Geography Quotes

233 Geography quotes by 202 unique authors

I'm a great believer in geography being destiny. — Abraham Verghese
Right now, there are a limited number of customers for Canadian oil. Due to simple geography - and without the pipeline - it's really only… — Ron Wyden
When I'm traveling the world, I don't ever look anymore at the geography - just enough to catch galleries and paintings. — Alber Elbaz
I get to go to overseas places, like Canada. — Britney Spears
Dreams were the worst. Of course I dreamed of food and love, but they were pleasant rather than otherwise. But then I'd dream of things… — Elizabeth Bishop
[L]ove, having no geography, knows no boundaries. — Truman Capote
I must study Politicks and War that my sons may have liberty to study Mathematicks and Philosophy. My sons ought to study Mathematicks and Philosophy,… — John Adams
Think what you would have been now, if instead of being fed with tales and old wives' fables in childhood, you had been crammed with… — Charles Lamb
Can you see the sunset real good on the West side? You can see it on the East side too. — S E Hinton
In short, Europe’s colonization of Africa had nothing to do with differences between European and African peoples themselves, as white racists assume. Rather, it was… — Jared Diamond
Charleston has a landscape that encourages intimacy and partisanship. I have heard it said that an inoculation to the sights and smells of the Carolina… — Pat Conroy
God created war so that Americans would learn geography. — Mark Twain
Your soul knows the geography of your destiny. Your soul alone has the map of your future, therefore you can trust this indirect, oblique side… — John O'Donohue
Also consider that someday, when you’re dead and rotted, kids with their baby teeth will sit in their time-geography class and laugh about how stupid… — Chuck Palahniuk
All I ever wanted was a world without maps. — Michael Ondaatje
What a lost person needs is a map of the territory, with his own position marked on it so he can see where he is… — Margaret Atwood
Or perhaps is is that time doesn't heal wounds at all, perhaps that is the biggest lie of them all, and instead what happens is… — Thrity Umrigar
We are shaped not only by our current geography but by our ancestral one as well. Americans, for instance, retain a frontier spirit even though… — Eric Weiner
My wound is geography. It is also my anchorage, my port of call. — Pat Conroy
If there is such a thing as being conditioned by climate and geography, and I think there is, it is the West that has conditioned… — Wallace Stegner
Is it wrong, wanting to be at home with your record collection? It's not like collecting records is like collecting stamps, or beermats, or antique… — Nick Hornby
There are stories, like maps that agree... too consistent among too many languages and histories to be only wishful thinking.... It is always a hidden… — Thomas Pynchon
Heimat. The word mean home in German, the place where one was born. But the term also conveys a subtler nuance, a certain tenderness. One's… — Jenna Blum
Everywhere's been where it is ever since it was first put there. It's called geography. — Terry Pratchett
There is a geography which holds its hands just so far from the breast and pushes you away, crying so. — Frank O'Hara

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