Quotes About Adventure

I'd like to have the flying car, I think that'd be really cool.

For me the stunts are so cool, they're one of my favourite things when we're doing the film.

If you like Pina Coladas, and getting caught in the rain. If you're not into yoga, if you have half-a-brain. If you like making love at midnight, in the dunes of the cape. I'm the lady you've looked for, write to me, and escape.

So long as I can stay mentally alert - inquiring, curious - I want to keep going. I love my wife and my children, but I don't want to sit around at home with them. We go on safaris and things like that. I can do that for a couple of weeks a year. I'm just not ready to stop, to die.

I cannot pretend that I am without fear. But my predominant feeling is one of gratitude. I have loved and been loved. I have been given much and I have given something in return . . . Above all, I have been a sentient being on this beautiful planet, and that in itself has been an enormous privilege and adventure.

He'd learned something. Life was booby-trapped and there was no easy passage through. You had to jump from colour to colour, from happiness to happiness. And all those possible explosions in between. It could be all over any time.

The point of the journey is not to arrive.

The best kind of walk, and this applies to the plains as well as to the hills, is the one in which you have no particular destination when you set out.

I have come to believe that the best kind of walk, or journey, is the one in which you have no particular destination when you set out.

On the open road we are all brothers.

On the open road there are no strangers. You share the same sky, the same mountain, the same sunshine and shade. On the open road we are all brothers. The

It would be a dull world if it was the same everywhere

The adventure is not in getting somewhere, it's the on-the-way experience. It is not the expected; it's the surprise. Not the fulfilment of prophecy, but the providence of something better than that prophesied.

Once you have lived with mountains for any length of time you belong to them, and must return again and again. Nearly

Many people—car drivers anyway—think I'm a little eccentric. So be it. I probably am eccentric! But having come to the Himalayan foothills forty years ago in order to enjoy walking among them, I am not about to stop now, just because everyone else has stopped walking. The hills are durable in their attractions, and my legs have proved durable too, so why should we not continue together as before?

The adventure is not in arriving, it's in the on-the-way experience. It is not in the expected; it's in the surprise. You

It's safer in the jungle than in the town.

Five more miles to go! We climb through rain and snow, A river to cross— A mountain to pass— Now we've four more miles to go!   The

There are no fresh starts in life, but there are always new directions.

Great Stories for Children

They were not in a hurry to get anywhere. They had everywhere to go and they could take their own time going there, and there was no one to hurry them on.

there were books and authors to be discovered. A lifetime of reading lay ahead. Old books, new books, classics, thrillers, stories short and tall, travelogues, histories, biographies, comedies, comic strips, poems, memories, fantasies, fables…The adventure would end only when the lights went out for ever.

It would be a dull world if it was the same everywhere,' said my father.

The best kind of walk, and this applies to the plains as well as to the hills, is the one in which you have no particular destination when you set out. 'Where