Quotes about Adventure

This is the year 1492. I am eighty-two years of age. The things I am going to tell you are things which I saw myself as a child and as a youth.

When something is new and hard and bright, there ought to be something a little better for it than just being safe, since the safe things are just the things that folks have been doing so long they have worn the edges off and there's nothing to the doing of them that leaves a man to say, That was not done before and it cannot be done again.

He's crossed all the oceans all around the world.

Like a long sighing of wind in trees it begins, then they sweep into sight, borne now upon a cloud of phantom dust. They rush past, forwardleaning in the saddles, with brandished arms, beneath whipping ribbons from slanted and eager lances; with tumult and soundless yelling they sweep past like a tide whose crest is jagged with the wild heads of horses and the brandished arms of men like the crater of the world in explosion.

My gad, one of them, warrant officer pilot, captain and M. C. in turn said to me once; if you can treat a crate that way, why do you want to fly at all?

You cannot swim for new horizons unless you have courage to lose sight of the shore.

The boy with fair hair lowered himself down the last few feet of rock and began to pick his way toward the lagoon.

It is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live at all.

Generally speaking, a howling wilderness does not howl: it is the imagination of the traveler that does the howling.

Eastward I go only by force; but westward I go free.

How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.

Domesticated males aren't much use for adventure.