Quotes About Adventure

It's funny, but we were living on this small island off the coast of Charleston, South Carolina when I was 9.

One of my favorite places is Seattle. Growing up, I never thought I'd be able to go to Seattle. I grew up in eastern South Carolina, so that's as far as you can get from Seattle, unless I lived in Miami.

South Dakota was a place where you could take risks. You could break barriers and get away with it.

I love to drive in the Black Hills of Wyoming and South Dakota with Mount Rushmore as the central stop.

I went to South Korea once and I saw young people, about 15, they had skipped school to come see 'Band of Outsiders.'

When I was a kid, getting on Lake Shore Drive from the south side to go downtown was magical.

Pretend you're a southern sheriff. Or Mae West. Or Donald Duck. Buy a western hat and walk around the house like a cowboy. The point of all this, of course, is to draw yourself out of your accustomed groove.

My life changed forever the first time I went to the southern hemisphere.

I grew up with a cabin so we'd always go out and hunt and fish and all that good stuff. All of the cliche Southern things one would imagine.

Cruising on the old rice boats in Kerala, southern India, with my wife was amazing.

We used to spend a lot of time as kids in Northern Ireland, on the border and in southern Ireland as well.

I was born in Southern California in a city called Norwalk. I grew up there until I moved up to New York when I was 18.

I grew up in the age of discount air fare, and for me, the act of joining a culture was a great way about learning about that different culture. So I grew up in the South, and went to college in the North, and found out that I learned about myself as a Southerner by leaving the South and going to the Northeast.

Before we had airplanes and astronauts, we really thought that there was an actual place beyond the clouds, somewhere over the rainbow. There was an actual place, and we could go above the clouds and find it there.

When you launch in a rocket, you're not really flying that rocket. You're just sort of hanging on.

Man must at all costs overcome the Earth's gravity and have, in reserve, the space at least of the Solar System.

I think humans will reach Mars, and I would like to see it happen in my lifetime.

As an astronaut, especially during launch, half of the risk of a six-month flight is in the first nine minutes.

I am absolutely certain that life can exist in outer space, move around, find a new aqueous environment.

One day I would love to do rock a gig on the moon - how rad would that be? Isn't Richard Branson flying planes to outer space? Motley Crue could be the first band to play on the moon.

I've been on 26 space missions; they range from suborbital to orbital to shuttle experiments to planetary missions.

'Space finder' is a phase I used in an interview one time, and it's followed me ever since.

An airplane cabin isn't the first place people think of when they choose an exhibition space, but I'm all for doing things differently.

We need a space program because we need explorers. Its in our souls.