Quotes About Adventure

You could wish to travel to the sky with a jump, but, unless your legs were mountains or you had a map charting where the high blue reached close, no words could take you there, and no king or queen could, even if willing, finance such a leap.

over open country you could send a spastic out of a plane with a beach umbrella and the Government couldn't care less.

it's not the solution, it's the path to the solution that is fascinating

Spring break! Were there any two words ever put together that make a more beautiful sound?

One day we ran all the way to Jones Beach, and if Mrs. Sidman hadn't sent a bus after us, I think we would have collapsed on the boardwalk and died.

He's falling into the water," I said. Lucas shook his head. "No, he's not. He's going wherever he wants to go.

From the earliest age, children sense your attitude. If you approach their care as a burden or drudgery, your children will respond in a burdensome way, and you will experience drudgery. Instead, see each day as an adventure and know that each stage of your children's development is precious.

The essence of a role-playing game is that it is a group, cooperative experience.

There is no winning or losing, but rather the value is in the experience of imagining yourself as a character in whatever genre you're involved in, whether it's a fantasy game, the Wild West, secret agenst or whatever else. You get to sort of vicariously experience those things.

The secret we should never let the gamemasters know is that they don't need any rules.

Live each day to the fullest!

Collect adventures and experiences to reminisce about…go to far places, meet new people, eat exotic foods, enjoy all varieties of women, look on unfamiliar landscapes, see new things.

The wise man shall pass into strange countries, and good and evil shall he try in all things.

Mixtli a Ce-Malinali:

Citlaltépetl is as old as the world, but to this day, no man, native or Spaniard, has yet climbed all the way to the top of it. If anyone ever did, the passing stars would probably scrape him off his perch.

You could see a long way, but not half as far as Roger had gone.

Believing in big frees you to ask different questions, follow different paths, and try new things. This opens the doors to possibilities that until now only lived inside you.

Apenas aqueles que se arriscam a ir longe demais tem a chance de descobrir quão longe podem ir." T. S. Eliot

It is no easy matter to go to heaven by way of New Orleans.

It is no easy matter to go to heaven by way of New Orleans. —REVEREND J. CHANDLER GREGG

I hurried after Sam, calling, "You might wait for us!" The last word, though it was but one syllable, covered two octaves, for my voice broke, as it had been doing lately with alarming frequency. Sam turned back with a mischievous grin on his face. "Was that your voice cracking, or were you attempting to yodel?

Walking toward the music" isn't a bad philosophy of life. Doors might seem closed, the evening might seem prematurely over, but if you can catch a glimpse of nightlife or hear the sound of music in the distance, why not walk toward it and see what you find?

I had envisioned that this would be a short book, about half of what it has become. Once I opened up the Scriptures, however, it was like the glaciers melted and the dams overflowed, and I had to ride the rivers way downstream. I hope you enjoy and learn from the ride.

Fear keeps people from taking risks. And sometimes the greatest risk is not to take a risk.