Quotes About Exploration

Everyone always said you have to make it in the States. But I always thought the best way was to make it in South America first.

I've never been to Barcelona, I'd like to go there; also South America.

I was lucky enough to go to South America and kayak on the Amazon and camp in the jungle in 2011.

We get to travel to Siberia, Japan, China, Australia, South America and even the little cities all around America. It's probably my favorite thing about being in a band.

I love to drive in the Black Hills of Wyoming and South Dakota with Mount Rushmore as the central stop.

As a young boy growing up on the South Side of Chicago, I was inspired by the nascent space age.

Pretend you're a southern sheriff. Or Mae West. Or Donald Duck. Buy a western hat and walk around the house like a cowboy. The point of all this, of course, is to draw yourself out of your accustomed groove.

I concentrate on the southern African subcontinent.

My life changed forever the first time I went to the southern hemisphere.

Food is a way to explore culture and ground the story in a specific time and place. I still remember the meals and snacks from my first novel, 'Shug': pork chops and applesauce and Coca-Cola and peanuts, which are very Southern. When a character has roots elsewhere, food is a way to connect with home and another culture.

Cruising on the old rice boats in Kerala, southern India, with my wife was amazing.

We used to spend a lot of time as kids in Northern Ireland, on the border and in southern Ireland as well.

I grew up in the age of discount air fare, and for me, the act of joining a culture was a great way about learning about that different culture. So I grew up in the South, and went to college in the North, and found out that I learned about myself as a Southerner by leaving the South and going to the Northeast.

The people who built the space program - both Soviet and U.S. - were readers of science fiction.

Before we had airplanes and astronauts, we really thought that there was an actual place beyond the clouds, somewhere over the rainbow. There was an actual place, and we could go above the clouds and find it there.

The dinosaurs became extinct because they didn't have a space program.

When you launch in a rocket, you're not really flying that rocket. You're just sort of hanging on.

The heart looks into space to be away from earth.

Man must at all costs overcome the Earth's gravity and have, in reserve, the space at least of the Solar System.

There is just one thing I can promise you about the outer-space program - your tax-dollar will go further.

The feeling is constantly growing on me that I had been the first to hear the greeting of one planet to another.

I think humans will reach Mars, and I would like to see it happen in my lifetime.

As an astronaut, especially during launch, half of the risk of a six-month flight is in the first nine minutes.

I believe that there may be intelligent life on other planets.