Amundsen South Quotes & Sayings

I do most anxiously wish to see the highest degrees of education given to the higher degrees of genius and to all degrees of it, so much as may enable them to read and understand what is going on in the world and to keep their part of it going on right; for nothing can keep it right but their own vigilant and distrustful superintendence. — Thomas Jefferson

The man who doesn't read good books has no advantage over the fellow who can't read a line. — Mark Twain

I hate being too pretty. — Rachel Bilson

Lili lili birdbath
sitting on a dirtpath
minnow sat on the rim and drank
slipped and in the water she sank — Khaled Hosseini

Sometimes - there's God - so quickly! — Tennessee Williams

I don't really think of Valentines Day as much of a holiday, you should show love for people you care about everyday. — John O'Callaghan

Daft Punk wouldn't have normally fit into anything that was pop on the radio, but they just did it. — Danger Mouse

I can't' really sing a song unless I really connect with the lyrics. — Molly Ringwald

Well, what now? You have no job. I have no job. Wanna play Jenga? — Maureen Johnson

After the conquest of the South Pole by Amundsen who, by a narrow margin of days only, was in advance of the British Expedition under Scott, there remained but one great main object of Antarctic journeying - the crossing of the South Polar continent from sea to sea — Ernest Shackleton

To grow old is to lose everything. Aging, everybody knows it. Even when we are young, we glimpse it sometimes, and nod our heads when a grandfather dies. Then we row for years on the midsummer pond, ignorant and content. — Donald Hall

We must always remember with gratitude and admiration the first sailors who steered their vessels through storms and mists, and increased our knowledge of the lands of ice in the South. — Roald Amundsen

When you're huntin' somepin you're a hunter, an' you're strong. Can't nobody beat a hunter. But when you get hunted - that's different. Somepin happens to you. You ain't strong: maybe you're fierce, but you ain't strong. - Muley — John Steinbeck

And if the worst, or best, happens, and Death comes for you in the snow, he comes disguised as Sleep, and you greet him rather as a welcome friend than a gruesome foe. — Apsley Cherry-Garrard