Inspiring And Memorable Quotes About Family Road Trips

Family trip quotes provide excellent motivation to families planning to go on vacation. So, what are some quotes about family road trips?

Family road trips can be tedious and stressful, especially if you need more motivation to prepare yourself and your family for the vacation.

With the right motivation, many things will go right, whether you are the mother, father, or child. 

For instance, kids will need particular gadgets such as toys, snacks, or tablets to distract them and make them busy, while parents will require songs or other motivators in their journey to enjoy the experience.

Family trips play a significant role in strengthening the bond and unity as they discover new places together in their adventure. It also increases trust towards one another and ensures that the family is peaceful and happy. 

One of the ideal ways to commemorate your family trip travels is to look for quotes that will guide and encourage you and your family during the journey. 

Therefore, before you plan or begin your family adventure, it is essential to look for quotes that will cheer you and your family up. 

The following are 43 quotes about family road trips: 

43 Quotes about Family Road Trips

“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.” – By Crestless Wave quotes on Family Road Trips.

“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.”

– By Jenn McKinlay, from her book, “Books can be Deceiving.”

“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.”

– By Crestless Wave quotes on Family Road Trips.

“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.”

 – By Anthony Bourdain, from his book, “Around the World in an Empty Stomach.”

“Here today, up and off to somewhere else tomorrow! Travel, change, interest, excitement! The whole world before you, and a horizon that’s always changing!” 

– By Kenneth Grahame, from his book, “The wind in the Willows.”

 “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 my favourite place.”

 – By Nivaz Ahmad, from his book, “The Late Night Tales.”

“No one you have been and no place you have gone ever leaves you. The new parts of you simply jump in the car and go along for the rest of the ride. The success of your journey and your destination all depends on who’s driving.”

 – By Bruce Springsteen, from his book, “Born to Run.”

“I hope you see things that startle you. I hope you feel things you never felt before. I hope you meet people with a different point of view. I hope you live a life you`re proud of, and if you find that you`re not, I hope you find the strength to start all over again.”

 – By Eric Roth, from his screenplay, “The Curious Play of Benjamin Button.”

“Why do you go away? So that you can come back. 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.”

 – By Terry Pratchett, from his book “A Heart Full of Sky.”

“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.” 

– By Richard Paul Evans, from his book, “The Sunflower.”

“Perhaps travel cannot prevent bigotry, but by demonstrating that all peoples cry, laugh, eat, worry, and die, it can introduce the idea that if we try and understand each other, we may even become friends.”

 – By Maya Angelou, from her book, “Wouldn’t Take Nothing from my Journeys Now.”

“A journey is a person in itself. No two are alike. And all the plans, safeguards, policing and coercion are fruitless. We find that after years of struggle that we don’t take a trip. A trip takes us.” 

– By John Steinbeck, from his book, “Travels with Charlie.”

“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.”

 – By Victoria Erickson, quote on Human Wings.

“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.”

 – By Freya Stark, from his book “The Valley of the Assassin.”

 “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.” 

– By Bill Brysons, quote on Human Travel and Luxury.

“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.”

– By Paul Theroux, First travel to Africa.

“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”

– by John Amat, Travelling wild in Africa.

“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. Not yesterdays on the road.”

 – By Will Least, from his book, “The Heat Moon.”

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

 – By Pamela T. Chandler, The field trip to Joyland.

“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.” 

– By Richard Louv, “The Last Child in the Woods.”

“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.” 

– By Bill Bryson, from his book, “Neither Here nor There.

“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.”

 – By Barbara Bush, for her book, “Life after the White House.”

“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.” 

– By JoyBell C, Children as Part of the Family.

“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.”

 – By John Muir, from his book, “A Thousand- Mile Walk to the Gulf.”

“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.”

 – By Brian Swimme.

“A road trip is a way for the whole family to spend time together and annoy each other in interesting new places.” – By Tom Lichtenheld, in his book, “Everything I know about Cars.”

“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.”

– By Mark Twain, from his book, “Tom Sawyer Abroad.”

 “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.” 

– By Elizabeth Berg, from her book, “The Year of Pleasures.”

“I climb behind the steering wheel… I drive off immediately without once looking back; it’s a long journey but it leads to freedom.”

 – By Corinne Hofmann, from her book, “The White Masai.”

“Every journey is simultaneously a beginning and an ending: I was leaving my old life behind and starting on a road trip to find a new me.”

 – By Debi Tolbert Duggar, from his book, “Riding Soul-O.”

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

 – By Mark Paterson, from his book, “Old School.”

“On the road again, Goin’ places that I’ve never been, Seein’ things that I may never see again, And I can’t wait to get on the road again”

 – by Willie Nelson, from his song “On the Road Again.”

 “I love waking up in the morning not knowing what’s gonna happen or who I’m gonna meet, where I’m gonna wind up.”

 – By “Jack” in the Titanic movie.

The journey is part of the experience – an expression of the seriousness of one’s intent. One doesn’t take the A train to Mecca.” 

– By Anthony Bourdain, A Cook’s Tour.

“It’s a dangerous business, Frodo, going out your door. You step on the road, and you don’t keep your feet, there is no knowing where you might be swept off to.”

 – By Lord of the Rings.

“Once you have traveled, the voyage never ends but is played out over and over again in the quietest chambers. The mind can never break off from the journey.”

 – By Pat Conroy.

 “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.” 

– By Ralph Waldo Emerson.

“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.”

 – by Rachel Carson, Biology and Writing.

“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.” 

– By Seanan McGuire, quotes on Family Vacation and Adventure.

“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.” – By Mark Twain.

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

 – By Ezra Taft Benson, travel and visiting the world.

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

– By Deborah Lloyd, the Curiosity of Adventure.

“Because the greatest part of a trip isn’t arriving at your destination. It’s all the wild stuff that happens along the way.”

 – By Emma Chase.

 “I take to the open road, Healthy, free, the world before me, The long brown path before me leading wherever I choose.”

 – By Walt Whitman, a quote from an Open Road Poem.

Hop on the road and start making your own happy memories!