Geographical Quotes

99 Geographical quotes by 80 unique authors

I have discovered three things which know no geographical borders - classical music, American jazz, and applause as the sign of the public's favor. — Jascha Heifetz
Online learning can be a lifeline to those who have obstacles, such as geographical distances or physical disabilities. — Paul Levinson
The end of the [geographical] exploration is the beginning of the [missionary] enterprise. — David Livingstone
The geographical movement of money and commodities as capital is not the same as the movements of products and of precious metals. Capital is, after… — David Harvey
If we do not learn to regard a war, and the separate campaigns of which it is composed, as a chain of linked engagements each… — Carl von Clausewitz
Although random mutations influenced the course of evolution, their influence was mainly by loss, alteration, and refinement... Never, however, did that one mutation make a… — Lynn Margulis
Our Bodies, Ourselves is the bible for women's health--It has served as a way for women, across ethnic, racial, religious, and geographical boundaries, to start… — Byllye Avery
The trace left behind is substituted for the practice. It exhibits the (voracious) property that the geographical system has of being able to transform action… — Michel de Certeau
What distinguishes [Afropolitans] is a willingness to complicate Africa – namely, to engage with, critique, and celebrate the parts of Africa that mean most to… — Taiye Selasi
Events are the ephemera of history; they pass across its stage like fireflies, hardly glimpsed before they settle back into darkness and as often as… — Fernand Braudel
To get to New Orleans you don't pass through anywhere else. That geographical location, being aloof, lets it hold onto the ritual of its own… — Allen Toussaint
I like to think of mathematicians as forming a nation of our own without distinctions of geographical origin, race, creed, sex, age or even time...… — Unknown Author
It may happen that the enemies of Islam may consider it expedient not to take any action against Islam, if Islam leaves them alone in… — Sayyid Qutb
Since 1970, relationships can be more volatile, jobs more ephemeral, geographical mobility more intensified, stability of marriage weaker. — Mary Douglas
The particular feature of Berlin - well, all you need to do is look at the map: the geographical position of the city right in… — Markus Wolf
For a joint scientific and geographical piece of organization, give me Scott; for a winter journey, give me Wilson; for a dash to the Pole and nothing… — Apsley Cherry-Garrard
Earth Day is the first holy day which transcends all national borders, yet preserves all geographical integrities, spans mountains and oceans and time belts, and… — Margaret Mead
The body must be regarded as a site of social, political, cultural and geographical inscriptions, production or constitution. The body is not opposed to culture,… — Elizabeth Grosz
Italy is a geographical expression. — Klemens von Metternich
These sites have torn down the geographical divide that once prevented long distance social relationships from forming, allowing instant communication and connections to take place… — Mike Fitzpatrick
Men's private self-worlds are rather like our geographical world's seasons, storm, and sun, deserts, oases, mountains and abysses, the endless-seeming plateaus, darkness and light, and… — Faith Baldwin
The word 'Italy' is a geographical expression, a description which is useful shorthand, but has none of the political significance the efforts of the revolutionary… — Klemens von Metternich
Italy is only a geographical expression. — Klemens von Metternich
So imagine a world 6 degrees warmer. It's not going to recognize geographical boundaries. It's not going to recognize anything. So agriculture regions today will… — Steven Chu
Hindu is a geographical identity, or at the most a cultural one - not a religion. There is no set of beliefs that everyone has… — Jaggi Vasudev

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