Quotes About Discovery

After a year or two of keeping my head down and trying to pass myself off as a normal person, I made contact with the five other people at my university who were interested in writing; and through them, and some of my teachers, I discovered that there was a whole subterranean Wonderland of Canadian writing that was going on just out of general earshot and sight.

As we come to the end of ourselves, we open the door to discovering the One who created us anew. The One who can whisper to us who we really are as we pilgrim toward our truest and deepest selves.

Margaret Frith

The character and history of each child may be a new and poetic experience to the parent, if he will let it.

We are, always, poets, exploring possibilities of meaning in a world which is also all the time exploring possibilities.

That roads are for journeys, ma'am, not destinations

To move to a new place -- that's the greatest excitement. For a while you believe you carry nothing with you -- all is canceled from before, or cauterized, and you begin again and nothing will go wrong this time.

Learning is always rebellion... Every bit of new truth discovered is revolutionary to what was believed before.

Puedes fotografiar simplemente la realidad o puedes buscar -¿el qué? -Algo que pasa pero no se ve, aparece luego.

A city is a place where there is no need to wait for next week to get the answer to a question, to taste the food of any country, to find new voices to listen to and familiar ones to listen to again.

The world of maps is nice and flat and simple. It has areas for people and areas for monsters. What a shock it is to discover the world is round and the areas merge and nothing separates the monsters and ourselves; that we are all whirling around in space together and there isn't even a graceful way of falling off.

Never pass up new experiences [Scarlett], They enrich the mind." - Rhett Butler

A ssure you, the more I travel through time, the more I witness, the more I realize that there are things that are both strange and wonderful, far beyond human comprehension.

The two officers seemed more puzzled by Emily's costume than by the presence of a corpse in the Mercedes. Perhaps corpses were more regular.

Great-Uncle Powell, an archaeologist, had spent most of his time digging about in foreign parts.

Everything that anyone would ever look for is usually where they find it.

Books are enchanted. Books help me travel. Books help me breathe.

Opinions. Ideas. Possibilities. So many! How can I choose? Between bursts of lightning-swift energy, I enjoy peaceful moments when the whole world seems to be a flowing river of verse and all I have to do is learn how to swim.

Books are door-shaped portals carrying me across oceans and centuries, helping me feel less alone.

I fell into seed and nursery catalogs, discovering a new addiction I have never recovered from. Indeed, I feel quite virtuous when, reading a catalog with 150 old-fashioned and species roses in it, I order only fourteen.

Margery Allingham

Up the well known creek

Why must we climb away to the seal-less parts of the world?

I love traveling, because your escaping into life instead of hiding from it.