Adventure Quotes

• 'When I was a child I dreamed of adventure, glory, honor in feats of arms. I think now that these things are shadows.''If you see them as shadows then you see them for what they are,' Annlaw agreed. 'Many have pursued honor, and in the pursuit lost more of it than ever they could gain.'

  

  Lloyd Alexander
  • Lost
  • Honor
  • Adventure

• Secrets are the kind of adventure she needs. Secrets are safe, and they do much to make you different. On the inside where it counts.

  

  E. L. Konigsburg
  • Different
  • She
  • Secret

• We are forced to choose, for the processes we have initiated in our lifetime cannot continue in the lifetime of our children. Whatever we do either creates the framework for continuing the supreme adventure of life and consciousness on this planet or sets the stage for its termination. The choice before us is urgent and important: it can neither be postponed nor ignored.

  

  Ervin Laszlo
  • Children
  • Choose
  • Lifetime

• If I had my way, I'd love to see 'Wolverine' in a cosmic adventure all by his lonesome.

  

  Cullen Bunn
  • Adventure

• When I fly to Chile to surf or go snowboarding in Russia or some other adventure, I try to include the family when I can and go see friends along the way.

  

  Laird Hamilton
  • Family
  • Friends
  • Fly

• There's an interesting mix to 'Robin Hood' because it's kind of modern but medieval. There is a blend of adventure with a very modern feel.

  

  Joanne Froggatt
  • Interesting
  • Adventure
  • Hood

• It is very difficult to generalise. Everyone's adventure is original.

  

  Bernard Pivot
  • Adventure

• The traveler was active; he went strenuously in search of people, of adventure, of experience. The tourist is passive; he expects interesting things to happen to him. He goes 'sight-seeing.'

  

  Daniel J. Boorstin
  • People
  • Experience
  • Interesting

• 'Dad, are we scared?' said Sunshine. 'No, honey. It's an adventure.

  

  Annie Proulx
  • Dad
  • Adventure
  • Sunshine

• If you hate what you're seeing, you call it sex and violence. If you like it, you call it 'romance and adventure.'

  

  Joe Bob Briggs
  • Hate
  • Violence
  • Sex

• I was gifted with a life that was full of adventure. I've always believed, if you're gifted, that it's incumbent not to think about giving something back.

  

  Bob Weir Grateful Dead
  • Life
  • Giving
  • Adventure

• I walk in a cloud of wonder; I am glad.I mingle among the crowds; my heart is pounding;You do not guess the adventure I have had! . . .Yet you, too, all have had your dark adventures,Your sudden adventures, or strange, or sweet . . .My peril goes out from me, is blown among you.We loiter, dreaming together, along the street.

  

  Conrad Aiken
  • Heart
  • Together
  • Dark

• People who have faith in life are like swimmers who entrust themselves to a rushing river. They neither abandon themselves to its current nor try to resist it. Rather, they adjust their every movement to the watercourse, use it with purpose and skill, and enjoy the adventure.

  

  David Steindl-Rast
  • People
  • Trying
  • Flexibility

• Every man ought to be inquisitive through every hour of his great adventure down to the day when he shall no longer cast a shadow in the sun. For if he dies without a question in his heart, what excuse is there for his continuance?

  

  Frank Moore Colby
  • Great
  • Heart
  • Question

• Whatever course you have chosen for yourself, it will not be a chore but an adventure if you bring to it a sense of the glory of striving.

  

  David Sarnoff
  • Adventure

• I really just wanted to work on adventure games, so Pinkerton Road is our own little indie studio that's focused on that.

  

  Jane Jensen
  • Work
  • Road
  • Adventure

• What I'd love to do would be to bring a person from the past to me. In that case I'd pick Jane Austen, because I'd like to know what really made her tick. It's my opinion that she was inhibited by her family and a desire to do the right thing. Away from all that, I believe she'd show new facets and enjoy the adventure.

  

  Jo Beverley
  • Believe
  • Family
  • She

• I just happen to like the action-adventure movies. No law that says you can't work in all types of dramatic stuff.

  

  Brandon Lee
  • Work
  • Law
  • Action

• So I go to the long adventure, lifting My face to the far, mysterious goals, To the last assize, to the final sifting Of gods and stars and souls.

  

  Edwin Markham
  • Long
  • Goals
  • Mysterious

• I think no matter what happens, we have to keep our eye on the ball for a while. I don’t feel like it’s hopeless completely, but it could be very easily. It’s a high-stakes adventure right now.

  

  John McCrea Cake
  • Adventure
  • Happens
  • Hopeless

• I shall have poetry in my life. And adventure. And love, love, love, above all. Love as there has never been in a play. Unbiddable, ungovernable, like a riot in the heart and nothing to be done, come ruin or rapture.

  

  Tom Stoppard
  • Life
  • Heart
  • Done

• It's another hurdle, another adventure life has presented me, and I'm going to take it in stride.

  

  Cedric Benson
  • Take
  • Presented
  • Hurdle

• There's two tiers of science fiction: the McDonalds sci-fi like Star Trek, where they have an adventure and solve it before the last commercial, and there are books that once you've read, you never look at the world the same way again.

  

  David Gerrold
  • World
  • Science
  • Star

• Learning how to live in the greatest peace, partnership, and brotherhood with all men and women, of whatever description, is a moving and fascinating adventure.

  

  William Griffith Wilson
  • Men
  • Moving
  • Brotherhood

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