Expedition Quotes

75 quotes by 70 authors

So my message is in whichever realm, be it going into space or going into the deep sea, you have to balance the yin and… — James Cameron
What sets a canoeing expedition apart is that it purifies you more rapidly and inescapably than any other travel. Travel a thousand miles by train… — Pierre Trudeau
Without harmony in the State, no military expedition can be undertaken; without harmony in the army, no battle array can be formed. — Sun Tzu
No one will pay you for planning an expedition at first: you have to work in pubs at weekends so you can pay the gas… — Ranulph Fiennes
Any man who has ever led an army, an expedition, or a group of Boy Scouts has sadism in his bones. — Tahir Shah
What we initially conceived as a fairly simple geologic experiment on Mars ultimately turned into humanity's first real overland expedition across another planet. Spirit explored… — Steve Squyres
To have some parts flowing free again . . . with deer grazing on its banks . . . ducks and geese raising their young… — Stephen Ambrose
The spiritual uplift, the goodwill, cheerfulness and optimism that accompanies every expedition to the outdoors is the peculiar spirit that our people need in times… — Herbert Hoover
I hope that you, too, will choose to have a journey instead of just a life. Actually, I hope it's a full on expedition. — Kelly Cutrone
The mountain is nothing without people on it. Often you part expedition exasperated, but a year or two later you go back with the same… — Greg Child
I was never comfortable with the risk of climbing in the Himalayas, or the amount of time in idleness that is involved in the Everest… — Steve Fossett
The time to prepare for your next expedition is when you have just returned from a successful trip. — Robert Peary
Small mistakes, the lack of care, little accidents, and somewhere a tipping point is passed and things go badly wrong. Expedition history brims with tragedies… — Alan S. Kesselheim
One good thing that comes from living the nomadic life demanded by an expedition is that one sheds the fake skin donned from living too… — Karen Hawkins
I can remember walking as a child. It was not customary to say you were fatigued. It was customary to complete the goal of the… — Katharine Hepburn
We were now back at Smith Landing, and fired with a desire to make another Buffalo expedition on which we should have ampler time and… — Ernest Thompson Seton
...and the cries of the birds and the uproar of the monkeys became more and more remote, and the world became eternally sad. The men… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez
A western buckaroo, I share his scorn for people who go camping by the book, relying on the authority of some half-assed assistant scoutmaster whose… — Wallace Stegner
Good planning is important. I've also regarded a sense of humor as one of the most important things on a big expedition. When you're in… — Edmund Hillary
Quotation mistakes, inadvertency, expedition, and human lapses, may make not only moles but warts in learned authors... — Thomas Browne

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