School boards are, for the most part ,made up of political wannabes who see a board seat as a stepping stone for… — Eli Broad Copy Share Image
The art of biography is different from geography. Geography is about maps, but biography is about chaps. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“What poor, mean trash this whole business of human virtue is! A mere matter, for the most part, of latitude and longitude,… — Harriet Beecher Stowe Copy Share Image
Intelligence communities are very closed communities, but at the same time, you don't only learn how to fight terrorism. You need to… — Mosab Hassan Yousef Copy Share Image
Paris is not a city, it is the image, the symbol of France, its today and yesterday, the reflection of its history,… — Nina Berberova Copy Share Image
Unless the Arab states give Israel formal recognition, within secure, recognised and mutually agreed boundaries, as a permanent feature of the geography… — Anthony Crosland Copy Share Image
If I wrote at all, I must throw myself headlong into the great political maelstrom, and would of course be swallowed up… — Jane Swisshelm Copy Share Image
I remember as a child reading or hearing the words 'The Great Divide' and being stunned by the glorious sound, a proper… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
Travel is a vanishing act, a solitary trip down a pinched line of geography to oblivion. — Paul Theroux Copy Share Image
While writing 'Cold Mountain,' I held maps of two geographies, two worlds, in my mind as I wrote. One was an early… — Charles Frazier Copy Share Image
“The South Pacific was once the playground for ship-sick European sailors. Then it became the roistering barricade of the last great pirates.… — James A. Michener Copy Share Image
Our patriotic fervor was the result of the old and widespread belief in the idea of American exceptionalism, the idea that America… — Peggy Noonan Copy Share Image
“Man was first a hunter, and an artist: his early vestiges tell us that alone. But he must always have dreamed, and… — Guy Davenport Copy Share Image
Geography has made us neighbors. History has made us friends. Economics has made us partners, and necessity has made us allies. Those… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
I'm somewhat horrified because I don't think the young people today even know what history is. Some of them don't' even study… — Joan Sutherland Copy Share Image
History is a compass that you locate yourself on the map of human geography, politically, culturally, financially. — John Henrik Clarke Copy Share Image
“We’ve gone from a planet ruled by natural geography to political geography to kinetically functional geography to a cyber geography that is… — James Scott, Senior Fellow, Institute for Critical Infrastructure Technology Copy Share Image
Basically, Islamic State is a combined al Qaeda and Lebanese Hezbollah on steroids, destabilizing the region, dissolving borders/changing the political geography in… — Jim Mattis Copy Share Image
Geography prepares for the world of work - geographers, with their skills of analysis are highly employable! — Michael Palin Copy Share Image
It occurred to me that no matter where I lived, geography could not save me. — Isabel Wilkerson Copy Share Image
