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Quotes About Adventure

There were a lot of adventure books for boys, historical novels by Kenneth Roberts, and whatever mystery novels the alarmed librarian imagined might not corrupt an eager but innocent youth.
~ Peter Straub
I am much inclined to live from my rucksack, and let my trousers fray as they like.
~ Hermann Hesse
So far as my experience goes, travelers generally exaggerate the difficulties of the way. Like most evil, the difficulty is imaginary; for what's the hurry?
~ Henry David Thoreau
Believe me, you can get into a lot of trouble being sixteen years old in a foreign country with no adult telling you when to come home.
~ Cameron Diaz
I tramp a perpetual journey.
~ Walt Whitman
An English man does not travel to see English men.
~ Laurence Sterne
Travel gives a character of experience to our knowledge, and brings the figures on the tablet of memory into strong relief.
~ Henry Theodore Tuckerman
Sailing, the most expensive way to travel 3rd class
~ Buzzy Trent
[Travel seems] not just a way of having a good time, but something that every self-respecting citizen ought to undertake, like a high-fiber diet, say, or a deodorant.
~ Jan Morris
To live is to see, and traveling sometimes speeds up the process.
~ Edward Hoagland
For the most part, only the light characters travel. Who are you that have no task to keep you at home?
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Travel can also be the spirit of adventure somewhat tamed, for those who desire to do something they are a bit afraid of.
~ Ella Maillart
I travel a lot. A lot, a lot. I don't have a single passport that doesn't have extra pages on it.
~ Bo Derek
I paint my face and travel at night. You don't know it's over until you're in a body bag.
~ Ralph E. Reed, Jr.
Travel light, Arrive quickly.
~ Sathya Sai Baba
Those who would see wonderful things must often be ready to travel alone.
~ Henry Van Dyke
Traveling is no fool's errand to him who carries his eyes and itinerary along with him.
~ Amos Bronson Alcott
To travel hopefully is better than to arrive.
~ James Jeans
I've recently started composting in my apartment, which is quite an adventure.
~ Shalom Harlow
At American Airlines, we have built a business around the love of travel that has lasted three quarters of a century. And I'm pretty sure we're just getting started.
~ Gerard Arpey
I wanted to learn a few foreign languages, and therefore I had to go abroad.
~ Ella Maillart
I like reading, free diving and hiking. But my favorite thing to do is travel anywhere in Greece. I love everything about that place.
~ Max Irons
No one has really heard my side of the story, the adventure we had together, the transformation that I had going from a schoolgirl to a woman overnight.
~ Priscilla Presley
We owe something to extravagance, for thrift and adventure seldom go hand in hand.
~ Lady Randolph Churchill