Quotes About Geography

I want my books to last, to stand the test of time, and to do that I focus on the forces that shape the subject - the cultural and sociological geography - to capture them in a way that will explain them no matter what they are doing.

Babies are born bow-legged in South Dakota. By the age of 12, they can purchase guns. At 14, they can take their driving test. Fortunately, since the geographical area of South Dakota can accommodate both France and Germany, but has a population of only 750,000, the chances of hitting anything are pretty slim.

Foucault calculated that the number of degrees through which the pendulum's plane of oscillation would shift in twenty-four hours would be 360 degrees times the sine of the latitude—which thus provided a way to determine the person's north-south location on the globe.

Porque él no le dio a su carne, que tan poco viviría, ni un traje decente, ni una alegría que lo reconciliara con el vivir, él no había hecho nada por el placer de su materia, mientras que a su espíritu no le fue negada ni la geografía de los países para quienes los hombres aún no han descubierto maquinas para llegar.

Her eyes like the ideal geography book: maps of pure nightmare. "The Ghost of Edna Lieberman

Because whipping an atlas at Jackson's head while he was flirt-touching that Frankie girl in geography would have been very satisfying. And beating him with the Eiffel Tower snowglobe while he kissed Cleo in French would have been tres cathartic. But she hadn't. Instead she'd been egg-like: a hard shell on the outside, and a runny mess on the inside.

Let's go over a little astrography. Geography is the mother of strategy, they say.

You are too gifted a person to be living in a state that borders on North Dakota.

Doesn't every kid want to dig a hold to China? Didn't you? What about Chinese children?

Å»eby zrozumie? wspóÅ'czesny Å›wiat, nale?y posÅ'ugiwa? siÄ™ ruchomym globusem i przyglÄ…da? siÄ™ scenie, na której ?yjemy, z ró?nych punktów ziemi.

Anyone being flown to a distant city for heart-bypass surgery has conceded, tacitly at least, that we have learned a few things about physics, geography, engineering, and medicine since the time of Moses.

It seemed to me that winter was the time for love, not spring. In winter the habitable world was so much contracted; out of that little shut-in space we lived in, fantastic hopes might bloom. But spring revealed the ordinary geography of the place; the long, brown roads, the old cracked sidewalks underfoot, all the tree branches broken off in winter storms, that had to be cleared out of the yards. Spring revealed distances, exactly as they were.

War is God's way of teaching Americans geography.

there may be thunder in Europe but it is in America the lightning will fall

BOUNDARY, n. In political geography, an imaginary line between two nations, separating the imaginary rights of one from the imaginary rights of the other.

A guerra é a forma de Deus en­si­nar ge­o­grafia aos ame­ri­ca­nos.

What's the best part about living in Switzerland? No idea, but the flag is a big plus!

People can talk all they want about the Big Ten. About Michigan and Ohio State and Indiana and Kentucky or whatever, but there's no way that compares. They're in different states. Here, we share the same dry cleaners." - Mike Kryzewski

Cush of Ezekiel's day sat far more northwest than the Ethiopia of today.

Thus it cannot be denied that the masses which today form our highest mountains were originally in a liquid state; for a long time they were covered by waters which did not sustain any life.

The Art of BiographyIs different from Geography.Geography is about Maps,But Biography is about Chaps.

The difference between America and England is that Americans think 100 years is a long time, while the English think 100 miles is a long way.

But when she imagined college she thought of her dreary days in the schoolhouse in Lushoto, the heat of classrooms, the impatience of mathematics, bland two-dimensional maps pinned to walls. Green for land, blue for water, stars for capital cities. Schoolmasters obsessed with naming things that had existed unnamed for a million years.

A period of time is as much an organising principle for a work of fiction as a sense of place. You can do geography, as Faulkner did, or you can dwell on a particular period. It provides the same framework.