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Quotes About Adventure

Only a biker knows why a dog sticks his head out of a car window.
~ Anonymous
If at first you don't succeed, skydiving definitely isn't for you.
~ Anonymous
The safest risk is the one you didn't take.
~ Anonymous
You know you're a skydiver when you buy anything you calculate how many skydives it will cost.
~ Anonymous
Skiing is a dance, and the mountain always leads.
~ Anonymous
Chance takers are accident makers.
~ Anonymous
Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in an attractive and well preserved body, but rather to skid sideways, chocolate in one hand, wine in the other, body thoroughly used up,totally worn out and screaming "Woo Hoo" what a ride!
~ Anonymous
water skiing is a way of life
~ Anonymous
What I like about camping is you can get really dirty. Either you're all by yourself, so no one else sees you, or everyone you're with is just as dirty as you are, so nobody cares.
~ Anonymous former Boy Scout
To Noroway, to Noroway,To Noroway o'er the faem;The king's daughter o' Noroway,'Tis thou must bring her hame.
~ Anonymous: Ballads
As I was a-walking one morning for pleasure,I spied a cowpuncher a-riding along.
~ Anonymous: Cowboy Songs
What are little boys made of?Snips and snails, and puppy dogs' tails;That's what little boys are made of.
~ Anonymous: Nursery Rhymes
Pussy cat, pussy cat, where have you been?I've been to London to look at the queen.Pussy cat, pussy cat, what did you there?I frightened a little mouse under the chair.
~ Anonymous: Nursery Rhymes
All day they hunted,And nothing did they find,But a ship a-sailing,A-sailing with the wind.
~ Anonymous: Nursery Rhymes
Then blow ye winds, heigh-ho!A-roving I will go,I'll stay no more on England's shore,To hear the music play.I'm off on the morning trainTo cross the raging main,I'm taking a trip on a Government ship,Ten thousand miles away!
~ Anonymous: Shanties
Oh, Shenandoah, I long to hear you,Way-hay, you rolling river!Oh, Shenandoah, I long to hear you,Ha-ha, we're bound away,'Cross the wide Missouri!
~ Anonymous: Shanties
There were two lofty ships, from old England they set sail,Blow high, blow low, and so sailed we!…Cruising down along the shores of High Barbaree!
~ Anonymous: Shanties
Every experience is a form of exploration.
~ Ansel Adams
Somos ele e eu Sandokans de meia idade, pensou o médico, em que a aventura consiste em decifrar a página necrológica do jornal na esperança de que a omissão do nosso nome nos garanta estarmos vivos. E vamos entretanto partindo aos pedaços, por fracções, o cabelo, o apêndice, a vesicula, alguns dentes, como encomendas desmontáveis
~ António Lobo Antunes
In my mind ran the immortal line of James Thurber, that phrase at once so intensely comic and so pregnant with suggestions of unnameable terror: "Now we go up to the garrick and become warbs." We were going up to the garrick all right, and warbs suddenly seemed the least terrifying of the things we might become.
~ Anthony Boucher
your body is not a temple, it's an amusement park. Enjoy the ride.
~ Anthony Bourdain
Travel changes you. As you move through this life and this world you change things slightly, you leave marks behind, however small. And in return, life—and travel—leaves marks on you.
~ Anthony Bourdain
your body is not a temple, it's an amusement park. Enjoy the ride.
~ Anthony Bourdain
Do we really want to travel in hermetically sealed popemobiles through the rural provinces of France, Mexico and the Far East, eating only in Hard Rock Cafes and McDonalds? Or do we want to eat without fear, tearing into the local stew, the humble taqueria's mystery meat, the sincerely offered gift of a lightly grilled fish head? I know what I want. I want it all. I want to try everything once.
~ Anthony Bourdain