Geography Quotes · Page 4

I've always had a passion for geography. Even at a very young age.

— Robert Lepage

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

— Truman Capote

The fake Zionist regime will disappear from the landscape of geography.

— Ali Khamenei

The policies of all powers are inherent in their geography.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

All maps are distorted, they are not literal fact.

— Paula Scher

Food is the best way to teach history and geography and most everything else.

— Mark Kurlansky

I have always preferred maps to books. They don't answer you back.

— David Mitchell

God created war so that Americans would learn geography.

— Mark Twain

No one has ever discovered anything new using a map. Just throw it and start finding your own new things.

— Ritu Ghatourey

Human nature is to need a map. If you’re brave enough to draw one, people will follow.

— Seth Godin

Most of the men regarded Europe as a wine list. In their mental geography Rheims, Rhine, Moselle, Bordeaux, Champagne, or Würzburg were…

— Edna Ferber

Characters, conflict and geography are things that must be considered while making movies from adaptations.

— Vetrimaaran

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

— Kurt Vonnegut

Most of these - most people's stage personas are created out of the flotsam and jetsam of their internal geography.

— Bruce Springsteen

My undergraduate degree is in geography and sociology, so I had like no real training with words.

— Amanda Shires

This is our world, although the people who drew this map decided to put their own land on top of ours. There…

— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

The people [in the USA] are not very well informed. They certainly don't know history. They certainly are not interested in foreign…

— Bill Maher

A period of time is as much an organising principle for a work of fiction as a sense of place. You can…

— E. L. Doctorow

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

— George Friedman

There is a future for the auto parts industry, but it needs a consolidation and a rationalization of geography in that most…

— Wilbur Ross

I know that the United Kingdom is sometimes seen as an argumentative and rather strong-minded member of the family of European nations.…

— David Cameron

I like a certain grandeur to a landscape, which both the Arctic and coastal BC have. I like it to be at…

— Kevin Patterson

Early maps were generally big flat landscapes with few internal features but all the waterways were marked on them. People knew to…

— Steven Rinella

“I think I’ve got a map in my car that wants to be used, and I think there are places we can…

— Jennifer Niven

“Really," said Thiel crossly, bending to collect them, "I was quite clear to Darby that we wished a single, recent map. Take…

— Kristin Cashore

The world's geography is not realistic. Geography is not real. Borders are only closed to people but they are open to products.…

— Alex Abreu

What are your choices? Whom are your choices for? Not just for yourself. Chose now whom you will serve, and that choice…

— Edith Schaeffer

What is it about maps and globes that seems to require our undivided attention? I've spent hours looking at maps of places…

— Dan Kieran

Michael [Jackson] reconstructed his face and deconstructed the African features into a spooky European geography of fleshly possibilities, and yet what we…

— Michael Eric Dyson

A lot of the reason I left New York, in addition to being so broke, was that I just felt I was…

— Meghan Daum

There are stories, like maps that agree... too consistent among too many languages and histories to be only wishful thinking… It is…

— Thomas Pynchon

It is possible I never learned the names of birds in order to discover the bird of peace, the bird of paradise,…

— Anais Nin

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

— Robert Frost

I am told there are people who do not care for maps, and I find it hard to believe.

— Robert Louis Stevenson

Geography blended with time equals destiny.

— Joseph Brodsky

“the geography once, but the health lessons”

— Vannetta Chapman

“Your lack of geographical knowledge is truly astounding.”

— Chelsea Handler

Your soul knows the geography of your destiny.

— John O'Donohue

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

— Ken Jennings

Geography is about maps, but biography is about chaps.

— Eric Bentley