Great Explorer Quotes

#1. I may not have proved a great explorer, but we have done the greatest march ever made and come very near to great success.

Robert Falcon Scott

#2. No, my secrets are of the grave and must be kept. And this is how I sometimes think of myself, as a great explorer who has discovered some extraordinary land from which he can never return to give his knowledge to the world: but the name of this land is hell.

Malcolm Lowry

#3. Many years ago the great British explorer George Mallory, who was to die on Mount Everest, was asked why did he want to climb it. He said Because it is there. Well, space is there, and were going to climb it, and the moon and the planets are there, and new hopes for knowledge and peace are there.

John F. Kennedy

#4. Everyone's free to embark on either a great clipper or a little fishing boat. An artist is an explorer who oughtn't to shrink from anything: it doesn't matter whether he goes to the left or the right
his goal sanctifies all.

George Sand

#5. Columbus real achievement was managing to cross the ocean successfully in both directions. Though an accomplished enough mariner, he was not terribly good at a great deal else, especially geography, the skill that would seem most vital in an explorer.

Bill Bryson

#6. I am an American; free born and free bred, where I acknowledge no man as my superior, except for his own worth, or as my inferior, except for his own demerit.

Theodore Roosevelt

#7. Your aunt Rose is dying," Petranilla said as soon as he was close. "May God bless her soul. Mother Cecilia told me." "You look shocked - but you know how ill she is." "It's not Aunt Rose. I've had other bad news." He swallowed. "I can't go to Oxford.

Ken Follett

#8. I always treat myself to one meal on Sundays when I can have whatever I want. Usually it's pizza, which is my favorite indulgence.

Beyonce Knowles

#9. Spain- a great whale stranded on the shores of Europe.

Elizabeth Oakes Smith

#10. Anyone who knows who God made them to be will never try to be someone else.

Bill Johnson

#11. Keep us little and unknown, prized and loved by God alone.

D.L. Moody

#12. The smallest deed is better than the greatest intention.

John Burroughs

#13. I don't actually read a lot of books. I pick up a lot of books and only get through a few, which form the foundation of my knowledge.

Naval Ravikant

#14. You can tell when someone is just trying to use you. It becomes just someone who's hanging around. Whenever someone sucks up to me, it never goes anywhere because I'm too boring a guy.

Topher Grace

#15. Hold your venom
Do you recognise the instinct
in me, fellow scorpion?

Kiera Woodhull

#16. You can't keep wanting to be 20 years old. Everybody knows that, but what's in the next room?

Ethan Hawke

#17. I see myself as an explorer more than a storyteller. A great storyteller, in control of her craft, must be the same person when she finishes telling a story as she was at the start. But I want to be transformed by my filmmaking, by the journey I take.

Joshua Oppenheimer

#18. The great decision was the Explorer program. The thing we did not do well is that we allowed and somewhat encouraged too much exposure to the program.

Astro Teller

#19. I need a challenge 'cause I don't get the girl anymore.

Michael Caine

#20. I do not fear death. I see what has gone before, through eyes that are not of this body. When I dream, my visions are of days yet to be.

Cathy M. Donnelly

#21. There are too many "creative writing" courses and seminars, in which young wirters are constantly being taught to rewrite the previous generation. They should be experimenting on their own. Every writer faces different problems which he must solve for himself.

John Dos Passos

#22. Myths are compost. They begin as religions, the most deeply held of beliefs, or as the stories that accrete to religions as they grow.

Neil Gaiman