Cartographer's Quotes

#1. Uncharted territory," I said. "The parts on the maps of our lives that we don't understand. In cartographer's language they call these places sleeping beauties.

Christopher Barzak

#2. I am convinced that what drives most people away from Christianity is not the cost of discipleship but rather the cost of false fundamentals.

Rachel Held Evans

#3. The light still shone in the dark, a beacon, drawing him forward to the edge of the map, the place where the cartographer might mark "here there be dragons.

Dennis Detwiller

#4. My limits know me well enough to stay out of my way.

Ben Mitchell

#5. I wound up studying art and design, got a job at Lonely Planet Publications as a designer, cartographer and illustrator.

Trudi Canavan

#6. Oh, so does that mean I'm in trouble? Should I lift my skirt and get on all fours?" I asked, teasingly.

Lilly Wilde

#7. The year the bus drivers went on strike in Pittsburgh, I was twenty-three and living on the edge of the city in a neighborhood that was on the verge of becoming a ghetto. I had just been fired from a good job as a cartographer in a design studio where I had worked for about four months.

Said Sayrafiezadeh

#8. It's my fault in many cases because I don't initiate the contact to talk with a lot of other musicians.

Frank Morgan

#9. I didn't know what I wanted to do when I was a child. I did want to be a cartographer but that was partly because I liked Ordnance Survey maps and when I used to go to my grandparents' house from Southampton Station one went past the headquarters of the Ordnance Survey.

Jonathan Meades

#10. Have you ever really held the hand of someone you love? Not just in passing, a loose link between you - but truly clasped, with the pulses of your wrists beating together and your fingers mapping the knuckles and nails like a cartographer learning a country by heart?

Jodi Picoult

#11. Danger is a chain ... passed from one wounded child to the next. We must stop the danger by breaking the chain. We must learn how to stay safe and be kind.

Margarita Engle

#12. The time will come
when, with elation,
you will greet yourself arriving
at your own door, in your own mirror,
and each will smile at the other's welcome.

Derek Walcott

#13. You may not possess a body that everyone want to admire.
You may not possess wealth that everyone want to have.
However you should possess a character that will make you worthy to love.

Gloria D. Gonsalves

#14. When you're a cartographer, having to make maps sort of comes with the territory.

Jarod Kintz