Quotes About Exploration

Every morning I wake up with new ideas.

I don't promise to forget the mystery, but I know I'll have a marvelous time.

I have a hunch from reading about old passageways that there may be one or more rooms off this tunnel," Nancy told Captain Rossland.

I have to find her. I check out hiding places in the lanes, behind bushes. A place where a boy could pull in a girl for a quick kiss. But there's nobody.

Go on,"Lexy said. "What do you want to be today?

Go and you will see that nothing is as wonderful as our dreams can make it

Through his stamps he had become an eager and gregarious armchair traveler, a man with a spyglass at the window, even a raconteur. But he wouldn't ever really go anywhere, would he? It isn't in him to leave. It's the fact of the village behind him, its Norman stones and ancient mortar, its know quantities?this is what sets him free. For him, at least, just imagining the world is quite enough, as much as he can bear, in fact.

I)t is in curiosity, first, and then in knowledge and reflection that freedom rests.

As we all know, there is no underwear in space.

But George actually does have a point, because you know when they send out those space probes and they beam back footage of what it looks like up there? All those films ever show are sand and rocks. I've never seen a bra in any of that footage.

People are always looking into the dark, Zara. We're afraid of what we might see. It might be the dark outside, it might be the dark of our own souls, but I figure it's better to get caught looking than to never know. You get me?

People are always looking into the dark. We're afraid of what we might see. It might be the dark outside, it might be the dark of our own souls, but I figure it's better to get caught looking that to never know.

Anywhere I roam, where I lay my head is home.

We are homesick most for the places we have never known.

We don't sail because the sea is there. We sail because there's a harbour. We don't start by heading for distant shores. We seek protection first.

No, he hadn't known anything about children, but now he'd learned something: a child's mind is open to everything.

There comes a time in the life of a sailor when he no longer belongs ashore. It's then that he surrenders to the Pacific, where no land blocks the eye, where sky and ocean mirror each other until above and below have lost their meaning, and the Milky Way looks like the spume of a breaking wave and the globe itself rolls like a boat in the midst of the sinking and heaving surf of that starry sky, and even the sun is nothing but a tiny glowing dot of phosphorescence on the sea of the night.

With no other choices open to us, we'd turned our gaze seaward. The oceans were our America: they reached farther than any prairie, untamed as on the first day of creation. Nobody owned them.

Novels are about exploring unexplored territory in the human experience or, at least, drawing new maps of old lands.

time they began that lonely journey into

He walked around the counter and out into the great room, a large stone-walled space centered around a gigantic flat-screen TV and an entertainment system capable of reaching out into the stars and catching talk shows live from outer space, if outer space had talk shows, which so far it did not.

Suddenly there was a month to kill. I decided I wanted to spend it in warmth, so with a hundred bucks in my shoe (good place to hide it), I stuck out my thumb and arrived in Miami two days later.

Suddenly there was a month to kill. I decided I wanted to spend it in warmth, so with a hundred bucks in my show (good place to hide it), I stuck out my thumb and arrived in Miami two days later.

those who seek the lost Lord will find traces of His being and beauty in all that men have made, from music and poetry and sculpture to the gingerbread men in the pâtisseries, from the final calculation of the pure mathematician to the first delighted chalk drawing of a small child.