Quotes with adventures

  • Like every child growing up in America, I read 'The Adventures of Tom Sawyer' and 'Huckleberry Finn.' I liked them well enough, but I didn't love them.

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  • Laurence Sterne A large volume of adventures may be grasped within this little span of life, by him who interests his heart in everything.
    Laurence Sterne
    British author (1713 - 1768)
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  • William Penn A true friend unbosoms freely, advises justly, assists readily, adventures boldly, takes all patiently, defends courageously, and continues a friend unchangeably.
    William Penn
    English religious leader, founder of Pennsylvania (1644 - 1718)
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  • C. S. Lewis All their life in this world and all their adventures in Narnia had only been the cover and the title page: now at last they were beginning Chapter One of the Great Story which no one on earth has read: which goes on for ever: in which every chapter is better than the one before.
    The Chronicles of Narnia (1950) The Last Battle (1956), Closing lines, in Ch. 16 :
    C. S. Lewis
    Irish novelist and poet (1898 - 1963)
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  • Berkeley Breathed I'll confess right here that I secretly wish I'd have drawn a strip about a little boy with a fake tiger, going for adventures throughout the universe in spaceships of his imagination.
    Berkeley Breathed
    American cartoonist, director and screenwriter (1957 - )
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  • Caroline Lawrence Like every child growing up in America, I read 'The Adventures of Tom Sawyer' and 'Huckleberry Finn.' I liked them well enough, but I didn't love them.
    Caroline Lawrence
    English American author (1954 - )
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  • Anatole France The good critic is he who relates the adventures of his soul among masterpieces.
    Anatole France
    French writer and Nobel laureate in literature (1921) (1844 - 1924)
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  • Alan Cranston The idea of being a foreign correspondent and wandering the world and witnessing great events, having adventures and covering the activities of world leaders, appealed to me greatly. It was a very glamorous life in those days.
    Alan Cranston
    American politician and journalist (1914 - 2000)
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  • Joseph Rudyard Kipling This is a brief life, but in its brevity it offers us some splendid moments, some meaningful adventures.
    Joseph Rudyard Kipling
    English writer (1865 - 1936)
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  • Oliver Goldsmith We had no revolutions to fear, nor fatigues to undergo; all our adventures were by the fireside, and all our migrations from the blue bed to the brown.
    Oliver Goldsmith
    Irish writer and poet (1728 - 1774)
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  • Jean Genet We know that their adventures are childish. They themselves are fools. They are ready to kill or be killed over a card-game in which an opponent - or they themselves - was cheating. Yet, thanks to such fellows, tragedies are possible.
    Jean Genet
    French playwright and author (1910 - 1986)
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  • Jawaharlal Nehru We live in a wonderful world that is full of beauty, charm and adventure. There is no end to the adventures that we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open.
    Jawaharlal Nehru
    Indian nationalist and statesman (1889 - 1964)
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  • Henry David Thoreau We should come home from adventures, and perils, and discoveries every day with new experience and character.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Louise Erdrich What men call adventures usually consist of the stoical endurance of appalling daily misery.
    Louise Erdrich
    American author (1954 - )
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  • Gilbert Keith Chesterton Youth is the period in which a man can be hopeless. The end of every episode is the end of the world. But the power of hoping through everything, the knowledge that the soul survives its adventures, that great inspiration comes to the middle-aged.
    Gilbert Keith Chesterton
    English writer (1874 - 1936)
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