Magellan's Quotes

#1. The real significance of Magellan's voyage was not that it was the first to circumnavigate the planet, but that it was the first to realize just how big that planet was.

Bill Bryson

#2. Magellan's thirst for glory, under cover of religious zeal, led him fatally astray.

Laurence Bergreen

#3. I would love to do a western. I would love to play an explorer. That is always something that has really captured my imagination since I was a kid, like James Cook or Magellan or Earnest Shackleton.

John C. Reilly

#4. Linguistic danger to spiritual freedom.- Every word is a prejudice.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#5. The church says the earth is flat; but I have seen its shadow on the moon, and I have more confidence even in a shadow than in the church.

Ferdinand Magellan

#6. I have seen the shadow of the Earth on the moon, and I have more faith in the shadow than in the church

Ferdinand Magellan

#7. We believe that peace is not just signed papers, but rather a contract between generations for the building of a more promising and less threatening future.

King Hussein I

#8. The history of exploration has never been driven by exploration. But Columbus himself was a discoverer. So was Magellan. But the people who wrote checks were not. They had other motivations.

Neil DeGrasse Tyson

#9. So, Magellan, where are we going? (Danger)
Away. I'm open to any location, so long as it doesn't involve returning to your house while Wart-Head is there.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#10. I firmly believe that the inequity [in society] is enormous. The people have the feeling that you are allowed to do anything if you are rich. But if you're poor, you have to pay. We [Europeans] have to counter this.

Martin Schulz

#11. Every human being should show the greatest interest in beekeeping because our lives depend upon it.

Rudolf Steiner

#12. It's Okay to Play or Work Alone in the Information Age But If We Must Make Headway in this Transformation Age, Collaboration is the Way to Go.

Anyaele Sam Chiyson

#13. 90 percent of the corn and cotton and 93 percent of the soy-beans planted in the U.S. last year were genetically modified.

Anonymous

#14. But nothing lasts forever," Drew said, and then he and Roger sang together "Even cold November rain." I looked from one to the other, baffled.
"Seriously?" asked Drew, catching my expression in the rear-view mirror. "Magellan, get this girl some GNR.

Morgan Matson

#15. Because it did used to be cool, super-cool, in fact - she was our Magellan, our Marco Polo, one of the wayward Walker women whose restless boundless spirit propels her from place to place, love to love, moment to unpredictable moment.

Jandy Nelson

#16. Magellan went around the world in 1521, which is not too many strokes when you consider the distance.

Joe Laurie Jr.

#17. Do you know this part of the world well?

Agatha Christie

#18. The thing about Magellan is the thing about all these explorers. Most of the time, they're just determined to chase impossible things. And most of them are so busy looking at the horizon that they can't even see what's right in front of them.

Morgan Matson

#19. The next day, Magellan gave the order to weigh anchor. The ships fired a salvo of cannon that reverberated among the splendid dark green mountains, gray ravines, and azure glaciers of the strait, and the armada set sail once again, heading west, always west.

Laurence Bergreen

#20. No joy so great but runneth to an end,No hap so hard but may in fine amend.

Robert Southwell

#21. MYTH 280. | Spaghetti originated in Italy. Spaghetti originated in China. Magellan tasted it on his travels in Asian and brought

John Brown

#22. Prior to Magellan, due to the fact that we knew it was so hot on Venus, we thought that the rocks at the surface would behave more plastically, more like Silly Putty than like solid rock in the way that we think of it, like the rocks that I'm sitting on.

Ellen Stofan

#23. The question is there, whther we answer it or not.

Thomas Nagel

#24. The Church says that the earth is flat, but I know that it is round, for I have seen the shadow on the moon, and I have more faith in a shadow than in the Church. Ferdinand Magellan, Portuguese and Spanish explorer

George Washington