Quotes About Adventure

You can never cross the ocean unless you have the courage to lose sight of the shore.

The sea will grant each man new hope The sleep brings dreams of home.

Christopher Columbus

Following the light of the sun, we left the Old World.

Ninety seconds earlier, Titan Six had jumped from an unmarked

jumps — High Altitude, Low Opening — are always dangerous,

May felt exhilarated around Bryant. He had always imagined that somewhere out there, away from suburban dullness, ardent young people were allowed to give freer rein to their thoughts. He felt as though he had arrived at a place he had always wanted to be.

What is it with you and the Wizard of Oz references? Zombies and werewolves and vamps, oh my. Zombies and werewolves and...

why would you think such a dangerous endeavor would be fun?

Christopher Golden

I've met the most interesting people while flying or on a boat. These methods of travel seem to attract the kind of people I want to be with.

Some men like a dull life - they like the routine of eating breakfast, going to work, coming home, petting the dog, watching TV, kissing the kids, and going to bed. Stay clear of it - it's often catching.

Sure, climbing Mount Everest would be cool, but that's something I would now like to do as a family. Big experiences like that I don't want to have on my own anymore. I want to share them.

Wohin ich dich auch führen werde, es wird das Leben sein.

One ought to go too far, in order to know how far one can go.

On we went over low-lying passes till we came to the source of the Brahmaputra, which the Tibetans call the Tsangpo.

There were only three names on the map of the region we had brought with us, but we now filled in more than two hundred.

Yes, we had made and excursion into another world and we had come back, but we had brought the joy of life and of humanity back with us. In the rush and whirl of everyday things, we so often live alongside one another without making any mutual contact. We had learned on the North Fae of the Eiger that men are good, and the earth on which we were born is good."(p.126)

shall always remember the next day for one of the most beautiful experiences I have ever had. As we marched forward we caught sight, after a while, of the gleaming golden towers of a monastery in the far distance. Above them, shining superbly in the morning sun, were tremendous walls of ice, and we gradually realised that we were looking at the giant trio Dhaulagiri, Annapurna and Manaslu. As

Here's to matrimony, the high sea for which no compass has yet been invented!

Don't send a poet to London.

Good thing life's a journey, even if you have to backtrack to find your way.

I said I liked Amundsen and Scott and I liked King Solomon's Mines and I liked everything by Dumas and I liked The Bad Seed and The Hound of the Baskervilles and I liked The Name of the Rose but the Italian was rather difficult.

The see lifts me again, and carries me away with it.