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Geography Quotes & Sayings

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Since he had given up men he had taken up geography. He visited a new sight or a new neighborhood nearly every weekend. — Caleb Crain

Everywhere's been where it is ever since it was first put there. It's called geography. — Terry Pratchett

I get to go to overseas places, like Canada. — Britney Spears

Material existence is entirely founded on a phantom realm of mind, whose nature and geography are unexplored. — Alan Moore

Geography is the study of earth as the home of people — Yi-Fu Tuan

Now it would not be the geography of Empire that would make him, it would be the architecture of war. — Kate Atkinson

When I was in the fourth grade, I became intensely interested in geography and I learned it well. — Clyde Tombaugh

A proud Jew after all that had happened to them over a period of history, for geography. — Aporva Kala

This is not an issue of geography. He IS of two worlds wherever he goes. — Ron Suskind

I like science - geography, meteorology, cosmology. — Randy Newman

Do you understand the sadness of geography? — Michael Ondaatje

while the Tarahumara run to get from point to point, in the process they travel into a zone beyond geography and beyond even the five senses. — Scott Jurek

The essential London scenes is a row of low identical houses set around a square. — Anna Quindlen

In America the geography is sublime, but the men are not; the inventions are excellent, but the inventors one is sometimes ashamed of. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

I followed lectures on the history, geography, economy and political organization of Sweden. — Christian De Duve

Nearly all the school subjects lay great stress on information. But literature makes its appeal to the heart as well as the intellect. Geography — Anthony Esolen

Geography! That's something they teach in the third grade! I never heard of a grownup studying geography. — John Updike

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

Language follows its own path. It can bridge gulfs of class and geography in the most remarkable ways. — Robert McCrum

I am not naturally inclined to history or geography - maybe that's why I like to sing about it, because it helps me remember. — Sufjan Stevens

There is a geography of the human spirit, common to all peoples. — Linda Hogan

I gradually became aware that my interiority was inseparable from my exteriority, that the geography of my city was the geography of my soul. — Aleksandar Hemon

I like geography. I could tell you the capital of any country you want. — Bam Margera

When I'm traveling the world, I don't ever look anymore at the geography - just enough to catch galleries and paintings. — Alber Elbaz

A bibliophile has approximately the same relationship to literature as a philatelist to geography. — Karl Kraus

In the U.K. we have the best geography teachers in the world. — Prince Andrew

Geography prepares for the world of work - geographers, with their skills of analysis are highly employable! — Michael Palin

Sometimes I think war is God's way of teaching us geography. — Paul Rodriguez

They broke the way a man dismantling a mine broke the second his geography exploded. — Michael Ondaatje

If geography is prose, maps are iconography. — Lennart Meri

Let's go over a little astrography. Geography is the mother of strategy, they say. — Lois McMaster Bujold

The problems we discover on our own are the ones that motivate us the most — Eric Weiner

I only back people with track record who can execute ruthlessly and flawlessly ... Real killers ... no matter the industry or company geography — Ziad K. Abdelnour

In the poetry of arrival, the garage door is free verse; the front door can be anything from a rhyming couplet to a sonnet. — Akiko Busch

What makes a nation in the beginning is a good piece of geography. — Robert Frost

He who is ready to die for his country is a fool. For he didn't choose where he was born; and where he was born didn't choose him. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana

I'm a great believer in geography being destiny. — Abraham Verghese

Don Quixote is not just Don Quixote;
La Mancha is not just geography;
It is our personal territory
Terra Nostra. — Dejan Stojanovic

War does one good - it teaches people geography. — Will Durant

Yeah, I suppose it was a history. I wanted it to be more of a geography, but she kept slappin' my hand.' Trev — Terry Pratchett

The only effort worth making is the one it takes to learn the geography of one's own nature. — Paul Bowles

Anybody who believes that the way to a man's heart is through his stomach flunked geography. — Robert Byrne

One cannot kick against geography! — Eleftherios Venizelos

I was one of five out of 100 people who passed the test, which just proved to me how little Americans are taught geography. — Ayshay

I was taught the alphabet by my aunts before I was four years old, and I was reading the Bible in class and beginning geography when I was six. — Simon Newcomb

Individual identities and national destines were shaped by the tripod of history, geography, and philosophy. — Patrick Mendis

The formidable power of geography determines the character and performance of a people. — Ethel Wilson

Eratosthenes, the mapmaker who was the first man to accurately measure the size of the Earth, was a librarian. — Ken Jennings

The ending of partition was inevitable because Ireland was one nation by history and tradition , by facts of race, geography, and economy — Seamus Costello

the Pacific Northwest has a climate and a geography that makes human beings feel very welcome on the planet. — Lorene Edwards Forkner

Mathematics was hard, dull work. Geography pleased me more. For dancing I was quite enthusiastic. — John James Audubon

Her eyes like the ideal
geography book:
maps of pure nightmare.

"The Ghost of Edna Lieberman — Roberto Bolano

War is God's way of teaching Americans geography. — Ambrose Bierce

I'm learning
geography is about loss
and so I keep moving — Paul Guest

I was not sorry for loving Charleston or for leaving it. Geography had made me who I was. — Sue Monk Kidd

Without geography you're nowhere. — Jimmy Buffett

We train in strategy, geography, horsemanship, weaponry, that sort of thing. We study great battles in history and analyze the outcome. The — Cinda Williams Chima

If some countries have too much history, we have too much geography. — Mackenzie King

Why are there no great women artists?' sounds as ignorant of human geography as the query 'Why are there no Eskimo tennis teams? — Francine Du Plessix Gray

I loved the geography part. Learning about that made me want to read. — Toni Morrison

America is a nation created by all the hopeful wanderers of Europe, not out of geography and genetics, but out of purpose. — Theodore White

It is wonderful to be here in the great state of Chicago — Dan C. Quayle

Physical geography and geology are inseparable scientific twins. — Roderick Murchison

Literature is not only a mirror; it is a map, a geography of the mind. — Margaret Atwood

The modern age has brought the geography of the earth near to us, but made it difficult for us to come into touch with man — Rabindranath Tagore

Geography should be the ultimate deciding factor for every political dilemma for proximity to an ailing land is bound to result in one's infection. — Aysha Taryam

There are places that don't belong to geography but to time. — Roma Tearne

Why can't we control our anger? because we love perfection. make a little room for imperfection in our lives. — Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

The policies of all powers are inherent in their geography. — Napoleon Bonaparte

To lovers of adventure and novelty, Africa displays a most ample field. — James Rennell

Geography bends to the dictate of will. — Michelle Sagara

An art that heals and protects its subject is a geography of scars. — Wendell Berry

Was everything an accident of geography? — Nick Hornby

Cyberspace undeniably reflects some form of geography. — Sandra Day O'Connor

Geography has no bearing on it, nor have the interests of the community in which I work. — Yves Tanguy

Peaks and valleys. That's what life comes down to, in the end. Fucking geography. — Laura Zigman

On losing a player due to academics - "Our team traveled 25,000 miles, then he fails geography. — John Heisler

In our changing world nothing changes more than geography. — Pearl S. Buck

I like geography. I like to know where places are. — Tom Felton

Geography is just physics slowed down, with a couple of trees stuck in it. — Terry Pratchett

Travel is a vanishing act, a solitary trip down a pinched line of geography to oblivion. — Paul Theroux

Besides P.E., geography was my best class in high school. I was in this gifted class when I was younger, and it was wicked! — Steve Nash

Even as regards Earth we are more committed to history than to geography, more committed to time than to space. History is endless. Place is limited. — Thomas Berry

That technology has canceled geography contains just enough merit to be called a plausible fallacy, — Robert D. Kaplan

I don't know about the first steps in a geography of loss, and I know that it's unmapped. I know that we all have to go by ourselves. — Wayne Earl

Your lack of geographical knowledge is truly astounding. — Chelsea Handler

The peculiar value of geography lies in its fitness to nourish the mind with ideas and furnish the imagination with pictures. — Charlotte Mason

Anatomy is to physiology as geography is to history; it describes the theatre of events. — Jean Fernel

It is no coincidence that, on all four sides, in all four corners, the borders of the Roman Empire stopped where wine could no longer be made. — Neel Burton

The hardest part of being a Canadian kid is having to color in Nunavut with a crayon in school, hell on earth. — Rebecca McNutt

God created war so that Americans would learn geography. — Mark Twain

The feeling of being lost in time and geography with months and years hazily sparkling ahead in a prospect of inconjecturable magic — Patrick Leigh Fermor

Geography is the art of the mappable. — Peter Haggett

I've made a dog's breakfast of English history, geography, 'King Lear,' and the English language in general. — Christopher Moore

My wound is geography. It is also my anchorage, my port of call. — Pat Conroy

I was a daydreamer, and there is a lot of history and geography and science I missed out on because I was in my head. And I regret that. — Gillian Anderson

Geography does not define you - love does. — Eve Ensler

Geography and mileage mean nothing. Separate is a single word that covers all distances that aren't together. — Rivera Sun

Coming out involves varying degrees of difficulty that are affected by class, race, religion, and geography. — Lance Loud

If one is seeking for Heaven on earth, has slept in geography class. — Stanislaw Jerzy Lec