Ocean Explorer Quotes

#1. The earliest memories I have of the ocean are actually stories - stories from my grandfather, the legendary ocean explorer and conservationist Jacques Cousteau. My passion for ocean conservation stems from learning at a very young age that we're all connected; we're all in this together.

Philippe Cousteau Jr.

#2. In this time the enemy began to undermine our fort, which was situated sixty yards from Kentucky River.

Daniel Boone

#3. I wish I could fill every young man who reads these pages with an utter dread and horror of poverty. I wish I could make you so feel its shame, its constraint, its bitterness that you would make vows against it.

Orison Swett Marden

#4. What a thing is and what it means are not separate, the former being physical and the latter mental as we are accustomed to believe.

James J. Gibson

#5. Every flyer who ventures across oceans to distant lands is a potential explorer; in his or her breast burns the same fire that urged adventurers of old to set forth in their sailing-ships for foreign lands.

Jean Batten

#6. As an explorer, I know firsthand there are many places in the ocean so full of life that they should be protected. Coral reefs and mangrove coastlines are stressed already by climate change and ocean acidification, and poor planning will just make their plight worse.

Philippe Cousteau Jr.

#7. Books for me were what the ocean is to the fearless explorer-deep and mysterious, boundless and soothing. I loved the smell of books, the feel of their weight in my hands, the rustle of the pages as I turned them, the magnificent illustrations on the covers that promised hidden treasures within.

Steve Pemberton

#8. My family is taken care of, I'm taken care of and that's all that matters to me.

Justin Smith

#9. 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

#10. Having grown up in the Middle East, eating beans for breakfast always seemed like a bizarre British eccentricity.

Yotam Ottolenghi

#11. Yours
(now I'm even losing my name - it was getting shorter and shorter all the time and is now: Yours)

Franz Kafka

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J.D. Roth