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Adventure19 quotes
Because it's there. — George Mallory · 1923To infinity...and beyond! — Buzz Lightyear · 1995Somewhere over the rainbow
Way up high,
There's a land that I heard of
Once in a lullaby. — Dorothy Gale · 1939Follow the yellow brick road. — The Munchkins · 1939We gotta get out while we're young
'Cause tramps like us, baby, we were born to run. — Bruce Springsteen · 1975Let us go then, you and I,
When the evening is spread out against the sky. — T.S. Eliot · 1915All 19 quotes →Beginning of a journey2 quotes
Let us go then, you and I,
When the evening is spread out against the sky. — T.S. Eliot · 1915The ship was cheered, the harbour cleared,
Merrily did we drop
Below the kirk, below the hill,
Below the lighthouse top. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge · 1798The open road2 quotes
The untented Kosmos my abode,
I pass, a willful stranger;
My mistress still the open road
And the bright eyes of danger. — Robert Louis Stevenson · 1894On the old highway maps of America, the main routes were red and the back roads blue. Now even the colors are changing. But in those brevities just before dawn and a little after dark-times neither day nor night-the old roads return to the sky some of its color. Then, in truth, they cast a mysterious shadow of blue, and it's that time when the pull of the blue highway is strongest, when the open road is a beckoning, a strangeness, a place where a man can lose himself. — William Least Heat-Moon · 1982Challenges1 quote
Because it's there. — George Mallory · 1923Climbing mountains1 quote
Because it's there. — George Mallory · 1923Courage1 quote
Any coward can sit in his home and criticize a pilot for flying into a mountain in fog. But I would rather, by far, die on a mountainside than in a bed. — Charles Lindbergh · 1938Curvature of the earth1 quote
The ship was cheered, the harbour cleared,
Merrily did we drop
Below the kirk, below the hill,
Below the lighthouse top. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge · 1798Different perspectives1 quote
An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered. — G.K. Chesterton · 1908Escape1 quote
We gotta get out while we're young
'Cause tramps like us, baby, we were born to run. — Bruce Springsteen · 1975Exploration1 quote
One never goes so far as when one doesn't know
where one is going. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe · 1812Finding one's limits1 quote
Because it's there. — George Mallory · 1923Mountains1 quote
Because it's there. — George Mallory · 1923Risk1 quote
Any coward can sit in his home and criticize a pilot for flying into a mountain in fog. But I would rather, by far, die on a mountainside than in a bed. — Charles Lindbergh · 1938Sailing1 quote
The ship was cheered, the harbour cleared,
Merrily did we drop
Below the kirk, below the hill,
Below the lighthouse top. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge · 1798Sleep1 quote
Wynken, Blynken, and Nod one night
Sailed off in a wooden shoe-
Sailed on a river of crystal light,
Into a sea of dew. — Eugene Field · 1889Taking risks1 quote
Any coward can sit in his home and criticize a pilot for flying into a mountain in fog. But I would rather, by far, die on a mountainside than in a bed. — Charles Lindbergh · 1938The unknown1 quote
Follow the yellow brick road. — The Munchkins · 1939Travel1 quote
Here to-day, up and off to somewhere else to-morrow! Travel, change, interest, excitement! The whole world before you, and a horizon that's always changing! — Kenneth Grahame · 1908Wanderlust1 quote
Ambition leads me not only farther than any other man has been before me, but as far as I think it possible for man to go. — James Cook · 1774