Best adventure & land Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

Source: The Van Rijn Method

“Childhood, at its best, is a perpetual adventure, in the truest sense of that overtaxed word: a setting forth into trackless lands that might have come to existence the instant before you first laid eyes on them.”

Firsts Might Eye Existence Land Childhood Adventure Setting Settings Instant Perpetual Truest

Book:Maps and Legends

Source: Maps and Legends

“America was still a land of wonder. The ancient spell still hung unbroken over the wild, vast world of mystery beyond the sea,-a land of romance, adventure, and gold.”

World Stills America Romance Wonder Mystery Sea Land Adventure Gold Ancient Spells Hung Unbroken

Book:France and England in North America: Pioneers of France in the New World. The Jesuits of North America in the seventeenth century. La Salle and the discovery of the Great West. The old régime in Canada

Source: France and England in North America: Pioneers of France in the New World. The Jesuits of North America in the seventeenth century. La Salle and the discovery of the Great West. The old régime in Canada

“The thing that strikes me now when I think about the Wilderness of Childhood is the incredible degree of freedom my parents gave me to adventure there. A very grave, very significant shift in our idea of childhood has occurred since then. The Wilderness of Childhood is gone; the days of adventure are past. The land ruled by children, to which a kid might exile himself for at least some portion of every day from the neighboring kingdom of adulthood, has in large part been taken over, co-opted, colonized, and finally absorbed by the neighbors.”

Thinking Children Ideas Might Kids Past Parent Gone Taken Land Childhood Adventure Degrees Incredibles Strikes Neighbor Significant Graves Kingdoms Wilderness Portions Adulthood Exile

Author:Michael Chabon

“Having settled down in the promised land of money and adventure - returning to a land of your parents last days can be a big dilemma to many. Isn't your greatest wealth your parents, and the best adventure - to see them happy before they go.”

Bigs Lasts Parent Wealth Land Adventure Dilemma Last Day Promised Land Greatest Wealth

Author:Siddharth Katragadda

“While my chosen form of story-writing is obviously a special and perhaps a narrow one, it is none the less a persistent and permanent type of expression, as old as literature itself. There will always be a certain small percentage of persons who feel a burning curiosity about unknown outer space, and a burning desire to escape from the prison-house of the known and the real into those enchanted lands of incredible adventure and infinite possibilities which dreams open up to us, and which things like deep woods, fantastic urban towers, and flaming sunsets momentarily suggest.”

Source: H.P. Lovecraft: The Ultimate Collection (160 Works Including Early Writings, Fiction, Collaborations, Poetry, Essays & Bonus Audiobook Links)

“Ultimate freedom. An extremist. An aesthetic voyager whose home is the road. Escaped from Atlanta. Thou shalt not return, 'cause “the West is the best.” And now after two rambling years comes the final and greatest adventure, the climactic battle to kill the false being within and victoriously conclude the spiritual revolution. Ten days and nights of freight trains and hitchhiking bring him to the great white North. No longer to be poisoned by civilization he flees, and walks alone upon the land to become lost in the wild.”

“Action and adventure on land and sea-you can't ask for more. But Robert Kurson raises the ante in Pirate Hunters with an array of mystery and a fleet of colorful characters spanning four centuries. This is a great summer read!”

Character Action Asks Four Mystery Sea Land Century Adventure Summer Raises Hunters Pirate Colorful Land And Sea Great Summer

Author:Michael Connelly

“There's a longstanding myth about the United States that is still very prevalent in Europe [despite recent developments]. Historically the "America" of this myth is an incredible human adventure and an experiment in political democracy. But at the same time, or so we're told, it's the land of extremes where the worst can happen.”

Humans Stills States Happens America Political United United States Democracy Land Worst Adventure Development Europe Incredibles Extremes Myth Experiments Despite

Author:Bruno Dumont

“The real act of discovery consists not in finding new lands but in seeing with new eyes. The only adventure that is doomed from the start is the one we do not attempt.”

Real Eye Seeing Land Adventure Findings Discovery Doomed New Eyes

Author:Paul-Emile Victor

“If you're looking for an adventure, an intellectual challenge, and a close-knit community of professionals, consider land surveying! It's not for everyone, and I'd recommend working as a surveyor's assistant or office staff before committing to the necessary schooling.”

Ifs Community Challenges Land Adventure Office Intellectual Staff Schooling Assistants Surveyors

Author:Mark Mason

“I loved adventure movies. I loved movies where people went on an adventure to an unknown land, an undiscovered country, or a new territory. I think there's something, right at the center of storytelling, that people love about that.”

People Thinking Country Land Adventure Storytelling Territory New Territory

Author:Tom Hiddleston

“It is like a voyage of discovery into unknown lands, seeking not for new territory but for new knowledge. It should appeal to those with a good sense of adventure.”

Should Journey Land Adventure Travel Discovery Seeking Appeals Territory Funny Travel Voyages Good Sense New Knowledge New Territory Voyages Of Discovery

Author:Frederick Sanger

“You are not entering this world in the usual manner, for you are setting forth to be a Dungeon Master. Certainly there are stout fighters, mighty magic-users, wily thieves, and courageous clerics who will make their mark in the magical lands of D&D adventure. You however, are above even the greatest of these, for as DM you are to become the Shaper of the Cosmos. It is you who will give form and content to the all the universe. You will breathe life into the stillness, giving meaning and purpose to all the actions which are to follow.”

World Giving Action Form Purpose Universe Magic Land This World Adventure Masters Mark Breathe Setting Settings Fighter Cosmos Courageous Usual Stillness Users Thieves Entering Dungeons Stout

Author:Gary Gygax

“But under it all they were men, penetrating the land of desolation and mockery and silence, puny adventurers bent on colossal adventure, pitting themselves against the might of a world as remote and alien and pulseless as the abysses of space.”

Men World Might Space Silence Land Adventure Aliens Bent Abyss Mockery Desolation Adventurer Colossal

Book:White Fang (Arcadia Classics)

Source: White Fang (Arcadia Classics)

“...it is only when a man goes out into the world with the thought that there are heroisms all round him, and with the desire all alive in his heart to follow any which may come within sight of him, that he breaks away... from the life he knows, and ventures forth into the wonderful mystic twilight land where lie the great adventures and the great rewards.”

Knows Men World Heart May Lying Desire Break Alive Wonderful Land Adventure Sight Rewards Rounds Twilight Heroism Venture Mystic Great Adventure Great Reward

Book:The Lost World: Sherlock Holmes Collections

Source: The Lost World: Sherlock Holmes Collections

“I love to sail forbidden seas, and land on barbarous coasts.”

Sea Land Adventure Travel Sail Coast Forbidden

Book:Moby Dick

Source: Moby Dick

“He stood breathing, and the more he breathed the land in, the more he was filled up with all the details of the land. He was not empty. There was more than enough here to fill him. There would always be more than enough.”

Enough Nature Land Adventure Empty Filled Details Breathing Filled Up

Book:Fahrenheit 451

Source: Fahrenheit 451

“So she viewed time spent in the land of the normal as an investigation into the world of marriage-worthy men, even if she was unsure about her own interest in marriage. There must be one solid citizen who also had a spark of life, a sense of humor and adventure.”

Ifs Men World Interest Land Adventure Citizens Normal Worthy Sense Of Humor Sparks Investigation Unsure Time Spent

Book:An Object of Beauty

Source: An Object of Beauty

“It is the Land of Truth (enchanted name!), surrounded by a wide and stormy ocean, the true home of illusion, where many a fog bank and ice, that soon melts away, tempt us to believe in new lands, while constantly deceiving the adventurous mariner with vain hopes, and involving him in adventures which he can never leave, yet never bring to an end.”

Believe Ends Home Names Land Adventure Ocean Illusion Wide Ice Vain Deceiving Fog Adventurous Involving Enchanted Stormy Mariners True Home

Author:Immanuel Kant

“The whole object of travel is not to set foot on foreign land; it is at last to set foot on one's own country as a foreign land.”

“Every flyer who ventures across oceans to distant lands is a potential explorer; in his or her breast burns the same fire that urged adventurers of old to set forth in their sailing-ships for foreign lands.”

“It is not because I do not love my adopted land - it is the natural feeling of one far from home, who remembers those happy, carefree days when life flowed at full tide, without responsibility, flashing past one like the drama in a fascinating story of adventure and romance.”

Stories Feelings Home Past Remember Romance Natural Responsibility Land Adventure Drama Travel Fascinating Tides Funny Travel Adopted Tidy Carefree Natural Feelings

Author:Erich von Stroheim

“No episode is a priori condemned to remain an episode forever, for every event, no matter how trivial, conceals within itself the possibility of sooner or later becoming the cause of other events and thus changing into a story or an adventure. Episodes are like land mines. The majority of them never explode, but the most unremarkable of them may someday turn into a story that will prove fateful to you.”

May Matter Stories Turns Causes Forever Land Events Possibility Mines Adventure Becoming Prove Majority Someday Episodes Sooner Or Later

Author:Milan Kundera

“The explorers seek happiness in finding curiosities, discovering new lands and undergoing risks in adventures. They are thrilling. But where is pleasure found? Only within. Pleasure is not to be sought in the external world.”

World Found Pleasure Risk Land Adventure Findings Curiosity Discovering Thrilling Explorers

Book:Talks with Sri Ramana Maharshi

Source: Talks with Sri Ramana Maharshi

“The children know all about everything so well that it never occurs to them to play at the situations in any one of these tales, or even to read it twice over. But let them have tales of the imagination, scenes laid in other lands and other times, heroic adventures, hairbreadth escapes, delicious fairy tales in which they are never roughly pulled up by the impossible —even where all is impossible, and they know it, and yet believe.”

Knows Believe Children Imagination Impossible Land Adventure Scene Tales Fairy Heroic Fairy Tale Delicious

Author:Charlotte Mason

“Totally captivating. Starhawk has created a magic land to which we can return at will for the kind of exotic romance and adventure we all crave. Her celebration of the richness of cultural diversity heralds the possibility of a mutually enhancing multicultural community. Here, too, is a vision of the paradigm shift that is essential for our very survival as a species on this planet.”

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