Quotes About Exploration

As long as you are curious, you defeat age.

The child's progress does not depend only on his age, but also on being free to look around him.

As far as I'm concerned playing 'Dress Up' begins at the age of five, and never truly ends.

Up to the age of 14 I had not heard a note of anything before 1750, never heard a note of Bach, never heard anything after Wagner, and never heard any real jazz.

Some broad themes brought me where I am today. At a very young age, my hobby became thinking and finding connections.

I wanted to try something different. Most people my age go off to college; I thought I'd try out New York.

We have entered, almost without noticing, an age of exploration and discovery unparalleled since the Renaissance.

I'll never retire. The new millennium is the age of adventure as far as I am concerned. I'm going up a volcano and off into space.

We're going to draw a new map of the world, with French Polynesia as the centre of the Aquatic Age.

We in middle age require adventure.

Ours is the commencement of a flying age, and I am happy to have popped into existence at a period so interesting.

I can remember at the age of about six being fascinated by the planets and learning all about Mars and Venus and things.

I had this desire to see the world. I couldn't see any of it, but I saw it in my imagination, and that's why I always read books, and I could go to Mars or Middle Earth or the Hyborian age.

Heroic ages are not and never were sentimental and those daring conquistadores who conquered entire worlds for their Spain or Portugal received lamentably little thanks from their kings.

So, you know, I think the age of exploration is just beginning, not ending, on our planet.

I got into trad jazz, then modern jazz, then avant-garde jazz, between the ages of 16 to 18.

Middle age is when you find out where the action is so you can go someplace else.

Every age is an unknown country.

This is the year 1492. I am eighty-two years of age. The things I am going to tell you are things which I saw myself as a child and as a youth.

Age can be wonderful for red wine, but not for spacecraft.

When I was four, my mother insisted I get out of the car and find my own way home. Although I got lost, I did find my way home. It taught me the value of independence at an early age.

The Polar Express began with the idea of a train standing alone in the woods. I asked myself, What if a boy gets on that train? Where does he go?

When the traveler goes alone he gets acquainted with himself.

What's really important about shamanism is that there is another reality that you can personally discover...we are not alone.