Adventurer Quotes

• Pedro Teixeira, the great Portuguese merchant-adventurer, wrote a beautiful description of a coffeehouse with windows overlooking the Tigris and the ruins of old Baghdad. That was in 1604, and he's visiting the same street that I write about in the book, named after Abu Nuwas, though it wasn't called that back then.

  

  Annia Ciezadlo
  • Writing
  • Book
  • Window

• The adventurer in me would love to visit Patagonia, Chile.

  

  Rachel Platten
  • Visit
  • Adventurer
  • Chile

• I am sort of an adventurer. I like to explore new places. I don't get to travel as often as I would like but I love it.

  

  Edi Gathegi
  • Love
  • Travel
  • Explore

• Generalizations, one is told, are dangerous. So is life, for that matter, and it is built up on generalization - from the earliest effort of the adventurer who dared to eat a second berry because the first had not killed him.

  

  Freya Stark
  • Life
  • Up
  • Effort

• There are two kinds of adventurers: those who go truly hoping to find adventure and those who go secretly hoping they won't.

  

  William Lewis Trogdon
  • Kind
  • Travel
  • Adventure

• I'm an adventurer. I believe in being bold and brave - and taking risks. Even if I'm afraid of something, I'll still have a go at it.

  

  Adrienne Monique Jordan
  • Risks
  • Taking
  • Adventurer

• Architects have to dream, we have to search for our Atlantises, to be explorers, adventurers, and yet to build responsibly and well.

  

  Renzo Piano
  • Dream
  • Explorers
  • Adventurer

• Adolf Hitler is probably the last of the great adventurer-conquerors in the tradition of Alexander, Caesar and Napoleon, and the Third Reich the last of the empires which set out on the path taken earlier by France, Rome and Macedonia. The curtain was rung down on that phase of history, at least, by the sudden invention of the hydrogen bomb, of the ballistic missile and of rockets that can be aimed to hit the moon.

  

  William L. Shirer
  • Invention
  • France
  • Conqueror

• I am not an adventurer by choice but by fate.

  

  Vincent Van Gogh
  • Choices
  • Fate
  • Adventure

• I would describe myself as a "budding adventurer." I've transitioned away from being a straight-up backpacker, but I think I need another trip or two to get the adventurer degree.

  

  Andrew Skurka
  • Degree
  • Adventurer
  • Backpacker

• The most splendid moment of an adventure is not always the moment of fulfilment, not even the moment of conception, but the moment of first accomplishment, when the adventurer deliberately sets his face toward the new road, knowing that his boats are burned.

  

  Katherine Cecil Thurston
  • Moments
  • Adventure
  • Boat

• I think planning to be a "professional adventurer" is about as realistic as planning to be a basketball player, so I don't usually encourage it.

  

  Andrew Skurka
  • Planning
  • Realistic
  • Adventurer

• There are moments when suddenly our eyes blink open and we recapture the excitement of living. Life becomes an adventure and we, adventurers.

  

  Wayne Visser
  • Moments
  • Excitement
  • Blink

• By instinct I'm an adventurer; by choice I'd like to be a writer; by pure, unadulterated luck, I'm an actor.

  

  Errol Flynn
  • Choices
  • Actors
  • Luck

• Adamant," Doren said proudly, handing over the shield. "We fished it out of the tar pit where we found the shirt of mail." "Probably all belonged to the same careless adventurer," Newel speculated. "Too much money, not enough talent.

  

  Brandon Mull
  • Money
  • Talent
  • Mail

• MacGyver of course, that's probably my favorite show of all time, because it was a guy who was so, so smart and could use his wits, and his technical know-how could get him out of any situation. There's something about the adventurer aspect of that show that I loved, that he went on all these great missions and saved people without having to use guns or anything like that. And I think that show might even be coming back, too.

  

  Rhys Darby
  • Guy
  • Smart
  • Situation

• My undergraduate degree was in history, and I wish I had been smart enough to really excel at maths, physics, chemistry or biology because... the voyagers and adventurers and real contributors - that's where they come from.

  

  Michael Moritz
  • Smart
  • Chemistry
  • Adventurer

• A harbor, even if it is a little harbor, is a good thing, since adventurers come into it as well as go out, and the life in it grows strong, because it takes something from the world, and has something to give in return.

  

  Sarah Orne Jewett
  • World
  • Strong
  • Giving