Geographical Quotes

99 Geographical quotes by 80 unique authors

Men should continue to fight, but they should fight for things worth while, not for imaginary geographical lines, racial prejudices and private greed draped in… — Albert Einstein
Palaeontological research exhibits, beyond question, the phenomenon of provinces in time, as well as provinces in space. Moreover, all our knowledge of organic remains teaches… — Edward Forbes
In this shrinking world, it is futile to seek safety behind geographical barriers. Real security will be found only in law and in justice. — Harry S. Truman
Alexander's achievement was not the conquest of India, but the feat of actually getting there and his two years in India were more of a… — Karen Armstrong
Lobbyists are in many cases expert technicians and capable of explaining complex and difficult subjects in a clear, understandable fashion. They engage in personal discussions… — John F. Kennedy
I believe in the power of great art to transcend geographical boundaries, political differences and even the restrictions of time. — Armand Hammer
If you care to define the South as a poor, rural region with lousy race relations, that South survives only in geographical shreds and patches… — John Shelton Reed
Why should Ireland be treated as a geographical fragment of England - Ireland is not a geographical fragment, but a nation. — Charles Stewart Parnell
What drives me is exploration with a purpose, more the classic Royal Geographical Society genre. — Robert Ballard
One very important aspect of our contemporary musical culture - some might say the supremely important aspect - is its extension in the historical and… — George Crumb
Unquestionably, our contemporary world of music is far richer, in a sense, than earlier periods, due to the historical and geographical extensions of culture to… — George Crumb
Soul has no musical geographical or racial boundaries. — Roy Ayers
If it is possible to have a linear unit that depends on no other quantity, it would seem natural to prefer it. Moreover, a mensural… — Nicolas de Caritat, marquis de Condorcet
The foundation is being laid for the emergence of both wind and solar cells as cornerstones of the new energy economy. World wind generating capacity… — Lester R. Brown
Ourselves are cosmic and capacious beyond conjecture, and to experience some notion of the planetary perspective is the richest income from travelling. It takes all… — Amos Bronson Alcott
The history of religions, of which Christianity is a transcendent element, awaits the deepest study. It requires Bibles to free from Bibles. Comparative theology is… — Amos Bronson Alcott
Exile is more than a geographical concept. You can be an exile in your homeland, in your own house, in a room. — Mahmoud Darwish
It is not differences of opinion; it is geographical lines, rivers, and mountains which divide State from State, and make different nations of mankind. — Jefferson Davis
A goose flies by a chart which the Royal Geographical Society could not mend. — Oliver Wendell Holmes
I really believe in the way the energy can consolidate in certain geographical spots. You can find it in a lot of different places, beautiful… — Conor Oberst
It is dangerous when you start calling people from one part of the world terrorists or fanatic, and you reduce them to some abstract notion.… — Marjane Satrapi
This world was not created piecemeal. Africa was born no later and no earlier than any other geographical area on this globe. Africans, no more… — Haile Selassie
I tap danced for ten years before I began to understand people don't make musicals anymore. All I wanted to do was be at MGM… — Zadie Smith
Undergraduates today can select from a swathe of identity studies.... The shortcoming of all these para-academic programs is not that they concentrate on a given… — Tony Judt
The continent is too large to describe. It is a veritable ocean, a separate planet, a varied, immensely rich cosmos. Only with the greatest simplification,… — Ryszard Kapuscinski

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