Quotes about Adventure

Being a Christian is about choosing Jesus and deciding to do something incredibly daring with your life.

Perhaps the most dangerous place for a Christian to be is in safety and comfort.

All around you, people will be tiptoeing through life, just to arrive at death safely. But dear children, do not tiptoe. Run, hop, skip, or dance, just don't tiptoe.

The more I get to know Jesus, the more trouble he seems to get me into.

Every time I catch myself saying, "Oh no, you shouldn't try that," I think, "Yes, I should."

For a long time, our only mode of travel was an Econoline van. Eleven of us, with nine sleeping in the back on two mattresses.

Eve is a life giver; she is Adam's ally. It is to both of them that the charter for adventure is given. It will take both of them to sustain life. And they will both need to fight together.

I think what I want Disneyland to be most of all is a happy place - a place where adults and children can experience together some of the wonders of life, of adventure, and feel better because of it.

He told me that I needed to smile more, to remember that this was a great adventure and that voters loved a happy warrior.

In exchange for his first taste of powdered milk, Pascal showed me a tree we could climb to find a bird's nest. After we handled and examined the pink-skinned baby birds, he popped one of them into his mouth like a jujube. It seemed to please him a lot. He offered a baby bird to me, pantomiming that I should eat it. I understood perfectly well what he meant, but I refused. He did not seem disappointed to have to eat the whole brood himself.

But a spontaneous traveler inevitably will end up with the tummy gauge suddenly on empty, in some place where cuisine is not really the point: a museum cafeteria, or late-night snack bar across from the concert hall. Eating establishments where cuisine isn't the point—is that a strange notion?

How strange that a boy could make a kite of his pants, fly them around the world, and somehow arrive back at the house where everything began.