map quotes

I was a man lucky enough to have discovered a political theory, a man who was caught up in the whirlpool of Cuba's political crisis long before becoming a fully- fledged communist. Discovering Marxism was like finding a map in a forest.

- Fidel Castro (Ruz)
Speech, Chile,18 Nov.

Sorrow comes as in a circle And cannot be rolled up like a map.

-Julia McWilliams Child
c.150  BC  'To My Wife 2', collected in  A Book of Chinese Verse (translated by N L Smith and R H Kotewall).

Map me no maps, sir, my head is a map, a map of the whole world.

- Henry Fielding
  Rape upon Rape, act 2, sc.5.

Pray for the grace of accuracy Vermeer gave to the sun's illumination stealing like the tide across a map to his girl solid with yearning.

- RobertTraill Spence,Jr Lowell
  Day by Day,'Epilogue'.

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 map of the world, a series of fabulous countries into which one can retreat at odd moments throughout the rest of life, and which in some cases can even survive a visit to the real countries which they are supposed to represent.

- George pseudonym of  Eric Arthur Blair Orwell
  'Riding Down from Bangor'.

Roll up that map; it will not be wanted these ten years.

-William known as  theYounger Pitt
  Of a map of Europe. Remark on hearing of Napoleon's victory at Austerlitz, Dec. Quoted in Earl Stanhope Life of the Rt. Hon.William Pitt, vol.4 (1862), ch.43.

Where, after all, do human rights begin? They begin in small places, close to homeso close and so small that they cannot be seen on any map of the world.

- (Anna) Eleanor Roosevelt
  Quoted in the NewYorkTimes, 26 Dec.

Different living is not living in different places But creating in the mind a map.

- Sir Stephen Harold Spender
  'Different Living'.

For me, exploration was a personal venture. I did not go to the Arabian desert to collect plants nor to make a map; such things were incidental. At heart I knew that to write or even to talk of my travels was to tarnish the achievement. I went there to find peace in the hardship of desert travel and the company of desert people. I set myself a goal on these journeys, and, although the goal itself was unimportant, its attainment had to be worth every effort and sacrifice.

- Sir Wilfred Patrick Thesiger
  Arabian Sands.

Doyouknow,Mr Hopper, dear Agatha and Iaresomuch interested in Australia. It must be so pretty with all the dear littlekangaroosflying about. Agatha has found iton the map.What a curious shape it is! Just like a large packing case.

- Oscar Fingal O'FlahertieWills Wilde
  Duchess of Berwick to Mr Hopper. LadyWindermere's Fan, act 2.

The map of the world shows no country called Technopolis, yet inmany wayswearealready its citizens.

- Langdon Winner
  TheWhale and the Reactor. British director. Credits include Chato's Land (1972), DeathWish (1974) and TheWicked Lady (1983).