Top 42 Quotes About Greenland
#1. When you have seen the whole world, the old words said, there is always Greenland left.
Claire North
#2. More concerning, the decade to 2010 was the warmest that Greenland has seen - at least in the 120 years for which records have been kept. Furthermore, the Arctic summers of 2010, 2011 and 2012 were the warmest since at least the 1400s.
Richard Starks
#3. Yes, I once was the toast of two continents! ( ... Greenland & Australia).
Dorothy Parker
#4. I believe that Greenland will achieve independence during the time I am still active in politics.
Aleqa Hammond
#5. Were I laid on Greenland's Coast, And in my Arms embrac'd my Lass; Warm amidst eternal Frost, Too soon the Half Year's Night would pass.
John Gay
#6. (Media question to Beatles during first U.S. tour 1964)
"How do you find America?"
"Turn left at Greenland.
Ringo Starr
#7. For me the most important issue is climate change because it in some ways trumps every other issue. Everything else we care about falls by the wayside if the Greenland ice shelf falls into the sea. And if suddenly sea levels rise 21 feet, everything we hold near and dear ceases to exist.
Moby
#8. From Greenland's icy mountains,
From India's coral strand,
Where Afric's sunny fountains
Roll down their golden sand;
From many an ancient river,
From many a palmy plain,
They call us to deliver
Their land from error's chain.
Reginald Heber
#9. If this ice melts in Greenland it can shut down the Gulf Current.
Jay Inslee
#10. It was a nightmare. The band had to tour Greenland by bus.
Fred Schneider
#11. The most remote place I've been to was in Greenland. I remember setting out for a solo hike from a small cabin, itself several hours' boat ride from the nearest settlement.
Michelle Paver
#12. I am involved in making measurements in polar oceans, and they are changing more than anything else. I think we have to be prepared for major changes associated with the melting of floating ice and the melting of the Greenland glacier.
Walter Munk
#13. Although there is a human settlement at Jakobshavn, Greenland is an inhuman landscape of never-ending wastes.
Richard Davenport-Hines
#14. Canada and Russia and Greenland will stake new claims in once-frozen waters.
Lidia Yuknavitch
#15. Nearly 90 per cent of the planet's ice is in Antarctica and most of the rest is in Greenland.
Bill Bryson
#16. Greenland ice cores show the temperatures there changing by as much as 8 degrees Celsius in ten years, drastically altering rainfall patterns and growing conditions.
Bill Bryson
#17. I've always been fascinated and stared at maps for hours as a kid. I've especially been most intrigued by the uninhabited or lonelier places on the planet. Like Greenland, for instance, or just recently flying over Alaska and a chain of icy, mountainous islands, uninhabited.
Andrew Bird
#18. I do believe in the Bible as the final word of God. And I do believe that God said the Earth would not be destroyed by a flood. Now, do I believe in climate change? In my trip to Greenland, the answer is yes. The climate is changing.
John Shimkus
#19. [A]s previous studies have concluded, the Antarctic and Greenland ice sheets are probably thickening rather than melting.
Myron Ebell
#20. The monks' response was to climb into their curraghs and row off toward Greenland. They were drawn across the storm-racked ocean, drawn west past the edge of the known world, by nothing more than a hunger of the spirit, a yearning of such queer intensity that it beggars the modern imagination.
Jon Krakauer
#21. Where will that be?' 'Either Greenland or Iceland.' 'How shall we know which is which?' 'If it's green, it'll be Iceland. If it's icy it'll be Greenland.
Ernest Schofield
#22. Like there's actually a need for Greenland. You can get ice at 7-Eleven.
Steve Kluger
#23. Was it because a lot of the heat went into melting Arctic sea ice or parts of Greenland and Antarctica, and other glaciers? Was it because the heat was buried in the ocean and sequestered, perhaps well below the surface? ... Perhaps all of these things are going on?
Kevin E. Trenberth
#24. I once saw a lump of Greenland breaking off into the sea and moving south, which of course will affect the atmosphere and us generally, and it'll happen more and more.
Ralph Steadman
#25. People travel and hunt on the sea ice - in Alaska, they hunt in skin boats for bowhead whales; in Greenland, they hunt with dogsleds. The ice is their highway. The ice is also the ecosystem in which marine mammals and terrestrial animals such as polar bears exist.
Gretel Ehrlich
#26. To be sure, Wegener made mistakes. He asserted that Greenland is drifting west at about 1.6 kilometres a year, a clear nonsense. (Its more like a centimetre.)
Bill Bryson
#27. The likelihood is that any English-speaking skier has more words for different types of snow than any inhabitant of Alaska or Greenland.
Larry Trask
#28. In fact the Chinese, the Russians, Eskimos from Greenland, and sub-Saharan Africans are all getting fatter, as is every other population when economic conditions improve and there is increased access to cheaper food.
James B. Johnson
#29. I didn't want to destroy anything or anybody. I just wanted to slip quietly out the back door, without causing any fuss or consequences, and then not stop running until I reached Greenland.
Elizabeth Gilbert
#30. According to Inuit culture in Greenland, a person possesses six or seven souls. The souls take the form of tiny people scattered throughout the body.
Annie Dillard
#31. I'm quite happy trekking around Greenland on my own, but those big book tours in America or the Far East are the only time I ever really feel lonely.
Michelle Paver
#32. Sometimes I'd like to have a conversation with a friend in a restaurant without feeling I'm being watched. At this rate I will have to go on holiday to Greenland. But maybe the Eskimos would know me.
Fernando Torres
#34. I was the toast of two continents: Greenland and Australia.
Dorothy Parker
#36. She raised her sad blue eyes to mine. "It's going to be so boring here without you. And I'm going to have to deal with Grandmother on my own! You need to e-mail, text, call, send smoke signals
whatever
and tell me everything you're doing."
I laughed. "Yes, I know. Every day. I promise.
Shannon Greenland
#38. Some would think the leader of a people should be a model of what to strive for. But maybe God knew trying to be perfect is just not healthy, or maybe God could not find any perfect human beings. Maybe it's just not possible to be perfect.
Seth Greenland
#39. Sometimes he tries to catch her, wading frantically through earth that has turned to water, or sometimes through air. Sometimes she tries to catch him. They never catch each other, no matter what.
Colin Greenland
#40. By December an elastic skin of ice reached out hundreds of miles into the sea, rolling with every wave.
Will Chancellor
#41. THE SPECIALISTS MODEL SPY:
"Sorry," David mumbles right before crushing his mouth to mine.
Oh my God, I'm sixteen, and I've never been kissed. Please let me be doing this right.
Except ... this is it? This is about as exciting as kissing my laptop.
Shannon Greenland
#42. The truth is a stranger...Not always welcome by daylight.
Colin Greenland
