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Bruce Springsteen1 quote
We gotta get out while we're young
'Cause tramps like us, baby, we were born to run. — Bruce Springsteen · 1975Buzz Lightyear1 quote
To infinity...and beyond! — Buzz Lightyear · 1995Charles Lindbergh1 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 · 1938Dorothy Gale1 quote
Somewhere over the rainbow
Way up high,
There's a land that I heard of
Once in a lullaby. — Dorothy Gale · 1939Eugene Field1 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 · 1889G.K. Chesterton1 quote
An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered. — G.K. Chesterton · 1908George Mallory1 quote
Because it's there. — George Mallory · 1923J.R.R. Tolkien1 quote
We are plain quiet folk and have no use for adventures. Nasty disturbing uncomfortable things! Make you late for dinner! I can't think what anybody sees in them. — J.R.R. Tolkien · 1937James Cook1 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 · 1774Johann Wolfgang von Goethe1 quote
One never goes so far as when one doesn't know
where one is going. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe · 1812Kenneth Grahame1 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 · 1908Narrator (Twilight Zone)1 quote
You're traveling through another dimension, a dimension not only of sight and sound but of mind. A journey into a wondrous land of imagination. Next stop, the Twilight Zone! — Narrator (Twilight Zone) · 1960Robert Louis Stevenson1 quote
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 · 1894Samuel Taylor Coleridge1 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 · 1798T.S. Eliot1 quote
Let us go then, you and I,
When the evening is spread out against the sky. — T.S. Eliot · 1915The Munchkins1 quote
Follow the yellow brick road. — The Munchkins · 1939W.B. Yeats1 quote
Faeries, come take me out of this dull world,
For I would ride with you upon the wind,
Run on the top of the dishevelled tide,
And dance upon the mountains like a flame. — W.B. Yeats · 1894William Least Heat-Moon1 quote
On 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 · 1982Young Ellie1 quote
Adventure is out there! — Young Ellie · 2009