Adventure Quote by Carol Ryrie Brink

“They sat for several hours over a pot of tea and a plate of cake, and then they wandered the streets, impervious to time.…

— Penelope Lively

“There was too much of a sameness about the evening’s delights. He had been the same route too many times. He’d been there before,…

— Jim Thompson

“Aye: though we hunted high and low, And hunted everywhere, Of the three men's fate we found no trace Of any kind in any…

— Wilfrid Wilson Gibson

“I know now that we never get over great losses; we absorb them, and they carve us into different, often kinder, creatures. ...We tell…

— Gail Caldwell

“In times like these, who had either the leisure or the inclination to indulge in a touch of elegance?”

— Yu Hua

“They walked the whole night and all the next day too from morning till evening, but they did not get out of the forest,…

— Jacob Grimm

“One of the drawbacks about adventures is that when you come to the most beautiful places you are often too anxious and hurried to…

— C.S. Lewis

"We will make such a chase as shall be accounted a marvel among the Three Kindreds: Elves, Dwarves and Men. Forth the Three Hunters!"…

— J. R. R. Tolkien

“The old agility was still present and the passion was undeniable, but it was the wobbling of the gut, the puffing of the cheeks…

— Jamie Holoran

“So expressive it was, of a hopeless and lost creature, that a famished traveler, wearied out by lonely wandering in a wilderness, would have…

— Charles Dickens

“You see all the other fellows were so active and earnest and all that sort of thing- always rampaging, and skirmishing, and scouring the…

— Kenneth Grahame

“Once more, amid the breeze, the shouting, the slanting sunlight on the high mountain, was shed that glamour, that strange invisible light of friendship,…

— William Golding