It is unfortunate that so much of the history of Africa has been written by conquerors, foreigners, missionaries and adventurers. The Egyptians… — John Henrik Clarke Copy Share Image
Im crazy about my father, hes an amazing man, a real adventurer. He took us with him to travel all over the… — Peta Wilson Copy Share Image
We're not home-and-hearth people. We're the adventurers, the buccaneers, the blockade runners. Without challenge, we're only alive. — Alexander Eliot Copy Share Image
If there ever was a religious war full of terror, it was the Crusades. But you can't blame Christianity because a few… — Moustapha Akkad Copy Share Image
A harbor, even if it is a little harbor, is a good thing, since adventurers come into it as well as go… — Sarah Orne Jewett Copy Share Image
None but the ignorant can be bored by life. To the lovers of learning, life is pure adventure shared with adventurers. — Pearl S. Buck Copy Share Image
Adventurers tend to prance about the ladder of success, fearing less the sensation of a great fall than the humility of hanging… — Mike Caro Copy Share Image
My undergraduate degree was in history, and I wish I had been smart enough to really excel at maths, physics, chemistry or… — Michael Moritz Copy Share Image
The mere mention of the Farakka Express, which jerks its way eastward each day from Delhi to Calcutta, is enough to throw… — Tahir Shah Copy Share Image
“He reminded me of one of those adventure seekers on TV. He hadn’t shaved in a few days at least, and his… — Jessica Fortunato Copy Share Image
There was another reason [she] took her books whenever they went away. They were her home when she was somewhere strange. They… — Cornelia Funke Copy Share Image
Our civilization, bequeathed to us by fierce adventurers, eaters of meat and hunters, is so full of hurry and combat, so busy… — James Joyce Copy Share Image
I can't imagine a life without thinking, doing art. I don't feel any need to be a world traveler or an adventurer.… — John Baldessari Copy Share Image
As I look out at all of you gathered here, I want to say that I don't see a room full of… — Brian Selznick Copy Share Image
But under it all they were men, penetrating the land of desolation and mockery and silence, puny adventurers bent on colossal adventure,… — Jack London Copy Share Image
Generalizations, one is told, are dangerous. So is life, for that matter, and it is built up on generalization - from the… — Freya Stark Copy Share Image
“We go and do the things that you're calling exploring and adventuring ... and [for us] it's just regular life.” — Gayle Kabloona Copy Share Image
There are two kinds of adventurers: those who go truly hoping to find adventure and those who go secretly hoping they won't. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Many will call me an adventurer - and that I am, only one of a different sort: one of those who risks… — Che Guevara Copy Share Image
If we are going to make the change from community to communitas, and not just end up with an unsustainable adrenaline-junkie culture,… — Alan Hirsch Copy Share Image
The great question of all choosers and adventurers is 'Was it worth while?' - and whatever else you may expect of life,… — Sheila Kaye-Smith Copy Share Image
I would rather like to think of God as being a kind of adventurer - even as Wells thought about him -… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
I can choose either to be a victim of the world or an adventurer in search of treasure. It's all a question… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
I address you all tonight for who you truly are: wizards, mermaids, travelers, adventurers, and magicians. You are the true dreamers. — Brian Selznick Copy Share Image
Disraeli was my favourite Tory. He was an adventurer pure and simple, or impure and complex. I'm glad to say Gladstone got… — Michael Foot Copy Share Image
'I will go to France, to Yugoslavia, to China, and continue my profession.' 'As sanitary engineer?' 'No, Monsieur. As adventurer. I will… — Bruce Chatwin Copy Share Image
There are those who keep out of mischief, and there are the adventurers, ‘ he said. “We racing drivers are adventurers; the… — Juan Manuel Fangio Copy Share Image
As an entrepreneur, you've got to protect against the company going bust. And as an adventurer, you've got to protect against losing… — Richard Branson Copy Share Image
Adventurer: he that goes to meet whatever may come. Well, that is what we all do in the world one way or… — H. Rider Haggard Copy Share Image
The explorer who will not come back or send back his ships to tell his tale is not an explorer, only an… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“The adventurer, by minimum definition, is an individualist. The life of adventure is an unsocial game; therefore in direct contrast with the… — William Bolitho Copy Share Image
“As he mused about these things, he realized that he had to choose between thinking of himself as the poor victim of… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
Only now have I finally realized that my life has been an unending field trip. And I have tried hard not to… — Robert Fulghum Copy Share Image
I would describe myself as a "budding adventurer." I've transitioned away from being a straight-up backpacker, but I think I need another… — Andrew Skurka Copy Share Image
That faculty of beholding at a hint the face of his desire and the shape of his dream, without which the earth… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
As a species, we've always been discoverers and adventurers, and space and the deep ocean are some of the last frontiers. — Paul Allen Copy Share Image
You can either be a victim of the world or an adventurer in search of treasure. It all depends on how you… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
“Even the memory of cradling her in my arms is pure euphoria. And all that I ask out of life is that… — Roman Payne Copy Share Image
The trouble is the kind of guy I want to go out with doesn't even exist... Like a rugged, chain-smoking, intellectual, adventurer… — Daniel Clowes Copy Share Image
Within 18 months of my parents' marriage in 1900, my mother fell in love with an Englishman who would have described himself… — Paul Mellon Copy Share Image