Quotes About Adventure

Nathan always believed his wife was trying to poison him but he didn't seem to mind. He said it made life kind of exciting.

Oh, Gilbert, don't let's ever grow too old and wise... no, not too old and silly for fairyland.

I do like a road, because you can be always wondering what is at the end of it.

The possibilities of making new friends help to make life very fascinating

Isn't it splendid to think of all the things there are to find out about? It just makes me feel glad to be alive – it's such an interesting world. It wouldn't be half so interesting if we knew all about everything, would it? There'd be no scope for imagination then, would there?

Anne? said Dacy sitting up in bed and propping his chin on his hands, Anne, where is sleep? People go to sleep every night, and of course I know it's a place where I do things I dream, but I want to know where it is and how to get there and back without knowing anything about it . . . and in my nighty too. Where is it?

Or she may find out what is at the end of the harbor road…that wandering, twisting road like a nice red snake, that leads, so Elizabeth thinks, to the end of the world. Perhaps the Island of Happiness is there.

Once upon a time--which, when you come to think of it, is really the only proper way to begin a story--the only way that really smacks of romance and fairyland--

And as for risk, there's risk in pretty near everything a body does in this world. - Marilla Cuthbert

Life is only beginning for you now . . . since at last you're quite free and independent. And you never know what may be around the next bend in the road

Books are not written about proper children. They would be so dull no one would read them.

There is such a place as fairyland—but only children can find the way to it. And they do not know that it is fairyland until they have grown so old that they forget the way.

Having adventures comes naturally to some people. You just have a gift for them or you don't have - Anne Shirley

Books are not written about proper children. They would be so dull nobody would read them.

And there was always the bend in the road!

But Cecily's maiden feet were never to leave the golden road.

Isn't it splendid to think of all the things there are to find out about? It just makes me feel glad to be alive--it's such an interesting world. It wouldn't be half so interesting if we knew all about everything, would it?

I never see a ship sailing out of the channel, or a gull soaring over the sand-bar, without wishing I were on board the ship or had wings, not like a dove 'to fly away and be at rest,' but like a gull, to sweep out into the very heart of the storm.

But the way girls roam over the earth now is something terrible. It always makes me think of Satan in the Book of Job, going to and fro and walking up and down.

it's such an interesting world. It wouldn't be half so interesting if we know all about everything, would it

Isn't it splendid to think of all the things there are to find out about? It just makes me feel glad to be alive—it's such an interesting world. It

Boys were to her, when she thought about them at all, merely possible good comrades.

I wish it had been me. It would have been such a romantic experience to have been nearly drowned. It would be such a thrilling tale to tell.

The Haunted Wood was a harmless, pretty spruce grove in the field below the orchard. We considered that all our haunts were too commonplace, so we invented this for our own amusement.