Expeditions Quotes

• A life lesson for me is, how do you muster the courage to take on a new risk? Whether it's starting up a business or taking on a new project or expedition. I think the risks that we take are all relative to the risk-taker.

  Anne Bancroft

  Travel, Life Lesson, Thinking

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• Nobody climbs mountains for scientific reasons. Science is used to raise money for the expeditions, but you really climb for the hell of it.

  Edmund Hillary

  Attitude, Science, Climbing

  "Wise Guys: Brilliant Thoughts and Big Talk from Real Men". Book by Allan Zullo, p. 5, 2005.

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• Dyspepsy is the ruin of most things: empires, expeditions, and everything else.

  Thomas de Quincey

  Empires, Ruins

  Autograph letter from De Quincey addressed to J.A. Hessey, December 3, 1823.

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• I can remember walking as a child. It was not customary to say you were fatigued. It was customary to complete the goal of the expedition.

  Katharine Hepburn

  Children, Journey, Hiking

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I hope I'm still alive to see an expedition set off for Mars.

  James Gunn

  Travel, Mars, Alive

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• So, for me, I make no difference whether I'm training with my shuttle crew or the Expedition crew. Of course, I think I want to take more care of the Expedition crew, because they're going to stay there for a long time.

  Philippe Perrin

  Travel, Thinking, Differences

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• They have just succeeded in raising the two thousand pounds here, by subscription, that was wanted towards an exploration fund, for fitting out an expedition, that will probably start for the interior of our continent next March.

  William John Wills

  Travel, Two, Next

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• We were now back at Smith Landing, and fired with a desire to make another Buffalo expedition on which we should have ampler time and cover more than a mere corner of the range.

  Ernest Thompson Seton

  Should Have, Desire, Buffalo

  Ernest Thompson Seton (2010). “The Arctic Prairies: A Canoe Journey”, p.33, BoD – Books on Demand

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• I am happy now, to recall that I was not only his son but his companion, and whenever there was a hunting expedition or any other pleasure, I was always with him.

  John Philip Sousa

  Travel, Son, Hunting

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• The constitution vests the power of declaring war in Congress; therefore no offensive expedition of importance can be undertaken until after they shall have deliberated upon the subject and authorized such a measure.

  George Washington

  Travel, War, 4th Of July

  George Washington (1836). “The Writings of George Washington: Being His Correspondence, Addresses, Messages, and Other Papers, Official and Private, Selected and Published from the Original Manuscripts; with a Life of the Author, Notes and Illustrations”, p.367

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• Writing a novel is not merely going on a shopping expedition across the border to an unreal land: it is hours and years spent in the factories, the streets, the cathedrals of the imagination.

  Janet Frame

  Writing, Years, Land

  Janet Frame (2001). “An Angel at My Table: The Complete Autobiography”, Womens PressLtd

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• The ultimate camping trip was the Lewis and Clark expedition.

  Dave Barry

  Travel, Journey, Camping

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• A review of summit day photographs will show that I was clothed in the latest, highest quality, high altitude gear, comparable, if not better, than that worn by the other members of our expedition.

  Anatoli Boukreev

  Travel, Quality, Gears

  Anatoli Boukreev, G. Weston DeWalt (2015). “The Climb: Tragic Ambitions on Everest”, p.260, St. Martin's Griffin

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• Consider what a romantic expedition you are on; take notes.

  Anne Boyd

  Inspirational, Travel, Notes

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• The troops were occasionally occupied in pursuing scattered bands going north or south, and on three occasions the large camp of Sitting Bull ventured south of the Canadian border, and important expeditions were sent against them.

  Nelson A. Miles

  Important, Troops, Borders

  NELSON A. MILES (1911). “SERVING THE REPUBLIC”

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• Also we will be carrying food and clothes for the Expedition Two crew. And as well as spare parts for the EVA that will be conducted from the station in the following months.

  Umberto Guidoni

  Travel, Two, Clothes

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• Now my eyes are turned from the South to the North, and I want to lead one more Expedition. This will be the last... to the North Pole.

  Ernest Shackleton

  Travel, Eye, Want

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• Raising funds for my fourth expedition proved to be very difficult.

  Louis Leakey

  Travel, Difficult, Fund

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• James's expedition to Scotland is wholly imaginary, though there appears to have been space for it during Henry's progress to the North to pay his devotions at Beverley Minster.

  Charlotte Mary Yonge

  Travel, Scotland, Space

  Charlotte Mary Yonge (2015). “Delphi Complete Novels of Charlotte Mary Yonge (Illustrated)”, p.7498, Delphi Classics

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• There must be a punitive expedition against the Jews in Russia, a punitive expedition which will expect: death sentence and execution. Then the world will see the end of the Jews is also the end of Bolshevism.

  Julius Streicher

  Travel, Russia, World

  "The Trial of the Germans" by Eugene Davidson, (p. 50), 1997.

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• An insuperable obstacle to rapid transit in Africa is the want of carriers, and as speed was the main object of the Expedition under my command, my duty was to lessen this difficulty as much as possible.

  Henry Morton Stanley

  Travel, Want, Obstacles

  Henry Morton Stanley (2002). “How I Found Livingstone in Central Africa”, p.31, Courier Corporation

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• We were in the Arabian Desert for nine months. And I was having the time of my life. It could have been an archeological expedition, a military expedition.

  Peter O'Toole

  Travel, Military, Nine

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• I go on expeditions for the same reason an estate agent sells houses - to pay the bills.

  Ranulph Fiennes

  House, Agents, Goes On

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• RAILROAD, n. The chief of many mechanical devices enabling us to get away from where we are to where we are no better off. For this purpose the railroad is held in highest favor by the optimist, for it permits him to make the transit with great expedition.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Science, Railroads, Purpose

  Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.176, 谷月社

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• Adventures happen only to those incapable of planning an expedition.

  Richard Evans Schultes

  Adventure, Planning, Incapable

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