Quotes About Adventure

TO TRAVEL HOPEFULLY IS A BETTER THING THAN TO ARRIVE. —ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON

Puff, the Magic Dragon, lived by the sea, and frolicked in the Autumn Mist in a land called Honah Lee, little Jacky Paper loved that rascal Puff, and gave him strings and sealing wax and other fancy stuff.

Perhaps I am sated with travel, with rambling through many lands; perhaps my youthful ardor is relaxing and cooling, turning naturally to a love of peace, suitable for my occupations. At any rate I am losing my love of roving.

My ideal travel companions are my family.

Forward, towards the danger!

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In the beginner's mind there are many possibilities; in the expert's mind there are few.

It's more fun to be a pirate than to join the Navy. STEVE JOBS

I really wish we could stay longer in the countries we visit, but I've been lucky to have visited most of them before, because I've done a tremendous amount of travel.

I had only one hard-and-fast rule: avoid interstates. They are predictable and boring, and their uniformity somehow erases changes in landscape; you can drive six hundred miles, from forests into desert, and feel that you haven't gone anywhere. In a sense, you haven't. You have no idea about the lives of the people in the towns and cities you've bypassed at seventy miles an hour. *

with the great love of the unknown and vast dreams of dominion and power

With books he could leave his cell and go wherever the story went.

Richard would now often stay out in the desert after it had gotten dark. Mike had taught him how to read the stars, and he never got lost.

Not knowing is exciting. It's an opportunity to discover.

If you don't know what to do, there's actually a chance of doing something new.

If you don't know what to do, there's actually a chance of doing something new. As long as you know what you're doing, nothing much of interest is going to happen.

It's not the destination it's the glory of the ride.

I don't want to spend this last half [of life] trying to recapture the first. I want to stretch and grow and do bold things ... and question what I've been taught and generally alarm people with my broadmindedness.

By and by we shall have balloons and pass over to Europe between sun and sun. Oh, for the good old days of heavy post-coaches and speed at the rate of six miles an hour!

A weird time in which we are alive. We can travel anywhere we want, even to other planets. And for what? To sit day after day, declining in morale and hope.

says he sailed his own boat out to the position given by

I wouldn't mind seeing China if I could come back the same day.

SEX is designed for people who like overcoming obstacles.

He (The 4th Doctor) concludes, as befits his Bohemian heroism, that the quest itself fulfils the quest - to travel is better than to arrive, and taking part is more triumphant than winning.