“Stand By Me' was really great for me and my buddies; we'd all watch that together because that was us - we were down in the creek and hanging out every day and going on little adventures. I had about sixteen friends who are all about the same age as me and lived in a three-block radius. We spent our entire childhood down in that creek.” LittlesAgeTogetherThreeWatchesChildhoodAdventureBlockHanging OutReally GreatBuddySixteenCreeksRadiusStand By Me Author:Scoot McNairy
“In that world, you'll be able to rise in the morning with the spirit you had known in your childhood: that spirit of eagerness, adventure and certainty which comes from dealing with a rational universe.” WorldAbleSpiritReligionUniverseKnownMorningChildhoodAdventureRationalCertaintyYour ChildrenEagerness Book:Atlas Shrugged Source: Atlas Shrugged
“We had a great childhood and boyhood. It was a wonderful time through those years. A lot of it was through the Depression years, when things were tough, but my dad always had a job. But I had a great time. I was kind of restless, and I had a hard time staying in school all day, so me and a few pals would duck out and go out on these various adventures.” YearsKindHardSchoolJobsWonderfulChildhoodAdventureDadToughMy DadVariousHard TimesStayingDucksRestlessGreat TimesBoyhoodPalsHad A Great TimeWonderful TimesStay In School Author:James Arness
“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.” FirstsMightEyeExistenceLandChildhoodAdventureSettingSettingsInstantPerpetualTruest Book:Maps and Legends Source: Maps and Legends
“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.” ThinkingChildrenIdeasMightKidsPastParentGoneTakenLandChildhoodAdventureDegreesIncrediblesStrikesNeighborSignificantGravesKingdomsWildernessPortionsAdulthoodExile Author:Michael Chabon
“One current of continuity runs underneath all the abortive phases of my life. From childhood on I have been obliged to drop anything I was doing to run after any man who seemed to know a little more than I did about God . . . I most want to write about: how a modern woman has sought the face of God-not the name nor the fame but the face [ital] of God-and what adventures came to meet her on this ancient human path.” KnowsMenWantWritingHumansLittlesHas BeensRunningFacesReligionNamesWomenPathModernChildhoodAdventureFameAncientCurrentsPhasesObligedContinuityModern Woman Author:Mary Antin
“Photography is a great adventure in thinking and looking, a wonderful magic toy that miraculously manages to combine our adult awareness with the fairy-tale world of childhood, a never-ending journey through great and small, through variations and the realm of illusions and appearances, a labyrinthine and specular place of multitudes and simulation.” ThinkingWorldWonderfulMagicJourneyChildhoodAwarenessAdventurePhotographyIllusionAdultsAppearanceTalesManageRealmsFairyFairy TaleToysMultitudesVariationNever EndingSimulationGreat Adventure Author:Luigi Ghirri
“Childhood is usually identified with fantasy, adventure, and dreaming. But mine didn't offer a lot of hope. I could read my future in my palm. Everything foretold: "You have no future!" A person must be very strong to keep going without hope.” DreamStrongFantasyChildhoodAdventureKeep GoingVery StrongMy FutureWithout Hope Author:Luljeta Lleshanaku
“Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming "Wow! What a Ride!” LifeShouldWellsBodyDeathUsedJourneyChildhoodAdventureInspirational LifeTravelSafetySuicideIntentionCloudsGravesSmokeLife ChangingWowRidingWornTraveledPreservationHuntersMotorcycleLoathingArrivingSelf PreservationTravel AdventureWorn OutAdventure And TravelLife Is An AdventureBikersWhat Is LifeProclaimingGonzoLife AdventureAdventure And LifeWant To TravelLife Well LivedLife And TimeFear And LoathingFinaleYou Only Live OnceHarleyOne Life To LiveLiving Life WellAdventurous LifeGonzo JournalismPrettinessGreat JourneysMotorcycle Riding Author:Hunter S. Thompson
“For me, childhood roaming was what developed self-reliance, a sense of direction and adventure, imagination, a will to explore, to be able to get a little lost and then figure out the way back.” WayLittlesSelfAbleLostImaginationChildhoodFiguresAdventureSelf RelianceRelianceRoaming Book:A Field Guide to Getting Lost Source: A Field Guide to Getting Lost
“I'm not sure I would have ever started to draw, let alone write, if my childhood hadn't been so happy. It was a mixture of comfort and adventure. An excellent mixture!” IfsWritingChildhoodAdventureComfortDrawsExcellentNot SureMixtures Author:Tove Jansson