Quotes About Circumnavigation

I circumnavigated the globe while I was sitting in a prison. It was wonderful because I kept defeating those walls they put around me.

Round the world and home again, that's the sailor's way!

Round the world and home again, that's the sailor's way!

I'll put a girdle round about the earthIn forty minutes.

as nowhere else on earth, the sea girdles the globe

Maya felt the turbulent maelstrom of emotions inside her, stirred by all she had seen on her circumnavigation, by all that had happened and all that was going to happen... ah, the floods within her, the flash floods in her mind! If only she could accomplish the same yoking of her spirit that they had with this aquifer - drain it, control it, make it sane. But the hydrostatic pressures were so intense, the outbreaks when they came so fierce. No pipeline could hold it.

Then he turned and headed straight for home, but he took the long way, around the world.

but leaving from Plymouth and returning to Plymouth now seems like leaving from

We shall not cease from exploration And the end of all our exploring Will be to arrive where we started And know the place for the first time . . .

Round the World! There is much in that sound to inspire proud feelings; but whereto does all that circumnavigation conduct? Only through numberless perils to the very point whence we started, where those that we left behind secure, were all the time before us.

Round the world! There is much in that sound to inspire proud feelings; but whereto does all that circumnavigation conduct? Only through numberless perils to the very point whence we started, where those that we left behind secure, were all the time before us.      Were

I'm still not used to the idea of being the youngest circumnavigator.

A liar can go around the world, but can never come back.

From the time we left that bay until the present day, we sailed fourteen thousand four hundred and sixty leagues"—nearly sixty thousand miles—"and furthermore completed the circumnavigation of the world from east to west.

The previous circumnavigation came to a tragic conclusion fifty-five years earlier

Mandeville argued that it was possible for people to circumnavigate the globe, but he warned

When I circumnavigated the globe the outcome didn't really matter, it was about a goal I'd set myself, but sustainability is part of all our lives