Antarctic Quotes

18 quotes by 17 authors

Golf camaraderie, like that of astronauts and Antarctic explorers, is based on a common experience of transcendence; fat or thin, scratch or duffer, we have… — John Updike
The Earth would only have to move a few million kilometers sunward-or starward-for the delicate balance of climate to be destroyed. The Antarctic icecap would… — Arthur C. Clarke
There is always inequity in life. Some men are killed in war and some men are wounded; some men never leave the country, some men… — John F. Kennedy
Behind us lay the great Antarctic Land; snow peaks rising beyond one another until by distance they dwindled away into insignificancy. The silence and immobility… — Louis Bernacchi
There are people who travel because they want to push themselves to physical limits, people who walk across deserts or cycle across the Antarctic -… — Michael Palin
I have come to the conclusion that life in the Antarctic Regions can be very pleasant. — Robert Falcon Scott
There will be a shifting of the poles. There will be upheavals in the Arctic and the Antarctic that will make fotr the eruption of… — Edgar Cayce
One of the things that made me persist in the Antarctic in the face of sickening discouragements was my determination to name a portion of… — Lincoln Ellsworth
[In Adelie Land, Antarctica, a howling river of] wind, 50 miles wide, blows off the plateau, month in and month out, at an average velocity… — Frank Debenham
In Winter, [the Antarctic] is perhaps the dreariest of places. Our base, Little America, lay in a bowl of ice, near the edge of the… — Richard E. Byrd
Could the waters of the Atlantic be drawn off, so as to expose to view this great sea-gash, which separates continents, and extends from the… — Matthew Fontaine Maury
Patience is what you need in the Antarctic. Wait-Give wind and tide a chance to change. — Richard E. Byrd
Rivalry is one of the factors pushing me. While my back was turned, the Norwegians managed to achieve the first Arctic crossing in winter. I… — Ranulph Fiennes
Obviously, because of my disability, I need assistance. But I have always tried to overcome the limitations of my condition and lead as full a… — Stephen Hawking
Giordino...simply sighed in resignation. "Who else," he asked no one in particular, "but Dirk Pitt could tramp off into a blizzard on an uninhabited backwater… — Clive Cussler
The best experience that we have on Earth is the fact that we have scientific stations, weathering over stations down in the Antarctic for almost… — Edgar Mitchell
I have never suffered under any delusion that saving the whales in the Antarctic sanctuary would be easy, but the one thing I am certain… — Paul Watson
Life is fragile: it thrives only in a narrow range of temperatures between freezing and boiling. How lucky that our planet is just the right… — Leonard Susskind

Who Wrote These Antarctic Quotes

17 authors contributed a total of 18 Antarctic Quotes as follows: