Quotes About Adventure

and Annie were walking home from the library. The path went right by the Frog Creek woods. Jack sighed. "We looked this morning," he said.

Reading is a passport to countless adventures

Jack and Annie were all alone.

Reading is the passport for countless adventures

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Suddenly, the front of the ship dipped down into the sea. Deck chairs started to slide past Jack and Annie.

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Ahhh!" Jack screamed and fell back into the canoe. The

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said Annie. "Don't you want to save Morgan

Peanut!" cried Annie. Jack patted

Africa?" said Jack. "Oh, man, I've always wanted to go there." He opened the book. He and Annie stared at a picture. It showed hordes of zebras, tall giraffes, big animals with horns, and tiny, deerlike creatures.

I guess I feel the same way about being a corpse. Why lie around on your back when you can do something interesting and new, something useful?

Upon the occasion of history's first manned flight - in the 1780's aboard the Montgolfier brothers' hot-air balloons - someone asked Franklin what use he saw in such frivolity. What use, he replied, is a newborn baby?

As when astronaut Mike Mulhane was asked by a NASA psychiatrist what epitaph he'd like to have on his gravestone, Mulhane answered, A loving husband and devoted father, though in reality, he jokes in Riding Rockets, I would have sold my wife and children into slavery for a ride into space.

It tastes like water spiked with strange.

I am not, by trade or character, a spotlight operator. I'm the goober with a flashlight, stumbling into corners and crannies, not looking for anything specific but knowing when I've found it.

What's different? Sweat, risk, uncertainty, inconvenience. But also, awe. Pride. Something ineffably splendid and stirring.

Borman's dumping urine. Urine [in] approximately one minute. Two lines further along, we see Lovell saying, What a sight to behold!

If you insist on driving around in vintage cars with no seat belt on, try to time your crashes for the systole—blood-squeezed-out—portion of your heartbeat.

One of the things I love about manned space exploration is that it forces people to unlace certain notions of what is and isn't acceptable. And possible. It's amazing what sometimes gets accomplished via an initially jarring but ultimately harmless shift in thinking.

In reality, maybe 1 percent of an astronaut's career takes place in space, and 1 percent of that is done in a pressure suit.