“Air travel is nature's way of making you look like your passport photo.”

“When you look like your passport photo, it's time to go home.”

Erma Bombeck (1927–1996) When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent le…

“If you start looking like vour passport photo, it's high time you went abroad.”

Ephraim Kishon (1924–2005) Israeli author, dramatist, screenwriter and film director

“You can make up your own story when you look at a photo.”

Brian Selznick (1966) American children's illustrator and writer

“Here.
It will blind you with tears
like a lover.
It will make your reflection
a wobbling photo of grief.”

Carol Ann Duffy (1955) British writer and professor of contemporary poetry

“In this world, shipmates, sin that pays its way can travel freely and without a passport; whereas Virtue, if a pauper, is stopped at all frontiers.”

Herman Melville (1818–1891) American novelist, short story writer, essayist, and poet

“Yes, you need a passport to prove to the world that you exist. The people at passport control, they cannot look at you and see you are a person. No! They have to look at a little photograph of you. Then they believe you exist.”

Jeffrey Eugenides book The Marriage Plot

“The value of your travels does not hinge on how many stamps you have in your passport when you get home -- and the slow nuanced experience of a single country is always better than the hurried, superficial experience of forty countries.”

Rolf Potts (1970) American writer

“Enjoy the power and beauty of your youth. … [T]rust me, in 20 years, you'll look back at photos of yourself and recall in a way you can't grasp now how much possibility lay before you and how fabulous you really looked. You are not as fat as you imagine.”

Mary Schmich (1953) American columnist

“I handed my passport to the immigration officer, and he looked at it and looked at me and said, "What are you?"”

Grace Hopper (1906–1992) American computer scientist and United States Navy officer