Geography Quotes - Page 3

• Dreams are our only geography—our native land.

  Dejan Stojanovic

  Dream, Land, Native

  "Don Quixote". Poem by Dejan Stojanovic,

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• The policies of all powers are inherent in their geography.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Power, Politics, Policy

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• Anatomy is to physiology as geography is to history; it describes the theatre of events.

  Jean Fernel

  Anatomy And Physiology, Theatre, Events

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• We have 45,000 square miles of geography in Ohio.

  Ken Blackwell

  Squares, Ohio, Miles

  "Countdown" with Keith Olbermann, www.nbcnews.com. November 29, 2004.

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• I never thought that I would support myself with art - everyone in the Group of Seven had day jobs. I became a geography teacher so that I could get free field trips into the wilderness to paint.

  Robert Bateman

  Teacher, Art, Jobs

  "Robert Batemen: On home life, health, helping wildlife and his art muse". Interview with Carol Crenna, carolcrenna.wordpress.com. December 15, 2012.

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• The people [in the USA] are not very well informed. They certainly don`t know history. They certainly are not interested in foreign affairs very much, unless it comes right to their doorstep. They all learn history through wars. They learn geography through wars.

  Bill Maher

  War, Usa, People

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• I grew up going around with family, camping and living in a very beautiful mountain valley, knowing the names of the mountains and the rivers. I think it's no accident that I ended up studying the geography of India and knowing the names of the mountains and the rivers and all of that. I loved it. I think it gives a sense of space and a can-do-ness that was very powerful.

  Diana L. Eck

  Beautiful, Powerful, Thinking

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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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. And I regret that.

  Gillian Anderson

  Regret, I Regret

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• Geography has no bearing on it, nor have the interests of the community in which I work.

  Yves Tanguy

  Community, Interest

  Yves Tanguy (1974). “Yves Tanguy: Catalog of an Exhibition November 7-December 7, 1974”

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• An island is a fixed and finite piece of geography, and usually the whole place has been carved up and claimed.

  Paul Theroux

  Islands, Pieces, Fixed

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• Here's a tip, Alyconeus. Next time you choose the biggest state for your home, don't set up base in the part that's only 10 miles wide. Welcome to Canada, idiot.

  Rick Riordan

  Home, Canada, Next

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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. He corrected me on my geography and agreed to sit down with me anyway.

  Terry Bradshaw

  Football, Country, Play

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• George W. Bush has gathered around him upper-crust C-students who know no history or geography.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Students, Knows

  Kurt Vonnegut (2011). “A Man Without a Country”, p.99, Seven Stories Press

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• I believe in North, South, East, West, The seasons, life and death, geography. That which is provable, absolute and most of all, functional. I believe in things that can kill me.

  Henry Rollins

  Believe, Life And Death, East

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• I'm a great believer in geography being destiny.

  Abraham Verghese

  Destiny, Believer

  "A Novel That's the Best Medicine". Interview with Tina Brown, www.thedailybeast.com. February 11, 2009.

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• The philosophy of the school was quite simple - the bright boys specialised in Latin, the not so bright in science and the rest managed with geography or the like.

  Aaron Klug

  Philosophy, Latin, School

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• Those whom nature hath so joined together, let no man put asunder

  John F. Kennedy

  Men, Together, Allies

  Kennedy, John F. (1962). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: John F. Kennedy, 1961”, p.383, Best Books on

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• I'm somewhat horrified because I don't think the young people today even know what history is. Some of them don't even study History at school anymore or Geography and they don't know where one place is from another.

  Joan Sutherland

  School, Thinking, People

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Coming out involves varying degrees of difficulty that are affected by class, race, religion, and geography.

  Lance Loud

  Race, Class, Degrees

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• The art of biography is different from geography. Geography is about maps, but biography is about chaps.

  E. C. Bentley

  Art, Different, Maps

  'Biography for Beginners' (1905) introduction

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• I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy.

  John Adams

  Education, Philosophy, War

  John Adams (2003). “The Letters of John and Abigail Adams”, p.264, Penguin

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• The quickest way to a man's heart is through his chest.

  Roseanne Barr

  Marriage, Sex, Food

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• A man's ethnic identity has more to do with a personal awareness than with geography.

  William Saroyan

  Men, Identity, Awareness

  "Inhale and Exhale". Book by William Saroyan, 1936.

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• When I was in the fourth grade, I became intensely interested in geography and I learned it well.

  Clyde Tombaugh

  Keys, Grades, Wells

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• The Mississippi, the Ganges, and the Nile,... the Rocky Mountains, the Himmaleh, and Mountains of the Moon, have a kind of personal importance in the annals of the world.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Moon, Mountain, World

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.25, Delphi Classics

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