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Quotes About Exploration

Take the road less traveled...there's less traffic!!!
~ Monika Zands
I learn by going where I have to go
~ Theodore Roethke
Every 'no' is a 'yes' to something.
~ Eric Micha'el Leventhal
On land there was no choice. You conformed to the rigid structures others had left behind. But out there on the bay, it was different. Everything was fluid. Go here, go there. No signs, no narrow lanes, no walls, no paths worn into the water. Out there you were restricted only by the draft of your boat, your energy and will. Your imagination.
~ James W. Hall
Cherishing Columbus is a characteristic of white history, not American history.
~ James W. Loewen
Therefore we set out diligently to explore and map these untrodden regions of the mind.
~ James Wasserman
They fought the Indians and then they fought the British, comprising 40 percent of the Revolutionary War army. They were the great pioneers— Daniel Boone, Lewis and Clark, and Davy Crockett among them— blazing the westward trails into Kentucky , Ohio, Tennessee, and beyond, where other Scots-Irishmen like Kit Carson picked up the slack.
~ James Webb
The house of fiction has many windows, but only two or three doors.
~ James Wood
And worst of all, what if you don't know what you like at all? What if nothing sticks? Then you spend half your life wondering what it is you're supposed to be doing next. What happens after that?
~ Jami Attenberg
Playing with them was boring, and it wasn't even their fault. It was just the notion of playing itself. She had never gotten the hang of it, even when she was a child. You needed to be able to adopt a personality other than your own in order to fully immerse yourself in the world of play, and it was burden enough carrying her own self around.
~ Jami Attenberg
When you slide down a mountain, or jump off a cliff, you accept the not knowing. Don't tell me how it ends; let me see for myself.
~ Jami Attenberg
Indiana Jones is very much an old-world kind of hero. He doesn't really have any kind of superpower or rely on any kind of technology to help him out of things.
~ Jamie Bell
This is the danger of reading. One never knows what will be stumbled upon, what old embers may leap again to flame. p 241
~ Jamie Langston Turner
If you just watch a teenager, you see a lot of uncertainty.
~ Jamie Lee Curtis
[Hiking] is the best workout!... You can hike for three hours and not even realize you're working out. And, hiking alone lets me have some time to myself.
~ Jamie Luner
Like butterflies in Spring Poetry awakens the Spirit, stirs the imagination and explores the possibilities with each stroke of its rhythmic wings.
~ Jamie Lynn Morris
He says he knows someone isn't from the same race as he when that person looks at his library and asks, 'Have you read all of these?' A true book lover knows that, no, he hasn't read them all. It's about the process, it's about when the right reference comes up, you have the right book to go to; it's about never being without something to occupy your eyes and mind.
~ Jamie S. Rich
There's time enough, though. Time enough to learn everything about one another. That's the adventure. And the longer it takes just means we'll never get bored.
~ Jamie S. Rich
One of the most amazing locations I've ever been is the top of the volcano in Tanzania, Africa. It's an actual volcano where you really have this lava every day.
~ Jan de Bont
How do you know a piece is finished?:) It's never finished. The subject is never exhausted. -Louise Bourgeois
~ Jan Greenberg
School always appeared to me like a prison, and I could never make up my mind to stay there, when the sunshine was inviting, the sea smooth, and when it was such a joy to run about in the free air, or to paddle around in the water." Claude Monet
~ Jan Hunt
Dare to open the door for see the differences in life.
~ Jan Jansen
We all feel not Comfortable on the same place.
~ Jan Jansen
If we are one with the nature, it can bring us everywhere.
~ Jan Jansen Easy Branches