Quotes About Adventure

I was born and raised in Queens and moved into the city as a young adult. Then I ended up acting and decided to run off to California.

John Bellairs's young adult mysteries were great - and super creepy.

As a kid, I became a total SF geek. It started in the 5th grade with Asimov's 'Lucky Starr' series of what would now be called 'young adult' novels of adventures in the solar system.

The two genres that probably take the most flack in literature - they are young adult and romance right now. I don't think it's a coincidence that these are genres that provide places for women to express desire and love for adventure, for the opportunity to be placed to heroic roles.

If fantasy is done well, it has both serious content in a literary fashion and is a really good read as well - and children and young adults won't suffer anything else.

When we were studying at the Royal Antwerp Academy, we were taught to seek inspiration from everyone, everything and everywhere. My parents and grandparents were also a great inspiration for me a very young age.

At a young age, when I was fascinated with China, I read 'The Travels of Marco Polo' and learned about this exciting, dramatic world he captured and reported on. He's so little known, but yet this mythology has survived that's so misrepresentative of his story.

I learned at that young age that sometimes a really big chance pays off.

I was very fortunate to grow up with parents who love to travel, so I traveled from a young age. My dad's a heart surgeon and goes to conferences all over the world. By the time I was seven, I traveled outside the country for the first time. We went to Paris. The next year, we went to London, and then Brussels.

Something about exploration has fascinated me from a young age.

I'm so thankful that I got to travel from a relatively young age.

My dad grew up in western Nebraska. I'd visit all the time as a kid, and it's very much like the Wild West. It felt to me like a cowboy movie. Stuff like that made me become this dreamer at a young age.

Anyone who comes out of Brazil at a young age and comes over to Europe has got to have a big heart and a big personality.

When I was a kid, we would build pillow forts. My pillow fort was always like Ice Station 9 in Antarctica. The other kids would come by and be like, 'Oh! The wind and snow is blowing.' From a young age, I wanted to be out there and surviving. I'm a high-strung, hyperactive guy.

I learned at a young age what chasing flavors meant, and I've been doing that my whole life.

I think my parents had in mind that I would settle down at quite a young age, but I decided that being a housewife in a big country house wasn't for me. I wanted to leave the country, head for London and see what the world had to offer.

I got to do a lot of good things at a young age. I really kind of knocked out my bucket list when I was really young.

I watched the German version of 'Baron Munchasen' and Fritz Lang's 'Metropolis' at a young age. 'Star Wars' was also a huge thing when I was a kid.

From a young age, watching my father embark on daring, and often dangerous, adventures in the name of Virgin almost become the norm. I'm not saying it became any less nerve-wracking waiting for his safe return - but, over time, it encouraged a new way of thinking for myself and my brother Sam.

I started storm-chasing at a young age.

Because of athletics, I got real comfortable with risk at a young age.

Thanks to my parents, who had me traveling around the world mouth-first, I knew from a young age I wanted a career in food.

I started at such a young age learning every style of music, the country and the bluegrass and the western swing and the rock - everything.

I was probably on a horse before the age of three. From a very young age, I could ride on my own, work, trot, you name it.