Family travel quotes are some of the best out there. If there is one thing in my life that I do well, it is encouraging my family to travel and traveling with them. I think there is no greater learning experience or quality time spent then in close quarters for days at a time with your loved ones. I know someone is reading this right now thinking “you’ve never met my family! A week in tight quarters and we will kill each other!” HA! Well, hate to break it to you, but most families are the same.
At the end of the day, family is everything. This is why I love traveling with them. I can’t possible explain the feeling I get when I take my mom somewhere she has never been that I love or exploring new destinations together. We took the leap and went to Cuba in 2018 after we were legally allowed to. We had such a fun time in a country that has always been off the table for us. Its these experiences that make family travel quotes come to fruition.
I broke out these family travel quotes down to three categories: inspiration, kids and love. I think they each have a time and a place, but sorting them was the best way to convey feelings for certain situations, especially if you are looking for captions or quick inspiration.
I hope you enjoy these family travel quotes. These are among some of my favorites, and as cliche as it sounds, I use them frequently. They speak to my soul.
Family Travel Quotes: Inspirational
- “Don’t tell me the sky’s the limit when there are footsteps on the moon” – Paul Brandt
- “Not all classrooms have four walls.” – Anon
- “Collect moments, not things.”
- “The best things in life are the people you love, the places you’ve been and the memories you’ve made along the way.”
- “Time is precious. Waste it wisely.”
- “People forget the years and remember moments”
- “Take only memories, leave only footprints” – Chief Seattle
- “Make voyages! Attempt them… there’s nothing else.” – Tennesee Williams
- “So much of who we are is where we have been.”
- “Let curiosity lead the way”
- “Wherever you go becomes a part of you somehow” – Anita Desai
- “We have nothing to lose and a world to see.”
- “There’s no time to be bored in a world as beautiful as this.”
- “Fill your life with adventures, not things. Have stories to tell, not stuff to show.”
- “Don’t tell me how educated you are, tell me how much you have 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
- “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
- “The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page.” – St. Augustine
- “The only trip you will regret is the one you don’t take.”
- “Traveling – it leaves you speechless and then turns you into a storyteller.” -Ibn Battuta
- “Travel makes you modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.” – Gustave Flaubert
- “Once a year, go someplace you’ve never been before.” – Dalai Lama
- “The biggest adventure you can ever take is to live the life of your dreams.” – Oprah Winfrey
- “Travel brings power and love back into your life.” – Rumi
- “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
- “Travel is the only thing you buy that makes you richer.”
- “People lose their way when they forget their why.”
- “Without new experiences, something inside of us sleeps. The sleeper must awaken.” – Frank Herbert
- “Traveling is a humbling experience. It always leaves you with one thought: my life may not be perfect, but I am blessed.”
- “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
- “Stop worrying about the potholes in the road and enjoy the journey.” – Babs Hoffman
Family Travel Quotes: For The Kids
- “It’s a magical world, Hobbes, ol’ buddy… Let’s go exploring!” – Calvin from Calvin and Hobbes
- “Blessed are the curious as they shall have adventures”
- “Travel is like an endless university. You never stop learning” – Harvey Lloyd
- “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
- “The greatest legacy we can leave our children is happy memories” -Og Mandino
- “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
- “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 at the end of the day, your feet should be dirty, your hair messy and your eyes sparkling” -Shanti
- “As soon as I saw you, I knew an adventure was about to happen.”– A. A. Milne, Winnie the Pooh
- “The world is your playground”
- “Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all” – Aristotle
- “Kid, you’ll move mountains”- Dr. Seuss
- “Two of the greatest gifts we can give our children are roots and wings” – Hodding Carter
- “She looks for adventure around every corner.” – Kate Spade
- “Not all those who wander are lost.” – J. R. R. Tolkien
- “The best education you will ever get is traveling. Nothing teaches you more than exploring the world and accumulating experiences.” – Mark Paterson
- “What if I fall?” “Oh but my darling, what if you fly?”
- “Teaching kids to count is fine, but teaching them what counts is best.” – Bob Talbert
- “Kids don’t remember their best day of television.”
- “Because when you stop and look around, this life is pretty amazing.” – Dr. Seuss
- “Travel as much as you can as long as you can. Life’s not meant to be lived in one place.”
- “Almost everything will work again if you unplug it for awhile. Including you.”
- “You must go on adventures to find out where you truly belong.”
- “Above all, watch with glittering eyes the world around you because the greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places.” – Roald Dahl
- “This entire planet is your home. Staying in one city your whole life would be like never leaving the bedroom.”
- “To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries.”
- “Travel makes you realize that no matter how much you know, there’s always more to learn.”
- “It is never too early to begin to explore the world.”
- “Life’s better when you add fresh air, a warm campfire, bright stars, and s’mores.”
Family Travel Quotes: Love
- “It doesn’t matter where you are going, it’s who you have beside you.”
- “Be fearless in the pursuit of what sets your soul on fire.” – Jennifer Lee
- “Travelling in the company of those we love is home in motion” – Leigh Hunt
- “Memories made together last a lifetime.”
- “I would ride with you upon the wind and dance upon the mountains like a flame.” – W. B. Yeats
- “We were together. I forget the rest.” – Walt Whitman
- “Actually, the best gift you could have given her was a lifetime of adventures” – Lewis Carroll
- “And then there is the most dangerous risk of all — the risk of spending your life not doing what you want on the bet you can buy yourself the freedom to do it later.” – Randy Komisar
- “Happiness is planning a trip with the ones you love.”
- “Will you come travel with me? Shall we stick by each other as long as we live.” -Walt Whitman
- “Any day spent with you is my favorite day.” – A. A. Milne
- “Oh darling, let’s be adventurers.”
- “Every man can transform the world from one of monotony and drabness to one of excitement and adventure.” -Irving Wallace
- “It’s the little memories that will last a lifetime.”
- “Let’s wander where the wifi is weak.”
- “Wherever you go, go with all your heart.” – Confucius
- “Never go on trips with anyone you do not love.” – Ernest Hemingway
- “Sometimes you will never know the value of a moment until it becomes a memory.” – Dr. Suess
- “You keep me safe. I’ll keep you wild.” – Atticus
- “Family together, we have it all.”
- “Remember that happiness is a way of travel – not a destination.” – Roy M. Goodman
- “Good company in a journey makes the way seem shorter.” – Izaak Walton
- “I am not the same, having seen the moon shine on the other side of the world.” – Mary Anne Radmacher
- “A road trip is a way for the whole family to spend time together and annoy each other in interesting new places.” – Tom Lichtenheld
- “The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.” – Marcel Proust
I hope you enjoyed these family travel quotes. I am such a sucker for quotes because they are easy to use for social media updates on all platforms, specially Instagram. Often in our travels, a family travel quote can sum up how we feel without having to say anything extra, and I like that. I appreciate the souls who penned these quotes to paper for us to enjoy. My favorite is the family travel quotes for kids. We are shaping the young minds of kids, and I so wish I had been able to travel as a child and be more exposed to other cultures and ways of life.
I did not start truly traveling until I was an adult and never left the country until I was 24! I remember taking my brother with me to some developing countries and I believe it changed us. He was still 17, a kid. I truly believe having that exposure to other ways of living and the people can really be memorable and make you more grateful for the life you have.
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