Quotes About Adventure

What an interesting place, Richard

Dawn returned to the bathroom. You guys, she said. I'm really sorry, but we have to close up your beauty parlor for awhile. We've got to go over to your school, Myriah. We do? Myriah looked awed. At her age, going to school after hours is kind of like sneaking into an amusement park when it's been closed for the night.

We both jumped for it.

not sure what to do about her "date." Then she simply pulled a name out of the air. "With Winston Churchill," she replied, taking the chance that Liz wouldn't know who he was. Apparently she didn't. "Yeah, he goes to high school," continued Kristy nonchalantly, getting into her story. "A sophomore. Football player … Me? I'm in seventh…. Yeah, I know.

Two eleven-year-olds riding the subway alone?

Fires and all, it was one of my best experiences ever.

I was all packed and ready to go.

She's thinking of signing up for Outward Bound next year. That's where they give you all this survival training, then send you out in the wilderness to be on your own for three days, with nothing but a few matches or something like that.

Chapter Fifteen

If you're bored, maybe you're a boring person. With all there is to see and do, there's no excuse for boredom. Get up. Get going. Start a project. Finish a project. Call a friend. Call an enemy. Write something down. Tear something up. Spin something around. Find something true.

He had eyes only for California.

In literature and in life we ultimately pursue, not conclusions, but beginnings.

Helen and I made it a point to take the whole family out and spend time traveling or camping together. Sometimes the kids thought of these trips as forced marches, but I think that time we spent together has had a lot to do with our close relationship as a family today. We have a lot of good memories of traveling all over the country, especially in this one fine old DeSoto station wagon.

Who are you, O noble one?' asked Gaam, 'My friend the centauress has walked these lands many times, but she has never seen one as mighty as you.' 'Then heed my words, dwarf,'--the Kol-dwellers all flinched and looked at Gaam, but he was unmoved--'and tell thy woman-horse I am Sir Cyr, Guardian of the Bridge.' 'Sir what?' asked Gaam. 'Sir Cyr.' 'Never mind. (...)

This was about twelve years ago, when I was just starting out in the business. There was this fearsome old pirate called Greenbeard. Killed hundreds of people, sank ships, robbed, plundered, pillaged, was generally unpleasant. You know the type.' 'Why was his beard green?' 'It wasn't. But the other colours were taken. (...)

Every man thinks meanly of himself for not having been a soldier, or not having been at sea.

Being in a ship is like being in jail, with the chance of being drowned.

To bring back riches from the East you must bring riches with you.

Once a man is tired of London, he is tired of life.

ADVENTURE  (ADVE'NTURE)   n.s.[French.]1. An accident; a chance; a hazard; an event of which we have no direction. The general summoned three castles that were near: one desperate of succour, and not desirous to dispute the defence, presently yielded; but two stood upon their adventure.Sir John Hayward.2. In this sense is used the phrase, at all adventures;[à l'adventure, Fr.]By chance; without any rational scheme.

Babies do not want to hear about babies; they like to be told of giants and castles.

We're only given one life, and it's the one we live, she had thought; how painful now, to realize that wasn't true, that you would have different lives, depending on how brave you were, and how ready.

I) want to do everything and see everything, sense everything and feel everything and taste everything; to know that life is an enormous experience and must be used. To be in the world, and of the world, and never to stand aside and watch.

The fair breeze blew, The white foam flew, And the forrow followed free. We were the first to ever burst into the silent sea.