Quotes About Exploration

You must forge your own path for it to mean anything.

Well, I said. If you need me, I'll be outside, playing with sharp objects.

Powdered donuts, Tyson said earnestly. I will look for powdered donuts in the wilderness. He headed outside and started calling, Here, donuts!

Don't stay in one place too long. It was the only way to stay ahead of the sadness.

So which way now, Sacagawea? - Annabeth to Rachel

Until she met the exploding statue, Annabeth thought she was prepared for anything.

This is the Wilderness School. 'Where the Kids are animals

Dreams and death were old friends of his. He knew how to navigate their dark borderland.

We were just looking at maps...

All aboard for one last trip.

I'd been to the British museum before. In fact I've been in more museums than I like to admit—it makes me sound like a total geek. [That's Sadie in the background, yelling I am a total geek. Thanks, Sis.]

But it's your Oracle, I protested. Can't you tell us what the prophecy means? Apollo sighed. You might as well ask an artist to explain his art, or ask a poet to explain his poem. It defeats the purpose. The meaning is only clear through the search.

Go Chase A Donut. -Percy Jackson.

Carter started down the stairs, but I grabbed his arm. "Hang on. What about traps?" He frowned. "Traps?" "Didn't Egyptian tombs have traps?" "Well…sometimes. But this isn't a tomb. Besides, more often they had curses, like the burning curse, the donkey curse—" "Oh, lovely. That sounds so much better.

SEEKEST THOU THE CHOO-CHOO.

I've found that when one us searching for danger, it's never hard to find.

I mentally began composing a list of words that began with F: Frey. Father. False. Friend. Frick. Frack. And some others.

Armed with my sword and wand, I was all set for a stroll through the swamp to look for a hungry monster. Oh, joy!

One the next corner stood a cinder block restaurant with a hand-painted sign that read CHICKEN & WAFFLES. There was a queue of twenty people outside. "You Americans have the strangest taste. What planet is this?

What would you study, Percy?" "Dunno," he admitted. "Marine science," she suggested. "Oceanography?" "Surfing?" he asked. She laughed, and the sound sent a shock wave through the water. The wailing faded to background noise. Annabeth wondered if anyone had ever laughed in Tartarus before—just a pure, simple laugh of pleasure. She doubted it.

There's nothing here," Carter said. "What do you want?" I asked. "We've got wax, some toilet papyrus, an ugly statue.

The impossible is merely the possible for which we don't yet know the science

Live fully and without fear.

What is the glory in repeating whta others have done?