Quotes About Adventure

I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I just lived the length of it. I want to live the width of it as well.

The average life expectancy of a fighter pilot was no more than fifty to sixty flight hours.

Wharton, E. The Buccaneers. London: Viking, 1993.

Fond as [Naomi James] was of her faraway fiancé, another solo sailor, 'I'm a natural loner because as long as I know [my fiancé] is alive and well, I don't really worry about him. He has his life to live and I've got mine, and if I can survive then I'm sure he can.

When a boy's first romantic interlude is with Phoebe the Dog-Faced Girl, he feels a need to get out into the world and find a new life.

Annie Barrows lebt mit ihrem Mann und zwei Töchtern in Kalifornien. Die eine Tochter ist wie Ivy, die andere wie Bean. Sie brauen eine Menge Zaubertränke.

WHAT HAPPENED TO IGGY ONCE HE GOT HOME

bottom of the sea," whispered Ivy. Bean

SNEAK PREVIEW OF THE NEXT IVY & BEAN ADVENTURE

Annie Barrows

Never forget that life can only be nobly inspired and rightly lived if you take it bravely and gallantly, as a splendid adventure in which you are setting out into an unknown country, to meet many a joy, to find many a comrade, to win and lose many a battle.

You've got to jump off cliffs all the time and build your wings on the way down.

There is always the temptation in life to diddle around making itsy-bitsy friends and meals and journeys for years on end. It is all so self conscience, so apparently moral...But I won't have it. The world is wilder than that in all directions, more dangerous...more extravagant and bright. We are...raising tomatoes when we should be raising Cain, or Lazarus.

eight times more people die on Everest on the way down than on the way up.

Un été immense comme ils le sont tous jusqu'à vingt-cinq ans

Although I have lived in London, I have never really considered London my home because it was always going to be a stopping-off point for me, and it has been too.

Materia had been just six when they docked in Sydney Harbour and her father said, 'Look. This is the New World. Anything is possible here.' She's been too young to realize that he was talking to her brother.

If you aim to leave Las Vegas with a small fortune, go there with a large one.

Life is too short to eat vanilla ice cream and dance with boring men.

A friend is someone who will bail you out of jail. A best friend is the one sitting next to you saying "boy was that fun."

Art is an adventure that never seems to end.

They come as a boon and a blessing to men, The Pickwick, the Owl, and the Waverley pen.

Work like a captain. Play like a pirate.

Flying has been such an important part of my professional life and I love to do it.