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Quotes About Explorer

He (the Shaman) is a self-reliant explorer of the endless mansions of a magnificent hidden universe.
~ Michael Harner
Before Columbus, all previous adventurers sailed close to the shore, within sight of land. That was the accepted way to sail. Columbus dared to be different. He refused to do what all others had done. He took a risk: he sailed perpendicular to the shore—straight out to sea. And because he let go of the known and had the bravery to sail out into the unknown, he became one of our greatest heroes.
~ Robin S. Sharma
In Jalalabad it was half past four in the afternoon. Tea was being served in the white mud house. The new messenger had been brought to the small hot room. She was a woman. Twenty-four years old, long black hair, skin the color of tea. She was wearing a white explorer shirt, full of loops and pockets, and khaki pants, and desert boots. She was standing at attention in front of the two men, who were sitting on their cushions. The
~ Lee Child
He lived in the Hotel Coma--named perhaps for some founder of the town, some California explorer or pioneer, or for some long-deceased Italian immigrant who founded only the hotel itself. Whoever it commemorated, the hotel was a poor monument, and Billy Tully had no intention of staying on.
~ Leonard Gardner
Not all those that wonder are lost.
~ Dwaine Mushimba
I had actually finished the manuscript of 'The Wild Trees' and turned it in to Random House when all of a sudden word came. Michael Taylor and his colleague, Chris Atkins, another explorer, have just knocked one out of the park. They found the world's tallest tree. The tree is named Hyperion, 379.1 feet tall.
~ Richard Preston
I have a friend whose father, a native of Liverpool, refused to eat pineapples his entire life because he held a grudge against Hawaiians for killing Britain's greatest explorer.
~ Sarah Vowell
I'm a thinker and feeler and dreamer and explorer.
~ Alyson Stoner
In my writing I am acting as a map maker, an explorer of psychic areas, a cosmonaut of inner space, and I see no point in exploring areas that have already been thoroughly surveyed.
~ William S. Burroughs
This land may be profitable to those that will adventure it.
~ Henry Hudson
Henry Hudson was in his forties when he stepped into the light of history, a seasoned mariner, a man with a strong and resourceful wife and three sons, a man born and raised not only to the sea but to the quest for a northern passage to Asia, who, weaned from infancy on the legends of his predecessors, probably couldn't help but be obsessed by it.
~ Russell Shorto
Might as well ask the once-popular Magic 8-Ball something. It got "Outlook not so good" right. I don't know if anyone ever asked it about Internet Explorer. 
~ Ryan North
As the life of the horse is in his legs, so the life of the traveler is in his feet, and good care should be taken of them.
~ Juliette de Bairacli Levy
I've always been a bit of a gypsy.
~ George Best
I am such a gypsy.
~ Jessie Buckley
This is the one who will find us. He's the one who will lead them all back to me someday. He's the explorer. El curioso.
~ Sandra Rodriguez Barron
He was now probably the world's leading authority on the greatest explorer of all time
~ Arthur C. Clarke
You're a persistent cuss, pilgrim
~ John Wayne
I see myself as a bit of a traveller. I am a workaholic.
~ Ricki-Lee Coulter
A month in and it seemed to CY that he was an explorer summiting the foothill of an a bizarre and primitive island.
~ Sarah Hall
I love being a very personal singer-songwriter, but I also like being a scientist or explorer.
~ Bjork
searching the sky from high above to below the horizon, gradually working around until he reached the right and the rear.
~ Jonathan Falconer
I'll go see what's in the building," she said. "Maybe it's somebody like me, somebody smarter who knows about electricity. Tomorrow morning I'll go see.
~ Greg Bear
Tomorrow morning before we depart, I intend to land and see what can be found in the neighborhood.
~ Christopher Columbus