Geography Quotes
233 quotes by 211 authors
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Mathematics was hard, dull work. Geography pleased me more. For dancing I was quite enthusiastic.
— John James Audubon
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War is God's way of teaching Americans geography.
— Ambrose Bierce
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When Brian told me he grew up in New Mexico, I told him I thought it is cool that people from other countries play football.…
— Terry Bradshaw
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School boards are, for the most part ,made up of political wannabes who see a board seat as a stepping stone for political office, or…
— Eli Broad
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British crime stories tend to be very internal, psychological, claustrophobic, very limited in terms of geography.
— Lee Child
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I remember hearing Sonny Terry and Brownie McGhee, Big Bill Broonzy, Chuck Berry and Bo Diddley and not really knowing anything about the geography or…
— Eric Clapton
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History is not everything, but it is a starting point. History is a clock that people use to tell their political and cultural time of…
— John Henrik Clarke
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The UK is not going to leave the European Union. Of course not. We are inextricably wound up with Europe. In terms of culture, history…
— Nick Clegg
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For sheer majestic geography and sublime scale, nothing beats Alaska and the Yukon. For culture, Japan. And for all-around affection, Australia.
— Sam Abell
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I was a daydreamer, and there is a lot of history and geography and science I missed out on because I was in my head.…
— Gillian Anderson
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In our own beginnings, we are formed out of the body's interior landscape. For a short while, our mothers' bodies are the boundaries and personal…
— Louise Erdrich
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Yet America is a poem in our eyes; its ample geography dazzles the imagination, and it will not wait long for metres.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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With the defeat of the Reich and pending the emergence of the Asiatic, the African and, perhaps, the South American nationalisms, there will remain in…
— Adolf Hitler
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What are your choices? Whom are your choices for? Not just for yourself. Chose now whom you will serve, and that choice is going to…
— Edith Schaeffer
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The actual flower is the plant's highest fulfilment, and are not here exclusively for herbaria, county floras and plant geography: they are here first of…
— John Ruskin
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Besides P.E., geography was my best class in high school. I was in this gifted class when I was younger, and it was wicked!
— Steve Nash
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"Have you done your homework?" my mother would ask. "I'll do it later." "You will do it now, young man. I don't want you winding…
— Lewis Grizzard
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Descriptive anatomy is to physiology what geography is to history, and just as it is not enough to know the typography of a country to…
— Claude Bernard
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Physical geography and geology are inseparable scientific twins.
— Roderick Murchison
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The course of the line we indicated as forming our grandest terrestrial fold [along the shores of Japan] returns upon itself. It is an endless…
— Charles Lapworth
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