Quotes About Adventure

On the 27th we came to the Cascade Rapids. The first or Little Cascade has about two feet fall, the second or Grand Cascade, a mile farther, is about a six foot sheer drop.

Something people wouldn't expect me to do is I play this computer game called 'Runescape.' I've played 'Runescape' since forever. Since I was, like, six. It is still one of my favourite games ever.

Six months later I was in Paris. I was 16, and it all started to happen.

I'm one of six kids, and the eight of us lived for over a decade in either a bus or a boat.

I used to take my car and go down to the South Island for five or six days and climb glaciers and jump out of planes and jump off bridges and go white water rafting - a bit of thrill-seeking.

'Stand By Me' was really great for me and my buddies; we'd all watch that together because that was us - we were down in the creek and hanging out every day and going on little adventures. I had about sixteen friends who are all about the same age as me and lived in a three-block radius. We spent our entire childhood down in that creek.

I am not made for lonely expeditions. In the sixties, I climbed during the day so I wouldn't have to be alone. I finally learned to stay up for weeks in the high altitude all by my own without being afraid.

I think the sixties must have been quite a lot of fun.

You have to remember that I was an Australian girl of the Fifties and Sixties. For Australians at that time, it was imperative to get out of the country and discover the world.

I never went overseas until I left school and joined West Ham United Football Club at the beginning of the Sixties.

One thing that I always loved about, say, 'Raiders of the Lost Ark', is that Indiana Jones gets the Ark of the Covenant about sixty percent of the way through the movie. And then the rest of it is get-out-alive. To me, that's really cool. Because he's the one you care about at the end of the day.

One person may need (or want) more leisure, another more work; one more adventure, another more security, and so on. It is this diversity that makes a country, indeed a state, a city, a church, or a family, healthy. 'One-size-fits-all,' and that size determined by the State has a name, and that name is 'slavery.'

I love the fact that there is now a skate park in almost every city, but it will always have a rebellious/underground edge to it because it is based on individuality.

I guess I'd be nervous to skate and do hockey. Growing up in Hawaii there's not a lot of ice.

My parents bought a motorhome and would take us to skate competitions throughout California when I was only seven or eight years old.

I've always had a fascination with skate culture.

I'll skateboard now and then from time to time.

I was free when I was 12 because I got my first skateboard. I've been free ever since.

I was a skateboarder when I was little; I still skateboard. I teach my kids how to skate.

If there's a skateboard in front of me, I can't help myself. I like to jump on.

I get out on my bike almost every day. If I can't walk somewhere, I'll bike or skateboard.

Early skateboard culture had a lot of skulls.

That is the most fun part of skateboarding, the challenges. There are always new possibilities.

Growing up, I absolutely loved skateboarding and dirt bike riding with my brother and the neighborhood kids.