Maps Quotes

625 quotes by 508 authors

He knew by heart every last minute crack on its surface. He had made maps of the ceiling and gone exploring on them; rivers, islands,… — Josephine Tey
It is possible I never learned the names of birds in order to discover the bird of peace, the bird of paradise, the bird of… — Anais Nin
Books are good but they are only maps. Reading a book by direction of a man I read that so many inches of rain fell… — Swami Vivekananda
The summer has seized you, as when, last month in Amalfi, I saw lemons as large as your desk-side globe-that miniature map of the world-and… — Anne Sexton
When well told, a story captured the subtle movement of change. If a novel was a map of a country, a story was the bright… — Ann Patchett
A language is a map of our failures — Adrienne Rich
An opening statement is like a guide or a road map. It's a very delicate thing. — Johnnie Cochran
Leaders have to figure it out when there is no road map. — Bill Hybels
Put your 'yes' on the table and let God put it on the map. — Ed Stetzer
Animals are not just other species. They are other nations. And we murder them at our peril. The peace map is drawn on a menu.… — Philip Wollen
For most of the nineteen-seventies, the official route map of the New York City subway system was a beautiful thing. — Paul Goldberger
The books one reads in childhood, and perhaps most of all the bad and good bad books, create in one's mind a sort of false… — George Orwell
The map of what we call reality is an ever-shifting mosaic of ideas. — Marcelo Gleiser
Borders are scratched across the hearts of men By strangers with a calm, judicial pen, And when the borders bleed we watch with dread The… — Marya Mannes
Our emotional life maps our incompleteness: A creature without any needs would never have reasons for fear, or grief, or hope, or anger. — Martha C. Nussbaum
Gods plan isn't a map for your life that you see all at once, but a scroll unrolled a little at a time. — Rick Warren
I want to be remembered as someone who put India on the scientific map of the world in terms of large innovation. I want to… — Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw
Geography is about maps, but biography is about chaps. — Eric Bentley
But another thing I know is this â€” we canâ€™t steer ourselves out of this crisis by heading in the same, disastrous direction. We canâ€™t… — Barack Obama
The world can doubtless never be well known by theory: practice is absolutely necessary; but surely it is of great use to a young man,… — Lord Chesterfield

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