Quotes About Adventure

The woman looked at Gawain silently for a moment, then nodded. "The greatest adventures begin simply," she said.

I should show you to Robin," Terence murmured. Then he closed his eyes.

You can't all be the greatest knight in England." "Why not?" Gawain smiled suddenly. "It makes for better stories that way.

When Columbus started out he didn't know where he was going, when he got there he didn't know where he was, and when he got back he didn't know where he had been.

There are no rules. Just follow your heart.

My body has certainly wandered a good deal, but I have an uneasy suspicion that my mind has not wandered enough.

Beyond the Alps lies Italy.

Travellers from afar can lie with impunity.

It is in the compelling zest of high adventure and of victory, and in creative action, that man finds his supreme joy.

We sail, at sunrise, daily, "outward bound."

Clay lies still, but blood's a rover Breath's a ware that will not keep. Up lad: when the journey's over There'll be time enough to sleep.

Thus, I steer my bark, and sail On even keel, with gentle gale.

The Owl and the Pussy-Cat went to sea In a beautiful pea-green boat.

The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them.

If someone said, "Write a sentence about your life," I'd write, "I want to go outside and play."

One day, with life and heart, is more than time enough to find a world.

A child on a farm sees a plane fly overhead and dreams of a faraway place. A traveler on the plane sees the farmhouse and dreams of home.

I'd like to be a truck driver. I think you could run your life that way. It wouldn't be such a bad way of doing it. It would offer a chance to be alone.

The world's mine oyster, Which I with sword will open.

The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved . . . the ones who never yawn and say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn, like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars.

Be brave enough to live creatively. The creative is the place where no one else has ever been. You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition. You cannot get there by bus, only by hard work, risking and by not quite knowing what you are doing. What you will discover will be wonderful: yourself.

The man who makes no mistakes lacks boldness and the spirit of adventure. He never tries anything new. He is a brake on the wheels of progress.

He who never leaves his country is full of prejudices.

I wish I were with some of the wild people that run in the woods, and know nothing about accomplishments!