Quotes About Adventure

Only the adventurous can understand the greatness of the past. In its day, the literature of the past was an adventure. Aischylus, Sophocles, Euripides were adventurers in the world of thought. To read their plays without any sense of new ways of understanding the world and of savouring its emotions is to miss the vividness which constitutes their whole value. But adventures are to the adventurous. Thus a passive knowledge of the past loses the whole value of its message.

One kiss, my bonny sweetheart; I'm after a prize tonight, But I shall be back with the yellow gold before the morning light. Yet if they press me sharply, and harry me through the day, Then look for me by moonlight, Watch for me by moonlight, I'll come to thee by moonlight, though hell should bar the way.

Oh, grown-ups cannot understand, And grown-ups never will, How short the way to fairyland Across the purple hill.

I slept very comfortably with half a dozen smoke-dried human skulls suspended over my head

Lima lo obligaba a uno a andarse inventando trucos y aventuras para ocultar tanto miedo.

Air represented a confident and free imagination in which everything was possible. Earth he still loved, but only as a place to land on and take off from.

Adventures come to the adventurous, and mysterious things fall in the way of those who, with wonder and imagination, are on the watch for them; but the majority of people go past the doors that are half ajar, thinking them closed, and fail to notice the faint stirrings of the great curtain that hangs ever in the form of appearances between them and the world of causes behind.

It feels a little dangerous, to be so close to fairy tale.

Brave old world.

G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra 2003

All who wander are not lost!

they were dashing off upon the track over which they had so recently come-- on the road down the valley with the flood following fast behind them.

The hymn of greeting rose in mournful cadence: "Freshie! Freshie! How-de-do! We're all waiting here for you. Hold your head up! Square each shoulder! Thrust your chest out! Do look bolder! Mamma's precious—papa's man— Keep the tears back if you can. Sob! Sob! Sob! It's an awful job— Freshie's leaving home and mo-o-ther!

Thats the trouble. all i wanted was a tumble in the hay. oh, boy, i said. ill bet that cute thing is fun and games. what he doesn't know about the birds and the bees and the flowers and the trees, i can sure teach him

I was afraid, sheer afraid, and wondered at myself. You see, I've no more pluck than any man of my inches but I'd been about a good bit. I'd seen adventure and heard other fellows talk it over, and I knew you're pretty sure to get out of everything with a whole skin till that last particular time that you don't - so what's the use of grizzling? ("Golden Baby")

Why be boring? Have some fun. Rock shows should be like movies: I don't go to a movie hoping it'll change my life.

City people live the city. We live in L.A., New York, we live in places where it's chaotic and you never know what's gonna happen. And that's the music - you never know what's gonna happen.

School's-out-for-summer!!

Anywhere But Here,

It doesn't matter what people tell you. It doesn't matter what they might say. Sometimes you have to leave home. Sometimes, running away means you're headed in the exact right direction.

I've lived a thousand lives just by reading a book

The constant happiness is curiosity.

Have you forgotten yourself enough to come with me?

Fleeing through forest turning silver, in the primal moonlight smeared on us we ran like horses