Maps Quotes
625 quotes by 508 authors
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Humans impart meaning and purpose to almost all aspects of life. This sense of meaning and purpose gives us a road map for how to…
— Greg Graffin
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...playing with the Barbie-size keyboard on my new phone. Phones are like toys now. They fit in your pocket, light up and vibrate like joy…
— Richard Kadrey
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Everything was too sharp and clear, so that I could never tell where to start- the way a map that shows too much can sometimes…
— Haruki Murakami
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He lunged for the maps. I grabbed the chair and hit him with it. He went down. I hit him again to make sure he…
— Ilona Andrews
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I'd come here planning to leave as soon as I could. It was a pit stop, not a destination. I had my whole life mapped…
— Sarah Dessen
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What did you do, memorize a map of the city for fun?†says Christina. “Yes,†says Will, looking puzzled. “Didn’t you?
— Veronica Roth
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Home wasn't a set house, or a single town on a map. It was wherever the people who loved you were, whenever you were together.…
— Sarah Dessen
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Home wasn't a set house, or a single town on a map. It was wherever the people who loved you were, whenever you were together.
— Sarah Dessen
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There are only shades of gray. Black and white are nothing more than lofty ideals in our minds, the standards by which we try to…
— Karen Marie Moning
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Unhappy endings are just as important as happy endings. They’re an efficient way of transmitting vital Darwinian information. Your brain needs them to make maps…
— Douglas Coupland
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I chose the path less traveled but only because I was lost. Carry a map. - Phoebe Traeger
— Jill Shalvis
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The visions we offer our children shape the future. It _matters_ what those visions are. Often they become self-fulfilling prophecies. Dreams are maps.
— Carl Sagan
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What people read revealed so much about them that she considered our card catalog a treasure house of privileged secrets; each card contained the map…
— Alice Hoffman
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It was as though I had one map inside my head and it led to the man who was waiting for me. Someone who was…
— Alice Hoffman
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I have a terrible wanderthirst; the very sight of a map makes me want to put on my hat and take an umbrella and start.…
— Jean Webster
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That’s what a map is, you know. Just a memory.
— Catherynne M. Valente
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All literature, highbrow or low, from the Aeneid onward, is fan fiction....Through parody and pastiche, allusion and homage, retelling and reimagining the stories that were…
— Michael Chabon
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Theology is like a map. Merely learning and thinking about the Christian doctrines, if you stop there, is less real and less exciting than the…
— C.S. Lewis
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Quintana of Charyn's body was a map of hatred.
— Melina Marchetta
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Once traveling, it's remarkable how quickly faith erodes. It starts to look like something else--ignorance, for example. Same thing happened to the Israelites. Sure it's…
— Leif Enger
Who Wrote These Maps Quotes
508 authors contributed a total of 625 Maps Quotes, led by these top contributors: