Quotes About Geography

I don't want to make light of the importance of my musical upbringing, as you cannot avoid being influenced by the area you grow up, but I will say that Reykjavik's geography is very different from, say, New York, Paris, or Copenhagen. There's big skies. The buildings are low. The landscape is spread out.

Democrats do best in urban centers, Republicans in outer suburbs and rural areas.

Geography prepares for the world of work - geographers, with their skills of analysis are highly employable!

Mathematics was hard, dull work, I thought; geography pleased me more. For my other studies, as well as for dancing, I was quite enthusiastic.

The name came about from me just closing my eyes and sticking a pen on a map of South Africa. St. Lucia was the fifth place that the pen landed on.

I have an incredible sense of direction, but London is confusing. It's a circle, but then it stops being a circle.

Indiana was the most Southern of Northern states—North Dixie

Nonstop Metropolis by Rebecca Solnit.

32°46? latitude, 171°91? longitude

We have to get the oil where the oil is.

Where I grew up in Tulsa, Oklahoma, it wasn't the south-east and it wasn't the deep south and it wasn't quite the south-west either.

Omaha, like Rome, is built on seven hills.

I hope one day when I say I'm from Estonia, people don't say: 'What? Where's that?'

Russia contains one fourth of the inhabitants of all Europe, and one half of the entire number of Israelites.

London, Ontario, sits halfway between Detroit and Buffalo, a description that applies as much to its soul as to its geographical coordinates.

There's a difference wherever you go in Canada, Ontario and the GTA.

If this is Upper Silesia, what on earth must Lower Silesia be like?

A ripe suggestion, I said. Where are you meeting her? At the Ritz? Near the Ritz. He was geographically accurate. About fifty yards east of the Ritz there is one of those blighted tea-and-bun shops you see dotted about all over London and into this, if you'll believe me, young Bingo dived like a homing rabbit; and before I had time to say a word we were wedged in at a table, on the brink of a silent pool of coffee left there by an early luncher.

I shall speak, not of self, but of geography.

Why does the professor teach the geography of death? For que ensena el profesor la geografia de la muerte?

En la Antártida no hay osos polares —continuó Tolland—. De manera que la llamaron Anti-arktos.

Polar bears actually give the Arctic its name. Arktos is Greek for bear." Terrific. Rachel gazed nervously into the dark. "Antarctica has no polar bears," Tolland said. "So they call it Anti-arktos.

Who can I complain to, if I don't like the shape of the globe?

Now, these parts of the earth [Europe, Africa, Asia] have been more extensively explored and a fourth part has been discovered by Amerigo Vespucci (as will be described in what follows). Inasmuch as both Europe and Asia received their names from women, I see no reason why any one should justly object to calling this part Amerige [from Greek "ge" meaning "land of"], i.e., the land of Amerigo, or America, after Amerigo, its discoverer, a man of great ability.