Quotes About Adventure

Off in the distance there were galleons of shock-white cumulus coulds gathering in the wide sky's cerulean harbor, and their azure shadows floated over the flatlands. Billy surprised himself by saying: "I love it here. I'll never leave.

Time moves more slowly when you're young, because life is still new to you, a process of discovery.

The Great Commission is the Great Adventure of Christianity.

There's too much history to tell, really, about all of us and how we'd do things like hike and how she loved that I ran so much.

My childhood may be over, but that doesn't mean playtime is.

CONFESSION NO. 18 Girls just want to have fun…and live to tell about it the next day.

I had been walking one afternoon in Scotland and thought: Why don't I just keep going ? There was, I said, a magic in leaving a line of footprints stretching across Asia.

I recited and followed this song-of-the-places-in-between as a map.

I see my path, but I don't know where it leads. Not knowing where I'm going is what inspires me to travel it.

He rode into Haarlem the following afternoon with

Life is so extraordinary. Wonderful surprises are just around the most unexpected corners.

Now that she was conscious there was no end to her questions and exclamations, for Dot was a born traveler, meant to go places, unlike us.

As they plodded along, the golden radiance intensified until it seemed to emanate from every feature of the land.

This time, the rapids sent them through a dark tunnel that seemed timeless, blind, malevolent. A yawning throat of water.

The door is open. Go!

Tookie's Pandemic Reading Deep Survival, by Laurence Gonzales The Lost City of the Monkey God, by Douglas Preston The House of Broken Angels, by Luis Alberto Urrea The Heartsong of Charging Elk, by James Welch

Selected Stories of Anton Chekhov, trans. Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky The Sound of a Wild Snail Eating, by Elisabeth Tova Bailey Let's Take the Long Way Home, by Gail Caldwell The Aubrey/Maturin Novels, by Patrick O'Brian The Ibis Trilogy, by Amitav Ghosh The Golden Wolf Saga, by Linnea Hartsuyker Children of Time, by Adrian Tchaikovsky Coyote Warrior, by Paul VanDevelder

I'm going to take you somewhere. It's time you began to see the world. You're eleven years old and it's time you saw something.

It feels ... as though doors were opening all over the world... It's bigger, somehow, the world.

I want to know everything, everything, screeched Harriet suddenly, lying back and bouncing up and down on the bed. Everything in the world, everything, everything. I will be a spy and know everything. It won't do you a bit of good to know everything if you don't do anything with it.

Non...I am DANCING IN MY NUDDY-PANTS!!!' And we both laughed like loons on loon tablets. I danced for ages round the house in my nuddy-pants. Also, I did this brilliant thing-I danced in the front window just for a second whilst Mr. Across the Road was drawing his curtains. He will never be sure if he saw a mirage or not. That is the kind of person I am. Not really the kind of person who goes and raises elks in Whakatane.

C'est bon les villes inconnues ! C'est le moment et l'endroit où on peut supposer que les gens qu'on rencontre sont tous gentils. C'est le moment du rêve. On peut profiter que c'est le rêve pour aller perdre quelque temps au jardin public.

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I'd rather regret the things I have done than the things that I haven't.