"It's true that adventures are good for people……" — Eva Ibbotson
"It's true that adventures are good for people even when they are very young. Adventures can get in a person's blood even if he doesn't remember having them."
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28 Quotes by Eva Ibbotson
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It was a heavenly summer, the summer in which France fell and the British Expeditionary Force was evacuated from Dunkirk.…
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She stood looking carefully at the labeled portraits Ursala had put up: Little Crow, Chief of the Santees, Geronimo, last…
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But she had to know words. She had to know everything.
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She's like snow in Russian," said Anna. "Snow in the evening when the sun sets and it looks like Alpengluhen,…
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And so they played some of the world's loveliest piano music - the exiled homesick girl, the humiliated, tired old…
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one of the sisters started shaving her legs and marrying tax inspectors, so she was no good.
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She was so intelligent that she could think herself into beauty. Intelligence...they don't talk about it much, the poets, but…
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The news should have terrified her, but it was difficult to be frightened of anything when she was sitting so…
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This is worse than Hollywood, he thought. A girl comes in with a pork chop and I write a song…
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Herr Altenburg, I can't; I have vertigo.' And Marek looked at him: 'All right - I'll get the chemist to…
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Not a frog, I hope?” he asked…She shook her head. “No. And if it was I wouldn’t kiss it, I…
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Pauline kept a scrapbook into which she pasted important articles that she had cut out of the newspapers. These were…
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More Adventure Quotes
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Why, I'd like nothing better than to achieve some bold adventure, worthy of our trip.
— Aristophanes
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Happiness depends upon ourselves.
— Aristotle
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All in all, for someone who was immersed in, fascinated by, and dedicated to flight, I was disappointed by the…
— Neil Armstrong
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I had a huge advantage when I started 50 years ago - my job was secure. I didn't have to…
— David Attenborough
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The World is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page.
— Saint Augustine
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Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason…
— Marcus Aurelius
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In wisdom gathered over time I have found that every experience is a form of exploration.
— Ansel Adams
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I think mostly it's the adventure that I will have in making the movie. That's what I look for.
— Christian Bale
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To die will be an awfully big adventure.
— James M. Barrie
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Climbing K2 or floating the Grand Canyon in an inner tube; there are some things one would rather have done…
— Edward Abbey
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Certainly, travel is more than the seeing of sights; it is a change that goes on, deep and permanent, in…
— Mary Ritter Beard
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Youth is the spirit of adventure and awakening. It is a time of physical emerging when the body attains the…
— Ezra Taft Benson
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