Maps Quotes

History is a compass that you locate yourself on the map of human geography, politically, culturally, financially.

My first occupation was to map the country.

Life is a journey I don't have a map for.

Maps are a way of organizing wonder.

Folk Music is the map of singing.

Somewhere there is a map of how it can be done.

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.

Computer science is to biology what calculus is to physics. It's the natural mathematical technique that best maps the character of the subject.

Why are old maps always burnt?

All I ever wanted was a world without maps.

Maybe we are all prospective migrants. The lines of national borders on maps are artificial constructs, as unnatural to us as they are to birds flying overhead. Our first impulse is to ignore them.

There is a vast territory between what we're trying to leave behind, and where we want to go - and we don't have any maps for that territory.

What avail are forty freedoms without a blank spot on the map?

The product supply chain, from source material to store, is an organizing map for delivering human rights.

Men read maps better than women because only men can understand the concept of an inch equaling a hundred miles.

Desire, both the whispers and the shouts, is the map we have been given to find the only life worth living.

Don't rely on others to show you the way. Carry your own map.

Why is it that all battles are fought in the middle of the night, in downpouring rain, and at the corners of four different maps?

Oh the folly of any mind that would explain God before obeying Him! That would map out the character of God instead of crying, Lord, what wouldst thou have me to do?

When we first started, we were a band from Athens and that was so off the map.

I'm just the smallest dot in a big map of human history.

The art of biography is different from geography. Geography is about maps, but biography is about chaps.

The fact there is no route-map to utopia does not mean that there are no routes to more accessible destinations.

What did you do, memorize a map of the city for fun?” says Christina. “Yes,” says Will, looking puzzled. “Didn’t you?

I want to find something else, unknowable, some place that's not on the map. A real adventure.

A metaphor for good information design is a map. Hold any diagram against a map and see how it compares.

The most promising words ever written on the maps of human knowledge are terra incognita, unknown territory.

Phoney: Here's your problem Fone Bone! We're off the map! Get a bigger map!

Heavenly Father's commandments are the road map He has given us to return to Him, which is the only way we will be eternally happy.

Gods plan isn't a map for your life that you see all at once, but a scroll unrolled a little at a time.

As people talk, text and browse, telecommunication networks are capturing urban flows in real time and crystallizing them as Googles traffic congestion maps.

You'd have to live in a cave not to know about the Carrier Dome. It put Syracuse on the map.

There's definitely, definitely, definitely, no logic to human behaviour . . . There's no map And a compass Wouldn't help at all

Halloween put me on the map, and I'm very sad to hear of his death.

People make maps of all the places I've mentioned. I knew that those people were out there. I wanted to create something for them.

Our brain is mapping the world. Often that map is distorted, but it's a map with constant immediate sensory input.

Ideologies do not map the complete living processes of a World.

To stay on the map, you've got to keep showing up.

What are the sciences but maps of universal laws, and universal laws but the channels of universal power; and universal power but the outgoings of a universal mind?

She was hearing everything that went on in his heart, like a person who can trace a map with his fingertip and conjure up vivid, living scenery.

I am told there are people who do not care for maps, and I find it hard to believe.

Journey over all the universe in a map, without the expense and fatigue of traveling, without suffering the inconveniences of heat, cold, hunger, and thirst.

This seems highly likely, especially as it has been shown that in several systems mutations affecting the same amino acid are extremely near together on the genetic map.

I have studied humans for a small eternity. Intent infuses their every movement. Road maps to their inner navigation, plastered all over their skin. Born to be slaves.

A map, it is said, organizes wonder.

Each source that I read, I would look through the bibliography and the footnotes, and use that as a map for the next thing I would read.

I just know when I quit looking to other people for directions, I found my own map.

We often praise 'the ability to multi-task.' While you can learn when you divide your attention, divided attention doesn't lead to aiding change in your brain maps [lasting changes].

Your relationship with God, others, yourself, and all creation keeps changing for the better. Most of the world's religions have developed maps to describe this process.

For me, it started as a child with one of those little wooden jigsaw maps of the U.S., wheres theres crocodiles on Florida and apples on Washington state. That was my very first map.