Quotes About Exploration

cat that got into the cream pot

I carried recipes in my head like maps.

The day stretched out in front of him like an empty road in the desert.

But stories are worlds. New worlds for us to visit. In stories, we live forever.

Anos de viagens com a minha mãe ensinaram-se que a comida é o passaporte universal. Quaisquer que sejam as barreiras de lingua, cultura ou geografia, a comida atravessa todas as fronteiras.

Caelum non animum mutant, qui trans mare currant. They change the sky, not their souls, that run across the ocean.

You might have to lose control before you could find out what you'd been missing.

I sometimes wonder if it is just me, or if there are other women who figure out where they are supposed to be by going nowhere.

I am Alice in Wonderland', Josie thought. 'Watch me fall.

When she wanted to escape her life, she read books

I wondered about the explorers who'd sailed their ships to the end of the world. How terrified they must have been when they risked falling over the edge; how amazed to discover, instead, places they had seen only in their dreams.

It felt like I'd been living underground, and for a moment, I'd been given this glimpse of the sky. Once you've seen that, how can you go back where you came from?

I think that when you live in a world with limits... when you've met everyone and seem everything you're going to see - you lose the hope that something extraordinary will happen in your life

If you never go out on that limb, you're missing a hell of a view.

I don't know why it's called getting lost. Even when you turn down the wrong street, when you find yourself at the dead end of a chain-link fence or a road that turnd to sand, you are somewhere. It just isn't where you expected to be.

When you can not find someone, it is because you've been misdirected to look elsewhere

When this is over...we will got to the rainforest, or a beach as white as bone. We will eat grapes from the vine, we will swim with sea turtles, we will walk miles on cobblestone streets. We will laugh and talk and confess. We will.

There is a fine line between seeing something that's lost as missing, and seeing it as something that might be found.

Imagine a world that seemed so much bigger than you. Imagine waking up one morning and finding a piece of yourself you didn't even know existed.

If you choose to go looking for something, you'd better be ready for whatever it is you find. Because it may not be what you've been expecting.

After all, once you know that part of something exists, it stands to reason that the rest of it is somewhere out there, too.

When you don't know where you're headed, you find places no one else would ever think to explore.

Imagine waking up one morning and finding a piece of yourself you didn't even know existed.

until we do what has not yet been done, what has not been done shall remain undone