Quotes About Adventure

It may seem unfashionable to say so, but historians should seize the imagination as well as the intellect. History is, in a sense, a story, a narrative of adventure and of vision, of character and of incident. It is also a portrait of the great general drama of the human spirit.

I have this vision of maybe going the way of Bill Kurtis and, I think, Tom Brokaw, to a certain extent - the ability to not be tied to the desk anymore, but to do projects that are meaningful to you.

I once thought about becoming a beekeeper," Charlotte says, breaking the silence, and this is less surprising to me than her sudden wish to leave. She finds terrifying situations thrilling—bungee jumping, skydiving, swimming with sharks.

What is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?' I thought I knew what I planned to do, but now everything has changed.

Do not fear to step into the unknown For where there is risk, there is also reward.

On the farm, in our first-floor bedroom, my sister and I were sheltered in the essence of normal. We were not hidden, but unseen. The orange farmhouse was our castle, our kingdom the fields around, and the shallow creek that bisected our property the sea we crossed to find adventure.

Uncle Stash said you didn't have to be crazy to to do something stupid, just young.

Cast your hook in the stream where you least expect to get a bite; if you hook a fish, then you'll know you're truly lucky. —Dutch Callahan

Live passionately or not at all.

What if she did get hurt? It wouldn't be the first time and it probably wouldn't be the last. Life hurt. That's how you knew you were alive. But life was also a beautiful adventure, and the bad things were what made the good things worth cherishing.

The cabin leaned like a drunken cowboy.

He wondered what the point was of possessing a wild heart if it was ultimately harnessed by a timid soul. Others were capable of the adventure he yearned for

Nature has been for me, for as long as I remember, a source of solace, inspiration, adventure, and delight; a home, a teacher, a companion.

He doesn't need to know the path to adventure. He simply needs to recognize that it awaits.

I felt the need to be rebellious. A woman should have a moment in her life when she's rebellious, don't you think?

The books. So many books. She adored reading. It introduced her to characters, took her to places where she was never lonely.

Still she felt like a mermaid following a unicorn into the woods, all the while knowing that at some point, she would have to return to the sea.

assumed he meant to marry me. So I ran off with him. He was exciting,

his way across the slanted roof over the

You've had quite an intriguing life, Your Grace," "Is there any point in having any other kind?

Si tienes el coraje suficiente para recuperar la inocencia y dejar volar la imaginación, también tú tendrás al dragón como amigo

There is only one good thing about a small town You know that you want to get out - Songs for Drella

Instead, God wants to take us on an adventure far out into the widest part of the ocean. He leads us into deep waters where there's no way our feet can touch bottom anymore. That's when we lean on God and constantly seek his face and heart and thoughts, because there's no way we can ever swim in the deepest part of the ocean unless we know the one who holds the seas in the palm of his hand.

Where the rock's nakedness repels the shy foot, where the discouraged plant will no longer spread the seduction of its seed, where the ice-axe strikes only sparks, there I have found my pasture, above the blue kingdom of the flies. I am an animal of the heights.