Family Trip Quotes – the Top 50!

I love family travel, and I love a good quote too.  So, I thought I’d put this list together in case you’re also looking for some inspiration – whether you’re thinking about planning your next trip or you’re searching for family trip quotes for Instagram. 

I’ve separated these family vacation quotes into four different categories so you can head straight to the ones you’re looking for:

• Reasons to travel with Kids
• Travelling as a means of Education
• Travelling for Adventure
• Travelling to Make Memories

I hope you enjoy reading them and finding a few which resonate!

Reasons to Travel with Kids:

There are so many positives when it comes to taking kids to new places. Giving them new opportunities will open their minds and get them questioning the world around them. Family travel also bonds you as a family and provides you with plenty of shared experiences.

1. “There are only two lasting bequests we can hope to give our children. One of these is roots; the other wings.”  – Hodding Carter, journalist and politician

2. “Having kids is reason to travel, never a reason to stop.” – Author Unknown

3. “Travelling in the company of those we love is home in motion.” – Leigh Hunt, poet

4. “Give your kids adventures, not things. So they have stories to tell, not stuff to show.” – Author Unknown

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

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

7. Every day we make deposits in the memory banks of our children.” — Charles R Swindoll, author and educator

8. “A road trip is a way for the whole family to spend time together and annoy each other in interesting new places.” ~ Tom Lichtenheld, author and illustrator

9. “Oh the places you’ll go.”– Dr. Seuss, author

10. “The greatest legacy we can leave our children is happy memories.”– Og Mandino, author

11. “Kids don’t remember their best day of television.” – Author Unknown

12. “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, author

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

Travelling as a means of Education:

I’m a big believer in travel teaching kids (and adults) many things that the classroom is unable to. We’ve had plenty of education in action: history lessons in Washington DC and Colonial Williamsburg, Geography lessons in the Maldives and Iceland and Biology lessons in Borneo. Plus, you get to realise that you occupy one tiny section of the globe – your way is not the only way – and that’s one of the most important lessons out there!

14. “Not all classrooms have four walls.” – Author Unknown

15. “Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. 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, author

16. “Travel is not a reward for working, it’s education for living.” – Anthony Bourdain, chef and author

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

18. “With age, comes wisdom. With travel, comes understanding.” – Sandra Lake, author

19. “Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.” – Gustave Flaubert, author

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

21. “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, author

22. “Wherever you go becomes a part of you somehow.” Anita Desai, author

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

24. “To my mind, the greatest regard 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, author

25. “The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page.” – Saint Augustine

Travelling for Adventure:

There’s no better adventure than travel. Expect the unexpected, immerse yourself and go with the flow. One of my favourite sayings is ‘A change is as good as a rest’ – and it’s so true, you’ll feel ready to take on the world after a change of scenery and a bit of adventure.

26. “If you think adventure is dangerous, try routine; it is lethal.” – Paulo Coelho, author

27. “Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all.” – Helen Keller, author

28. “Not all those who wander are lost’.” – J.R.R. Tolkien, author

29. “Jobs fill your pocket, but adventures fill your souls.” – Jamie Lyn Beatty, actress and singer

30. “To awaken alone in a strange town is one of the pleasantest sensations in the world. You are surrounded by adventure. You have no idea of what is in store for you, but you will, if you are wise and know the art of travel, let yourself go on the stream of the unknown.” – Freya Stark, explorer and travel writer

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

32. “Don’t tell me the sky’s the limit when there are footsteps on the moon.” Paul Brandt, musician

33. “I travel not to go anywhere but to go. I travel for travel’s sake. The great affair is to move.” – Robert Louis Stevenson, author and poet

34. “Sometimes the most scenic roads in life are the detours you didn’t mean to take.” – Angela N. Blount, author

35. “Blessed are the curious for they shall have adventures.”– often attributed to Lovelle Drachman

36. “We travel not to escape life, but for life not to escape us.” – Author Unknown

37. “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, actor

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

39. “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, author

40. “When all else fails, take a vacation.” – Betty Williams, peace activist

Travelling to Make Memories:

There’s no doubt about it, family trips make special memories which last a lifetime. Holiday memories are some of the strongest memories I have from childhood, and they always make me smile, even if things weren’t perfect at the time. Go ahead; start planning and make memories!

41. “Collect moments. Not things.” – Karen Salmansohn, self help book author

42. “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.” – Author Unknown

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

44. “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, author

45. “People forget the years and remember moments.” – Anne Beattie, author

46. “Take only memories, leave only footprints.”– Chief Seattle, Suquamish and Duwamish chief and namesake of Seattle

47. “Sometimes you will never know the value of a moment until it becomes a memory.”– Dr. Seuss, author 

48. “If we were meant to stay in one place we’d have roots instead of feet.” – Rachel Wolchin, author

49. “People don’t take trips, trips take people.” – John Steinback, author

50. “Wherever you go, go with all your heart.”– Confucius, philosopher

If you need any inspiration for your next family trip, take a look at this article: The 8 Best Holiday Destinations for Curious Families