Quotes About Adventure

Dancing in speakeasies was a job, and none of us knew for sure who were gangsters. No one told us, so how could we know? My mother used to come and take me home. We thought nothing of walking home together at two in the morning.

Some day I shall write a novel and call it 'A Walking Tour in the Congo' or 'Thrills and Spills in Aeronautics'; but I keep this type of title as a last & mercenary resort.

I went to my room and packed a change of clothes, got my banjo, and started walking down the road. Soon I found myself on the open highway headed east.

I like walking on the edge.

It's such a thrill walking onto a film set.

Declining to go to church with my parents in the morning, I would ostentatiously set out for the Monist Society in the afternoon, down an obscure street which it seemed a little improper to be walking on, as everything was closed for Sunday, upstairs through a sort of side entrance over a saloon.

It's hard to understand why just walking around for two hours and taking pictures would be just a big deal, but once you try it, you'll fall in love with it.

I never knew when I was gong to leave. I might be walking over to a kid's house, then of all a sudden I would just stick out my thumb and hitchhike across three states.

I go off into Dublin and two days later I'm spotted walking by the Liffey with a whole bunch of new friends.

'Walking the Bible' describes the year that I spent retracing the five books of Moses through the desert, and I was actually working on a follow-up, which would look at the rest of the Hebrew Bible and the New Testament.

The magic of Disneyland, walking through the tunnel underneath the train station to Main Street, it just transports you to other places and other times.

The traveller who aspires to reach the highlands of Tibet from Kashmir cannot be borne along in a carriage or hill-cart. For much of the way, he is limited to a foot pace, and if he has regard to his horse, he walks down all rugged and steep descents, which are many, and dismounts at most bridges.

I have always been a very keen walker, though, and I often took a camera with me on my walks.

Snake Plissken walks in the room, any young actor is going to be a bit speechless.

My mother loved to take us on walks in the mountains or the hills and she would point out different species that she identified, both fauna and flora.

My parents didn't want to believe their son was 200 feet up, free-soloing. They liked to go on long walks and runs, and they would go right by Joe English. Later they'd say, 'Hey, we saw someone climbing up there.' They would describe what they saw, and I'd be wearing the exact same outfit. And I'd say, 'Oh... Nope, wasn't me!'

My mother used to take me to flea markets in my stroller, and I would just rummage through the piles. You've got to dig through the overstuffed racks that everyone else just walks by. It's the only way to find the cool stuff.

I love walks, hiking, exploring and being on the beach.

My family was always active, and our thing was family walks. Not walks around the block, but more like eight-mile hikes up mountains.

Not having a car gives me volumes not to think or worry about, and makes walks around the neighborhood a daily adventure.

My favourite thing to do in any city is just to get lost and go for long walks.

The space walks were amazing with the incredible views.

I love just taking walks and disappearing. I like off-the-beaten-path places and finding street food - even if its hot dogs in a cart. I love the whole idea of that.

America has tossed its cap over the wall of space.