Maps Quotes - Page 26

• A single glance at the map will make the reader acquainted with the position of the eastern coast of the island of Great Britain, as connected with the shores of the opposite continent.

  James F. Cooper

  Book, Islands, Opposites

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• ... I love walking my feet off. Gimme a map and a box of Band-Aids and I'm all set!

  Fran Drescher

  Feet, Band, Aids

  Fran Drescher (2002). “Cancer Schmancer”

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• Caesar was Rome's escape from communism. I expect no Caesar; I find on our map no Rubicon. But then I expect to see communistic madness rebuked and ended.

  Roswell Dwight Hitchcock

  Rome, Madness, Communism

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• I have studied humans for a small eternity. Intent infuses their every movement. Road maps to their inner navigation, plastered all over their skin. Born to be slaves.

  Karen Marie Moning

  Skins, Movement, Navigation

  Karen Marie Moning (2015). “Burned: Fever Series”, p.12, Delacorte Press

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• I stared at the creased map on my wall, the thin green line connecting all the places I had read about. There they were, all the cities of my imaginary future, held together with tape and marker and pins. In six months, a lot had changed. There was no thin green line that could lead me to my future anymore. Just a girl.

  Kami Garcia

  Girl, Wall, Cities

  Kami Garcia, Margaret Stohl (2013). “Beautiful Creatures: The Complete Series”, p.332, Penguin UK

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• Death was standing behind a lectern, poring over a map. He looked at Mort as if he wasn’t entirely there. You haven't heard of the bayof mante, have you? He said. “No, sir,” said Mort. Famous shipwreck there. “Was there?” there will be, said Death, if I can find the damn place.

  Terry Pratchett

  Said, Behinds, Standing

  "Mort". Book by Terry Pratchett, 1987.

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• There were no route maps posted on the walls, but a Wonderland-style sign commanding, 'If you know where you are, then please tell others.

  Elizabeth Wein

  Wall, Style, Wonderland

  Elizabeth Wein (2012). “Code Name Verity”, p.105, Egmont UK

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• This is our world, although the people who drew this map decided to put their own land on top of ours. There is no top or bottom, you see.

  Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

  Our World, Land, People

  Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (2008). “Half of a Yellow Sun”, p.12, Anchor

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• Moony, Wormtail, Padfoot, and Prongs,” sighed George, patting the heading of the map. “We owe them so much.” “Noble men, working tirelessly to help a new generation of law-breakers,” said Fred solemnly.

  J. K. Rowling

  Men, Noble Man, Law

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• There was a time when she had indulged in the hypothetical for hours a day, plotting the map that had led her here. But no life is a line, and hers was an uneven orbit around a dark star, a moth circling a dead bulb, searching for the light it once held.

  Anthony Marra

  Stars, Dark, Light

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• You almost hold up your piece of paper and say, ‘The girl I like just gave me a treasure map to herself.’ But you don’t. You just don’t.

  Laini Taylor

  Girl, Pieces, Paper

  Laini Taylor (2017). “Night of Cake and Puppets: A Daughter of Smoke and Bone Novella”, p.63, Hachette UK

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• Happiness is not a goal, it is a by-product. Paradoxically, the one sure way not to be happy is deliberately to map out a way of life in which one would please oneself completely and exclusively.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Business, Goal, Way

  Eleanor Roosevelt (1960). “You Learn by Living”, p.95, Westminster John Knox Press

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• Don't rely on others to show you the way. Carry your own map.

  Sir David Baird, 1st Baronet

  Confidence, Travel, Way

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• Whatever an education is, it should make you a unique individual, not a conformist; it should furnish you with an original spirit with which to tackle the big challenges. It should allow you to find values which will be your road map through life; it should make you spiritually rich, a person who loves whatever you are doing, wherever you are, whomever you are with; it should teach you what is important, how to live and how to die.

  John Taylor Gatto

  Learning, Unique, Challenges

  John Taylor Gatto (2017). “Dumbing Us Down: The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling”, p.53, New Society Publishers

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• What is it but a map of busy life,
  Its fluctuations, and its vast concerns?

  William Cowper

  Life, Busy, Fluctuation

  William COWPER (1835). “The works of his life and letters”, p.37

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• The globe has been circumnavigated, but no man ever yet has; you may survey a kingdom and note the result in maps, but all the savants in the world could not produce a reliable map of the poorest human personality.

  Alexander Smith

  Men, Personality, World

  Alexander Smith (1863). “Dreamthorp: A Book of Essays Written in the Country”, p.170

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• If we don't want to see the map of Central America covered in a sea of red, eventually lapping at our own borders, we must act now.

  Ronald Reagan

  America, Government, Sea

  Reagan, Ronald (1988). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Ronald Reagan, 1986”, p.297, Best Books on

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• The map of America is a map of endlessness, of opening out, of forever and ever. No man's face would make you think of it but his hope might, his courage might.

  Archibald MacLeish

  Men, Thinking, America

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• Foursquare makes maps special. We take maps that are blank and put dots on them to help you figure out what to do.

  Dennis Crowley

  Special, Dots, Helping

  "Dennis Crowley Of Foursquare On Social Search, Platforms And Rivals". Interview with Ingrid Lunden, techcrunch.com. March 16, 2013.

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• My university degree is in art and, yes, I do a lot of drawing for all my books. I have a big drafting table set up in a spare bedroom and I cover it with maps and house plans and sketches that I use in the books. Also, I truly love architecture, so that plays a big part in all my books.

  Jude Deveraux

  Art, Book, Play

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• As a piece of travel literature alone, 'The Ends of the Earth' succeeds in providing a tangible sense of the sweaty, smelly reality of many exotic points on the map, with glimpses of their cruelty but also, occasionally, of beauty and human kindness. As a piece of analysis, it is deeply thought-provoking.

  Francis Fukuyama

  Kindness, Reality, Thought Provoking

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• Greenpeace protesters who lived on the trees right above the planned radar location (Google Maps) and who eat environmentally friendly roots, insect, excrements, and dirt.

  Lubos Motl

  Roots, Tree, Google

  "https://motls.blogspot.ru/2009/09/czech-poland-missile-defense-system.html". motls.blogspot.ru. September 17, 2009.

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• I have lived
  in my body
  for years
  and still need
  maps and lights
  to find my way
  to how I feel.

  K.Michelle

  Light, Years, Needs

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• Because it is a 'use it or lose it' brain, when we develop a map area [in the brain], we long to keep it activated. Just as our muscles become impatient for exercise if we've been sitting all day.

  Norman Doidge

  Exercise, Use It Or Lose It, Long

  Norman Doidge (2007). “The Brain That Changes Itself: Stories of Personal Triumph from the Frontiers of Brain Science”, p.108, Penguin

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• Physiologically adult humans are not meant to spend an additional 10 years in a school system; their brains map that onto "I have been assigned low tribal status". And so, of course, they plot rebellion - accuse the existing tribal overlords of corruption plot, perhaps to split off their own little tribe in the savanna, not realizing that this is impossible in the Modern World.

  Eliezer Yudkowsky

  School, Years, Brain

  "Rebelling Within Nature". lesswrong.com. July 13, 2008.

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