Online connectivity is great, but do you ever want to just getting away from it all? When life gives me that "stop the world, I want to get off" sort of feeling I head for my favorite beach. Where do you go to get away? Whether your favorite getaway place is a tropical beach or midtown Manhattan, here are some of the best quotes from travelers of today and yesterday.

We hit the sunny beaches where we occupy ourselves keeping the sun off our skin, the saltwater off our bodies, and the sand out of our belongings. ~Erma Bombeck

Be an explorer. The universe is filled with wonder and magical things. ~Flavia

When preparing to travel, lay out all your clothes and all your money. Then take half the clothes and twice the money. ~Susan Heller

If you reject the food, ignore the customs, fear the religion and avoid the people, you might better stay home. ~James Michener

He who returns from a journey is not the same as he who left. ~Chinese Proverb

A traveler am I and a navigator, and every day I discover a new region within my soul. ~Kahlil Gibran

Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

A traveler without observation is a bird without wings. ~Moslih Eddin Saadi

No matter what happens, travel gives you a story to tell. ~Jewish Proverb

Vacation used to be a luxury, but in today's world it has become a necessity. ~Author Unknown

It is good to have an end to journey toward, but it is the journey that matters in the end. ~Ursula K. LeGuin

Travel makes one modest, you see what a tiny place you occupy in the world. ~Gustave Flaubert

Thanks to the Interstate Highway System, it is now possible to travel across the country from coast to coast without seeing anything. ~Charles Kuralt, On the Road With Charles Kuralt

"To be a traveler, and novelists are often travelers, is to be constantly reminded of the simultaeity fo what is going in the world, your world and the very different world you have visited anf rom which you have returned home." ~Susan Sontag

I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move. ~Robert Louis Stevenson

The World is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page. ~St. Augustine