Maps Quotes

Wars of nations are fought to change maps. But wars of poverty are fought to map change. 
Muhammad Ali 

The faces of most American women over thirty are relief maps of petulant and bewildered unhappiness. 
F. Scott Fitzgerald 

I grew up in South Africa and I would look at maps and we were at the bottom of the world. There was this whole thing up there. I was always reading encyclopedias about the world. So travel was something I was always attracted to. 
Charlize Theron 

Ancient eschatological texts are actually maps of the inner territories of the psyche that seem to transcend race and culture and originate in the collective unconscious. 
Stanislav Grof 

Your goals are the road maps that guide you and show you what is possible for your life. 
Les Brown 

We are volcanoes. When we women offer our experience as our truth, as human truth, all the maps change. There are new mountains. 
Ursula K. Le Guin 

There's a lot of films that have relatively rigid road maps because they have a script and others that are less rigid because they have less of a script, like 'Elephant.' The road map becomes more interpretive, maybe, than one with a detailed script. Editing-wise, they all have their problems. 
Gus Van Sant 

You can map your life through your favorite movies, and no two people's maps will be the same. 
Mary Schmich 

For the execution of the voyage to the Indies, I did not make use of intelligence, mathematics or maps. 
Christopher Columbus 

There's just something hypnotic about maps. 
Ken Jennings 

I would stare at maps of Delaware for hours. 
Ken Jennings 

I have always loved maps. 
Ken Jennings 

Even before you understand them, your brain is drawn to maps. 
Ken Jennings 

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

But there are certain books I would never put on a Kindle because you want to be able to look at graphs and photos or the footnotes and maps. You can't see that. 
Lisa See 

Two important characteristics of maps should be noticed. A map is not the territory it represents, but, if correct, it has a similar structure to the territory, which accounts for its usefulness. 
Alfred Korzybski 

If geography is prose, maps are iconography. 
Lennart Meri 

Each country its cost analysis is going to be different. So what we are you seeing in Syria, for example, is different than what's going on in Jordan. The maps are being rewritten. 
Abdallah II 

Geography is about maps, but biography is about chaps. 
Eric Bentley 

If words are not things, or maps are not the actual territory, then, obviously, the only possible link between the objective world and the linguistic world is found in structure, and structure alone. 
Alfred Korzybski


Fifty percent of our country that we own, have all legal jurisdiction, have all rights to do whatever we want, lies beneath the sea and we have better maps of Mars than that 50 percent. 
Robert Ballard 

The reinvention of daily life means marching off the edge of our maps. 
Bob Black 

We're all pilgrims on the same journey - but some pilgrims have better road maps. 
Nelson DeMille 

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