Quotes About Adventure

They were expected to accomplish nothing, so they could try anything. Audacity beckoned.

Don't fight the trail, take what it gives you. If you have a choice between one step or two between rocks, take three.

Guadajuko," Martimano said. Cool by me.

Every summer, he leaves his hut and rides buses

We were born to run; we were born because we run. We're all Running People, as the Tarahumara have always known.

Christopher McDougall

We run when we're scared, we run when we're ecstatic, we run away from our problems and run around for a good time.

Ultras are just eating and drinking contests, with a little exercise and scenery thrown in.

There are a hundred ways in which a boy can injure—if not indeed kill—himself. The more adventurous he is and the greater his initiative, the more ways he will find. If you protect him from each of the first hundred, he is sure to find the hundred and first. Though most men can look back on their boyhood and tremble at the narrowness of some of their escapes, most boys do in fact survive more or less intact, and the wise father is the trusting father.

If you have come to these pages for laughter, may you find it. If you are here to be offended, may your ire rise and your blood boil. If you seek an adventure, may this song sing you away to blissful escape. If you need to test or confirm your beliefs, may you reach comfortable conclusions. All books reveal perfection, by what they are or what they are not. May you find that which you seek, in these pages or outside them. May you find perfection, and know it by name.

Boredom can be a lethal thing on a small island.

Summer was over, and we were no longer young, but there were great things before us.

The everlasting lure of round-the-corner, how fascinating it is.

Oh, silly woman! Leave your stove, your pots and pans and chores, even if only for one day! Come out and see the sun in the sky and the river in the distance!

There is no mistaking a real book when one meets it. It is like falling in love, and like that colossal adventure it is an experience of great social import. Even as the tranced swain, the booklover yearns to tell others of his bliss.

When you sell a man a book you don't sell him just 12 ounces of paper and ink and glue- you sell him a whole new life. -Christopher Morley

The bicycle, the bicycle surely, should always be the vehicle of novelists and poets.

mankind was born on earth but was never meant to die here

I always say, better ask forgiveness than permission.

Into the sky to win or die.

Working on such a big film was amazing. I learned a lot. There weren't too many stunts, just some doubling.

Byron says he won't go there. He give Kenny and Joey a story about "Wool Pooh," the supposed evil twin of Winnie-the-Pooh. They believe him, but Kenny still wants to go.

I had reached the age of six hundred and fifty miles.

Either you choose to stay in the shallow end of the pool or you go out into the ocean.