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title: "2 Oldest Quotes By Brian Blessed"
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> [My biggest love is space. I completed 800 hours' space training in Moscow and I became the world's oldest man to go to the North Magnetic Pole. At 67, I also became the oldest man to reach 28,400ft on Everest without oxygen.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/brian-blessed/my-biggest-love-is-space-i-completed-800-hours-space-training-in/)

[Brian Blessed](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/brian-blessed/)

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> [I've become quite a serious explorer: I've been to Everest three times; I'm the oldest man to reach the North Pole; and I've just been to the lost world of Venezuela.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/brian-blessed/i-ve-become-quite-a-serious-explorer-i-ve-been-to-everest-three-times/)

[Brian Blessed](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/brian-blessed/)

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## More by Brian Blessed

> [Ninety nine per cent of the time, for anyone who wins or makes money, it makes them happy.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/brian-blessed/ninety-nine-per-cent-of-the-time-for-anyone-who-wins-or-makes-money/)

[Brian Blessed](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/brian-blessed/)

> [I fed my Yak on my spare Cadbury chocolate 21,0000ft up Everest. It was a blonde, very sweet female Yak. I made it my…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/brian-blessed/i-fed-my-yak-on-my-spare-cadbury-chocolate-21-0000ft-up-everest-it/)

[Brian Blessed](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/brian-blessed/)

> [My dad was opening fast bowler for Yorkshire's second team and I couldn't believe he could die. He wasn't going to get better for…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/brian-blessed/my-dad-was-opening-fast-bowler-for-yorkshire-s-second-team-and-i/)

[Brian Blessed](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/brian-blessed/)

> [My parents were so proud when I got a scholarship to go to theatre school - it was unheard of that a coal-miner's son…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/brian-blessed/my-parents-were-so-proud-when-i-got-a-scholarship-to-go-to-theatre/)

[Brian Blessed](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/brian-blessed/)

> [I wasn't good at examinations, but I went to a very good secondary school - Bolton-on-Dearne - with wonderful teachers, who taught me drama…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/brian-blessed/i-wasn-t-good-at-examinations-but-i-went-to-a-very-good-secondary/)

[Brian Blessed](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/brian-blessed/)

> [In the Arctic I met some Russian sailors on a submarine and they chorused, "Gordon's alive!"](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/brian-blessed/in-the-arctic-i-met-some-russian-sailors-on-a-submarine-and-they/)

[Brian Blessed](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/brian-blessed/)

> [I'm a fully trained cosmonaut and have completed 800 hours training, which has made me the No. 1 civilian reserve ready to visit the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/brian-blessed/i-m-a-fully-trained-cosmonaut-and-have-completed-800-hours-training/)

[Brian Blessed](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/brian-blessed/)

> [My father was a coal hewer from Goldthorpe, a coal-mining village in South Yorkshire. He played for the Yorkshire second team as an opening…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/brian-blessed/my-father-was-a-coal-hewer-from-goldthorpe-a-coal-mining-village-in/)

[Brian Blessed](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/brian-blessed/)

> [I do everything I can for wild animals because they have such a bloody awful time.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/brian-blessed/i-do-everything-i-can-for-wild-animals-because-they-have-such-a/)

[Brian Blessed](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/brian-blessed/)

> [The greatest danger in life is not taking chances. There are so many negative people wanting to grind you down, but you can't let…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/brian-blessed/the-greatest-danger-in-life-is-not-taking-chances-there-are-so-many/)

[Brian Blessed](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/brian-blessed/)

> [My dream is to own a Hockney - I'm a Yorkshireman, and his vibrant colours are a good example of how the north-country people…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/brian-blessed/my-dream-is-to-own-a-hockney-i-m-a-yorkshireman-and-his-vibrant/)

[Brian Blessed](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/brian-blessed/)

> [I had to leave school at 14 because my father got injured in the mines and I had to support my family. I was…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/brian-blessed/i-had-to-leave-school-at-14-because-my-father-got-injured-in-the/)

[Brian Blessed](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/brian-blessed/)

> [Life is a re-discovery.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/brian-blessed/life-is-a-re-discovery/)

[Brian Blessed](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/brian-blessed/)

> [When I was a child, I wanted to... go into space! To go to Mars. I wanted to explore and explore and explore. I…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/brian-blessed/when-i-was-a-child-i-wanted-to-go-into-space-to-go-to-mars-i-wanted/)

[Brian Blessed](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/brian-blessed/)

> [You can't call it an adventure unless it's tinged with danger. The greatest danger in life, though, is not taking the adventure at all.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/brian-blessed/you-can-t-call-it-an-adventure-unless-it-s-tinged-with-danger-the/)

[Brian Blessed](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/brian-blessed/)

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