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Quotes About Adventure

We had discovered an accursed country. We had found the Home of the Blizzard.
~ Douglas Mawson
Once I took a bus from my home in Maryland to Philadelphia to live on the streets with some musicians for a few weeks, and then my parents sent me to boarding school at Andover to shape me up.
~ Olivia Wilde
I wanted to do something far from my intellectual and physical home, so I went to live in Beijing for eight months and took Mandarin Chinese.
~ Mira Sorvino
I was not content at home. . . I wanted to live like a colorful butterfly in the sun.
~ Mata Hari
Where are we really going? Always home.
~ Novalis
Adventure must start with running away from home.
~ WILLIAM BOLITHO
If you get far enough away you'll be on your way back home.
~ Tom Waits
Almost everything worthwhile carries with it some sort of risk.
~ Chris Hadfield
We're not home-and-hearth people. We're the adventurers, the buccaneers, the blockade runners. Without challenge, we're only alive.
~ Alexander Eliot
If I am going to get in a cab to go home, and I see a sign for an open house, I will go in. I like real estate because I am the boss.
~ Lorraine Bracco
Those who were cowards never started, and those who were weak were lost on the way, but the brave find a home in every land.
~ Walter Knott
The man with the knapsack is never lost. No matter whither he may stray, his food and shelter are right with him, and home is wherever he may choose to stop.
~ Horace Kephart
Sometimes home is full of new possibilities, you just have to look or change how you look.
~ Jacques Lecoq
I traveled all over for about 50 years, I love a lot of places and I've been a lot of places, but I just don't care to leave home.
~ Fats Domino
The more one does and sees and feels, the more one is able to do, and the more genuine may be one's appreciation of fundamental things like home, and love, and understanding companionship.
~ Amelia Earhart
When a man is a Traveler, the world is his house & the sky is his roof, where he hangs his hat is his home, & all the people are his family
~ Drew Bundini Brown
Art hurts. Art urges voyages - and it is easier to stay at home.
~ Gwendolyn Brooks
Go big or go home. Because it's true. What do you have to lose?
~ Eliza Dushku
Going to the mountains is going home.
~ John Muir
More than anything, it was the blue dolphins that took me back home.
~ Scott O'Dell
Almost everything worthwhile carries with it some sort of risk, whether it's starting a new business, whether it's leaving home, whether it's getting married, or whether it's flying in space.
~ Chris Hadfield
I'm still a kid. I'm like six years old. But it's just a matter of wanting to get up, it's just a big journey. I felt like when I left home that I was on a journey, and I still am.
~ Heath Ledger
There are those who stay at home and those who go away, and it has always been so. Everyone can choose for himself, but he must choose while there is still time and never change his mind.
~ Tove Jansson
Oh I have been to Ludlow fair, and left my necktie God knows where. And carried half way home, or near, pints and quarts of Ludlow beer.
~ A. E. Housman