Quotes About Adventure

It's not the destination that matters. It's the change of scene.

I don't live in the past at all I'm always wanting to do something new. I make a point of constantly trying to forget and get things out of my mind.

It was too easy to follow the path you were on, rather than looking for cross-trails that might take you somewhere scary.

she was five years old and got her first library card, which to a bookish little girl was like a religious experience.

And he wants to bring me up to the back hills next Sunday - up to Lough Anna. His father has a boat there. And I'm thinking maybe I'll bring a bottle of milk with me. And I've enough money saved to buy a packet of chocolate biscuits.

You've been there before?" "Twenty-odd years ago on the U-2 program." Ross was intrigued; he's still a collegiate at heart — young enough to be eager-beaverish. "What's it like up there?" "The end of the world.

Where are you going?" said Abram. Mikael looked upriver, a sad distant gaze in his eyes, and said, "Babylon.

It was a magnificent setting in a remote part of the world. My kind of place.

It's so much more interesting to study a ... damaged world. I find it difficult to learn anything in a place that's too civilized.

Discovery is dangerous . . . but so is life. A man unwilling to take risk is doomed never to learn, never to grow, never to live.

The folly and the glory of the world... the wild, the wise and the wicked... the hero, the madman, the wanderer and the fool... the earth, the seas, the wild heavens... are all part of an endless, unfolding tapestry, woven by time and hemmed by memory.

So here is my story, may it bring Some smiles and a tear or so, It happened once upon a time, Far away, and long ago, Outside the night wind keens and wails, Come listen to me, the Teller of Tales!

In our imaginations we can go anywhere. Travel with me to Redwall in Mossflower country.

This guy was like a sailor who had studied the compass and found that there was a fifth direction in which one could sail." (Jerry Juhl on being offered a job with Muppets, Inc.)

All good children's stories are the same: young creature breaks rules, has incredible adventure, then returns home with the knowledge that aforementioned rules are there for a reason. Of course, the actual message to the careful reader is: break rules as often as you can, because who the hell doesn't want to have an adventure?

Sure, this will probably end up being another in a long line of emotionally crippling misadventures...but let's try to have some fun along the way.

There's a story in all of us." Each

A Narrative of the Life of David Crockett, of the State of Tennessee (1834).

Christian faith for me is no longer a static location but a great spiritual journey. And that changes everything.

Fear of any undertaking, to her way of thinking, was usually a reason to go ahead with it.

But whenever Heather felt uncertain about whether to do something, she did it. She had decided long ago that you never learn anything by holding back.

The people she admired in his books were people who walked away from the lives that other people expected them to live—Ellen in his first novel, the bohemian painters in his second.

Afraid perhaps to come to where I've stopped in case you find into some slow and glowing countryside yourself escaping

Fear prevents us from growing...go to where the fear is.