Nancy Cartwright Quotes

True as the needle to the pole, Or as the dial to the sun.

A traveller, lost on a desert plain, feels that the recognition of one star, the Pole star, is of itself a great acquisition.

For all the compasses in the world, there's only one direction, and time is its only measure.

We were just looking at maps.

Do not ask directions from the people around you. Ask directions from the person who called you.

The sailor cannot see the north / but knows the needle can.

If I know the way home and am walking along it drunkenly, is it any less the right way because I am staggering from side to side!

How can I go forward when I don't know which way I'm facing?

We must stop setting our sights by the light of each passing ship; instead we must set our course by the stars.

I know you're all saying I can go to the moon but I can't find Pasadena.

To find where you are going, you must know where you are.

Men in a ship are always looking up, and men ashore are usually looking down.

I love to swim. I need goggles. If I don't have goggles I run in to the walls of the pool. I have no sense of directions.

Granny Weatherwax was not lost. She wasn't the kind of person who ever became lost. It was just that, at the moment, while she knew exactly where SHE was, she didn't know the position of anywhere else.

I know one thing for certain; it is much harder to tell whether you are lost than whether you were lost, for, on many occasions, where you are going is exactly where you are. On the other hand, if you often find that where you've been is not at all where you should have gone, and, since it's much more difficult to find your way back from someplace you've never left, I suggest you go there immediately and then decide.

I don't know why it's called "getting lost." Even when you turn down the wrong street, when you find yourself at the dead end of a chain-link fence or a road that turnd to sand, you are somewhere. It just isn't where you expected to be.

We are never without a pilot. When we know not how to steer, and dare not hoist a sail, we can drift. The current knows the way, though we do not. The ship of heaven guides itself, and will not accept a wooden rudder.

Principles are the territory. Values are maps.

When we are lost in the woods, the sight of a signpost is a great matter.

So young a child ought to know which way she's going, even if she doesn't know her own name!

I only pick one thing; North, South, East or West. I just get on the road and go. That's the point. The only governor I give myself is what's the time limit.

I know the stars are my home. I learned about them, needed them for survival in terms of navigation. I know where I am when I look up at the sky. I know where I am when I look up at the Moon; it's not just some abstract romantic idea, it's something very real to me. See, I've expanded my home.

Every man has to learn the points of the compass again as often as he awakes, whether from sleep or any abstraction.

A place is yours when you know where all the roads go.

We're right here on this very spot. Besides, being lost is never a matter of not knowing where you are; it's a matter of not knowing where you aren't - and I don't care at all about where I'm not.