Geography Quotes

233 quotes by 211 authors

Mathematics was hard, dull work. Geography pleased me more. For dancing I was quite enthusiastic. — John James Audubon
War is God's way of teaching Americans geography. — Ambrose Bierce
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
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
British crime stories tend to be very internal, psychological, claustrophobic, very limited in terms of geography. — Lee Child
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
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
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
For sheer majestic geography and sublime scale, nothing beats Alaska and the Yukon. For culture, Japan. And for all-around affection, Australia. — Sam Abell
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
"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
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
Physical geography and geology are inseparable scientific twins. — Roderick Murchison
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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