Quotes about Adventure

Her mind traveled crooked streets and aimless goat paths, arriving sometimes at profundity, other times at the revelations of a three-year-old. Throughout this fresh, if common, pursuit of knowledge, one conviction crowned her efforts: ...she knew there was nothing to fear.

Jumping from the roof of Mercy was the most interesting thing he had done.

We can't grow our faith on the deck of a ship. We can watch other water walkers, hear their stories and read their books, but ultimately, the only way we are going to grow our water-walking faith is to get out of the dang boat!

Sometimes following God means throwing caution to the wind. Sometimes caution is a symptom of faithlessness.

In my sentences I go where no man has gone before.

When Columbus started out he didn't know where he was going, when he got there he didn't know where he was, and when he got back he didn't know where he had been.

New roads; new ruts.

Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. The fearful are caught as often as the bold.

No guts, no glory.

Of all modern notions, the worst is this: that domesticity is dull. Inside the home, they say, is dead decorum and routine; outside is adventure and variety. But the truth is that the home is the only place of liberty, the only spot on earth where a man can alter arrangements suddenly, make an experiment or indulge in a whim. The home is not the one tame place in a world of adventure; it is the one wild place in a world of rules and set tasks.

Being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned.

As the Spanish proverb says, 'He who would bring home the wealth of the Indies, must carry the wealth of the Indies with him.' So it is with traveling. A man must carry knowledge with him if he would bring home knowledge.