Top 15 Quotes About Voyages Of Discovery
#1. One might almost say that the history of geographical discovery, properly so called, begins with Captain Cook, the motive of whose voyages was purely scientific curiosity.
Joseph Jacobs
#2. Take up our quarrel with the foe: To you from falling hands we throw.
John McCrae
#3. What can we gain by sailing to the moon if we are not able to cross the abyss that separates us from ourselves? This is the most important of all voyages of discovery, and without it all the rest are not only useless but disastrous.
Thomas Merton
#5. Writing, like life itself,
is a voyage of discovery.
Henry Miller
#6. Agribusiness could provide an opportunity for joint Israeli-Palestinian projects, spurred on by Israeli technical expertise in this field.
Edgar Bronfman, Sr.
#7. We live not alone but chained to a creature of a different kingdom: our body.
Marcel Proust
#9. To many people holidays are not voyages of discovery, but a ritual of reassurance.
Phillip Adams
#10. How aware were photographers in the past of other visual arts? "No photographer of any distinction at all could approach his work without some awareness of what was going on in other visual media, and for that matter neither the painter nor the draughtsman could ignore photography."
Aaron Scharf
#11. As soon as the news of the Cabot voyages reached the King of Portugal he arranged to send an expedition of discovery to the far north-west, perhaps to find a northern sea route to Eastern Asia.
Harry Johnston
#12. Writing to me is a voyage, an odyssey, a discovery, because I'm never certain of precisely what I will find.
Gabriel Fielding
#13. The first real thing I heard was Three O'Clock Blues by B.B. King. That's where it all began for me.
Robin Trower
#14. Democracy is a very bad form of government ... but all the others are so much worse.
Winston Churchill
#15. Every day is not just another assignment; it is a small, but contained voyage of discovery.
David Doubilet
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