2,981 Quotes About Adventure


  • Author Nagwa Malik
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    But she couldn’t stop. The smell of her burning house still filled her nostrils even as the chilly breeze swept by her enticingly. The screams that rang out were deafening; flames shot up everywhere. The screams were prolonged and were she, a little child of ten, not so scared, they would have been very irritating for they were constant; they were horror filled, they spelt death and terror.

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  • Author Isak Dinesen
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    If I know a song of Africa,-I thought-, of the giraffe and the African new moon lying on her back, of the ploughs in the fields and the sweaty faces of the coffee-pickers, does Africa know a song of me? Would the air over the plain quiver with a color that I have had on, or the children invent a game in which my name was, or the full moon throw a shadow over the gravel of the drive that was like me, or would the eagles of Ngong look out for me?

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  • Author Suzy Davies
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    I cast the wilderness itself as a character in the book. It is my belief that the interplay of light and dark elements, good and evil, dreams and waking hours, reality and fantasy is why fairytales enchant and delight readers.Michele Bourke's illustrations depict characters and scenes in a magical way.

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  • Author Raynor Winn
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    The ease with which he'd walked out of his job carried the security of youth. The conviction that anything can be dropped today safe in the belief that something else can be picked up tomorrow. Does that fade with age as we looked to the horizon and see time running out?

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