Quotes About Adventure

If adventures will not befall a young lady in her own village, she must seek them abroad.

Run mad as often as you choose, but do not faint

Something must and will happen to throw a hero in her way.

And are you prepared to encounter all the horrors that a building such as what one reads about may produce? Have you a stout heart? Nerves fit for sliding panels and tapestry?

Run mad as often as you chuse, but do not faint.

None of us want to be in calm waters all our lives.

that this adventure has rather affected your admiration of her fine eyes.

To Pemberley, therefore, they were to go. END

If a young girl does not find adventure at home, then she must look for it abroad.

She had only to say in reply, that they had wandered about, till she was beyond her own knowledge.

I went to an empty henhouse [when I was four and a half], hid in the straw at the back, and waited, and the family had no idea where I was... My mother sees this excited little girl rushing toward the house all covered in straw. Instead of getting mad at me, which would've killed the excitement, she saw my shining eyes and sat down to hear this wonderful story of how a hen lays an egg.

When I was young, I knew that, somehow, I would go to Africa and live with animals. And I wanted to write books about them. I don't think I spent too much time wondering exactly how I would do it. I just felt sure that the right opportunity would somehow come. I didn't feel frustrated because I could not go a really long trip while Rusty was still alive. It would have seemed like a betrayal. And while I waited I went on learning.

And so began one of the most exciting periods of my life, the time of discovery.

Neil Armstrong became the first human to step on the moon and was closely followed by Buzz Aldrin.

The bike crunches along the gravel path, weaving around the potholes that could present danger to someone who didn't know the road like the back of their hand.

She was the child with the flashlight under the duvet late into every night. She would breeze through a book in a day and a half, then read it six more times.

There is something magical about young love, when you still think that the world is your oyster and you have your whole life ahead of you.

As far back as I can remember I would escape from my humdrum world by burying myself in books--the one true love of my life when growing up.

you must stretch your own imagination, rouse yourself from mental lethargy, and be bold enough to discard old dogmatic comfort blankets.

I communicate with your dimension, for example, not by willing myself to your level of reality, but by imagining myself there. All of my deaths would have been adventures had I realized what I know now. On the one hand you take life too seriously, and on the other, you do not take playful existence seriously enough.

The state fair was all very well, but it shouldn't be the last thing you saw in your life. At first you thought of people like Eloise and Frank and Lillian as runaways, and then, after a bit, you knew they were really scouts.

They throw themselves on the waters of the world, and they know they will be borne up.

A girl who made no mistakes about the right shade of lipstick would always land on her feet.

Get drunk, Austin, have a love affair. It would be a tragedy to die and discover that you hadn't completely used up your body.