Quotes about Adventure
It would seem as if there never was a book written, or a story told, expressly with the object of keeping boys on shore, which did not lure and charm them to the ocean, as a matter of course.
- Charles Dickens
When a plunge is to be made into the water, it's of no use lingering on the bank.
- Charles Dickens
I have an affection for the road ... formed in the impressibility of untried youth and hope.
- Charles Dickens
Yes. I'm going to take a holiday. More than that; I'm going to take a walk. More than that; I'm going to ask you to take a walk with me.
- Charles Dickens
There is a passion for hunting something deeply implanted in the human breast.
- Charles Dickens
There are not many places that I find it more agreeable to revisit, when I am in an idle mood, than some places to which I have never been.
- Charles Dickens
And the strongest emotion was that life was as precious as it was puzzling. It was an ecstacy because it was an adventure; it was an adventure because it was an opportunity.
- GK Chesterton
Seek opportunity, not security. A boat in the harbor is safe, but in time its bottom will rot out.
- H Jackson Brown, Jr.
Remember that great love and great achievements involve great risk. 869
- H Jackson Brown, Jr.
Become a tourist for a day in your own hometown. Take a tour. See the sights.
- H Jackson Brown, Jr.
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.
- H Jackson Brown, Jr.
Approach love and cooking with reckless abandon
- H Jackson Brown, Jr.