Quotes About Adventure

He's looking for the president's kidnapped daughter; everybody he calls on to help him is busy, but lo and behold, you look across the room, and I'm waiting for that action.

Comic books and The Chronicles of Narnia. My mother used to read those to me and my twin brother growing up.

My father was a soldier and my mother was a great mover. She once counted up how many places she had lived in during the first 25 years of her marriage and it came to 20.

Every mother and daughter should make time for a trip together. It's good for the soul.

Daddy,' my mother asked, 'aren't we going to run out of gas?' No there's plenty of god-damned gas.' Where are we going?' I'm going to get some god-damed oranges!

Mothers will be fishing kids out of obscure cubby-holes for years!

My daughter is a fantastic travelling companion - she's totally organised, whereas I'm hopeless.

My father and mother in 1817 were forty-nine days on the road with their emigrant wagons [from Vermont] to Ohio. More than two days for each hour that I spent in the same journey.

Your daughter's coming of age, you ought to let her see the world a little.

I thought boxes were the best toy. When my parents got a new car, I ran to my mother and said, 'Did it come in a box?'

In between films I like to travel and hope to visit every continent before I become a mother.

You don't learn to walk by following rules. You learn by doing, and by falling over.

Do one thing every day that scares you.

What's life without a little risk?

A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.

When you become comfortable with uncertainty, infinite possibilities open up in your life.

The woman who follows the crowd will usually go no further than the crowd. The woman who walks alone is likely to find herself in places no one has ever been before.

A ship in port is safe, but that's not what ships are built for.

Anything that gets your blood racing is probably worth doing.

All men die, but not all men really live.

When kids hit one year old, it's like hanging out with a miniature drunk. You have to hold onto them. They bump into things. They laugh and cry. They urinate. They vomit.

If you're not living on the edge you're taking up too much space.

If somebody offers you an amazing opportunity but you are not sure you can do it, say yes-then learn how to do it later!

It is good to have an end to journey towards; but it is the journey that matters, in the end.