Expeditions Quotes

89 Expeditions quotes by 78 unique authors

If hot food is they key to maintaining an expedition's stamina, then low grade gut-rot alcohol is the key to sustaining its sense of pleasure. — Tahir Shah
Expeditions can greatly contribute towards building strength of character. Joseph Conrad in Lord Jim tells us that it is necessary for a youth to experience… — Kurt Hahn
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
If we ever have children and they become climbers I'll tell them, Stay away from expeditions. They'll make you poor and neurotic. — Greg Child
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
Juice Plus+ is great stuff that I have used through all of my expeditions. What I like about it is that the research behind it… — Bear Grylls
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
In our day we don't allow a hundred and thirty years to elapse between glimpses of a marvel. If somebody should discover a creek in… — Mark Twain
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
The negative cost of Lewis and Clark entering the Garden of Eden is that later expeditions regardless of what they were intended to do, later… — William Least Heat-Moon

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