Quote by Geoff Rodkey

I think my mother's family came on the Mayflower from England - D.A.R., you know.

— Sissy Spacek

So Columbus said, somebody show me the sunset and somebody did and he set sail for it, And he discovered America and they put…

— Ogden Nash

A friend of ours has a hobby doing genealogy, and we found out that we were cousins in the ninth degree, that we had…

— Marion Zimmer Bradley

“They were too focused on their own inner lives to appreciate the subtleties of character that might have alerted them to the true motives…

— Nathaniel Philbrick

My own forefathers arrived in America in 1620 on the Mayflower.

— Michael J. Knowles

“Sometimes I think I'm an alien that accidentally fell off the mother ship, destined to wander among clueless earthling parents for all eternity.”

— Sarah Ockler

“There’s an old and honored tradition in exploration literature that you don’t air your dirty laundry in print. Whatever bickering, name-calling, grudge nursing, and…

— Ed Viesturs

“A busload of pilgrims today on journeys they never chose, having once believed themselves born for more than this.”

— Monica Wood

“True, beneath the human façade, I was an interloper, an alien whose ship had crashed beyond hope of repair in the backwoods of Southern…

— Sol Luckman