Travel quotes to inspire your internship adventure

Regardless of how you feel about travel, everyone has felt the same way you do. Whether you're nervous, excited, shy, or ready for adventure, these quotes about travel will make you feel passionate and motivated about your upcoming trip to somewhere new as you start your internship abroad.

London

1. “Sir, when a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford.” - Samuel Johnson, The Life of Samuel Johnson LL.D. Vol 3

2. “Tea at the Ritz is the last delicious morsel of Edwardian London. The light is kind, the cakes are frivolous and the tempo is calm, confident and leisurely.” - Helen Simpson, The London Ritz Book of Afternoon Tea

3. “My Dad says that being a Londoner has nothing to do with where you’re born. He says that there are people who get off a jumbo jet at Heathrow, go through immigration waving any kind of passport, hop on the tube and by the time the train’s pulled into Piccadilly Circus they’ve become a Londoner.” - Ben Aaronovitch, Moon Over Soho

4.“London has now become almost like a gigantic frog! With its long tongue it draws curious insects from all over the world inside itself!” - Mehmet Murat ildan

5. “I like walking round London at night, I do it all the time. Not for no reason, just cos… it’s home, innit? It’s brilliant, you can’t ever get bored of London cos even if you live here for like a hundred and fifty years you still won’t ever know everything about it. There’s always something new. Like, you’re walking round somewhere you’ve known since you was born and you look up and there’s an old clock on the side of a building you never seen before, or there’s a little gargoyley face over a window or something. Don’t you think it’s cool?” ― Richard Rider, No Beginning, No End

Dublin

1. “Ireland, it’s the one place on earth that heaven has kissed with melody, mirth, and meadow and mist.” - Irish Blessing

2. “I try to clutch onto those last moments in the place that I was born to, but I was so busy *living* them! How was I to know I’d have to capture everything I ever wanted to remember of Eire for the rest of my life?” -Kate McCafferty

3. “I have always been a lover of the sun, even if, through spending a lifetime in Ireland, I have had little personal connection with it.” -John Boyne

4. We may have bad weather in Ireland, but the sun shines in the hearts of the people and that keeps us all warm. - Marianne Williamson

5.  Ireland, once you live there, you're seduced by it. - Frank McCourt

Madrid

1. “I would sooner be a foreigner in Spain than in most countries. How easy it is to make friends in Spain!” – George Orwell

2. “To go to bed at night in Madrid marks you as a little queer. For a long time your friends will be a little uncomfortable about it. Nobody goes to bed in Madrid until they have killed the night. Appointments with a friend are habitually made for after midnight at the café.”  – Ernest Hemingway

3. "Spain is a fascinating mix of people, languages, culture and food, but if there is one thing all Spaniards share, it's a love of food and drink." - Jose Andres

4. “Madrid is full of literature, poetry and music on all four sides, so much so that she is a literary character herself.” - Ernest Hemingway

5. “Because, Madrid, in reality, is nothing special. It does not have a great river, and hardly any skyscrapers. No channels, no lakes. Neither glorious ruins, nor sea. Madrid lacks a lot of things. But it has people in the streets. The unexpected corner. The variety. The contrast. The constant animation. And its customs. It is worth getting up early – for once – to live one day of the life of Madrid.” - Miguel Mihura

New York

1. “The true New Yorker is not someone who was born in New York, but someone who couldn’t live anywhere else.” – Ariel Sabar, Heart of the City: Nine Stories of Love and Serendipity on the Streets of New York (2016)

2. “I love New York on summer afternoons when every one’s away. There’s something very sensuous about it.” – F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

3. “New York is a city of possibility and endless exploration. There’s always something new to discover around every corner.” – Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love

4. “Quite simply, I was in love with New York. I do not mean “love” in any colloquial way, I mean that I was in love with the city, the way you love the first person who ever touches you and you never love anyone quite that way again.” – Joan Didion

5. “I look out the window and I see the lights and the skyline and the people on the street rushing around looking for action, love, and the world’s greatest chocolate chip cookie, and my heart does a little dance.” – Nora Ephron

Hong Kong

1. “Life in Hong Kong transcends cultural and culinary borders, such that nothing is truly foreign and nothing doesn’t belong.” – Peter Jon Lindberg

2. “Hong Kong is a wonderful, mixed-up town where you’ve got great food and adventure. First and foremost, it’s a great place to experience China in a relatively accessible way.” – Anthony Bourdain

3. “When I lived in Hong Kong, I felt that Hong Kong is my family.” - Jet Li

4. “You can leave Hong Kong, but it will never leave you.” – Nury Vittachi, Hong Kong: The City of Dreams

5. "Hong Kong might be a small place, but its people make it unique. The iconic images of skyscrapers in this bustling metropolis are famous around the world, but it is the people of Hong Kong, standing up for their city on the streets, who make it truly great." - Joshua Wong

Tokyo

1. “Tokyo is a very safe city. At night it becomes quiet the way New York never does.”
― Rick Kennedy, Little Adventures in Tokyo: 39 Thrills for the Urban Explorer

2. “If you go to Tokyo, I think it becomes very obvious that there’s this almost seamless mixture of popular culture and Japanese traditional culture.” ― Kazuo Ishiguro

3. “I always had a sense that I would fall in love with Tokyo. In retrospect I guess it’s not that surprising. I was of the generation that had grown up in the ’80s when Japan was ascendant (born aloft by a bubble whose burst crippled its economy for decades), and I’d fed on a steady diet of anime and samurai films.” ― Junot Diaz

4. “Tokyo would probably be the foreign city if I had to eat one city’s food for the rest of my life, every day. It would have to be Tokyo, and I think the majority of chefs you ask that question would answer the same way.” ― Anthony Bourdain

5. "Japan, not only a mega-busy city that thrives on electronics and efficiency, actually has an almost sacred appreciation of nature. One must travel outside of Tokyo to truly experience the 'old Japan' and more importantly feel these aspects of Japanese culture." - Apolo Ohno

Bangkok

1. "The food and the people in Thailand never let you down and Bangkok is an astonishing place - the culture's lovely and gentle." - Dave Myers

2. "I arrived in Bangkok in 1980: I was 23 years old, and it changed my life." - Jean-Georges Vongerichten

3. "One of the reasons I like living in Bangkok is that, although it's a megacity, it's very saturated with nature - the vast and brooding skies, the sudden storms and rains, the vegetation and even the animals that abound." - Lawrence Osborne

3. "Bangkok is infamously mired in lurid contradiction, but it's also a city of subtle and distorted moods that journalism and film have hitherto mostly failed to capture." - Lawrence Osborne

4. "Perfect is boring and dreams are not real. Just... do. So you think, "I wish I could travel." Great. Sell your crappy car, buy a ticket to Bangkok, and go. Right now. I'm serious." - Shonda Rhimes

5. "Thailand is a really beautiful place, culturally and spiritually. You appreciate it the longer you stay." - Goldie

Australia

1. “Don’t worry about the world coming to an end today. It is already tomorrow in Australia.” – Charles M. Schulz

2. “After going to Australia, it’s hard to go anywhere after that. I want to move there. I’m obsessed with it.” – Nina Dobrev

3. “Australians have a free spirit and an ability to think outside the box, and that is why I like Australia so much.” – Brian Schmidt

4. "I love coming home to Melbourne. The first thing I do is have a coffee. It's just so much better here than anywhere else. It's better than in Italy and I travel a lot. I crave it." - Curtis Stone

5. "The great thing about coming to Melbourne is that people talk about Sydney being the food capital but Melbourne is a lot more; it has that residential feel, a feeling of homeliness. When you go to restaurants, it’s known as a creative, artistic city. That’s what you get with the food.” – Ainsley Harriott

Colombia

1. "Colombia – the only risk is wanting to stay.” - Colombia tourism

2. “Hallucinatory – that’s just the way everyday life is, in Colombia. All the time, you say to yourself, did I just see that?” - Barbet Schroeder

3. "Colombia is so different to what I know, and every aspect of the country is different to England, and I loved it. I loved the culture and the food, and the coffee was amazing." - Tom Holland

4. "I realized that if I did well in Colombia, I could do well in the world."  - Nicky Jam

5. “It’s ludicrous this place exists and everybody doesn’t want to live here.” -Anthony Bourdain

General quotes about travel

If those quotes about our amazing internship destinations whet your appetite, here are even more travel quotes to ignite your sense of adventure.

1. “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

2. “If adventures do not befall a lady in her own village, she must seek them abroad.” -Jane Austen

3. “People travel because it teaches them things they could learn no other way.” ― Lance Morrow

4. “Travel opens your mind as few other things do. It is its own form of hypnotism, and I am forever under its spell.” ― Libba Bray

5. “You go away for a long time and return a different person – you never come all the way back” ― Paul Theroux

6. “This wasn’t a strange place; it was a new one.” ― Paolo Coelho

7. "Life begins at the end of your comfort zone." - Neale Donald Walsch

8. “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

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

10. “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

Feeling motivated by these inspirational travel quotes? Apply now for an international internship to boost your career.