travel is nature's way of making you look like your passport photo."
- Al Gore
“Life is like pocket money. You shouldn't spend it all in one place.”
― Julian Talbot
"A journey is like marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think you control it."
- John Steinbeck
"Once the travel bug bites there is no known antitode, and I know that I shall be happily infected until the end of my life."
- Michael Palin
"I’m getting tired of waking up and not being at the beach."
“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
"Like gum to a shoe, you’re stuck with me and I’m stuck with you."
"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 harbour. Catch the winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover."
- Mark Twain
"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
“I put my phone in airplane mode, but it’s not flying!"
"I crossed a time zone and I feel younger already. If I keep traveling west, I can become immortal."
- Jarod Kintz
“How did my driving test go? You could say I mailed it!”
“Jet lag is for amateurs.”
— Dick Clark
“Americans will put up with anything provided it doesn’t block traffic.”
– Dan Rather
“Too bad that all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving taxicabs and cutting hair.”
– George Burns
Of all the books in the world, the best stories are found between the pages of a passport.
“It’s my car now, but as soon as it’s fixed, it’ll be my daughter’s again.”
– Jeff Stahler
"It's amazing how much stuff we get done the day before vacation?"
- Zig Ziglar
"If anyone is Christmas shopping for me, I wear a size 7-day Caribbean cruise."
"Low self-esteem is like driving through life with your hand-brake on."
- Maxwell Maltz
“You define a good flight by negatives: you didn’t get hijacked, you didn’t crash, you didn’t throw up, you weren’t late, you weren’t nauseated by the food. So you are grateful.”
– Paul Theroux
“Forget champagne and caviar – taste the world instead!”
“When a man opens a car door for his wife, it’s either a new car or a new wife.”
– Prince Philip
"Being on vacation with my family has brought me so much closer to my iPad."
“To attract men, I wear a perfume called ‘New Car Interior.'”
– Rita Rudner
"Parents don’t really go on holidays. They just look after their kids in a different country for a while."
"People complain that there are delays on flights. Delays, really? New York to California in five hours, that used to take 30 years."
- Louis C.K.
"Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city."
– George Burns
"I’m a travel fiend on the road to recovery. Just kidding. I’m headed to the airport."