Expedition Quotes

75 Expedition quotes by 70 unique authors

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
Alexander's achievement was not the conquest of India, but the feat of actually getting there and his two years in India were more of a… — Karen Armstrong
I've always liked adventure television. Pre-'Survivor,' I did a series on cable called 'Eco-Challenge,' an adventure race with experts mainly, and here we have 'Expedition… — Mark Burnett
As a rule, anything that is pretty you avoid when on an expedition in the polar extremes. Normally anything other than white means a hazard… — Ranulph Fiennes
RAILROAD, n. The chief of many mechanical devices enabling us to get away from where we are to where we are no better off. For… — Ambrose Bierce
I may say that this is the greatest factor: the way in which the expedition is equipped, the way in which every difficulty is foreseen,… — Roald Amundsen
You make a movie and it's like convincing people to go on an expedition with you. You think you know where it's going to end… — David Ayer
Writing a novel is not merely going on a shopping expedition across the border to an unreal land: it is hours and years spent in… — Janet Frame
What you do on a dinosaur expedition is you hike and look at the ground. You find bones sticking out of the dirt and, once… — Nathan Myhrvold
We were in the Arabian Desert for nine months. And I was having the time of my life. It could have been an archeological expedition,… — Peter O'Toole
Now my eyes are turned from the South to the North, and I want to lead one more Expedition. This will be the last... to… — Ernest Shackleton

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