Are you looking for the best family travel quotes or instagram captions for a family trip? Don’t worry, we all get stuck for words from time to time. Here’s a great collection of some of my favourite family travel quotes for when you can’t think of what to say. And here is a collection of resources to help writing the next caption that bit easier.
Also, here’s how to make family travel itself easier.
The Best Family Travel Quotes
Some Fun Family Travel Quotes
“A road trip is a way for the whole family to spend time together and annoy each other in interesting new places.” – Tom Lichtenheld
“Life is like a road trip – Enjoy each day and don’t carry too much luggage.” – Unknown
“Road trips aren’t measured by mile markers, but by moments.” — Unknown
“Of all the paths you take in life make sure a few of them are dirty.” – John Muir
“There are no perfect parents and there are no perfect children, but there are plenty of perfect moments along the way.” — Dave Willis
“Sometimes the road less traveled is less traveled for a reason.” – Jerry Seinfeld
“If you don’t know where you are going, any road will get you there.” – Lewis Carroll
“No matter how far you have gone on the wrong road, turn around.” – Turkish Proverb
“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
“Two of the greatest gifts we can give our children and roots and wings” – Hodding Carter
“May your adventures bring you closer together, even as they take you far away from home” – Trenton Lee Stewart
“Look for chances to take the less-travelled roads. There are no wrong turns.” — Susan Magsamen
“If you think adventure is dangerous, try routine; it is lethal.” – Paulo Coelho
“Some roads aren’t meant to be travelled alone.” ― Chinese Proverb
“No road is long with good company.” – Turkish Proverb
“Jobs fill your pocket, but adventures fill your souls.” – Jamie Lyn Beatty
“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
“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
“We must take adventures in order to know where we truly belong.” – Unknown
“Life is too short to not go on that spontaneous road trip.” – Unknown
“Kilometres are shorter than miles. Save fuel, take your next trip in Kilometres.” – George Carlin
“You can be writing every day. When you go on a road trip, the trip itself becomes part of the story.” ― Steve Rushin
Childhood Family Trip Quotes
“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
“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
“Kids don’t remember their best day of television.” – Unknown
“The greatest legacy we can leave our children is happy memories”— Og Mandino
“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
Family Adventure Quotes
“Travelling the company of those we love is home in motion.” – Leigh Hunt
“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
“Having kids is a reason to travel, never a reason to stop.” – Unknown
“The road is there, it will always be there. You just have to decide when to take it.” – Chris Humphrey
“Happiness is… planning a trip to somewhere new, with someone you love.” – Unknown
“The best education you will ever get is traveling. Nothing teaches you more than exploring the world and accumulating experiences.” – Mark Paterson
“Traveling in the company of those we love is home in motion.” – Leigh Hunt
“Wherever you go, go with all your heart.” – Confucius
“People forget the years and remember moments” – Anne Beattie
“Good company in a journey makes the way seem shorter.” – Izaak Walton
“It doesn’t matter where you are going. It’s who you have beside you.” – Unknown
“Joy is portable, bring it with you.” – Unknown
“As soon as I saw you, I knew an adventure was going to happen” – A. A. Milne
“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
“Travel sparks our imagination, feeds our curiosity and reminds us how much we all have in common.” – Deborah Lloyd
“The greatest legacy we can leave our children is happy memories.” – Og Mandino
Family Journey Quotes
“Sometimes you find yourself in the middle of nowhere, and sometimes in the middle of nowhere, you find yourself.” — Unknown
“Road trips aren’t measured by mile markers, but by moments.” – Unknown
“To the tourist, travel is a means to an end; to the traveller, it’s an end in itself.” — Marty Rubin
“Roads were made for journeys, not destinations.” – Confucius
“Nothing behind me, everything ahead of me, as is ever so on the road.” – Jack Kerouac
“I guess the lesson is you can’t go everywhere. You should still go everywhere you can.” — Charles Finch
“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
“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.” – Debi Tolbert Duggar
“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
“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
Family Getaway Quotes
“A good traveller has no fixed plans and is not intent on arriving.” – Lao Tzu
“Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Life is one big road with lots of signs. So when you’re riding through the ruts, don’t complicate your mind.” – Bob Marley
“If you don’t know where you are going, any road will take you there.”– Lewis Carroll
“I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I intended to be.” – Douglas Adams
“The journey, not the arrival matters.” – T.S. Eliot
“I’m not lost. I’m exploring.” – Jana Stanfield
“Some beautiful paths can’t be discovered without getting lost.” – Erol Oza
“Stop worrying about the potholes in the road and enjoy the journey.” – Babs Hoffman
“The freedom of the open road is seductive, serendipitous and absolutely liberating.” – Aaron Lauritsen
“I love road trips. You get into this Zen rhythm; throw the sense of time out the window.” – Miriam Toews
The Travel Bug Quotes
“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
“I travel not to go anywhere but to go. I travel for travel’s sake. The great affair is to move.” – Robert Louis Stevenson
“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
“If we were meant to stay in one place we’d have roots instead of feet.” – Rachel Wolchin
“People don’t take trips, trips take people.” – John Steinback
“Traveling can never be taken for granted, no matter how meticulous the preparations.” — Eugene Linden
Inspiring Family Road Trip Quotes
“Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.” – Helen Keller
“At the end of the day, your feet should be dirty, your hair messy and your eyes sparkling.” – Shanti
“I just go with the flow, I follow the yellow brick road. I don’t know where it’s going to lead me, but I follow it.” – Grace Jones
“God made the world round so we would never be able to see too far down the road.” – Isak Dinesen
“Sometimes, the people around you won’t understand your journey. They don’t need to – it’s not for them.” – Joubert Botha
“In the end, kids won’t remember that fancy toy you bought them, they will remember the time you spent with them.” – Kevin Heath
“Every day we make deposits in the memory banks of our children.” — Charles R Swindoll
Family Road Trip Quotes
“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
“Sometimes the most scenic roads in life are the detours you didn’t mean to take.”– Angela N. Blount
“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
“Some beautiful paths can’t be discovered without getting lost.” – Erol Ozan
“Look for chances to take the less-traveled roads. There are no wrong turns.” — Susan Magsamen
“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
“That’s why I love road trips, dude. It’s like doing something without actually doing anything.” – John Green
“If you’re on a road trip, you need driving music.” – Edgar Wright
“Happiness is… a car, the open road, and a best friend.” – Unknown
“The best part of a road trip isn’t arriving at your destination … it’s the fast food along the way.” — Unknown
“The freedom of the open road is seductive, serendipitous and absolutely liberating.” – Aaron Lauritsen
“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
“Happiness is not a state to arrive at, but a manner of traveling.” – Margaret Lee Runbeck
“The road goes on forever and the party never ends.” – Unknown
“I climb behind the steering wheel… I drive off immediately without once looking back; it’s a long journey but it leads to freedom.” – Corinne Hofmann
“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
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