Quotes About Adventures

Herat, 8 December. What a day it was! God save me from any more adventures on a drained stomach.

I believe God did intend, in giving us intelligence, to give us the opportunity to investigate and appreciate the wonders of His creation. He is not threatened by our scientific adventures.

I think of these imperial adventures like welfare programs; you start them with all good intentions, they never end, they go on forever and get more expensive as they go on.

I also think that there is a strong streak of racism, and whenever we engage in foreign adventures. Our whole history in regime change has been of people of different color.

I feel at home most places I go, but my very top of the list are Bali, Italy, and London. Those are like second homes to me.

Then in my early teens, when the home computer bubble was blowing, I had one of the first, an Acorn Atom, and used to write primitive adventures on that.

I have met a few Casanovas I like and a few I have not liked - and I hope to meet a few more.

I've always felt that the human-centered approach to computer science leads to more interesting, more exotic, more wild, and more heroic adventures than the machine-supremacy approach, where information is the highest goal.

It is probable, however, that to this fact I owe my life and the remarkable experiences and adventures which befell me during the following ten years.

Neither Rose nor Charles liked to talk much of their adventures with the trolls, but some of the so-called softskins whom they had brought out of Niflheim, as well as the crew of the ship Soren had hired to go north to find Rose, must have spread the story, because for many years afterward, there were tales of a race of trolls living on top of the world. Only Rose and her white bear know the whole truth of it.

I don't remember ever feeling lonely; in fact, on the rare occasions when I met other children I found their games and their talk far less interesting than the adventures and dialogues I read in my books.

I want to look forwards. To new things. New places. New adventures. Otherwise I'm just living a life where a part of me is missing.

I watched 'Who' with a mixture of affection and exasperation through the eighties, always ready to cheer on the Doctor but seldom feeling that the series was playing to its strengths. Some of the adventures, revisited on DVD, turn out to be better than I remembered - others just as infuriating.

I do have friends in Pittsburgh, and I had some wonderful experiences there.

I grew up in Cyprus and Egypt, these fantastic places I remember fondly.

Whether it evokes pleasant memories of holidays in the Caribbean, or best-forgotten outings to Notting Hill, most of us have experienced jerk chicken in one form or another.

I love Roger Deakin's writing, and enjoyed making a programme about wild swimming for BBC4, inspired by his book about his own aquatic adventures, 'Waterlog'.

Somebody said to me after Strive that there are three stages to life: youth, middle age, and 'you're looking well'! Sadly, it's probably true. I found myself getting more 'you're looking well' comments than usual after Strive. But the adventures we do as a family help keep me young, and give me another reason to stay fit and healthy.

Her childhood had been magical, hours spent in ecstatic loneliness in the apple orchard, dreaming of foreign lands and wild adventures. Everything was new, down to bird song and grass blades. By the time she had reached adulthood, the town around her was like a grandmother who had used up all her stories and now simply rocked on the porch. The same flowers, the same streets, year after year. She longed for someone more exotic. A prince. A pirate.

I traveled among unknown men,In lands beyond the sea;Nor, England! did I know till thenWhat love I bore to thee.

It's morning," he murmured sleepily. "The first morning." He said nothing else, but I understood him. This was the first morning we had awakened in each other's arms, but it was more than that. This was the first morning ever, the beginning of all creation as far as I was concerned. A new life for us had begun, hand in hand, arm in arm, facing down the rest of the world. What adventures would await us!

Everyone has adventures in their lives. Some good ones, some bad ones.

What a large volume of adventures may be grasped within the span of his little life by him who interests his heart in everything.

In the summer, we create memories of hot adventures so that those memories can warm-up the deep frozen winter.