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This quote is just one of 5 total Matthew Henson quotes in our collection. Matthew Henson is known for saying 'I think I'm the first man to sit on top of the world.' as well as some of the following quotes.
As I stood there on the top of the world and I thought of the hundreds of men who had lost their lives in the effort to reach it [North Pole], I felt profoundly grateful that I had the honor of representing my race.
I have reason to be grateful to Dr. Cook for favors received; I lived with his folks while I was suffering with my eyes, due to snow blindness, but I feel that all of the debts of gratitude have been liquidated by my silence in this controversy, and I will have nothing more to say in regard to him or to his claims.
We had no faith in (Cook) whatever. He was not even good for a day's work, and the idea of his making such an astounding claim as having reached the Pole was so ludicrous that, after our laugh, we dropped the matter altogether.
This quote is just one of 5 total Matthew Henson quotes in our collection. Matthew Henson is known for saying 'I think I'm the first man to sit on top of the world.' as well as some of the following quotes.