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450 Inspiring Family Vacation Quotes: Unforgettable

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.”


2. “You know more of a road by having traveled it than by all the conjectures and descriptions in the world. ” — William Hazlitt


3. “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.”


4. “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”


5. ‘Have you ever noticed how parents can go from the most wonderful people in the world to totally embarrassing in three seconds?’ – Rick Riordan


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


7. 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)


8. ‘Travel is rich with learning opportunities, and the ultimate souvenir is a broader perspective.’ – Rick Steves


9. Thanks to the interstate highway system, it is now possible to travel from coast to coast without seeing anything. – Charles Kuralt


10. “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


11.  “A family road trip is a journey of discovery, both of the world and of each other. It’s a chance to bond, learn, and make memories. ” – Phil Dunphy from TV Show Modern Family


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


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


14. “A man filled with the love of God is not content with blessing his family alone, but ranges through the whole world, anxious to bless the whole human race.”


15. “If you leave your family to travel, you will never have as good of a time as if you brought them with you.” -Unknown


16. “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


17. “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


18. ‘Travel, in the younger sort, is a part of education; in the elder, a part of the experience.’ -Francis Bacon, Sr.


19. “It’s all about the quality of life and finding a happy balance between work and friends and family.” –Philip Green


20. “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.”


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


22. “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


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


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


25. 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


26. “I also believe that parents, if they love you, will hold you up safely, above their swirling waters, and sometimes that means you’ll never know what they endured, and you may treat them unkindly, in a way you otherwise wouldn’t.”


27. “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


28. Our battered suitcases were piled on the sidewalk again; we had longer ways to go. But no matter, the road is life. ” — Jack Kerouac


29. “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


30.  “A family vacation is a time for rejoicing, for letting go of the responsibilities of daily life and for being with the people you love. ” – Barbara Eden


31. If you reject the food, ignore the customs, fear the religion and avoid the people, you might better stay at home. – James Michener


32.  “The best thing about traveling with family is that you will always have a built-in best friend. ” – Samantha Brown


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


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


35. 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


36. “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


37. Holidays with young kids isn’t about the holiday, (because let’s face it, that’s just exhausting, it’s about making memories 


38. “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 


39. “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


40. “But you know, we have a very normal family. We’ve had our ups and downs. You know, we’ve had our issues, but we’ve had great cause for celebration.”


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


42.  “Family travel is like a story – it has its twists and turns, but in the end it’s a tale of love, laughter and memories. ” – Nicholas Sparks


43. “I had a really wonderful upbringing. We were a tight family. It was wonderful to grow up with so many siblings. We were all just a year or two apart, and we were always so supportive of each other. I learned everything from my older brother and sister and taught it to my younger sisters.”


44. “You must remember, family is often born of blood, but it doesn’t depend on blood. Nor is it exclusive of friendship. Family members can be your best friends, you know. And best friends, whether or not they are related to you, can be your family.”


45. ‘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


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


47. “I would like to travel the world with you twice. Once to see the world. Twice, to see the way you see the world. ” — Anon


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


49. TWO ROADS DIVERGED IN A WOOD AND I – I TOOK THE ONE LESS TRAVELED BY, AND THAT HAS MADE ALL THE DIFFERENCE. – ROBERT FROST


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


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


52. “You can kiss your family good-bye and put miles between you, but at the same time you carry them with you in your heart, your mind, your stomach, because you do not just live in a world but a world lives in you.”


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


54. “There are no perfect parents and there are no perfect children, but there are plenty of perfect moments along the way


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


56. “In my career, there’s many things I’ve won and many things I’ve achieved, but for me, my greatest achievement is my children and my family. It’s about being a good father, a good husband, just being connected to family as much as possible.”


57. IF YOUR ENDING WAS ENDING TOMORROW, WOULD THIS BE HOW YOU’D WANT TO HAVE SPENT IT? LISTEN, THE TRUTH IS, NOTHING IS GUARANTEED. SO DON’T BE AFRAID, BE ALIVE. ” – SARAH DESSEN


58. ‘While we try to teach our children all about life, our children teach us what life is all about.’ – Angela Schwindt


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


60. “To maintain a joyful family requires much from both the parents and the children. Each member of the family has to become, in a special way, the servant of the others.”


61. “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


62. “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


63. “The best things in life are the people you love, the places you have seen, and the memories you have made along the way. ”


64. “You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself in any direction you choose. ” — Dr. Seuss


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


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


67. “Remember the small things, because one day you will look back and realise they were big things. ” — Kurt Vonnegut


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


69. “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


70. Now, on this road trip, my mind seemed to uncrinkle, to breathe, to present to itself a cure for a disease it had not, until now, known it had. – Elizabeth Berg


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


72. “The family road trip is an American classic, a rite of passage, a journey to who knows where and why, exactly, but it’s all good. ” – Michael Paterniti


73. “Days, weeks, months, and years from now, we will be looking back at these moments and thinking about how much fun we had. ”


74. “If a country is to be corruption free and become a nation of beautiful minds, I strongly feel there are three key societal members who can make a difference. They are the father, the mother, and the teacher.”


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


76. ‘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


77. No one realizes how beautiful it is to travel until he comes home and rests his head on his old, familiar pillow. – Lin Yutang


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


79. 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)


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


81. “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


82. “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


83. “Life is meant for spectacular adventures. Let your feet wander, your eyes marvel and your soul ignite.”


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


85. “With the sun on our face and the sand between our toes, these memories with the family will last forever. ”


86.  “Going on a family vacation is like taking a deep breath – it’s a chance to relax and recharge. ” – Jim Rohn


87. “Remember that happiness is a way of travel – not a destination.” · “There are no foreign lands. It is the traveler only who is foreign.” · “Little by little, one ...


88.  “A vacation is like love – anticipated with pleasure, experienced with discomfort, and remembered with nostalgia. ” – Samuel Johnson


89. ‘Your greatest contribution to the kingdom of God may not be something you do, but someone you raise.’ – Andy Stanley


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


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


92. “Own Only What You Can Always Carry With You: Known Languages, Known Countries, Known People. Let Your Memory Be Your Travel Bag.”


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


94. Sleep on floors, if you have to. Find out how other people live and cook. Learn from them – wherever you go. ” – Anthony Bourdain


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


96. “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.”


97. “When everything goes to hell, the people who stand by you without flinching – they are your family.”


98. 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


99. “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


100.  “The memories made on a family road trip last a lifetime. It’s about creating shared experiences and bonding over the journey. ” – Samantha Brown


101. “One’s family is the most important thing in life. I look at it this way: One of these days I’ll be over in a hospital somewhere with four walls around me. And the only people who’ll be with me will be my family.”


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


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


104.  “Traveling with family is a journey that creates memories that last a lifetime. ” – Robert J. Sawyers


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


106. ‘There are no seven wonders of the world in the eyes of a child. There are seven million.’ – Walt Streightiff


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


108. “Of all the books in the world, the best stories are found between the pages of a passport. ” — Saber Ben Hassen


109.  “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. ”


110. “Because in the end, you won’t remember the time you spent working in the office or mowing your lawn. Climb that goddam mountain.


111. “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.”


112. 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. –  Jawaharal Nehru


113. “I would rather own a little and see the world than own the world and see a little of it. ” — Alexander Sattler


114. “Going on a trip with family is like a symphony – each member contributes their own unique melody to create a harmonious whole. ” – Lisa See


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


116.  “The open road is a symbol of freedom, and a family road trip is the ultimate test of togetherness. ” – Anthony Bourdain


117. “Blended families: woven together by choice, strengthened together by love, tested by everything, and each uniquely ours.”


118. “Adventure isn’t hanging off a rope on the side of a mountain. Adventure is an attitude we must apply to the day to day obstacles of life”


119. ‘Wandering re-establishes the original harmony which once existed between man and the universe.’ – Anatole France


120. 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


121. THE MORE I TRAVELLED, THE MORE I REALIZED FEAR MAKES STRANGERS OF PEOPLE WHO SHOULD BE FRIENDS. – SHIRLEY MACLAINE


122.  “Going on a trip with family is a journey of making memories, experiencing new things, and simply enjoying each other’s company. ” – Lena Dunham


123. ‘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


124. “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


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


126. ‘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


127. “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


128. “Have you ever noticed how parents can go from the most wonderful people in the world to totally embarrassing in three seconds?”


129. Worst thing about being a tourist, is having other tourists recognize you as a tourist. – Russell Baker


130.  “Vacations with family are like a treasure hunt – they’re a journey filled with discoveries, laughter and unforgettable experiences. ” – Oprah Winfrey


131.  “Family vacations are like a puzzle – all the pieces have to fit together just right, or it just won’t work. ” – Louis C. K


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


133. 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


134. 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


135. I WOULD LIKE TO TRAVEL THE WORLD WITH YOU TWICE. ONCE, TO SEE THE WORLD. TWICE TO SEE THE WAY YOU SEE THE WORLD. – UNKNOWN


136. ‘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


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


138. “A family road trip is the ultimate adventure, but it’s also a journey of discovery, both of the world and of each other. ” – Rick Steves


139. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover. ” – Mark Twain


140. Wandering re-establishes the original harmony which once existed between man and the universe – Anatole France


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


142. “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


143. ‘When traveling with someone, take large doses of patience and tolerance with your morning coffee.’ – Helen Hayes


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


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


146. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle. ” – Albert Einstein


147.  “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. ”


148. “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


149. “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


150. One of the great things about travel is that you find out how many good, kind people there are. —Edith Wharton


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


152. “When you travel with children you are giving something that can never be taken away: Experience, exposure and a way of life.”


153. So throw off the bowlines, sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover. ” – Mark Twain


154.  “A family trip is a journey of discovery, a chance to experience new things and create memories that will last forever. ” – David Mamet


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


156.  “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


157. “But that’s the glory of foreign travel, as far as I am concerned. I don’t want to know what people are talking about. I can’t think of anything that excited 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 a rudimentary sense of how things work, you can’t even reliably cross the street without endangering your life. Your whole existence becomes a series of interesting guesses.” — Bill Bryson.


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


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


160. “Christmas is the perfect time to celebrate the love of God and family and to create memories that will last forever. Jesus is God’s perfect, indescribable gift. The amazing thing is that not only are we able to receive this gift, but we are able to share it with others on Christmas and every other day of the year.”


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


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


163. “There is no doubt that it is around the family and the home that all the greatest virtues… are created, strengthened and maintained.” –Winston Churchill


164. “Let us make one point, that we meet each other with a smile when it is difficult to smile. Smile at each other, make time for each other in your family.”


165. “My family is everything. I am what I am thanks to my mother, my father, my brother, my sister… because they have given me everything. The education I have is thanks to them.”


166. TO AWAKEN QUITE ALONE IN A STRANGE TOWN IS ONE OF THE MOST PLEASANT SENSATIONS IN THE WORLD. – FREYA STARK


167. ‘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


168. “I have a very good family. I’m very fortunate to have a very good family. I believe very strongly in the family. It’s one of the things we have in our platform, is to talk about it.”


169.  “Going on a trip with family is a journey filled with discovery, adventure and a lifetime of memories. ” – Neil Gaiman


170. “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


171. “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


172. 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 reliably cross a street without endangering your life. Your whole existence becomes a series of interesting guesses. ” – Bill Bryson


173. ‘The young do not know enough to be prudent, and therefore they attempt the impossible and achieve it, generation after generation.’-Pearl S. Buck


174. ‘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


175.  “Where you live shapes how you see the whole world, but when you see the world it shapes how you see yourself. ” – Richie Norton


176. “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


177. “Vacations with family are like a musical symphony – they’re a harmony of laughter, love and memories. ” – Zig Ziglar


178. “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.


179. DO NOT FOLLOW WHERE THE PATH MAY LEAD, GO INSTEAD WHERE THERE IS NO PATH AND LEAVE A TRAIL. – RALPH WALDO EMERSON


180.  “Traveling with family is a journey that broadens the mind, deepens the bonds and strengthens the spirit. ” – Jostein Gaarder


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


182. “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


183. “There are only two lasting bequests we can hope to give our children. One of these is roots; the other, wings.” 


184. “Traveling is like going to the library! The more you travel, the more you will feel as if reading books!” — Mehmet Murat ildan


185. ‘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


186. “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”


187. “And so, for a time it looked as if all the adventures were coming to an end; but that was not to be. ” — C. S. Lewis


188. “People are going to be living quite soon for 100 years. Our idea of how a family works no longer applies. It’s no good saying you’re going to have children for 15 years and then you’re going to retire and have hobbies because you’ve got 40 more years to go after 60 and you’re in good health until 90 or something.”


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


190. “Once the travel bug bites there is no antidote. And I know that I will be happily infected until the end of my life” -Michael Palin


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


192. “Think of your family today and every day thereafter, don’t let the busy world of today keep you from showing how much you love and appreciate your family.” –Josiah


193. “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


194. Enjoy the little things in life, or one day you’ll look back and realize they were the big things. – Unknown


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


196. “Travel opens your heart, broadens your mind, and fills your life with stories to tell. ” — Paula Bendfeldt


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


198. “That’s what people do who love you. They put their arms around you and love you when you’re not so lovable.”


199. 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


200. “Because in the end, you won’t remember the time you spent working in the office or mowing your lawn.” — Jack Kerouac.


201. “Manhood is taking care of your family and being able to bless other people. Not yourself – but whether you can bless other people.”


202. ‘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


203. “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.”


204. “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


205. “Is this what family is like: the feeling that everyone’s connected, that with one piece missing, the whole thing’s broken?”


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


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


208. “I come from that society and there is a common thread, specifically family values – the idea that you do anything for your family, and the unconditional love for one’s children.”


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


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


211. “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. ” — Mark Twain


212. EVERYONE NEEDS THIS FRIEND THAT CALLS AND SAYS, “GET DRESSED, WE’RE GOING ON AN ADVENTURE. ” – UNKNOWN


213. “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.”


214. “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


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


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


217. “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


218.  “Vacations with family are the perfect escape from the stress of everyday life and a time to create new bonds and strengthen old ones. ” – Tony Robbins


219.  “This is my road. I’m so happy you came and traveled with me. ” – Rachel Hartman, Tess of the Road (2018)


220. “Taking a trip with family is a journey of laughter, love, and memories, where each member adds their own unique contribution. ” – Douglas Coupland


221. Travel can also be the spirit of adventure somewhat tamed, for those who desire to do something they are a bit afraid of. – Ella Maillart


222. ‘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


223. “A family vacation is a good time to bond and make memories that last a lifetime. ” – Steve Harvey · 5. “Vacations with family are a time to 


224. 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


225.  “Traveling is like going to the library! The more you travel, the more you will feel as if reading books!” – Mehmet Murat ildan


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


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


228. ‘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


229. ‘Like anything else in my life, you and the family need to unplug every once in a while. Go. Travel. Enjoy one another.’ – Unknown


230. “When you see someone putting on his Big Boots, you can be pretty sure that an Adventure is going to happen.”


231.  “Going on vacation with family is like trying to solve a mystery – you never know what kind of surprises you’ll uncover. ” – John Oliver


232. “The two impulses in travel are to get away from home, and the other is to pursue something – a landscape, people, an exotic place. Certainly finding a place that you like or discovering something unusual is a very sustaining thing in travel.”


233. “The bond that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each other’s life.” –Richard Bach


234. ‘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


235. 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


236. “The practice of patience toward one another, the overlooking of one another’s defects, and the bearing of one another’s burdens is the most elementary condition of all human and social activity in the family.”


237. You will never be completely at home again, because part of your heart always will be elsewhere. That is the price you pay for the richness of loving and knowing people in more than one place. – Miriam Adeney


238. “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


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


240. ‘The best education you will ever get is travelling. Nothing teaches you more than exploring the world and accumulating experiences.’ – Mark Paterson


241. “Feelings of worth can flourish only in an atmosphere where individual differences are appreciated, mistakes are tolerated, communication is open, and rules are flexible – the kind of atmosphere that is found in a nurturing family.”


242. “When preparing to travel, lay out all of your clothes and all of your money. Then take half the clothes and twice the money. ” — Susan Heller


243. You got to be careful if you don’t know where you’re going, because you might not get there. –Yogi Berra


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


245. “Call it a clan, call it a network, call it a tribe, call it a family: Whatever you call it, whoever you are, you need one.” –Jane Howard


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


247.  “A family vacation is a time to create memories that will last a lifetime, and to laugh, play and simply be together. ” – Richard Branson


248. “Family: A social unit where the father is concerned with parking space, the children with outer space, and the mother with closet space.” –Evan Esar


249.  “A family vacation is like a journey through time – it takes you back to your childhood and makes new memories for the future. ” – Oprah Winfrey


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


251. “No one’s family is normal. Normalcy is a lie invented by advertising agencies to make the rest of us feel inferior.”


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


253.  “That’s why I love road trips, dude. It’s like doing something without actually doing anything. ” – John Green, An Abundance of Katherines (2006)


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


255. ‘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.


256. “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


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


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


259. “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. ”


260. “Going on a family vacation is like taking a trip down memory lane – it’s a chance to make new memories and revisit old ones. ” – Maya Angelou


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


262. “My family is my life, and everything else comes second as far as what’s important to me.” –Michael Imperioli


263. “Vacations with family are like a marathon – they’re challenging, but you’ll be proud of yourself for finishing. ” – Trevor Noah


264. “I have a wonderful shelter, which is my family. I have a wonderful relationship with my brother and sister; this makes me feel that I know always where I belong.”


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


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


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


268. “We should live every day like it is a holiday, being thankful and spending time with family, and looking hopefully to the future.” -Unknown


269. ‘The gift of play is that it invites us to create without attachment, explore without a destination, and enjoy without complexity.’ – Vince Goemon


270. “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 reliably cross a street without endangering your life. Your whole existence becomes a series of interesting guesses. ” — Bill Bryson


271. “There’s nothing that makes you more insane than family. Or more happy. Or more exasperated. Or more… secure.”


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


273.  “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


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


275. “I had five sisters and one brother, so having a big family is a given for me, but now being a father, and trying to be a good father, I already have my work cut out for me.”


276. “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


277. ‘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


278. 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


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


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


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


282. ‘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


283. “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


284. ‘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


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


286.  “Happiness consists of living each day as if it were the first day of your honeymoon and the last day of your vacation. ” – Leo Tolstoy


287. ‘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


288. “In the end, they won’t remember that toy you bought them, they will remember the time you spend with them.”


289. “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


290. “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.”


291. “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.” 


292. “I am blessed to have so many great things in my life – family, friends, and God. All will be in my thoughts daily.”


293. “Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres. Love never fails.” –1 Corinthians 13:4-8


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


295.  “Vacations with family are the perfect opportunity to reconnect and rediscover the things that truly matter in life. ” – Steve Maraboli


296. “The only rock I know that stays steady, the only institution I know that works, is the family.” –Lee Iacocca


297. “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


298. “It’s true, Christmas can feel like a lot of work, particularly for mothers. But when you look back on all the Christmases in your life, you’ll find you’ve created family traditions and lasting memories. Those memories, good and bad, are really what help to keep a family together over the long haul.”


299. ‘Own Only What You Can Always Carry With You: Known Languages, Known Countries, Known People. Let Your Memory Be Your Travel Bag.’– Alexandr Solzhenitsyn.


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


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


302. ‘You will never look back in your life and think, I spent too much time with my kids.’ – Kimberly Mcleod


303. “The family is the test of freedom; because the family is the only thing that the free man makes for himself and by himself.” –Gilbert K. Chesterton


304. “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


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


306. “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


307. “If we were meant to stay in one place, we'd have roots instead of feet. ” · 2. “Of all the paths you take in life, 


308. If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness and fears. ” — Cesare Pavese


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


310. ‘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


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


312. “Once the travel bug bites there is no antidote. And I know that I will be happily infected until the end of my life” — Michael Palin


313. “Family isn’t always blood. It’s the people in your life who want you in theirs; the ones who accept you for who you are. The ones that would do anything to see you smile and who love you no matter what.”


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


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


316. “This is my family. I found it all on my own. It’s little, and broken, but still good. Yeah. Still good.” –Stitch


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


318. “Our battered suitcases were piled on the sidewalk again; we had longer ways to go. But no matter, the road is life.”


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


320. TWENTY YEARS FROM NOW YOU WILL BE MORE DISAPPOINTED BY THE THINGS YOU DIDN’T DO THAN BY THE ONES YOU DID. – MARK TWAIN


321. “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.”


322. “Here’s to all the places we went, and here’s to all the places we’ll go. And here’s to me, whispering again and again and again: I love you. ” — John Green


323. WANDERING RE-ESTABLISHES THE ORIGINAL HARMONY WHICH ONCE EXISTED BETWEEN MAN AND THE UNIVERSE. – ANATOLE FRANCE


324. “I think family is key, and if you have love for family, then you have love for others – and you have unity as a people.”


325. 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


326. “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. ” — Katie Grissom


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


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


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


330. “Home is people. Not a place. If you go back there after the people are gone, then all you can see is what is not there any more.”


331. ‘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


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


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


334. “A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions. ” — Oliver Wendell Holmes


335. “A family trip is the perfect escape from the daily grind, a chance to create new memories and strengthen bonds. ” – Rachel Naomi Remen


336. “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


337. YOU KNOW IT’S TIME FOR A VACATION WHEN YOU START LOOKING LIKE THE PERSON ON YOUR DRIVING LICENSE… – UNKNOWN


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


339. TRAVEL CHANGES YOU. AS YOU MOVE THROUGH THIS LIFE AND THIS WORLD YOU CHANGE THINGS SLIGHTLY, YOU LEAVE MARKS BEHIND, HOWEVER SMALL. AND IN RETURN, LIFE—AND TRAVEL—LEAVES MARKS ON YOU. – ANTHONY BOURDAIN


340. “…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.”


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


342. “Travel in the younger sort is a part of education; in the elder, a part of the experience.’ — Francis Bacon.


343. ‘For the holidays: the rich’s kids travel the world; the poor’s kids roam around their grandparent’s yard.’ – Unknown


344. “The bond that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each other’s life.”


345. 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


346. “I am convinced that the greatest legacy we can leave our children are happy memories: those precious moments so much like pebbles on the beach that are plucked from the white sand and placed in tiny boxes that lay undisturbed on tall shelves until one day they spill out and time repeats itself, with joy and sweet sadness, in the child now an adult.”


347. “54. 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


348. “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


349. “Every man can transform the world from one of monotony and drabness to one of excitement and adventure. ” — Irving Wallace


350. “My principal motivation is supporting my family, which is not a bad reason for getting up in the morning. That’s always been my motivation – to take care of the people who rely on me.”


351. “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.”


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


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


354. “The family – that dear octopus from whose tentacles we never quite escape, nor, in our inmost hearts, ever quite wish to.” –Dodie Smith


355. “A real man loves his wife and places his family as the most important thing in life. Nothing has brought me more peace and content in life than simply being a good husband and father.”


356. “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


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


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


359.  “Vacations with family are like a rollercoaster ride – they’re full of ups and downs, but they’re always an adventure. ” – Tina Fey


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


361. “I try to live my life like my father lives his. He always takes care of everyone else first. He won’t even start eating until he’s sure everyone else in the family has started eating. Another thing: My dad never judges me by whether I win or lose.”


362. 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. – Anonymous


363. “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


364. “Life changes when you have a child when you have your own family. You become more careful about what you do. You’re not going to be out late, going out to clubs, hanging out with your friends. You’re going to be at home, taking care of your daughter, playing with her.”


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


366. “Being a family means you are a part of something very wonderful. It means you will love and be loved for the rest of your life.” –Lisa Weed


367. “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.


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


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


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


371. “Vacations with family are like playing with fire – they’re dangerous, but they’re worth it. ” – Ellen DeGeneres


372. And, whenever I’m with my favourite people, it becomes my favourite place. ” - Nivaz Ahemad in Late Night Tales


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


374. “Traveling with family is a great way to bond, learn about new cultures and make memories that will last a lifetime. ” – Anthony Bourdain


375. “Sister is probably the most competitive relationship within the family, but once the sisters are grown, it becomes the strongest relationship.”


376. ‘That’s why I love family road trips. It is like doing something without actually doing something.’ – Unknown


377. ‘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


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


379.  “Vacations with kids are like a game of whack-a-mole – just when you think you have a moment of peace, something pops up. ” – Michael Scott


380. There is no end to the adventures we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open. ” – Jawaharlal Nehru


381. “I would like to travel the world with you twice. Once to see the world. Twice, to see the way you see the world.” — Anon


382.  “Traveling with family is a joy. It’s about sharing experiences together, making memories, and creating bonds that last a lifetime. ” – Rick Steves 


383.  “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


384. “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.”


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


386. “I love spending time with my friends and family. The simplest things in life give me the most pleasure: cooking a good meal, enjoying my friends.”


387. Deciding not to travel with kids because they won't remember, is like not reading them books because they won't 


388. “Stick to the basics, hold on to your family and friends – they will never go out of fashion.” –Niki Taylor


389. “Once the travel bug bites there is no antidote. And I know that I will be happily infected until the end of my life. ” — Michael Palin


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


391. “Vacations with family are a time to create lasting memories, to laugh and to simply be together. ” – John Wooden


392.  “A family vacation is an investment in love and happiness, one that pays dividends for a lifetime. ” – Joel Osteen


393. And at the end of the day, your feet should be dirty, your hair messy and your eyes sparkling (Shanti)


394. “The informality of family life is a blessed condition that allows us all to become our best while looking our worst.” –Marge Kennedy


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


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


397. “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.”


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


399. THE GLADDEST MOMENT IN HUMAN LIFE, ME THINKS, IS A DEPARTURE INTO UNKNOWN LANDS. – SIR RICHARD BURTON


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


401. “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


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


403. “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


404. ‘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


405. “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


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


407. 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


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


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


410. “I want adventure in the great wide somewhere. I want it more than I can tell. ” — Belle (Disney’s Beauty and the Beast)


411. ‘Own Only What You Can Always Carry With You: Known Languages, Known Countries, Known People. Let Your Memory Be Your Travel Bag.’  – Alexandr Solzhenitsyn.


412.  “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


413. ‘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


414. “Ideally, travel broadens our perspectives personally, culturally, and politically. Suddenly, the palette with which we paint the story of our lives has more colours.”


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


416. “It’s not what we have in life that is important, but who we have in life that matters. ” – J. M. Laurence


417. ‘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


418. “When families are strong and stable, so are children – showing higher levels of wellbeing and more positive outcomes.”


419. “God has blessed me with an amazing family, friends and work colleagues that have been my joy, my support, and my sanity. I don’t know what I’d do without them.”


420. “It is not until much later, as the skin sags and the heart weakens, that children understand; their stories, and all their accomplishments, sit atop the stories of their mothers and fathers, stones upon stones, beneath the waters of their lives.”


421.  “Because in the end, you won’t remember the time you spent working in the office or mowing your lawn. Climb that goddamn mountain. ”


422. ” – Bill Bryson author of many travel memoirs including one of my personal favorites, The Road to Little Dribbling


423. “The biggest adventure you can take is to live the life of your dreams. ” · 32. “When you travel with 


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


425. 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


426. “The best part of a road trip isn’t arriving at your destination; it’s the memories you make with the people you created. ”


427. I told the doctor I broke my leg in two places. He told me to quit going to those places”. -Henny Youngman


428. “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 by favourite place. ” (Late Night Tales, Nivaz Ahemad)


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


430. ‘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


431. “I know you’ll be kind… and clever… and bold. And the bigger your heart, the more it will hold. ” — Emily Winfield Martin


432. WHAT WE FIND IN A SOULMATE IS NOT SOMETHING WILD TO TAME, BUT SOMETHING WILD TO RUN WITH. – ROBERT BRAULT


433. ‘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.


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


435. “In family life, love is the oil that eases friction, the cement that binds closer together, and the music that brings harmony.” –Friedrich Nietzsche


436. “Traveling is like going to the library! The more you travel, the more you will feel as if reading books!”


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


438. “Watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you, because the greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places. ” — Roald Dahl


439. “There is no time to be bored in a world as beautiful as this. ” · 2. “Wherever you go, go with all your heart


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


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


442. “Well, maybe it started that way. As a dream, but doesn’t everything? Those buildings. These lights. This whole city. Somebody had to dream about it first. And maybe that is what I did. I dreamed about coming here, but then I did it. ” —  Roald Dahl


443. “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.”


444. ‘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


445. “I am blessed to have so many great things in my life – family, friends, and God. All will be in my thoughts daily.” –Lil’ Kim


446. “For there is no friend like a sister in calm or stormy weather; To cheer one on the tedious way, to fetch one if one goes astray, to lift one if one totters down, to strengthen whilst one stands.”


447.  “Going on a trip with family is a time to forget about the everyday stresses of life and to simply enjoy each other’s company. ” – Susan Wiggs


448. ‘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


449.  “Where you live shapes how you see the whole world, but when you see the world, it shapes how you see yourself. ”


450. “When you come from a big family, you see that, growing up, you’re learning how to share. Your sisters have got your back; you’re not alone in this – ‘We all support you!’ Your family provides that; it gives you a sense of safety, and it’s a very grounding feeling.”


451.  “Vacations with family are like trying to solve a Rubik’s cube while wearing oven mitts. ” – Jim Gaffigan


452. 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


453. “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


454. “What you have to decide… is how you want your life to be. If your ending was ending tomorrow, would this be how you’d want to have spent it? Listen, the truth is, nothing is guaranteed. So don’t be afraid, be alive. ” — Sarah Dessen


455. “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


456. ‘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


457. “The most beautiful things in life are not things. They’re people and places and memories and pictures. They’re feelings and moments and smiles and laughter. ”


458. “There is no such thing as a ‘broken family.’ Family is family, and is not determined by marriage certificates, divorce papers, and adoption documents. Families are made in the heart.”


459. “Families are the compass that guides us. They are the inspiration to reach great heights, and our comfort when we occasionally falter.” –Brad Henry


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


461. “A family is like a puzzle. The pieces may split and break, but once collected and assembled, they fit together perfectly. ”


462. ‘And at the end of the day your feet should be dirty your hair messy and your eyes sparkling.’ – Shanti


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


464. ‘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


465. “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


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


467. “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


468. “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


469. “Do not go where the path may lead; go instead where there is no path and leave a trail. ” — Ralph Waldo Emerson


470. “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)


471. ‘What do parents owe their young that is more important than a warm and trusting connection to the Earth?’ – Theodore Roszak


472. “I don’t have a favourite place, I have my favourite people. And, whenever I’m with my favourite people, it becomes by favourite place.” 


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


474. “This is part of what a family is about, not just love. It’s knowing that your family will be there watching out for you. Nothing else will give you that. Not money. Not fame. Not work.”


475. “There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle. ” — Albert Einstein


476. “Where you live shapes how you see the whole world, but when you see the world it shapes how you see yourself. ” — Richie Norton


477. ‘A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions.’ – Oliver Holmes


478. Do not follow where the path might lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail. — Ralph Waldo Emerson


479. 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


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


481. “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


482. 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

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