Quotes About Adventure

I love sailboats. No other man-made object blends design, craftsmanship, passion, and pure optimism the way a sailboat does. With a good sailboat, anything is possible.

But there is one thing that I've learned about luck. It rears its head as an opportunity, not a gift, and what seems to separate the lucky from the unlucky is the willingness to take Lady Luck for a ride.

There is always a certain risk in being alive, and if you are more alive, there's more risk." —Henrik Ibsen, A Doll's House

wanted to sail off with my kids, to raise them

There weren't any astronauts until I was about 10. Yuri Gagarin went into space right around my 10th birthday.

My dad served in two wars has been flying airplanes for 60 years now. He was certainly quite an inspiration.

We were all on this ship in the sixties, our generation, a ship going to discover the New World. And the Beatles were in the crow's nest of that ship.

New opportunities abound if we but have the courage to face them.

A quest which began with a strange footprint caught sight of accidentally just off the beaten track became in the end an absorbing adventure along the ways which the imagination follows in dealing with its multifarious materials ? an adventure like a passage through the mazes of a labyrinth, to come out at last upon a wide and open sky.

William Frederick 'Buffalo Bill' Cody, hunter, Indian-fighter and showman, joined the Pony Express – the West's legendary mail service – at the age of fourteen, in response to an ad which ran: 'WANTED young skinny wiry fellows not over eighteen. Must be expert riders willing to risk death daily. Orphans preferred. Wages $25 a week.

As people are walking all the time, in the same spot, a path appears.

We're not lost. We're locationally challenged.

We're not lost. We're locationally challenged.

I]t behooves a man who wants to see wonders sometimes to go out of his way.

The biggest risk, is to take no risks

Let's go home,' Homer said, 'to Hell.

No, that's being too logical! You're my best friends! I don't want to be that logical!" Neither did I, when I thought about it. "Ok, then" I said. "All for one and one for all. Let's go. The three musketeers.

the biggest risk is to take no risk. or to take crazy risks.

Sometimes I think I'd rather be frightened than bored. At least when you're frightened you know you're alive.

I must down to the seas again, for the call of the running tideIs a wild call and a clear call that may not be denied.

I must down to the seas again, to the lonely sea and the sky,And all I ask is a tall ship and a star to steer her by,And the wheel's kick and the wind's song and the white sail's shaking,And a gray mist on the sea's face and a gray dawn breaking.

I must down to the seas again, to the vagrantgypsy life,To the gull's way and the whale's way where the wind's like a whetted knife;And all I ask is a merry yarn from a laughingfellow rover,And quiet sleep and a sweet dream when the long trick's over.

Only the road and the dawn, the sun, the wind, and the rain, And the watch fire under stars, and sleep, and the road again.

All I ask is a tall ship and a star to sail her by.