Quotes About Adventure

Grab a chance and you won't be sorry for what might have been

Swallows and Amazons for-ever!

They found, like many explorers before them, that somehow, in their absence, they had got into trouble at home.

Better drowned than duffers, if not duffers won't drown.

Wild Cat Island

No one wants to row who has ever sailed.

It was like exploring a place that you have seen in a dream, where everything is just where you expect it and yet everything is a surprise.

P...U...D...D...I...N...G Pudding, said Roger. They've kept some for us. She hasn't finished the word, said Dick. Titty was reading steadily on. H...E...A...D...S...End of word

The storm came pretty soon, said John. They won't have got much further before it caught them. We may find them any minute. They'll have got off the ice the moment the snow began. If only they had sense, said Susan. But they haven't got any, not that sort. People oughtn't to be allowed to be brought up in towns.

Well we shan't be at school for ever, said Nancy. We'll be grown up, and then we'll live here all the year round.... ...I shall be going to sea someday, said John, and so will Roger. But we'll always come back here on leave. I shall bring my monkey, said Roger. And the parrot shall always come, said Titty.

Arthur Rimbaud

À l'aurore, armés d'une ardente patience, nous entrerons aux splendides Villes. (In the dawn, armed with a burning patience, we shall enter the splendid Cities.)

Come from forever, and you will go everywhere.

I have stretched ropes from steeple to steeple; Garlands from window to window; Golden chains from star to star ... And I dance.

The true emblem of causa sui is Baron Münchhausen, who, clamping his legs around his horse as it sinks in the water, pulls his pigtail up over his head and raises himself and the horse into the heights; under this emblem, put: causa sui.

Ja vi?a grib?tu, lai piepild?s k?da maza v?l?šan?s, t? b?tu- Nezin?t. Nezin?t, ko katra diena vi?ai sniegs. Nezin?t, kur vi?a b?s r?t, n?kamaj? m?nes? vai gad?. P?c desmit gadiem. Nezin?t, k? vi?as ce?š pagriez?sies un kas gaida aiz l?kuma.

Pandoru mukkuvan muthinu poyi, (Once a fisherman went to sea,) Padinjaran kattathu mungi poyi, (The west wind blew and swallowed his boat,)

Modern travel would be totally delightful if only I could learn to enjoy boredom, discomfort, and fatigue.

Wilson pointed out angrily that even children are permitted to take more risks than the elderly. They at least get to have swings and jungle gyms.

even children are permitted to take more risks than the elderly.

I tried not to seem like a kid who'd just been offered a chance to go up to the front of the plane and see the cockpit. Sure, I said. That sounds neat.

and I vaguely remembered, from the occasions in my childhood when they had brought me along, how dense and enormous and exciting they seemed.

life designed to be safe but empty of anything they care about.

Goodman made the trip the next day.