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Quotes About Adventure

It was the schooner Hesperus,That sailed the wintry sea;And the skipper had taken his little daughter,To bear him company.
~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
A banner with the strange device,Excelsior!
~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The student has his Rome, his Florence, his whole glowing Italy, within the four walls of his library. He has in his books the ruins of an antique world and the glories of a modern one.
~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
My soul is full of longing for the secret of the sea, and the heart of the great ocean sends a thrilling pulse through me.
~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
side. "I'm going to be the best bookmark that ever held a place in a book. Look out, world, here comes Hank." Oh, and by the way, about the tuna casserole: If you ever see even a glop of it on your plate, change plates. I didn't, and my tongue is still not talking to me.
~ Henry Winkler
jestem jak statek, który jeÅ›li nie wejdzie do portu, to zatonie...
~ Henryk Sienkiewicz
The further one goes, the better the land seems.
~ Leo Tolstoy
Was ich wünschte, war Bewegung und nicht ein ruhiges Dahinfließen des Lebens. Es verlangte mich nach Aufregungen und Gefahren, nach Selbstaufopferung um eines Gefühlswillen. In mir war ein Überschuss von Kraft, der in unserem stillen Leben keinen Raum zur Bestätigung fand
~ Leo Tolstoy
They are regular brigands, especially Dolokhov," replied the visitor. "He is a son of Marya Ivanovna Dolokhova, such a worthy woman, but there, just fancy! Those three got hold of a bear somewhere, put it in a carriage, and set off with it to visit some actresses! The police tried to interfere, and what did the young men do? They tied a policeman and the bear back to back and put the bear into the Moyka Canal. And there was the bear swimming about with the policeman on his back!
~ Leo Tolstoy
Your whole life should be lived as a heroic deed
~ Leo Tolstoy
Those who have taken the side streets have changed the way people live on this planet. But those who stay with The Road find that it is clearly marked all the way with the same sign: "How does the universe work?
~ Leon M. Lederman
I love nature and enjoy learning new skills.
~ Leona Lewis
Suzanne takes you down to her place near the river You can hear the boats go by You can spend the night beside her And you know that she's half crazy But that's why you want to be there
~ Leonard Cohen
better than wild is secretly wild
~ Leonard Cohen
Si presero per mano e corsero giù per la collina. Le foglie secche si frantumavano sotto i piedi e loro cercarono i mucchi per calpestarle.
~ Leonard Cohen
and I abroad, and there I searched
~ Leonard Foley
I think it's my adventure, my trip, my journey, and I guess my attitude is, let the chips fall where they may.
~ Leonard Nimoy
Rocket ships are exciting but so are roses on a birthday.
~ Leonard Nimoy
I think it's my adventure, my trip, my journey, and I guess my attitude is, let the chips fall where they may.
~ Leonard Nimoy
Turn off the device and take your child for a walk through the woods or on a hike up a mountain. Go on a camping trip. Late at night, when it's absolutely dark, take your child's hand and ask her to look up at the stars. Talk with her about the vastness of space and the tininess of our planet in the universe. That's reality. That's perspective.
~ Leonard Sax
the world seems filled with people who are genuinely, deeply interested in physics but whose lives have taken them in different directions. This book is for all of us.
~ Leonard Susskind
Once you have flown, you will walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward for there you have been, there you long to return.
~ Leonardo DaVinci
In the Balkans the peasants say that if you long for faraway countries and leave your own land and home to find them, you are born under A LILAC-BLEEDING STAR.
~ Lesley Blanch
She was an Amazon. Her whole life was spent riding at breakneck speed towards the wilder shores of love.
~ Lesley Blanch