Distance Quote by Orson Scott Card

“We lose names of things. Then the things they named.”

— Marianne Boruch

“Names are not of nearly as much import as people like to suppose.”

— Erin Morgenstern

“The ship name. It’s unusual. I swear, if I board one more ship named after someone’s kid or the girl they left behind after…

— James S.A. Corey

“New things, new ideas arrived and strutted their stuff and were vilified by some and then lo! that which had been a monster was…

— Terry Pratchett

“because after what I’ve been through, stuff on Mars should be named after me.”

— Andy Weir

“Like a ship changing course. It might take a while to get to port, but at least it was going in the right direction.”

— Louise Penny

“His gods were already waiting for him when he arrived; Tyr, one-handed, and gray Odin gallows-god, and Thor of the thunders. They were here.…

— Neil Gaiman

“It is not the going out of port, but the coming in, that determines the success of the voyage.”

— Anonymous

“All they knew, they had left behind, and what lay before them was the unknown; uncertainty was the only thing that was certainly ahe​ad.…

— Gume Laurel III

“Set your sail to the big world, to the big ports but never forget your little world, your little port!”

— Mehmet Murat ildan

“It might hear us. But what's its name? We have named all the stars and all the planets, even though they might already have…

— Stanisław Lem

“The young reinvent the universe,” he said. “And they give the new universe to us as their gift.”

— Anne Rice