Quotes About Adventure

The British boy suffers the greatest restraint during the period when the call of nature, the instincts of play and adventure, are most urgent. Naturally, he looks eagerly forward to the time of escape, which he fondly imagines will be when his boyhood is over and he is free of masters.

We enjoy the night, the darkness, where we can do things that aren't acceptable in the light. Night is when we slake our thirst.

We enjoy the night, the darkness, where we can do things that aren't acceptable in the light. Night is when we slate our thirst.

It's usually some badass makes a young girl's heart beat faster.

William Hjortsberg

Yet that, after such age, if a youth desired greatly to make the adventure, he should receive three lectures upon the dangers of which we had knowledge, and a strict account of the mutilatings and horrid deeds done to those who had so adventured.

Alice's message for today—in Wonderland and the world at large—is that young women can do anything they like.

In the words of classicist Jennifer Wise, "With little exaggeration, it could be said that the entirety of the Odyssey ultimately boils down to one simple technological problem: the epic hero's inability to write home."35

Royal Adventurers into Africa

Man lives by habits indeed, but what he lives for is thrill and excitements. ... From time immemorial war has been ... the supremely thrilling excitement.

It is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live at all. And often enough our faith beforehand in an uncertified result is the only thing that makes the result come true.

So if you're a robot and you're living on this planet, you can do things that you can't do in real life - things that you wished you could do: like fly like have a car that flies like have furniture that is alive.

To understand pretending is to conquer all barriers of time and space.

to understand pretending," Ombric was fond of saying, "is to conquer all barriers of time and space.

Up there in the sky. Don't you see him? No, not the moon. The Man in the Moon. He wasn't always a man. Nor was he always on the moon. He was once a child. Like you. Until a battle, a shooting star, and a lost balloon led him on a quest. Meet the very first Guardian of Childhood. MiM, the Man in the Moon.

All the pirates, and Lord Pitch's mercy, were dead in less time than it takes to sing a song.

THE GUARDIANS: BOOK ONE Nicholas St. North and the Battle of the Nightmare King THE GUARDIANS: BOOK TWO E. Aster Bunnymund and the Warrior Eggs at the Earth's Core! THE GUARDIANS: BOOK THREE Toothiana, Queen of the Tooth Fairy Armies

Entender con la imaginación -solía decir Ombric- es conquistar los límites del tiempo y del espacio.

Do something new and you are new. How boring it is not to fire machine guns.

I generally played a little fast and loose with my resources but I figured hell, a man's reach should exceed his grasp, especially in a stupid board game.

Life's stranger and more beautiful than I ever thought possible.

donned their body armor, mounted their horses, and continued after Nightwind. They rode through the day without incident, the whole time in snowfall. Periodically

With every turn of the river since I'd left Lincoln School, the world had become broader, its mysteries more complex, its possibilities infinite.

FROM THE HEIGHT of a certain wisdom acquired across many decades, I look down now on those four children traveling a meandering river whose end was unknown to them.