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Quotes About Explorer

Be it determined, however, that each one this records is given by means of a man who, in line with his personal assertion, become only at one of the islands, and remained there however two weeks, slumbering every night on board his ship, and taking little child-glove excursions ashore within the sunlight hours, attended by an armed birthday celebration.
~ Herman, 1819-1891 Melville
Like most of the others, I was a seeker, a mover, a malcontent, and at times a stupid hell-raiser.
~ Hunter S. Thompson
I love 'Yo Gabba Gabba!' because it's a real kids' show. There hasn't been a real kids' show since 'Dora the Explorer.' It mixes hip-hop with being a kid. Hip-hop came from youths anyway. It's just a great, funky show.
~ Biz Markie
Every seaman is not only a navigator, but a merchant and also a soldier.
~ William Petty
I don't quite know why, but I felt somehow that Linda had been once more deceived in her emotions, that this explorer in the sandy waste had seen only another mirage. The lake was there, the trees were there, the thirsty camels had gone down to have their evening drink; alas, a few steps forward would reveal nothing but dust and desert as before.
~ Nancy Mitford
There's nothing I would like more than to watch a manned Mars landing.
~ Andy Weir
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~ Thomas J. Stanley
The great decision was the Explorer program. The thing we did not do well is that we allowed and somewhat encouraged too much exposure to the program.
~ Astro Teller
Like all motherless girls, Leni would become an emotional explorer, trying to uncover the lost part of her, the mother who carried and nurtured and loved her. Leni would become both mother and child; to her, mama would still grow and age. She would never be gone, not as long as Leni remembered her.
~ Kristin Hannah
Though I am long dead as you read this, explorer, I offer to you a valediction. Contemplate the marvel that is existence, and rejoice that you are able to do so. I feel I have the right to tell you this because, as I am inscribing these words, I am doing the same.
~ Ted Chiang
Though I am long dead as you read this, explorer, I offer to you a valediction. Contemplate the marvel that is existence, and rejoice that you are able to do so. I feel I have a right to tell you this because, as I am inscribing these words, I am doing the same.
~ Ted Chiang
Our field is very focused on finding Earth 2.0, and anything we can do to narrow the search is helpful.
~ Debra Fischer
My grandparents were from Kentucky - I'm related to Daniel Boone. He was my great-great-great uncle.
~ Dennis Hopper
I am an underwater explorer, not a treasure hunter.
~ Robert Ballard
I think I have more stamps in my passport than most stamp collectors have in their collections.
~ John Rhys-Davies
I've become quite a serious explorer: I've been to Everest three times; I'm the oldest man to reach the North Pole; and I've just been to the lost world of Venezuela.
~ Brian Blessed
Treading the soil of the moon, palpating its pebbles, tasting the panic and splendor of the event, feeling in the pit of one's stomach the separation from terra... these form the most romantic sensation an explorer has ever known...
~ Vladimir Nabokov
together with Alfonso Gonçalves Baldaya, returned to Cape Bojador;
~ Laurence Bergreen
For an explorer in need of financial backing, Cristóbal de Haro was the ideal friend;
~ Laurence Bergreen
But Mesquita found Andrés de San Martín, the esteemed astronomer-astrologer; Hernando Morales
~ Laurence Bergreen
The Magellan of February teetered on the brink of being murdered by the men he commanded.
~ Laurence Bergreen
The will covered every eventuality that might befall a great explorer such as Magellan—except
~ Laurence Bergreen
Magellan brought a prominent personage with him: Ruy Faleiro, a mathematician, astronomer, and nautical scholar.
~ Laurence Bergreen
longer was he Fernão de Magalhães; in Spain, he became known as Hernando de Magallanes.
~ Laurence Bergreen