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Quotes About Adventure

Our house is quiet, small and plain, and yet its rooms run far and wide. A hundred pencils, swift as rain, writing on sheets of beaten gold would not be quick enough to hold the strange adventures shadows hide...
~ Nancy Willard
Fighting evil by moonlight, winning love by daylight, never running from a real fight, she is the one named Sailor Moon!
~ Naoko Takeuchi
So I went walking, like the independent woman I am.
~ Naomi Alderman
California was open and free, with purple mountains and salty brown-water beaches and dying palm trees and lavender jacaranda trees. Liberated green parrots found refuge in California, squawking as loud as they could on power lines in the early morning hours. Coyotes roamed the streets at night during the occasional downpour. Brown bears bathes in swimming pools and mountain lions stalked hiking trails. It was a magical place where anything was possible. That was home.
~ Unknown
Sailing was never my thing,
~ Unknown
Travel light my child, as the Wanderer travels light, and his love will be with you.
~ Naomi Mitchison
It could be verified that no princess was ever asked whether she wanted to be rescued and carried off by a dragon-slayer to a fate (no doubt) worse than death.
~ Naomi Mitchison
Perhaps she did not die," said Halla, "perhaps her nurse turned into a bear and carried her away into the forest. Perhaps she was brought up by bears and dragons. Perhaps it was better for her in the end than being a king's child." "That was never the story," said Modolf. "Forget the story," said Halla.
~ Naomi Mitchison
Occasionally, and for everyone's good, mankind were instructed to offer a fresh and juicy princess to their own particular dragon. It was said that the princesses enjoyed the experience. Certainly the dragons did.
~ Naomi Mitchison
Those who live in caves, die in caves," said All-Father, "and the love of the Wanderer is to wanderers.
~ Naomi Mitchison
We're meant to go. We're not meant to stay forever.
~ Naomi Novik
READER, I RAN the fuck away.
~ Naomi Novik
Gördü?üm ve ö?rendi?im her yeni ?ey beni çok mutlu ediyordu. Sanki yepyeni bir dünyaya, bilim dünyas?na, ad?m atm??t?m ve bu dünyay? art?k özgürce ke?fedebilme olana??na sahiptim.
~ Unknown
There is a joy in danger.
~ Napoleon Bonaparte
Quel roman pourtant que ma vie!
~ Napoleon Bonaparte
I travel like a gypsy, and I didn't know how I could perform and be a mother.
~ Natalia Makarova
But to look back all the time is boring. Excitement lies in tomorrow.
~ Natalia Makarova
You don't need to visit a foreign country or hike a desert canyon or go out on a cloudless, moonless night and get drunk on star champagne.
~ Natalie Angier
Don't be afraid of death; be afraid of an unlived life. You don't have to live forever, you just have to live.
~ Natalie Babbitt
Don't be afraid of death; be afraid of an unlived life. You don't have to live forever, you just have to live.
~ Natalie Babbitt
dont be afraid of death, be afraid of the unlived life.
~ Natalie Babbitt
Don't fear death, fear the un-lived life
~ Natalie Babbitt
Do not fear death, but rather the unlived life. You don't have to live forever. You just have to live.
~ Natalie Babbitt
I)n reading . . . stories, you can be many different people in many different places, doing things you would never have a chance to do in ordinary life. It's amazing that those twenty-six little marks of the alphabet can arrange themselves on the pages of a book and accomplish all that. Readers are lucky - they will never be bored or lonely.
~ Natalie Babbitt