Quotes About Discovery

I wasn't originally taking drama, but the drama teacher asked me to audition for Bye, Bye Birdie. I did and got the lead role. Initially I was kind of scared, but once I did it I got bitten by the bug and loved it.

You can spend your life looking for knowledge while all along it was right in front of you.

Up to this point, all I knew were beaten paths, tattooed with footprints, and I had come to the understanding that they were not much fun to travel because so many people were waiting for you at the end, wondering what took you so long.

They say, Find a purpose in your life and live it. But, sometimes, it is only after you have lived that you recognize your life had a purpose, and likely one you never had in mind.

Dhoondta phirta hoon main, ai Iqbal, apney aap ko Aap hi goya musaafir, aap hi manzil hoon main.

Dhoondta phirta hoon main, ai Iqbal, apney aap ko aap hee goya musaafir, aap hee manzil hoon main. (O Iqbal, I go about everywhere looking for myself As if I was the wayfarer as well as the destination.)

Life is still an unfolding,the farther we travel the more truth we can comprehend, and to understand the things that are at our door is the best preparation for understanding those that lie beyond.

By 1609 Strachey, like other Englishmen, knew that Seagull's words were not true. He knew that no diamonds had been found on Virginia's beaches, that no golden chamber pots had been discovered. But he also knew that the land across the Atlantic still held hope for men like himself who wanted to flee their problems in search of a new opportunity. And so, in the spring of 1609, William Strachey decided that Virginia was the answer to his troubles.

Even after its discovery, Bermuda remained a no-man's-land. The maze of reefs and coral heads that nearly surround the islands make approaching the Bermudas a scary business.

As she was making her way back up the sand, she sudd[unclear] Mia exclaim, The cookies are gone!" "What?" [unclear]rushed to her. They looked[unclear] the empty package.

Then she had been a fiancee, a young wife, and a mother, and she had discovered that these words were far too small ever to contain the experience.

The one thing to remember about an adventure is that if it turns out the way you expect it to, it has not been an adventure at all.

Even if you don't find what you think you're looking for, darling, it's the going out and looking for it that counts.

The less we cement ourselves to our certainties, the fuller our lives can be.

Too many people surrender to a place of safety. That place where all they do is long to sleep so they can dream about living. Even if you don't find what you think you're looking for, darling, it's the going out and looking for it that counts. That is the only way you can know you have lived.

Until now, she had known herself only as a person who yearned. A woman who had what she wanted was a stranger to her. But here, in this faraway temple, that stranger was finally within sight.

Kim Gruenenfelder

It takes a while to understand that there is something out there bigger than you, something greater than what you've designed for yourself.

Somewhere during Darwin's long journey, however, his ideas about the world shifted and he began peering at it freshly, from a different point of view. That shift ultimately led him to

Science was many things, Nadia thought, including a weapon with which to hit other scientists.

Ultimately, the intoxication of exploration seemed to draw her further from god rather than closer.

It was us, I thought. Jamie and me. We had fallen down a rabbit hole, fallen into Susan's house, and nothing made sense, not at all, not anymore.

People used to draw dragons on the edges of old maps. When the world hadn't been fully explored, mapmakers imagined dragons living at the far ends.

That's your map of the past. What's in the map of your future?" I stared at her. "What do you want?" she persisted. I had no idea. When I'd first been evacuated I'd wanted to be like the girl riding the pony, racing the train. Now I was. Parts of me were still jumbled—but maybe that girl had been jumbled too. I'd only seen her from the outside.