Maps Quotes - Page 29

• These beautiful days ... do not exist as mere pictures - maps hung upon the walls of memory to brighten at times when touched by association or will ... They saturate themselves into every part of the body and live always.

  John Muir

  Beautiful, Wall, Memories

  John Muir, Peter Browning (1988). “John Muir, in His Own Words: A Book of Quotations”, p.16, Great West Books

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• Myth is the system of basic metaphors, images, and stories that informs the perceptions, memories, and aspirations of a people; provides the rationale for its institutions, rituals and power structure; and gives a map of the purpose and stages of life.

  Sam Keen

  Memories, People, Giving

  Sam Keen (1992). “The passionate life: stages of loving”, Harper San Francisco

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• I was a few miles south of Louisville when I planned my journey. I spread out my map under a tree and made up my mind to go through Kentucky, Tennessee, and Georgia to Florida, thence to Cuba, thence to some part of South America; but it will be only a hasty walk. I am thankful, however, for so much.

  John Muir

  Journey, Florida, Kentucky

  John Muir (2015). “John Muir’s Incredible Travel Memoirs: A Thousand-Mile Walk to the Gulf, My First Summer in the Sierra, The Mountains of California, Travels in Alaska, Steep Trails… (Illustrated): Adventure Memoirs & Wilderness Studies from the Naturalist, Environmental Philosopher and Early Advocate of Preservation of Wilderness, the Author of The Yosemite and Picturesque California”, p.10, e-artnow

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• We read our mail and counted up our missions In bombers named for girls, we burned The cities we had learned about in school Till our lives wore out; our bodies lay among The people we had killed and never seen. When we lasted long enough they gave us medals; When we died they said, "Our casualties were low." They said, "Here are the maps"; we burned the cities.

  Randall Jarrell

  Girl, School, Cities

  Randall Jarrell, “Losses”

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• The bravest battle that ever was fought; Shall I tell you where and when? On the maps of the world you will find it not; It was fought by the mothers of men.

  Joaquin Miller

  Mother, Men, Battle

  Joaquin Miller (1975). “Joaquin Miller's Poems”, New York : AMS Press

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• You're free to speculate as you wish about the philosophical and allegorical meaning of the film—and such speculation is one indication that it has succeeded in gripping the audience at a deep level—but I don't want to spell out a verbal road map for 2001 that every viewer will feel obligated to pursue or else fear he's missed the point.

  Stanley Kubrick

  Philosophical, Wish, Levels

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• It's just an inch from me to you depending on what map you use.

  Jewel

  Use, Inches

  Song: You're in Cleveland Today, Album: This Way

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• I am telling folks that the Country as a whole is "Sound," and that all those who's heads are solid are bound to get back into the market again. I tell 'em that this Country is bigger than Wall Street, and if they don't believe it, I show 'em the map.

  Will Rogers

  Country, Wall, Business

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• Fairytales were maps formed of blood and hair and bones; they were the knots of the sub-conscious unwound. Every word in every tale was real and as true as apples and stones. They all led to the story inside the story.

  Alice Hoffman

  Real, Hair, Blood

  Alice Hoffman (2007). “Skylight Confessions”, Center Point Pub

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• The map appears to us more real than the land.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Real, Reality, Land

  D. H. Lawrence, Bruce Steele (1985). “Study of Thomas Hardy and Other Essays”, p.30, Cambridge University Press

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• We lost the skyline
  We stepped right off the map
  Drifted into black space
  And let the clocks relapse.

  Steven Wilson

  Space, Black, Skylines

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• The views of the Earth are really beautiful. If you've ever seen a space IMAX movie, that's really what it looks like. I wish I'd had more time just to sit and look out the window with a map, but our science program kept us very busy in the lab most of the time.

  David M. Brown

  Beautiful, Views, Space

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• Women, are a map, Avik. You've got to understand their longitude, and how much latitude you can take.

  Walter Russell

  Love, Latitude

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• The present map of Palestine was drawn by the British mandate. The Jewish people have another map which our youth and adults should strive to fulfill: from the Nile to the Euphrates.

  David Ben-Gurion

  People, Scary, Adults

  "Arab Leaders Urge Peace, Israel Refuses". imemc.org. March 30, 2007.

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• Even with the best of maps and instruments, we can never fully chart our journeys.

  Gail Pool

  Journey, Strategy, Instruments

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• Nothing focuses the mind better than the constant sight of a competitor who wants to wipe you off the map.

  D. Wayne Calloway

  Sports, Business, Sight

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• The First World War killed fewer victims than the Second World War, destroyed fewer buildings, and uprooted millions instead of tens of millions - but in many ways it left even deeper scars both on the mind and on the map of Europe. The old world never recovered from the shock.

  Edmond Taylor

  War, Europe, Mind

  Edmond Taylor (2015). “The Fall of the Dynasties: The Collapse of the Old Order: 1905-1922”, p.312, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• It is hard enough for anyone to map out a course of action and stick to it, particularly in the face of the desires of one's friends; but it is doubly hard for an aviator to stay on the ground waiting for just the right moment to go into the air.

  Glenn Curtiss

  Air, Waiting, Desire

  Glenn H. Curtiss (1912). “The Curtiss Aviation Book”

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• The words are purposes./The words are maps./I came to see the damage that was done/and the treasures that prevail.

  Adrienne Rich

  Damage, Purpose, Done

  "Diving into the Wreck" l. 51 (1973)

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• The vast majority of local people will neither know all of the initiatives nor have any perception that the individual elements are beginning to contribute to making their home town more environmentally sustainable. It is even less likely that visitors will gain any picture of what is being achieved. It is to solve this problem that the Green Map System has been developed.

  Paul Burrell

  Home, People, Perception

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• Everything that I saw became something to be made, and it had to be exactly as it was, with nothing added. It was a new freedom: there was no longer the need to compose. The subject was there already made, and I could take from everything. It all belonged to me: a glass roof of a factory, with its broken and patched panels, lines on a road map, a corner of a Braque painting, paper fragments in the street. It was all the same: anything goes.

  Ellsworth Kelly

  Glasses, Broken, Paper

  Madeleine Grynsztejn, Ellsworth Kelly, Julian Myers, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (2002). “Ellsworth Kelly in San Francisco”, p.10, Univ of California Press

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• White privilege is like an invisible weightless knapsack of special provisions, maps, passports, codebooks, visas, clothes, tools, and blank checks.

  Peggy McIntosh

  White Privilege, Clothes, Special

  "White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack" by Peggy McIntosh, first appeared in Peace and Freedom Magazine (Philadelphia, PA), pp. 10-12, July/August 1989; later quoted in Thomas Norman DeWolf "Inheriting the Trade" (Chapter 4: The Great Folks), www.pbs.org. January 2, 2008.

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• Sometimes it is safer to read maps with your feet.

  Kelly Link

  Feet, Sometimes

  Kelly Link (2010). “Stranger Things Happen”, p.114, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Fairy tales are about money, marriage, and men. They are the maps and manuals that are passed down from mothers and grandmothers to help them survive.

  Marina Warner

  Mother, Men, Helping

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• I committed to doing everything I could to put compassion on the scientific map.

  Richard Davidson

  Compassion, Committed

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