Expedition Quotes

My first expedition was at about the age of eight.

— Ann Bancroft

The real work of an expedition begins when you return.

— Louise Boyd

“I love Ginny's expedition!”

— Maureen Johnson

“Chronicle of the Narváez Expedition, would”

— Buddy Levy

“We’re astronauts. All of the expedition members have been astronauts.”

— Jeff VanderMeer

“The only way I knew how to live the best day ever was on an expedition.”

— Hendri Coetzee

“Running an expedition can bring out the worst in a man. It can make you a power-crazed monster.”

— Tahir Shah

I hope I'm still alive to see an expedition set off for Mars.

— James Gunn

Adventures happen only to those incapable of planning an expedition.

— Richard Evans Schultes

On a harsh expedition, there's no space for anyone who does not intend to finish.

— Tahir Shah

“In the morning, fog. As it slowly lifted, the expedition set off.”

— Stephen E. Ambrose

The most important thing about expedition food is that there is some

— Eric Shipton

Mounting an expedition to actualize a Compassionate Commonwealth of all peoples...is the great spiritual challenge of our time.

— Sam Keen

Also we will be carrying food and clothes for the Expedition Two crew. And as well as spare parts for the EVA…

— Umberto Guidoni

I think the Lewis and Clark Expedition was the greatest undertaking in American History. I think landing a man on the moon…

— Kathryn Lasky

My Antarctic expedition is just about doable, just feasible and that's what is exciting to me. If I knew it was possible,…

— Ben Saunders

“she could ride out and try and meet the expedition before they arrived in the valley. They had to be close. Lucas…

— Peggy L. Henderson

“We go and do the things that you're calling exploring and adventuring ... and [for us] it's just regular life.”

— Gayle Kabloona

It is the going out from oneself that is love and not the accident of its return. It is the expedition, whether…

— H. G. Wells

What you do on a dinosaur expedition is you hike and look at the ground. You find bones sticking out of the…

— Nathan Myhrvold

It truly is a privilege to work and to live here, and to be able to do both makes this just a…

— Victor J. Glover

I have gone into town to buy a few last things we need for the expedition: Peruvian wasp repellent, toothbrushes, canned peaches,…

— Anonymous

My first trip was the Appalachian Trail, and I was able to finish it despite having no skills and no experience when…

— Andrew Skurka

“This was not the state of mind I was accustomed to, at the outset of an expedition. But one does not fight…

— J. Robert Lennon

After mature consideration it was unanimously agreed, that, to prevent as much as possible their attempting to return and molest the settlers…

— Charles Lawrence

Men Wanted for Dangerous Expedition: Low Wages for Long Hours of Arduous Labour under Brutal Conditions; Months of Continual Darkness and Extreme…

— Ernest Shackleton

Adventure books are my personal favorites. 'The Endurance,' a story about Ernest Shackleton's legendary Antarctica expedition, or 'Into Thin Air,' Jon Krakauer's…

— Dean Karnazes

We have a really aggressive travel schedule at 'Expedition Unknown.' We spend a lot of time out of the country and we…

— Josh Gates

“merchants who financed this expedition viewed it as a reconnaissance mission rather than a trading venture and little cargo was loaded on…

— Giles Milton

With sufficient planning, you can almost eliminate adventure from an expedition.

— Roald Amundsen

Every time I've been on Everest, people have died, though not in any expedition I was part of.

— Kenneth Kamler

“Previous experience had taught me that any expedition marches on its stomach.”

— Tahir Shah

Well, we could tell them that we're here on an archeological expedition.

— Edie Adams

Niggas gotta get murked but I'm just minding my business. Bought three Range Rovers dolo, so fuck Expedition.

— Rick Ross

The time to prepare for your next expedition is when you have just returned from a successful trip.

— Robert Peary

A good expedition doesn't need a leader at all. You are deciding day by day, discussing it in a democratic way.

— Reinhold Messner

I will say, if you are planning a seaplane expedition anytime soon I urge you to brace yourselves.

— Nick Viall

It is sweet to think I was a companion in an expedition that never ends

— Czeslaw Milosz

I've gone on a research expedition in the Atlantic Ocean before. I was sick for the entire week after that.

— Boyan Slat

The first rule of an expedition is that everyone should stick together.

— Tahir Shah