“My father's a frustrated explorer, so I'm on a first-name basis with a lot of dead men." "Yes, there's a whole generation… — Ashley Shelby Copy Share Image
Believers do not surrender. They can continue on their way to the truth because they are certain that God has created them… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
A general curiosity about the unknown sparked by the multicultural milieu in which I spent my formative years. There was a lot… — Herodotus Copy Share Image
And all my endeavours are unlucky explorers come back, abandoning the expedition; the specimens, the lilies of ambition still spring in their… — Gavin Douglas Copy Share Image
From my earliest childhood I nourished and cherished the desire to make a creditable journey in a new country, and write such… — Joseph Dalton Hooker Copy Share Image
Columbus real achievement was managing to cross the ocean successfully in both directions. Though an accomplished enough mariner, he was not terribly… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
Space is a harsh, inhospitable frontier and we are explorers, not colonisers. The skills of our engineers and the technology surrounding us… — Luca Parmitano Copy Share Image
... everyone's free to embark on either a great clipper or a little fishing boat. An artist is an explorer who oughtn't… — George Sand Copy Share Image
Golf camaraderie, like that of astronauts and Antarctic explorers, is based on a common experience of transcendence; fat or thin, scratch or… — John Updike Copy Share Image
I’m free, I think. I shut my eyes and think hard and deep about how free I am, but I can’t really… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek. Fear of the unknown is our greatest fear. Many of us… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
The best scientists and explorers have the attributes of kids! They ask question and have a sense of wonder. They have curiosity.… — Sylvia Earle Copy Share Image
“As the Iberian explorers made their way down the African coast—the Portuguese going around the Horn to East Asia, the Spaniards cutting… — Tom Reiss Copy Share Image
He is a great enough magician to tap our most common nightmares, daydreams and twilight fancies, but he never invented them either:… — Peter S. Beagle Copy Share Image
Without gospel truths, man's efforts to reach his goals are like the northbound explorer who drove his dog sled feverishly northward on… — Neal A. Maxwell Copy Share Image
“the Ankh-Morpork Trespassers' Society was originally the Explorers' Society until Lord Vetinari forcibly insisted that most of the places 'discovered' by the… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
I have observed that the world has suffered far less from ignorance than from pretensions to knowledge. It is not skeptics or… — Daniel J. Boorstin Copy Share Image
I wanted to be an explorer, but gradually found the world had been explored and that there was nowhere left, really. Once… — Michael Palin Copy Share Image
The truth is that the scientific value of Polar exploration is greatly exaggerated. The thing that takes men on such hazardous trips… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
People say, oh we just need charismatic leaders to continue on to Mars. Now we've gone to the moon, of course Mars… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
The breakage and agony rending us today will be our salvation if they drive us by new routes to meet it. No… — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
From earliest times, humans - explorers and thinkers - have wanted to figure out the shape of their world. Forever, the way… — Adam Savage Copy Share Image
The explorers seek happiness in finding curiosities, discovering new lands and undergoing risks in adventures. They are thrilling. But where is pleasure… — Ramana Maharshi Copy Share Image
There's nothing in the world like buried treasure-and people hungry and obsessed enough to risk their lives for it. Pirate Hunters isn't… — Brad Meltzer Copy Share Image
John Gottman is our leading explorer of the inner world of relationships. In The Relationship Cure, he has found gold once again.… — William J Doherty Copy Share Image
To the bird watcher, the suburbanite who derives joy from birds in his garden, the hunter, the fisherman or the explorer of… — Rachel Carson Copy Share Image
I was born to be an explorer. There never was any decision to make. I coudn't be anything else and be happy,the… — Roy Chapman Andrews Copy Share Image
I want MIT to be the dream of every child who wants to grow up to make the world a better place.… — Susan Hockfield Copy Share Image
For planetary explorers like us, there is little that can compare to the sighting of activity on another solar system body. This… — Carolyn Porco Copy Share Image
I wanted to become the seeker, the aroused and passionate explorer, and it was better to go at it knowing nothing at… — Pat Conroy Copy Share Image
The nineteenth century was the last moment in history when a relatively educated layperson could follow what was going on in the… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
If you sort of see yourself writing into a space that you don't always recognize, you sometimes learn things that you knew,… — Colum McCann Copy Share Image
It is up to my spirit to find the truth. But how? Grave uncertainty, each time the spirit feels beyond its own… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
And now Rocky is begging me to watch Dora the Explorer with him. I understand that millions of kids love Dora and… — Meg Cabot Copy Share Image
From my studies of genetics and neuroscience I have come to believe that people fall into four broad personality types - each… — Helen Fisher Copy Share Image
The explorers of the past were great men and we should honour them. But let us not forget that their spirit lives… — Edmund Hillary Copy Share Image
Had we lived, I should have had a tale to tell of the hardihood, endurance and courage of my companions which would… — Robert Falcon Scott Copy Share Image
I wondered about the explorers who'd sailed their ships to the end of the world. How terrified they must have been when… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
The "just say no" campaign at this point is a lot like drawing sea-monsters over certain unexplored areas of the map and… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
In Australia, I grew up watching 'The Mickey Mouse Club,' my son grew up watching 'Sesame Street,' my grandson's growing up watching… — Jacki Weaver Copy Share Image
