Quotes about Maps

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That old man over thereIs selling trinkets made of stonesThat old woman the entire worldIn a map without any hole! — Avijeet Das
A ship that sails without a compass will get lost at sea. — Matshona Dhliwayo
I am an agnostic on most matters of faith, but on the subject of maps I have always been a true believer. It is on the m — Tony Horwitz, One for the Road: An Outback Adventure
Life has no map; it's made of random events, always caused by something beyond your control. — Bangambiki Habyarimana, Pearls Of Eternity
The open road, at night, looks like life.There's only what's in front of you, insufficiently lit. — William S. Friday, A Death on Skunk Street
The memory of the pain did not destroy the reality of the pleasure — grief did not obliterate joy.
The map? I will first make it. — Patrick White, Voss
There are map people whose joy is to lavish more attention on the sheets of colored paper than on the colored land rolli — John Steinbeck
Consulting maps can diminish the wanderlust that they awaken,as the act of looking at them can replace the act of travel — Judith Schalansky, Atlas of Remote Islands
There are several other sources of enjoyment in a long voyage, which are of a more reasonable nature. The map of the wor — Charles Darwin, Voyage of the Beagle
Maps are essential. Planning a journey without a map is like building a house without drawings. — Mark Jenkins, The Hard Way: Stories of Danger, Survival, and the Soul of Adventure
The barrier to our future is often the very plans that we’ve created to get there. — Craig D. Lounsbrough
A map does not just chart, it unlocks and formulates meaning; it forms bridges between here and there, between disparate — Reif Larsen, The Selected Works of T.S. Spivet
Even after three hundred maps have been handed out, Ama and I still melt the moment people switch from being suspicious — Becky Cooper, Mapping Manhattan: A Love (And Sometimes Hate) Story in Maps by 75 New Yorkers
I have studied humans for a small eternity. Intent infuses their every movement. Road maps to their inner navigation, pl — Karen Marie Moning, The Alpha Alternative: JZB Sex Scene
A labyrinth is a symbolic journey . . . but it is a map we can really walk on, blurring the difference between map and w — Rebecca Solnit, Wanderlust: A History of Walking
To put a city in a book, to put the world on one sheet of paper -- maps are the most condensed humanized spaces of all.. — Robert Harbison, Eccentric Spaces
A story is a map of the world. A gloriously colored and wonderful map, the sort one often sees framed and hanging on the — Catherynne M. Valente, The Boy Who Lost Fairyland
When I looked at a map in town, Rhode Island seemed lost up there in the corner. A state so small and crowded, there did — Michelle Hoover, The Quickening
Arrogance is a map of a road that leads to bridges that are out. — Craig D. Lounsbrough