Expeditions quotes:

Send

I go on expeditions for the same reason an estate agent sells houses - to pay the bills. -- Ranulph Fiennes
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
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
Expeditions are escapism. The stuff that we're normally concerned about just doesn't matter out there. Tax returns, gas bill, none of it. Life becomes very simple, it's about moving in a certain direction - north if you're going north - staying warm and not getting eaten. That's it. -- Ben Saunders
The real work of an expedition begins when you return. -- Louise Boyd
Consider what a romantic expedition you are on; take notes. -- Anne Boyd
The ultimate camping trip was the Lewis and Clark expedition. -- Dave Barry
Raising funds for my fourth expedition proved to be very difficult. -- Louis Leakey
Dyspepsy is the ruin of most things: empires, expeditions, and everything else. -- Thomas de Quincey
I hope I'm still alive to see an expedition set off for Mars. -- James Gunn
Mountain climbing is my passion, and to empower women through my expeditions is the reason. -- Samina Baig
I have actually led more expeditions to Antarctica than Scott, Amundsen, and Shackleton put together. -- Paul Watson
All our projects are like fabulous expeditions. The story of each project is unique. Our projects have no precedent. -- Christo
Many people think all I do is some random engineering work in between caving expeditions. It's been far more deliberate than that. -- William Stone
Mountain climbing is my passion, and to empower women through my expeditions is the reason. I am doing the mountain climbing to empower women. -- Samina Baig
I believe we need a more opportunistic and democratic approach to lunar exploration, now that we're shifting from U.S. government-sponsored space exploration to private expeditions. -- Naveen Jain
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
The Sherpas play a very important role in most mountaineering expeditions, and in fact many of them lead along the ridges and up to the summit. -- Edmund Hillary
Nova Scotia as a British colony also came into being as another result of these adventurous British expeditions to North America in the reign of James I. -- Harry Johnston
Exploring Mars is a far different venture from Apollo expeditions to the moon; it necessitates leaving our home planet on lengthy missions with a constrained return capability. -- Buzz Aldrin
When, in 1949, I decided to join the little band of early explorers who had followed Albert Claude in his pioneering expeditions, electron microscopy was still in its infancy. -- Christian de Duve
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
--
I don't like expeditions where it is a total lottery whether you live or die. You have to keep those sort of good luck cards for rare occasions! -- Bear Grylls
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
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
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
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
I think that women on expeditions often get sucked into giving 150 percent of themselves because they feel they have to prove themselves physically equal to men. We get ourselves into trouble and burn out. -- Ann Bancroft
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
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
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
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
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
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
Why should man's first flight to the moon be a matter of national competition? Why should the United States and the Soviet Union, in preparing for such expeditions, become involved in immense duplications of research, construction and expenditure? -- John F. Kennedy
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
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
The negative cost of Lewis and Clark entering the Garden of Eden is that later expeditions regardless of what they were intended to do, later expeditions did not deal with the native peoples with the intelligence with the almost kindly resolve that Lewis and Clark did. -- William Least Heat Moon
What sets a canoeing expedition apart is that it purifies you more rapidly and inescapably than any other travel. Travel a thousand miles by train and you are a brute; pedal five hundred miles on a bicycle and you remain basically a bourgeois; paddle a hundred in a canoe and you are already a child of nature. -- Pierre Trudeau
For many years I thought my job was to go to places where it would be difficult for most of the readers to ever get to. Now, in the more than 20 years I've been doing this, the concept of adventure-travel trips or expeditions by groups has sprung up. The places I went 20 years ago now have adventure-travel trips. -- Tim Cahill
People love watching crazy expeditions -- Matt Prior
The search for a scapegoat is the easiest of all hunting expeditions. -- Dwight D. Eisenhower
I don't write novels about expeditions to the planet Mars because I haven't been there and I don't know anything about it. -- Amos Oz
If we ever have children and they become climbers I'll tell them, Stay away from expeditions. They'll make you poor and neurotic. -- Greg Child
Herbalife has been a part of the most challenging expeditions that I've done and the products have become a really critical and ongoing part my diet. -- Sebastian Copeland
--
And yet we knew, for a certainty, that when first emissaries of Earth went walking among the planets, Earth's other sons would be dreaming not about such expeditions but about a piece of bread. -- Stanislaw Lem
And yet we knew, for a certainty, that when first emissaries of Earth went walking among the planets, Earth's other sons would be dreaming not about such expeditions but about a piece of bread. -- Stanislaw Lem
The only useful information about the market will be what I create through expeditions into the market, through testing and probing, trial and error, by selling real products to real people who pay real money. -- Clayton Christensen

Send