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Quotes About Geography

Indians are numerous in the tropical regions; not so elsewhere.
~ Ezra Stiles
The truth is that the history of Mexico is a history in the image of its geography: abrupt and tortuous. Each historical period is like a plateau surrounded by tall mountains and separated from the other plateaus by precipices and divides.
~ Octavio Paz
If you live far away from a person you no longer want to date just let them know that they are geographically undesirable.
~ Dane Cook
Oh? Where?" "Africa." Davy winced. Second largest continent. Over a billion people. Fifty-six countries. You could overlay all of the U.S., China, India, and Europe on Africa's landmass.
~ Steven Gould
LSSU] was the kind of school where students had a lot of pride. Not the raucous strain of sports pride... And not academic pride... It was more of a geographical pride. Kids were proud to live in that tough wilderness setting, and the best way to prove your mettle was through achievements in the wild.
~ Steven Rinella
Cross-country skiing is great if you live in a small country.
~ Steven Wright
Do the people in Australia call the rest of the world 'Up Over'?
~ Steven Wright
Cross-country skiing is fine as long as you live in a small country.
~ Steven Wright
The vast southern city they lived in was rich in land, poor in everything else—no bodies of water, no drainage, no hills, no topographical variety of any sort, no public transportation or even the awareness of the lack of such a thing.
~ Susan Choi
The broadest pattern of history - namely, the differences between human societies on different continents - seems to me to be attributable to differences among continental environments, and not to biological differences among peoples themselves.
~ Jared Diamond
Every homeland constitutes a sacred geography. For those who have left it, the city of their childhood and adolescence always becomes a mythical city.
~ Mircea Eliade
Location, location, location, the realtors say. Geography is destiny, respond the historians.
~ Mohsin Hamid
when it would be squarely in the path of heavy machine-gun and rocket fire as fighters advanced into this part of town: a view like staring down the barrel of a rifle. Location, location, location, the realtors say. Geography
~ Mohsin Hamid
It was the sort of view that might command a slight premium during gentler, more prosperous times, but would be most undesirable in times of conflict, when it would be squarely in the path of heavy machine-gun and rocket fire as fighters advanced into this part of town: a view like staring down the barrel of a rifle. Location, location, location, the realtors say. Geography is destiny, respond the historians. War
~ Mohsin Hamid
Location, location, location, the realtors say. Geography is destiny, respond the historians. War
~ Mohsin Hamid
Do you have a concept of hell in your religion?" Bilbow asked. Prabhupada paused briefly. "This is hell," he said matter-of-factly. "London is hell. It's always cold, damp, rainy and cloudy. In India the sun always shines." He beamed at his questioner.
~ Mukunda Goswami
I don't know, I don't feel right unless I've got the sea and mountains nearby. People are mostly a product of where they were born and raised. How you think and feel's always linked to the lay of the land, the temperature. The prevailing winds, even.
~ Murakami, Haruki
From the book he carefully tears out several maps, and in this light Afghanistan's mountains and hills and restlessly branching corridors of rock appear as though the pages are crumpled up, and there is a momentary wish in him to smooth them down. Laser-guided bombs are falling onto the pages in his hands, missiles summoned from the Arabian Sea, from American warships that are as long as the Empire State Building is tall.
~ Nadeem Aslam
It is true that humans have physical differences, and some of those differences are spread geographically across the plant. But clinging to old notions about race won't help us understand the nature of those differences—both the ones we can see and the ones we can't.
~ Carl Zimmer
It is true that humans have physical differences, and some of those differences are spread geographically across the planet. But clinging to old notions about race won't help us understand the nature of those differences—both the ones we can see and the ones we can't.
~ Carl Zimmer
I don't even know where Russia and Mexico are.
~ Trey Parker
Canada - they won't like me saying this, but it's really like it's a part of Michigan, that area.
~ John Varvatos
Egypt was - as it is now - a confluence of cultures, as a result of being a crossroads geographically between Africa, the Middle East and Europe.
~ Ridley Scott
Marriage is only an accident of situation, situation an accident of history, and history of geography.
~ Thomas Hardy