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Quotes About Adventure

That evening, the first Americans ever to enter Montana, the first ever to see the Yellowstone, the Milk, the Marias, and the Great Falls, the first Americans ever to kill a grizzly, celebrated their nation's twenty-ninth birthday.
~ Stephen E. Ambrose
There are trees growing in Philadelphia (at Fourth and Spruce Streets) and the University of Virginia (at Morea, a guest house) today that grew from the cuttings Lewis sent.
~ Stephen E. Ambrose
The men of Easy Company lined the rails to see the Statue of Liberty slip astern. For nearly every one of them, it was his first trip outside the United States. A certain homesickness set in, coupled with a realization, as the regimental scrapbook Currahee put it, of "how wonderful the last year had been.
~ Stephen E. Ambrose
IV. It is today as Lewis saw it. The White Cliffs can be seen only from small boat or canoe. Put in at Fort Benton and take out three or four days later at Judith Landing. Missouri River Outfitters at Fort Benton, Montana, rents canoes or provides a guided tour by pontoon boat. Of all the historic and/or scenic sights we have visited in the world, this is number one. We have made the trip ten times.
~ Stephen E. Ambrose
In the morning, fog. As it slowly lifted, the expedition set off.
~ Stephen E. Ambrose
as Lewis saw it. The White Cliffs can be seen only from small boat or canoe. Put in at Fort Benton and take out three or four days later at Judith Landing. Missouri River Outfitters at Fort Benton, Montana, rents canoes or provides a guided tour by pontoon boat. Of all the historic and/or scenic sights we have visited in the world, this is number one. We have made the trip ten times.
~ Stephen E. Ambrose
can be seen only from small boat or canoe. Put in at Fort Benton and take out three or four days later at Judith Landing. Missouri River Outfitters at Fort Benton, Montana, rents canoes or provides a guided tour by pontoon boat. Of all the historic and/or scenic sights we have visited in the world, this is number one. We have made the trip ten times.
~ Stephen E. Ambrose
The Natchez Trace seemed much safer to him than risking a sailboat from New Orleans to Washington
~ Stephen E. Ambrose
During the third week in July, Lewis had two new rivers to name. Previously he and Clark had used the names of the men, of Sacagawea, of relatives, or of unusual features or incidents. Now that they were past the Great Falls, they changed their references. It was as if they suddenly recalled that they had some political responsibility here, that no politician can ever be flattered too much or too brazenly, and that nothing quite matches having a river named for you.
~ Stephen E. Ambrose
In Italy everything is more romantic. I can also be in bed with ten girls, but I love these ten girls.
~ Stephen Fried
Christmas to a child is the first terrible proof that to travel hopefully is better than to arrive.
~ Stephen Fry
Here Phaeton lies who in the sun-god's chariot fared. And though greatly he failed, more greatly he dared.
~ Stephen Fry
I never quite got the hang of the getting drunk & fondling the thighs [of all the cumbersome young males] business... whether that makes me a gallant & proper gentleman, a cowardly wuss or an unadventurous prude, I cannot make out
~ Stephen Fry
I think it was Harry Walpole who remarked, In this life one should try everything once except incest and country dancing.
~ Stephen Fry
When Steampunk meets adventure and adventure meets comedy and comedy meets ingenuity and ingenuity meets charm and charm meets wonder and wonder meets pleasure the result is a Triumph. Dr Grordbort is the future. And the past. Which makes an ideal present.
~ Stephen Fry
To confine our attention to terrestrial matters would be to limit the human spirit.
~ Stephen Hawking
I have spent my life travelling across the universe, inside my mind.
~ Stephen Hawking
Today, we commit to this next great leap into the cosmos because we're human, and our nature is to fly.
~ Stephen Hawking
I have led an extraordinary life on this planet, while at the same time travelling across the universe by using my mind and the laws of physics. I have been to the furthest reaches of our galaxy, travelled into a black hole and gone back to the beginning of time.
~ Stephen Hawking
So if a beautiful alien in a flying saucer invites you into her time machine, step with care. You might fall into one of these trapped repeating histories of only finite duration.
~ Stephen Hawking
from ourselves. I am convinced that humans need to leave Earth. If we stay, we risk being annihilated.
~ Stephen Hawking
Not to leave planet Earth would be like castaways on a desert island not trying to escape.
~ Stephen Hawking
Hamlet said, "I could be bounded in a nutshell, and count myself a king of infinite space." I think what he meant was that although we humans are very limited physically, particularly in my own case, our minds are free to explore the whole universe, and to boldly go where even Star Trek fears to tread.
~ Stephen Hawking
Nuestras mentes son libres de explorar todo el universo y de ir con valentía incluso hasta donde Star Trek teme pisar.
~ Stephen Hawking