Cherry Garrard Quotes

#1. Accept yourself: be yourself. That seems a good rule. But which self? Even the simplest of us are complicated enough.

Apsley Cherry-Garrard

#2. It only seems as if you're doing something when you worry.

Lucy Maud Montgomery

#3. Polar exploration is at once the cleanest and most isolated way of having a bad time which has been devised.

Apsley Cherry-Garrard

#4. If you march your Winter Journeys you will have your reward, so long as all you want is a penguin's egg.

Apsley Cherry-Garrard

#5. Act with integrity. Live up to your idea of who you are.

Frank McKinney

#6. Yes - and that's exactly what Daddy's going to be getting if he doesn't stop laughing right now." James's eyes go wide and he tries to warn me. "No poosy, Daddy.

Emma Chase

#7. When we pray to God with entire assurance, it is Himself who has given us the spirit of prayer.

Cyprian

#8. A man lets you know who he is by how he treats others.

Mo Williams

#9. I am not afraid of storms, for I am leaning how to sail my ship.

Lousia May Alcott

#10. Also, think about your intentionality - are you getting lost in the method? or coming from the intentionality, the purpose? You don't want to do the mechanics without the consciousness.

Marshall B. Rosenberg

#11. Take it all in all, I do not believe anybody on Earth has it worse than an Emperor penguin.

Apsley Cherry-Garrard

#12. And I tell you, if you have the desire for knowledge and the power to give it physical expression, go out and explore.

Apsley Cherry-Garrard

#13. I am glad The Worst Journey is coming out in Penguins: after all it is largely about penguins.

Apsley Cherry-Garrard

#14. We are a nation of shop keepers.

Apsley Cherry-Garrard

#15. And if the worst, or best, happens, and Death comes for you in the snow, he comes disguised as Sleep, and you greet him rather as a welcome friend than a gruesome foe.

Apsley Cherry-Garrard

#16. For a joint scientific and geographical piece of organization, give me Scott; for a winter journey, give me Wilson; for a dash to the Pole and nothing else, Amundsen; and if I am in the devil of a hole and want to get out of it, give me Shackleton every time.

Apsley Cherry-Garrard

#17. In Antarctica you get to know people so well that in comparison you do not seem to know the people in civilization at all.

Apsley Cherry-Garrard

#18. The luxuries of civilization satisfy only those wants which they themselves create.

Apsley Cherry-Garrard

#19. The mind of a horse is a very limited concern, relying almost entirely upon memory. He rivals our politicians in that he has little real intellect. Consequently, when the pony was faced with conditions different from those to which he was accustomed, he showed little adaptability.

Apsley Cherry-Garrard

#20. My first role was in the George Gershwin musical 'Crazy for You' at the Orlando Repertory Theatre when I was 11 - I grew up in Florida - and I wasn't old enough to be in it, but they let me anyway. I was just this little shrimp in a leotard.

Aubrey Peeples

#21. When I did comedy I made fun of myself. If there was a buffoon, I played the buffoon.

Sid Caesar

#22. It's foolish men who die for their country. The intelligent ones make others die for their country instead.

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