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Quotes About Exploration

I had wanted to become a novelist before I even knew how to read, back when I could only consume books by having them read to me, and none of them seemed long enough. They left too many questions unanswered, too many ramifications unexplored.
~ Elif Batuman
He was the only other Turkish person I had ever met who was actually interested in some specific field of knowledge, and who wasn't just automatically doing medicine, engineering, or the thing they called "management.
~ Elif Batuman
so I preferred to take highly specific classes with interesting titles, even when I hadn't taken the prerequisites and had no idea what was going on. I could see how my way might be called aesthetic.
~ Elif Batuman
Malin opened the glass sliding door and the dog sailed out over the dunes and started doing everything at once: peeing and frolicking and scrabbling in the sand. There was the ocean, like a recurring character you forgot about for long stretches.
~ Elif Batuman
We're all just trying to find our way
~ Elin Hilderbrand
What would being a twenty-one-year-old in 2019 look like? Kirby couldn't begin to imagine.)
~ Elin Hilderbrand
aspiring fashionista, a dedicated jogger, a world explorer, an enthusiastic foodie, and a grateful three-year
~ Elin Hilderbrand
Maia's greatest desire when she grows up is to be interesting as well. She knows that to become interesting, she must read, travel, and learn new things.
~ Elin Hilderbrand
It was just a movie, but what you learned when you lived on an island was, you never knew.
~ Elin Hilderbrand
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~ Elin Hilderbrand
Take nothing but photographs, leave nothing but footprints.
~ Elin Hilderbrand
Marguerite had compiled a list of places she wanted to visit- this fromagerie in the sixth, this chocolatier, this home-goods store for hand-loomed linens, this wine shop, this purveyor of fennel-studded salami, which they ate on slender ficelles , this butcher for roasted bleu de Bresse .
~ Elin Hilderbrand
We all would like to see a brighter future for Haiti, and I hope this conference will serve to explore many views. Respect for human rights, freedom, and the rule of law must be established in the poorest nation in our hemisphere.
~ Eliot Engel
Life just isn't worth living unless you're willing to take some big chances and go for broke.
~ Eliot Wiggington
You have to leave where you are to get where you are going
~ Elisa Morgan
intergalactic-
~ Elise Allen
He grabs ropes, furs, blankets, a hatchet, and carrots. Carrots? Okay, so he likes vegetables.
~ Elise Allen
He HAD seen the world. It had been scary at times, but also exhilarating. Who could have imagined it would be such a complicated, interesting place?...When you saw different parts of the world, you saw different parts of yourself. And when you stayed home, where it was safe, those parts of yourself also stayed hidden.
~ Elise Broach
When you saw different parts of the world, you saw different parts of yourself. And when you stayed home, where it was safe, those parts of yourself also stayed hidden.
~ Elise Broach
The train is a small world moving through a larger world.
~ Elisha Cooper
If I wasn't doing this, I'd be in school studying political science or socioeconomic something. I love visiting different cultures and finding out how they make up a society.
~ Eliza Dushku
You will certainly remember, that the south-west wing is rather distant from that part of the body of the castle where most of the family inhabit. You know too that my rooms open into a long gallery; but you never explored this gallery. My hours with you were rich in pleasure and variety; and I thought not then of the solitary haunts to which I fly, when I seek amusement and find none.
~ Eliza Fenwick
Pierre de la Vérendrye and his companions had encountered a people blessed with material abundance. "Corn, meat, fat, dressed robes, and bearskins" were all among their riches. "They are well supplied with these things," the Frenchman wrote. But his abbreviated journal barely mentions the villagers' equally rich ceremonial life.1
~ Elizabeth A. Fenn
The waters that fed the Missouri had once flowed northeast into Hudson Bay, not south toward the Gulf of Mexico.
~ Elizabeth A. Fenn