Quotes About Navigation

The Father of Waters again goes unvexed to the sea.

You can't sum it up, my mother says as we are driving and the electronic voice repeats, Turn Left onto Wildwood Canyon Road, so I turn left, happy for the mundane instructions. Let us robot at once. Tell me where to go. Tell me how to get there. She means a life, of course. You cannot sum it up.

The discovery of America, and that of a passage to the East Indies by the Cape of Good Hope, are the two greatest and most important events recorded in the history of mankind.

Like watermen, who look astern while they row the boat ahead.

Fate is often like a canoe after you've lost your paddles.

Labyrinths cannot make themselves impossible.

It is better to run back than run the wrong way.

Anyone can hold the helm when the sea is calm.

How often I found where I should be going only by setting out for somewhere else.

Let me think that there is one among those stars that guides my life through the dark unknown.

I hadn't realised, I said, how much of navigation is the belief in progress, and the assumption of fixity in what you have left behind.

We are all, in our journey through life, navigating toward some special, dreamed-of place, and if for some reason we are thrown off course, or the place itself, once reached, is not what we hoped for, then we must strike out at whatever risk to set things right.

For the execution of the voyage to the Indies, I did not make use of intelligence, mathematics or maps.

It is not the ship so much as the skillful sailing that assures the prosperous voyage.

A young sailor boy came to see me today. It pleases me to have these lads seek me on their return from their first voyage, and tell me how much they have learned about navigation.

Sailed this day nineteen leagues, and determined to count less than the true number, that the crew might not be dismayed if the voyage should prove long.

As, however, the port in reality lies in thirty-two degrees thirty-four minutes, according to the observations that have been made, they went much beyond it, thus making the voyage much longer than was necessary.

I got lost a lot, and I was a really bad waitress... I got lost on the subway.

I sleep with a light on in the bathroom so I can see where I'm at, because I wake up and have no clue!

The Bristol Channel was always my guide, and I was always able to draw an imaginary line from my bed to our house over in Wales. It was a great comfort.

Who walks the fastest, but walks astray, is only furthest from his way.

I get lost in my own house - and it's not even a big house.

There's so many bits on a car these days it's hard to know where everything is. You have a bit of an idea but if you are behind someone and you suddenly change direction it's hard to know exactly where the car is.

Foursquare makes maps special. We take maps that are blank and put dots on them to help you figure out what to do.