Geography Quotes

I never thought that I would support myself with art - everyone in the Group of Seven had day jobs. I became a geography teacher so that I could get free field trips into the wilderness to paint.

The brain may take advice, but not the heart, and love, having no geography, knows no boundaries: weight and sink it deep, no matter, it will rise and find the surface.

Dreams are our only geography—our native land.

I like geography best, he said, because your mountains & rivers know the secret. Pay no attention to boundaries.

We have 45,000 square miles of geography in Ohio.

Geography is destiny.

Boundary, n. In political geography, an imaginary line between two nations, separating the imaginary rights of one from the imaginary rights of another.

History is philosophy teaching by example, and also warning; its two eyes are geography and chronology.

Jewish villages were built in the place of Arab villages. You do not even know the names of these Arab villages, and I do not blame you, because these geography books no longer exist.

[When you write a play] you walk into a forest without a knife, without a compass. But . . . if you have a sense of geography, you find that you're clearing a path and getting to the right place.

A man's ethnic identity has more to do with a personal awareness than with geography.

The philosophy of the school was quite simple - the bright boys specialised in Latin, the not so bright in science and the rest managed with geography or the like.

It occurred to me that no matter where I lived, geography could not save me.

You want a lesson? I'll give you a lesson. How about a geography lesson? My father's from Puerto Rico. My mother's from El Salvador. And neither one of those is Mexico.

George W. Bush has gathered around him upper-crust C-students who know no history or geography.

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

why can't we control our anger? because we love perfection. make a little room for imperfection in our lives.

I like science - geography, meteorology, cosmology.

Geography does not define you - love does.

As Geography without History seemeth a carkasse without motion; so History without Geography wandreth as a Vagrant without a certaine habitation.

One cannot kick against geography!

History is philosophy teaching by example and also by warning.

If theres a choice between tap water and bottled water, the consumer can make that choice. In a very large geography in the world, that choice does not exist.

The policies of all powers are inherent in their geography.

An island is a fixed and finite piece of geography, and usually the whole place has been carved up and claimed.

[L]ove, having no geography, knows no boundaries.

Anger does not make history. Power does. And power may be supplemented by anger, but it derives from more fundamental realities; geography, demographics, technology, and culture.

History is a compass that you locate yourself on the map of human geography, politically, culturally, financially.

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

For sheer majestic geography and sublime scale, nothing beats Alaska and the Yukon. For culture, Japan. And for all-around affection, Australia.

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

Do you understand the sadness of geography?

In the U.K., we have the best geography teachers in the world!

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

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

Most of the men regarded Europe as a wine list. In their mental geography Rheims, Rhine, Moselle, Bordeaux, Champagne, or Würzburg were not localities but libations.

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

In particular, Australia, because of its ancient geography, soil profile and distinctive weather patterns, is more adversely affected by climate variability than some other continents.

Give children beauty, not the record of bloody slaughters and barbarous brawls, as they call history, or of the latitude and longitude of places nobody cares to visit, as they call geography.

I always scout locations first. The apartments, the railway tracks, the café, the canal - I figure out the geography of the film.

The modern geography of the brain has a deliciously antiquated feel to it - rather like a medieval map with the known world encircled by terra incognito where monsters roam.

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

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

Paris is not a city, it is the image, the symbol of France, its today and yesterday, the reflection of its history, its geography and its hidden essence.

A place is a story, and stories are geography, and empathy is first of all an act of imagination, a storyteller's art, and then a way of traveling from here to there.

If as individuals we can improve the geography only slightly, if at all, perhaps the more appropriately scaled subject for reshaping is ourselves.

Cyberspace undeniably reflects some form of geography.

Can you see the sunset real good on the West side? You can see it on the East side too.

I'm a great believer in geography being destiny.

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