Quotes About Discovery

You can never cross the ocean unless you have the courage to lose sight of the shore.

Christopher Columbus

Following the light of the sun, we left the Old World.

the truth doesn't hide, but it sure as fuck ain't easy to find.

The film is about Joe discovering who his mother and father are and his relationship with them, and the identity crisis he goes through once he finds out who his parents are.

Second hand bookshops are best visited alone and in the rain.

Poetry is the language in which man explores his own amazement.

For surely there is a certain level of ignorance that is necessary at the start of a love affair.

I've met the most interesting people while flying or on a boat. These methods of travel seem to attract the kind of people I want to be with.

No matter how deep we have gone, there is more.

There's a lot to do when you have a baby. The first thing, which is taking me a really long time: I have to figure out who the father is.

Wohin ich dich auch führen werde, es wird das Leben sein.

One ought to go too far, in order to know how far one can go.

On we went over low-lying passes till we came to the source of the Brahmaputra, which the Tibetans call the Tsangpo.

There were only three names on the map of the region we had brought with us, but we now filled in more than two hundred.

shall always remember the next day for one of the most beautiful experiences I have ever had. As we marched forward we caught sight, after a while, of the gleaming golden towers of a monastery in the far distance. Above them, shining superbly in the morning sun, were tremendous walls of ice, and we gradually realised that we were looking at the giant trio Dhaulagiri, Annapurna and Manaslu. As

Thirty-seven years later I found out for whom he had been searching: Charlotte Lobjoie, a woman who had born him a son, Jean Marie, in March 1918.40

Good thing life's a journey, even if you have to backtrack to find your way.

That is a pity; they must have known about whole worlds that we cannot touch.

It's a funny thing how everyone wants to go to the bottom of the world.

In a world without air all you breathe is adventure!

It must be quite hard when you're a parent and you find out that your children's dreams are nothing like the dreams you've had for them.

Those proud of keeping an orderly desk never know the thrill of finding something they thought they had irretrievably lost.

We were opposites in every way until we grew up, left home, and discovered we were more alike than we'd thought. Sisters only get to be opposites within the family; separated by the world, they become practically identical.