quotes about Geography
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I'm a great believer in geography being destiny.
-- Abraham Verghese -
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 MargeraSource : "The Stars of Jackass 3D On God, Cancer, and Homosexuality". Interview with Eric Spitznagel, www.vanityfair.com. October 14, 2010.
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I get to go to overseas places, like Canada.
-- Britney Spears -
When I was in the fourth grade, I became intensely interested in geography and I learned it well.
-- Clyde Tombaugh -
Dreams are our only geography—our native land.
-- Dejan Stojanovic -
One cannot kick against geography!
-- Eleftherios VenizelosSource : "The victory of Venizelos : a study of Greek politics, 1910-1918" by V. J. Seligman, (p. 31), 1920.
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Geography is about maps, but biography is about chaps.
-- Eric Bentley -
The formidable power of geography determines the character and performance of a people.
-- Ethel WilsonSource : Ethel Wilson (1990). “Love and Salt Water”, New Canadian Library
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The cell, too, has a geography, and its reactions occur in colloidal apparatus, of which the form, and the catalytic activity of its manifold surfaces, must efficiently contribute to the due guidance of chemical reactions.
-- Frederick Gowland Hopkins -
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 -
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All my experiences removed geography from my world.
-- Hugh Masekela -
It occurred to me that no matter where I lived, geography could not save me.
-- Isabel Wilkerson -
Anatomy is to physiology as geography is to history; it describes the theatre of events.
-- Jean Fernel -
As Geography without History seemeth a carkasse without motion; so History without Geography wandreth as a Vagrant without a certaine habitation.
-- John Smith -
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Geography blended with time equals destiny.
-- Joseph Brodsky -
A bibliophile has approximately the same relationship to literature as a philatelist to geography.
-- Karl Kraus -
We have 45,000 square miles of geography in Ohio.
-- Ken BlackwellSource : "Countdown" with Keith Olbermann, www.nbcnews.com. November 29, 2004.
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To build a theory of international relations on accidents of geography and history is dangerous.
-- Kenneth WaltzSource : Kenneth N. Waltz (2013). “Man, the State, and War: A Theoretical Analysis”, p.107, Columbia University Press
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If geography is prose, maps are iconography,
-- Lennart Meri -
There is a geography of the human spirit, common to all peoples.
-- Linda Hogan -
Geography is the subject which holds the key to our future
-- Michael Palin -
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Oh I'm in love with the janitor's boy, And the janitor's boy loves me; He's going to hunt for a desert isle In our geography.
-- Nathalia CraneSource : Nathalia Crane (1925). “The Janitor's Boy and Other Poems”
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My wound is geography. It is also my anchorage, my port of call.
-- Pat Conroy -
The only effort worth making is the one it takes to learn the geography of one's own nature.
-- Paul Bowles -
In our changing world nothing changes more than geography.
-- Pearl S. Buck -
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In the U.K. we have the best geography teachers in the world.
-- Prince Andrew -
I like science - geography, meteorology, cosmology.
-- Randy Newman -
If as individuals we can improve the geography only slightly, if at all, perhaps the more appropriately scaled subject for reshaping is ourselves.
-- Robert Adam -
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History is all explained by geography.
-- Robert Penn Warren -
Everywhere's been where it is ever since it was first put there. It's called geography.
-- Terry Pratchett -
I like geography. I like to know where places are.
-- Tom Felton -
There is a future for the auto parts industry, but it needs a consolidation and a rationalization of geography in that most suppliers have facilities in the U.S., although most of their customers are overseas.
-- Wilbur Ross -
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Geography has no bearing on it, nor have the interests of the community in which I work.
-- Yves Tanguy -
Paris is not so square. I'm not good at the geography of the city in Paris, so I'm always lost. Here, in New York, you can never be lost. In Paris, even when I walk to my gallery or whatever, I always take another route, because Paris is not built that way.
-- Chantal AkermanSource : Source: www.avclub.com
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There is a geography which holds its hands just so far from the breast and pushes you away, crying so.
-- Frank O'Hara -
Cyberspace undeniably reflects some form of geography.
-- Sandra Day O'Connor -
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You know, we live here in America and sometimes don't understand the realities of geography and demographics in Eastern Europe.
-- Martin DempseySource : Source: www.pbs.org
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Physical geography and geology are inseparable scientific twins.
-- Roderick MurchisonSource : "The Journal of the Royal Geographical Society: JRGS", Volume 27, p. cxxxvii, 1857.