175+ Memorable Quotes About Family Travel You’ll Love

Traveling in the company of those we love is home in motion.

Long before all these divisions were opened between home and the road, betweens a woman's place and a man's world, humans followed the crops, the seasons, traveling with their families, our companions, animals, our tents. We built campfires and moved from place to place. This way of traveling is still in our cellular memory.

There are no perfect parents and there are no perfect children, but there are plenty of perfect moments along the way.

There are two kinds of travel: first class and with children.

A road trip is a way for the whole family to spend time together and annoy each other in interesting new places.

May your adventures bring you closer together, even as they take you far away from home.

Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city.

Two of the greatest gifts we can give our children are roots and wings.

In the end, kids won’t remember that fancy toy you bought them, they will remember the time you spent with them.

Nature is a tool to get children to experience not just the wider world, but themselves

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

My ideal travel companions are my family.

Home is people. Not a place.

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.

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.

We took a family trip to Thailand, Vietnam and Cambodia over Christmas and New Year's. Three weeks was a long time, but it was cool, man. We were on the ocean, so that was kind of intense. After a couple of days you realize how far out you are.

I managed to take a family trip to the Bahamas and it was quite lovely.

For there is no friend like a sister in calm or stormy weather; To cheer one on the tedious way, to fetch one if one goes astray, to lift one if one totters down, to strengthen whilst one stands.

My sisters and I sit together on a pair of suitcases. If we've forgotten anything, it's already too late -- our rooms have all been sealed and photographed. Anyway, Tatiana would say it's bad luck to return for something you've forgotten.

Just got back from a pleasure trip: I took my mother-in-law to the airport.

My earliest memory from childhood is of fishing with my father. And I remember vividly we were in a store, and we were buying a pup tent to go on our first camping trip.

For Christmas 1999, my husband surprised me with a trip to Disney World. Along with our boys, we were standing on the roof of the Contemporary Hotel at midnight on New Year's Eve 2000 watching fireworks explode over every amusement park in Orlando. It was a magical way to celebrate the millennial, and a never-to-be-forgotten Christmas present.

Gérard Mourou, who was my PhD supervisor, dreamed up the idea of increasing laser intensity by orders of magnitude. He did it while he was on a ski trip with his family. He probably shouldn't have been thinking about lasers.

My favorite road trip ever is when my wife and I took an RV around the country. We just had the best time.

I grew up mostly in Germany, but my favorite summer trip was driving from North Carolina to Texas in a camper with my parents and us six kids.

When I was seven months pregnant with my son, my mother and I took a trip to El Salvador, where she's from. Frequent visits with her to see my extended family have taught me how different life can be if you are born into poverty.

My father suffered from chronic wanderlust. When I was 14, he set out on a yearlong road trip across Europe and Asia - and decided to take me along for company.

My bookstore obsession grew to the point where I'd search for new shops during family trips, as though that were the reason for our travel.

You don’t read, you don’t understand. You don’t know what it’s like to live in different worlds, to travel on great adventures through the galaxy with people you know better than you know your own family. To live and die with them. These are my friends, my best friends in the world.

The average food item on a U.S. grocery shelf has traveled farther than most families go on their annual vacations.

It’s International Friendship Day, which I didn’t know about until I saw it all over Instagram today! I’ve loved all of the friendships I’ve made through travel, but even more I love the friendships my kids have made - whether it’s on an airplane, in a park, on a playground, at a cooking class or, in this case, at a jungle lodge in the middle of the Amazon Rainforest. Take your kids everywhere! And then let them run around and be kids and make friends.

Never go on trips with anyone whom you do not love.

I take my children everywhere, but they always find their way back home.

And that's the wonderful thing about family travel: it provides you with experiences that will remain locked forever in the scar tissue of your mind.

My family traveled a lot. For a while we even lived in a trailer and traveled from campground to campground. If we got to eat at the Cheesecake Factory, it was the highlight of our whole year! But I don't miss having to share a bathroom with seven people or having powdered milk with my cereal. It was so nasty.

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.

All adventures happen in that damned and magical space, wherever it may be found or chanced upon, which least resembles one's home.

Children whose families take them to museums and zoos, who visit historic sites, who travel abroad, or who camp in remote areas accumulate huge chunks of background knowledge without even studying. For the impoverished child lacking the travel portfolio of affluence, the best way to accumulate background knowledge is by either reading or being read to.

When you travel with your family, you may not get the volume of work done you would if you were alone, but you can still do something while recharging.

Our children should be properly introduced to the world in which they live.

What do parents owe their young that is more important than a warm and trusting connection to the Earth?

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

Those who think money can't buy happiness just don't know where to shop … People would be happier and healthier if they took more time off and spent it with their family and friends, yet America has long been heading in the opposite direction.

I bet if I asked your kids, they’d say that they’d rather have you home every night to play with them than the weeklong summer trip to the lake where you’re stressed out the whole time anyways.

If I want to travel with my family I have to purchase 7 airline tickets.

My last trip to New Orleans was for the fifth anniversary of Katrina, and I had the awesome opportunity to bring my family down. We all worked on a house together and met some of the families.

In 1903 the Wright brothers invented airplanes, because in 1902 they took a road trip across the country with their family.

At the moment I have my family coming out with me on the road. We have our own vehicle and its more like a family vacation. I just stop, do some gigs, and take off. Its a lot more fun now with the family.

The first axiom of the family vacation is that someone, possibly everyone, will get sick.

My jobs often end up being our family vacations, and so far it has been great.

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

I am convinced that the greatest legacy we can leave our children are happy memories: those precious moments so much like pebbles on the beach that are plucked from the white sand and placed in tiny boxes that lay undisturbed on tall shelves until one day they spill out and time repeats itself, with joy and sweet sadness, in the child now an adult.

My family never went skiing. My dad was afraid of heights and my mom felt that a vacation was only a vacation if it involved reading at least two books on the beach.

But even the best lives need a vacation and, let’s face it, renting a house with your family at a ski resort is not a vacation. It’s basically moving your life from one location to another.

Australia basically holds the copyright on “weird ecosystem.” The only place where you’re going to find weirder things is at the bottom of the ocean, and no one suggests that you go there for a fun family vacation.

This tip was given to me by our sleep trainer and it’s such a great piece of advice! She recommended that when we travel with the kids to pack black garbage bags and tape them around the windows wherever we are staying. Not everyone has black out curtains ... and both of our little ones sleep in complete darkness with white noise machines on."

I just wanted to let them know that it wasn’t going to be like America, where there’s a kids' menu and to encourage them to try what [Kyle and I] were eating.

Actually, I’m glad I’m not rich. I’ve gotta believe that it’s harder to die if you are. Not only do you lose possession of all those assets, all that cash and those stocks and bonds and cars and antiques and silver and paintings and vacation homes, but in those final days and weeks there can be no denying that a tremendous amount of your life was spent accumulating and fussing over all those assets, time that could have been spent with family and friends or fishing or traveling...

They traveled together to conferences all over the world, and many meetings were piggybacked with family vacations.

I suddenly remember how different I am from most of the kids here. Nobody would have to drag me or my brothers to the Bahamas; we'd swim there if we could. For us, a family vacation is staying at a local hotel with a swimming pool for a weekend.

Traveling is a big part of my life, and I want to share that with the people close to me.

A big birthday party, a family vacation, or other large-scale events like those are all wonderful, precious, and such a treat.

The sad truth is, John and I and the kids only took Route 66 once on our trips to Disneyland. Our family, like the rest of America, succumbed to the lure of faster highways, more direct routes, higher speed limits. We forgot about taking the slow way. It makes you wonder if something inside us knows that our lives are going to pass faster than we could ever realize.

Traveling with children corresponds roughly to traveling third class in Bulgaria.

I don’t know if this is always true, but in 1991 I took my family on a vacation where I’d have to say that just about all of our enjoyment was experienced through the anticipation. Not that the vacation was horrible (which it was), but the anticipation of this vacation was incredible.

It didn’t dawn on me until later that camping was a poor family’s idea of a vacation.

Our experiences shape the way we think, the way we interact with each other, and the way we live. They add richness and depth and meaning to our days. You can give your children toys today that quickly end up in tomorrow’s trash. Or you can deliver a living, breathing experience that shapes their souls, enriches their lives, and makes their world and yours a doorway to tomorrow.

Take the break you can, whether it’s a vacation, a day off, or a minibreak. Make time to be rigorously unproductive, see friends and family, and step away from your email and phone.

My mom is from Venezuela, and my dad is German and Japanese, and we lived in Brazil when I was a kid for a couple of years, and then I grew up on Long Island. I think all the traveling and all the nationalities put that stuff in my head. I was just around it a lot.

I spent the first seven years of my life in a caravan traveling around Europe and the United States because my parents were just obsessed with traveling.

Traveling with kids is tough. My best advice is don't do it.

Home is where your family is. Wherever you are, it's about the people you're surrounded by, not necessarily where you lay your head.

My family gets incredibly tense and stressed out around traveling. There's something really beautiful in that vulnerability.

Be adventurous and try new things both on and off the resort. And, don’t forget to take lots of photos so you can look back at memories that will last a lifetime. That’s something I’ve always encouraged with my children especially as they get older!

Once you get to your vacation destination, I say take full advantage of the opportunity to dress your kids in adorable vacation clothes! These are the memories you’ll cherish and the photos that you’ll look back on for years to come, so why not go all out with, say, matching Hawaiian shirts? And if you’re feeling extra festive, throw one on yourself too!

My happiest moments are when I'm with my family and when I go to the park at school with my friends.

Weekends are sacred for me. They're the perfect time to relax and spend time with family and friends.

I make sure that I spend quality time with my family.

Travel with fun people. If there are flight delays or any hassles, at least you’re surrounded by people who will entertain you. You’ll never get too bored or frustrated. Sasha and I travel with a lot of great people — our family, our coaches and sometimes, friends.

The other thing is quality of life; if you have a place where you can go and have a picnic with your family, it doesn't matter if it's a recession or not, you can include that in your quality of life.

Family trips to Yellowstone and to what are now national parks in Southern Utah, driving the primitive roads and cars of that day, were real adventures.

You need to be an adrenaline junkie when you travel with kids.

A vacation frequently means that the family goes away for a rest, accompanied by a mother who sees that the others get it.

In America there are two classes of travel – first class, and with children.

It might be said that a great unstated reason for travel is to find places that exemplify where one has been happiest. Looking for idealised versions of home—indeed, looking for the perfect memory.

There are no seven wonders in the eyes of a child. There are seven million.

Deciding not to travel with your chldren because they won't remember the trips you take is like saying don't read them books because they won't remember the stories you read.

The car was full of unhappy people heading west. It was the Great American Family Road Trip, all right. Whaaa-hoo!

I have heard several people justify working long hours and getting home from work late it night by saying things like, “I have to put in all this time to make up for the vacation we’re going to take this summer.” I bet if I asked your kids, they’d say that they’d rather have you home every night to play with them than the weeklong summer trip to the lake where you’re stressed out the whole time anyways.

You see the grandmother down there with her son and grandson? They’ve probably been coming here for years together. Or maybe it’s their first trip. Either way, it’s three generations sitting down together, laying aside their differences for one night to be a family.

When we went back to Hawaii for the season finale of Duck Dynasty last year, Missy was determined to make up for a lot of bad memories. I did everything she wanted to do. We went on helicopter rides, boat rides, romantic dinners, and everything else you could do in Hawaii. She got her money’s worth the second time!

We do not do well when we are alone for a long period of time, and having friends and family alongside us through life’s journey makes the trip more enjoyable and successful. This is a fundamental truth of the world around.

Cherish every moment with those you love at every stage of your journey.

I love to travel with my family or my two best friends because I completely trust them.

One of the most fun ways to travel that’s super easy for parents and kids is glamping!

Taking time out with family and friends helps to maintain the work-life balance everyone needs.

I usually travel with a lot of people, like my dad, mom and sisters.

I'd never stop traveling, and I love bringing my family along with me. My children have points of reference everywhere, friends from Milan to Los Angeles. I think it's really fun for them.

Duct tape. Don't leave home without it. I bring it on the airplane so that I can tape the tray table shut. If anything breaks, like a stroller or a suitcase, duct tape will fix it. There is literally nothing it can’t do.

We all have things that we love to do and experience when we travel. I am a professional photographer, and a huge part of my travels revolves around photos and capturing moments — whether they are my family’s or a client’s. I have been known to get up really early in the morning, load the kids in the rental car, and head out for sunrise, or even grab some fruits and water for dinner and stay out late to see the Milky Way. These moments are very special to me because I love being out in nature and I want to share that love with my family.

I used to not have a hard time sleeping on planes, but ever since I had Olympia [her daughter], that’s changed.

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.

Our Christmastime trips to Barack’s home state of Hawaii became an important tradition for us, a time to catch up with his side of the family and enjoy some warm weather.

I’ve been so fortunate to be able to travel with Sasha and Malia all across the country and around the world—experiences my mother never would have dreamed of back when I was their age. But though the settings may be different, the message is the same, and it’s one I hope mothers everywhere pass on to their daughters—in seeking out new perspectives and reaching outside of our comfort zones, we can discover more about ourselves.

I tried to make our daughters’ exposure to the wide world as positive as possible, realizing that Barack and I had a unique opportunity to show them history up close.

I don't think quantity time is as special as quality time with your family.

I love traveling all over the world; but it's true: there's nothing like home.

I’m going to be real with you. I know there’s a lot of hippy dippy moms out there who don’t approve of iPads, and I think that’s great for them. More power to you. But we definitely have iPads, because at some point travel can be total hell. Not just with kids, but in general—a flight gets delayed, things happen, weather. Just having something they can escape [with], play little games, watch movies on it.

Travel at nighttime. I know it sounds weird, but then they're asleep on the plane. Especially when we go overseas, we get on the plane and then everybody winds down. We drink some chamomile tea, calm everything down, and then we go to sleep. It's kind of perfect when you're traveling with kids to try and get those really late flights so they sleep the whole time. But I don't know. I think it's different for every family. My tips might not work for the next one.

Now when you have kids, you want to spread out, you want to cook, you want to do a lot of family things. If they don't have a beach, at least they want a pool — they can spend nearly all day in the pool.

Going out on the road with a 3-month-old... I'm tired. But I mean, how many people get to take their children to work with them?

I think we're going to try and take a vacation this year. It's been a couple of years since we've gone anywhere, so we deserve that. We just like to relax. Give us a beach somewhere, a lake, we're good, we're easy to please.

We’re a tight little family because we travel a lot and even if we have Nic shooting a film somewhere, we just relocate as a family.

I truly love hearing other kids cry [on a plane] now because it means it’s not my own. That’s a better feeling than silence, honestly.

I'd rather drink a piping hot bowl of liquid rabies "than fly with kids".

After 2 weeks of multiple health screens and asking everyone to quarantine, I surprised my closest inner circle with a trip to a private island where we could pretend things were normal just for a brief moment in time.

At 2 years old they just have to rip all their clothes off and introduce themselves to everyone on the plane, it’s just like, ‘Please can we land in a farmer’s field?

I found stickers to be my go-to on a flight because markers and crayons get lost, or they roll out. For young kids who can’t stay in their seats, stickers provide enough of a tactile experience.

It's wonderful to travel with somebody that you love and we never travel anywhere without one another.

If I had one day left on earth, I'd ski with my family in California's Mammoth Mountain.

I think it's really important to understand from a young age, how lucky we are. So I think going to places like Asia and allowing [kids] to experience a very different culture is really important.

We're getting out into nature, cooking, camping, sitting around the fire. It's just the thing that I've always loved to do.

I grew up with family who liked to travel and sightsee, so I have this pressure inside me: If I'm in a city and I have enough free time, I'd better go to a museum. I try to see parks, go outside. Or else try to feel really normal like go to Target or a drugstore, or go see a movie.

Before Community started up again for the season, we had the chance to go on a long family vacation where we drove for ten days down the coast. I was like wow, look at these people that I am related to and am actually spending some quality time with! So it was great to be with them, but now my schedule is really difficult so I have to take what I can get.

We've got a pretty close family. Just ended fourteen years of travel hockey with two boys. My daughter was always a part of that. So there's a lot of trips to the hockey games. As I tell idiotic, stupid, youth-sport parents, it's about the drive there and the drive back, not about the trophy or how your kid played. We've always had a good relationship with our kids. You're driving with them and talking to them at the age of eight. It became this adventure and they learned to love it. You connect, you really do. It's not for every family.

There is no such thing as fun for the whole family.

I kept my babies fed. I could have dumped them, but I didn't. I decided that whatever trip I was on, they were going with me. You're looking at a real daddy.

If you're flying with your children, it's best to book them on the same flight and not on one where they have more legroom and are leaving at a different time. They could get there earlier than you, and that causes resentment. Two-year-olds can also never figure out those connecting flights. It just makes it harder, so travel as a family.

I love to travel in the holidays because I feel like I'd rather give the kids the gift of a new country than a box of presents. But I still give them some presents.

Wish all of you families traveling around the country this weekend .. Safe travels! Off we go!!

I'll tell you what I'm grateful for, and that's the clarity of understanding that the most important things in life are health, family and friends, and the time to spend on them.

When we were visiting New York City, I took my kids to the same playground where I went growing up. It was fun to feel that connection of having gone there as a kid and being there as a parent.

It was just this freedom of being out in the world with nothing but us and the wilderness and nature.

Touring is tough. You're almost in a haze because you don't really know where you are half the time: You're in a hotel room one moment, and the next thing you know, you're onstage performing for 60,000 people, then you're back on an airplane. It's very hectic and I couldn't do it without my family.

Being on a comedy tour is like traveling with family, everyone is all having a great time... then all of a sudden it turns sour. One thing gets said out of turn, and everyone is on everyone's last nerve. After an hour of silence, we all start laughing about it." ~ Steve Harvey

My kids have been traveling since they were young. They are the opposite of me. When we were like, I think we are going to stay at home this winter; they are like yeah! When I was growing up, honestly, I had a map of the world next to my bed, so I used to literally dream of places I was going to go. So, they have a slightly different perspective. I think maybe we have traveled them a bit too much. But for Deb and I, travel has always been inspiring and certainly opens your field of vision in many ways.

I like traveling and organising trips to new places with my family.

There's nothing like taking a beautiful vacation with your family to remind you that kids ruin everything.

3 of our kids playing in the hotel room. When they're not breaking/spilling something I'm cool with anything.

Ry and I love to travel and explore new places together, and a road trip is the ultimate way to do it!

[A] seven or eight hour drive… that was just hell in the back with the brothers.

I’ve always had empathy for parents, especially flying. I remember before I had kids, I was always like, ‘God, that’s hard.’ Because you can see they’re sweating and they’re nervous because their kids are yelling and everyone’s mad at them.I’m the same way."

We all go together as a family.

I wish I could be a minimalist, but with kids, you always overcompensate and want to bring everything.

When we were kids and we would go on road trips or we would travel, we had each other, Uno and any toys.I remember at one point, we got really into playing jacks. It's funny because it forced us to really sort of be imaginative and connect.

But the best vacation I’ve ever taken was with my kids to Indonesia. We stayed at a resort in Bali and then slept on a wooden boat for three or four nights and also hiked with the Komodo dragons. It was a magical trip.

We were on a family trip to Death Valley, and there were moments when my husband and I wanted to just leave the kids there - all the whining! You think that no other kid can do it as much as yours. When they're with friends, they're great; when they're in the car with just the family, it's maddening at times. But you adore them anyway.

The memories we make with our family is everything.

Family means no one gets left behind or forgotten

I was only there for 4 days so I didn't get to experience it, so I want to take the kids because it's so rad.The deserts and the seaside, and then the downtown [with] the architecture is insane. I'm excited to take the kids because they've never been to that part of the world.

They don’t sit with us in first class. They haven’t worked anywhere near hard enough to afford that. At that age, at that size, you’re telling me they need to sit in first class? No, they do not. We’re really strict on that.

No, My kids are great travellers. They have been on planes since they were tiny. They love to travel.I like to take them with me because I like to see things through their eyes. We went to New York City, where I grew up and we have been countless times, and they see things... and get really excited about it."

My family, you know, we love Disney. We do an annual Disney trip around the holidays and then we do this countdown. We have group chats, like, ‘Fourteen days to Disney! Seven days to Disney!’ But, we start these chats in like March. So it’s like, ‘278 days to Disney!’ My family is — we’re diehard fans of Disney. It’s just nice to be a part of the family in any way.

I don’t know who was freaking out more... me or my six year old. This was the coolest. Big thank you to @waltdisneyworld for an amazing trip."

I did a lot of camping with my parents and my brother in the Colorado mountains where I grew up and other random places. And lots of long road trips. I have a real nostalgia for those kinds of vacations so I want to do more of that with my family.

White sand, no water, cool pics. #familyvacation

When I was 16, my mom and I rented a car in Israel and drove around for a couple weeks. It was fun. I’m pretty easy maintenance, which is a good thing, since I have to travel so much for work.

Last family vacation then school is in session Cruise ship, islands, road trips, photo sessions At least now, I'll be sharing my brother's legacy

You see it by the way we're walking, you know how we are living I reminisce about family vacations in the summer Now we looking for publications to get us up from under

And i jus wanna travel with my family And i just wanna see something ive never seen

I wanna give back to the kids and travel the world with my family

When I was a child my family would travel Down to Western Kentucky where my parents were born And there's a backwards old town that's often remembered So many times that my memories are worn

And someday you'll be the one my kids are calling mama Take a family trip we'll go adventure or stay home in our pajamas

Last week i said to my boss I got to go Wanne make a trip decided long Ago A great adventure with my Lovely family Africa is the place we want to be

Family trips weren't boring When everywhere we went New games to see

A new day ahead to make new memories Another family trip spent by the beach And it's the time of my life And the best is yet to come It's the time of my life And we've only just begun

I'm so glad the summer came Does that mean we get to go On a family trip again To the sea, where palm trees grow Let's head down to the beach I like jumping in the waves

Lord, we thank thee for the blessing of this family vacation. May David find his bliss and bring us all back home safely. May Kenny and Casey fortify their sibling bond over the warm glow of our devoted hearts. And may this entire airplane find safe passage and a bountiful life.

We're on the brink of adventure, children. Don't spoil it with too many questions.

You had a dream to take your family to Wally World. Never let that go,

That was the best vacation ever! I love our family!

Stan, we are going on a real vacation and the family is going to bond!

One of the most important chapters in my book is the one on what to do with the kids during summer vacation. Well whatever you do, get them out of the house, go to the mountains, go to the beach, go anywhere, but go! Or you're gonna go nuts!

This is no longer a vacation! It's a quest! It's a quest for fun!

Ohana means family and family means no one gets left behind or forgotten.

Back, you robots! Nobody ruins my family vacation but me and maybe the boy.

Homer, do you remember our last family vacation when you made us go to the Bowlers’ Hall of Fame in St. Louis, Missouri so you could see that car shaped like a giant bowling pin?

Okay, let's make a pact. This is gonna be the best vacation ever or we're all agreed to disband and join other families.

Well Marge, you gotta admit, I've been on my best behaviour this trip.