Quotes About Adventure

If the highest aim of a captain were to preserve his ship, he would keep it in port forever.

I will go on adventuring, changing, opening my mind & my eyes, refusing to be stamped & stereotyped. The thing is to free ones self; to let it find its dimensions, not be impeded. (Diary 4: 187)

The novels we read allow us to encounter possible persons, versions of ourselves hat we would never see, never permit ourselves to see, never permit ourselves to become, in places we can never go and might not care to, while assuring that we get to return home again

The novels we read allow us to encounter possible persons, visions of ourselves that we would never see, never permit ourselves to become, in places we can never go and might not care to, while assuring that we get to return home again.

The real reason for quest is always self-knowledge.

In a sense, every story or poem is a vacation.

I did not know it then, but my life was about to take a sharp turn. Strange and stranger (all carefully scientific of course) was about to become as common as air.

He who would write heroic poems should make his whole life a heroic poem.

Keep not standing fix'd and rooted, Briskly venture, briskly roam; Head and hand, where'er thou foot it, And stout heart are still at home. In each land the sun does visit We are gay, whate'er betide: To give room for wandering is it That the world was made so wide.

Much that is terrible we do not know. Much that is beautiful we shall still discover. Let's sail till we come to the edge.

When I was seventeen, I left Scotland to go to Kent, a well-to-do boarding school in Connecticut, where there was a contingent of really naughty kids.

I'm glad I was in the Navy.

When a recruiter first told me about the Navy SEALs, I knew it was the right fit.

The Rocky Mountains realize - nay, exceed - the dream of my childhood. It is magnificent, and the air is life-giving.

We are as near to heaven by sea as by land.

As a child, I dreamed that my bed could fly and glide and swoop and hover high over the countryside near my home while, snug and secure, I looked down in wonder at the great carpet of life that seemed so perfect beneath me.

I used to live on a houseboat near Hammersmith Bridge.

I really have a passion for the sea, so I think it's important that whatever I do, I want to be near the sea.

I love motocross and would love to have a go but I can't go anywhere near them in case I got injured.

I am a flea market junkie! Every city I go to, I'll be sure to look up when and where the biggest and best markets are nearby.

I love having the mountains nearby so I can get on the motorbike or bike and get off to go for a walk.

I moved to New York when I was 15, but my parents lived nearby in Connecticut, so I could go be in this incredible countryside when I needed it.

For the millennium, we flew to Kuala Lumpur and then on to Pangkor Laut, a nearby island.

If I had my will I would live in a ship on the sea, and never come nearer to humanity than that!