Geography Quote by Patrick Mendis

“Those words . . . national and portrait. They were both to do with identity: the identity of a culture (place, language and history),…

— A.S. Byatt

“Personal and world history is an accumulation of todays, and how they were spent.”

— Andrew M. Davis

“World-history is the history of the great Cultures, and peoples are but the symbolic forms and vessels in which the men of these Cultures…

— Oswald Spengler

“Thus are many identities, over time, shown to be temporary alignments of components involved in a deeper allegiance.”

— Amy Leach

“The gravity of any location pulls citizens to its heart, organizing people by abstractly spiritual geography.”

— Jardine Libaire

“History is the hidden map of who, where and how we are today.”

— Elena Lappin

“as the tides of history rise and fall, worldviews rise and fall with them,”

— Heath White

“The world had reclaimed its own reality, and, just like after a catastrophe, my culture had ended: I was merely a historical fact. Everything…

— Clarice Lispector

“People need history in order to know themselves, to build a sense of identity and pride, continuity, community, and hope for the future.”

— Douglas Preston

“The actions of a single person can change the course of the world and create history.”

— Michael Scott

Monuments and archaeological pieces serve as testimonies of man's greatness and establish a dialogue between civilizations showing the extent to which human beings are…

— Vicente Fox

“The increased facilities of communication and exchange of thought, the teachings of history, the unity of government, the rise of literature and the efforts…

— Rabindranath Tagore