Quotes About Geography

Ci Puo' essere quakcosa di piu' stupido del fatto che un uomo abbia il diritto di uccidermi perche' vive sull'altra sponda di un fiume e il suo sovrano ha avuto una lite con il mio, anche se io non ho litigato con lui?

what I eventually concluded was that it was necessary to cleanse one's vision in order to see the door. To do this one must return to the place, the geographical location where one last believed the world to be fluid, responsive to oneself. In short one must return to the last place in which one had stood before the iron hand of modern rationality gripped one's mind.

There exists for each of us a geographical fulcrum, a place so saturated with memory that within its precinct the past is always present.

just longitude and latitude. Thirty-seven degrees, fifty-six minutes north by one hundred seven degrees, forty-nine minutes west.

Governments have always played an important role in energy investment, but this role has been increasing due to both geography and technology.

Israel has a security concern involving geography. But geography does not have the same value it did in 1967.

I sometimes try to think of my life as an Iranian, and it is hard to imagine. I am grateful for the life I have had in America and all the amazing opportunities and experiences it has given me. But there is a spirit in Iranians I can see that is unbounded by geography.

I don't think America has ever had a center the way London is the center of England or Dublin is the center of Ireland.

What's amazing is - I actually have problems getting it into my head - Canada is so big, right? And Ireland's small, you know; you drive from coast to coast in three hours.

Australia is the most isolated continent.

Italy is a geographical expression.

Italy is a divided country without a center.

The inhabitants of warm countries are, like old men, timorous Ã¢â'¬Â¦ the people in cold countries are, like young men, brave.

What differed were conditions of climate and geography that, operating on the biology of otherwise indistinguishable individuals, produced systematic differences in political behavior. Slavery for him was not natural and needed to be explained in terms of the ability of certain societies to better organize themselves for war and conquest.

The peculiarity of the Battle of Waterloo was its narrow compass, with 140,000 men crammed into three square miles; the front was only four kilometres wide, as against ten at Austerlitz.

There is a geography which holds its hands just so far from the breast and pushes you away, crying so.

Certains accidents géographiques, par exemple les hautes montagnes, s'apparentent, en raison de leur symbolisme naturel, aux grands sanctuaires primordiaux, et c'est pour cela que les peuples les plus divers, surtout ceux dont la tradition a une forme « mythique » ou « primordiale », évitent de monter jusqu'aux sommets des montagnes, par crainte de provoquer la « colère des Dieux ».

Some imagine the difference between heaven and hell to be a matter of geography. Not so. The difference is much more evident in the individuals who dwell there.

Yes. You read that right. Evil Librarians control the world. They keep everyone in ignorance, teaching them falsehoods in place of history, geography, and politics. It's kind of a joke to them. Why else do you think the Librarians named themselves what they did? Librarians. LIE-brarians. Sounds obvious now, doesn't it? If you wish to smack yourself in the forehead and curse loudly, you may proceed to do so. I can wait.

Ellis Island lies in New York Harbor 1,300 feet from Jersey City, New Jersey, and one mile from the tip of Manhattan. At the time of the first European settlement, it was mostly mud, sand, and oyster shells, which nearly disappeared at high tide.

Like I always tell people, Buffalo is closer to Toronto than New York City. We an hour and a half away - that's the next major city to us is Toronto. Buffalo's connected to Canada.

I always figured Metropolis was north of New York, actually. Between New York and Boston, in my mind.

I've always had a passion for geography. Even at a very young age.

The thing about Iceland is that we are trapped there anyway, all of us. We have been trapped there for thousands of years.