Quotes of Geography - somelinesforyou

“ In America the geography is sublime, but the men are not; the inventions are excellent, but the inventors one is sometimes ashamed of. ”

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

- Lance Loud

“ But even physics cannot be defined from an atomic topography. ”

- Michael Polanyi

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

- Ambrose Bierce

“ In our own beginnings, we are formed out of the body's interior landscape, For a short while, our mothers' bodies are the boundaries and personal geography which are all that we know of the world. ”

- Louise Erdrich

“ We learn geology the morning after the earthquake. ”

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

“ The shortest distance between two points is under construction. ”

- Noelie Altito

“ Sin is geographical. ”

- Bertrand Russell

“ There is an eternal landscape, a geography of the soul; we search for its outlines all our lives. ”

- Josephine Hart

“ Geographically, Ireland is a medium-sized rural island that is slowly but steadily being consumed by sheep. ”

- Dave Barry

“ At present cats have more purchasing power and influence than the poor of this planet. Accidents of geography and colonial history should no longer determine who gets the fish. ”

- Derek Wall

“ War is God's way of teaching Americans geography. ”

- Ambrose Bierce

“ Sometimes I think war is God's way of teaching us geography. ”

- Paul Rodriguez

“ History is philosophy teaching by example, and also warning; its two eyes are geography and chronology. ”

- James A. Garfield

“ Geography is just physics slowed down, with a couple of trees stuck in it. ”

- Terry Pratchett

“ Without geography you're nowhere. ”

- Jimmy Buffett

“ Anybody who believes that the way to a man's heart is through his stomach flunked geography. ”

- Robert Byrne

“ The geography of Kentucky is drawn not only on the map but also on the culture. Everyone here, regardless of age, lives as part of a generation that has yet to know the full power of true unity as Kentuckians, one and all. ”

- Ernie Fletcher

“ The door might not be opened to a woman again for a long, long time, and I had a kind of duty to other women to walk in and sit down on the chair that was offered, and so establish the right of others long hence and far distant in geography to sit in the high seats. ”

- Frances Perkins

“ You don't have to ski to climb the great routes in Yosemite. It's a cultural difference, and it's also simple geography. If you live close to or in the mountains you have to develop a certain skillset, and a lot of Europeans live that way. ”

- Michael Kennedy
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