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Quotes About Exploration

Every movie I make. That's my hideout, the place I don't quite understand, but feel most at home.
~ Ang Lee
There comes a moment, when you get lost in the woods, when the woods begin to feel like home.
~ Jeffrey Eugenides
We carry our homes within us which enables us to fly.
~ John Cage
Reading dreams. That's what started her walking down the road. Every day she'd walk a little further: a mile, and come home. Two miles, and come home. One day she just kept on.
~ Truman Capote
The land created me. I'm wild and lonesome. Even as I travel the cities, I'm more at home in the vacant lots.
~ Bob Dylan
The first time that you escape from home or the small town that you live in - there's a reason a small town is called a small town: It's because not many people want to live there.
~ Billie Joe Armstrong
Land is the secure ground of home, the sea is like life, the outside, the unknown.
~ Stephen Gardiner
One road leads home and a thousand roads lead into the wilderness.
~ C. S. Lewis
Some people are born very far from home.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Why did not somebody teach me the constellations, and make me at home in the starry heavens, which are always overhead, and which I don't half know to this day?
~ Thomas Carlyle
Am I willing to go to Mars? Yes, but I'm not willing to spend nine months getting there, then wait 18 more months until the planets align to come home.
~ Eugene Cernan
Finding your way doesn't mean you always know where you're going. It's knowing how to find your way back home that's important.
~ Clare Vanderpool
Then in my early teens, when the home computer bubble was blowing, I had one of the first, an Acorn Atom, and used to write primitive adventures on that.
~ Graham Nelson
Take a look at the books other people have in their homes.
~ Jerzy Kosinski
Some do not walk at all; others walk in the highways; a few walk across lots.
~ Henry David Thoreau
We do not go to the green woods and crystal waters to rough it, we go to smooth it. We get it rough enough at home, in towns and cities.
~ George W. Sears
I had no books at home. I started to frequent a public library in Lisbon. It was there, with no help except curiosity and the will to learn, that my taste for reading developed and was refined.
~ Jose Saramago
I'm always on a train or a plane, so wherever I happen to be is home.
~ Keren Ann
We are pilgrims, not settlers; this earth is our inn, not our home.
~ John H. Vincent
Home is now behind you, the world is ahead!
~ J. R. R. Tolkien
Sometimes it feels good to take the long way home.
~ Carol Rifka Brunt
Round the world and home again, that's the sailor's way!
~ William Allingham
I'm not one for sightseeing or going around the shops when I'm on holiday. I do enough shopping when I'm at home, and like to have a complete break when I'm away.
~ Paloma Faith
Girls have to go somewhere dangerous every now and then just so they know they can find their way home.
~ Nicole Blackman