Awesome Quotes About Family Trips

Family trips can be quite stressful sometimes. I’d be lying if I said otherwise. That being said, they are also full of amazing memories, fun experiences, a whole lot of love and so much more. These quotes about family trips can help to inspire your next family adventure and they also make great social media captions for photos.

5 Favorite Family Travel Quotes

In case you are in a hurry, I’ve listed the top 5 favorite quotes first.

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

2. “Actually, the best gift you could have given her was a lifetime of adventures” – Lewis Carroll

3. “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

4. “It is a magical world, pack up your kids and get exploring.” – Unknown

5. “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

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The Best Quotes About Family Trips

Some of our best stories and favorite memories come from our family trips! I highly recommend taking a family vacation or two. Whether you are looking for a little inspiration or social media captions, this list of quotes should do the trick.

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

2. “Two of the greatest gifts we can give our children are roots and wings.” – Hodding Carter

3. “And at the end of the day your feet should be dirty your hair messy and your eyes sparkling.” – Shanti

4. “Kid, you’ll move mountains.” – Dr. Seuss

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

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

7. “Oh, the places you’ll go.” -Dr. Seuss

8. “Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that 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

9. “Every day of our lives we make deposits in the memory banks of our children.” – Charles R. Swindoll

10. “Actually, the best gift you could have given her was a lifetime of adventures” – Lewis Carroll

11. “Travel Is Not Reward For Working, It’s Education For Living.” – Anthony Bourdain

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

13. “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

14. “The best education you will ever get is travelling. Nothing teaches you more than exploring the world and accumulating experiences.” – Mark Paterson

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

16. “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

17. “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

18. “Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.” – Helen Keller

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

20. “There are no foreign lands. It is the traveler only who is foreign.” – Robert Louis Stevenson

21. “It is a magical world, pack up your kids and get exploring.” – Unknown

22. “Don’t count the days; make the days count.” – Muhammad Ali

23. “Our battered suitcases were piled on the sidewalk again; we had longer ways to go. But no matter, the road is life.”– Jack Kerouac

24. “The whole object of travel is not to set foot on foreign land; it is, at last, to set foot on one’s own country as a foreign land.” – G. K. Chesterton

25. “The best way to get a child outside is to go with them.” – Unknown

26. “Then I realized adventures are the best way to learn.” – Unknown

27. “The best things you can give your family is a lifetime of adventures.” – Unknown

28. “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.” – JoyBell C.

29. “Once the travel bug bites there is no known antidote. And I know that I will be happily infected until the end of my life” – Michael Palin

30. “The biggest adventure you can take is to live the life of your dreams.” – Oprah Winfrey

31. “But that’s the glory of foreign travel, as far as I am concerned. I don’t want to know what people are talking about. I can’t think of anything that excited 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 a rudimentary sense of how things work, you can’t even reliably cross the street without endangering your life. Your whole existence becomes a series of interesting guesses.” — Bill Bryson

32. “Blessed are the curious for they shall have adventure.”– Lovelle Drachman

33. “I do not want to get to the end of my life and find that I just lived the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well.” — Diane Ackerman

34. “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

35. “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.” – John Muir

36. “Good company in a journey makes the way seem shorter.” – Izaak Walton

37. “No road is long with good company.” – Unknown

38. “Live everyday as if it were your last because someday you’re going to be right.” – Muhammad Ali

39. “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.” – Dave Berry

40. “A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions.” – Oliver Holmes

41. “Say yes to new adventures” – Unknown

42. “As soon as I saw you, I knew adventure was going to happen.” – Winnie the Pooh 

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

44. “Any day spent with you is my favorite day.” – A. A. Milne

45. “Summer vacations are a time when parents realise that teachers are grossly underpaid.” – Unknown

46. “Of all the paths in life you take, make sure a few of them are dirt.” –John Muir

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

48. “Never get so busy making a living that you forget to make a life” – Dolly Parton

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

50. “Own Only What You Can Always Carry With You: Known Languages, Known Countries, Known People. Let Your Memory Be Your Travel Bag.” – Alexandr Solzhenitsyn

51. “Every day of our lives we make deposits in the memory banks of our children” -Charles R. Swindoll

52. “Teaching kids to count is fine, but teaching them what counts is best” – Bob Talbert

53. “The most beautiful things in life are not things. They are people, places, memories, and pictures. They are feelings and moments, smiles and laughter.” – Unknown

54. “A road trip is a way for the whole family to spend time together and annoy each other in interesting new places.” – Tom Lichtenheld

55. “You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for instance.” – Franklin P. Jones

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

57. “And I think to myself, what a wonderful world.” – Louis Armstrong

58. “We were together. I forgot the rest.” – Walt Whitman

59. “Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.” – Scott Cameron

60. “If we experienced life through the eyes of a child, everything would be magical and extraordinary. Let our curiosity, adventure and wonder of life never end.” – Akiane Kramarik

61. “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

62. “Little by little, one travels far.”– J. R. R. Tolkien

What was your favorite quote about family trips? Let me know in the comments. I am currently loving this one – “It is a magical world, pack up your kids and get exploring.”

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