Geography Quotes - Page 3

It must be hard for humans, forever floundering through inconvenient geography. Humans are always lost. It's a basic characteristic. It explains a lot about them.

If as individuals we can improve the geography only slightly, if at all, perhaps the more appropriately scaled subject for reshaping is ourselves.

Physical geography and geology are inseparable scientific twins.

A bibliophile has approximately the same relationship to literature as a philatelist to geography.

I'm a great believer in geography being destiny.

Oh I'm in love with the janitor's boy, And the janitor's boy loves me; He's going to hunt for a desert isle In our geography.

Material existence is entirely founded on a phantom realm of mind, whose nature and geography are unexplored.

An art that heals and protects its subject is a geography of scars.

It has been said that Canada is bounded 'on the north by gold, on the west by the East, on the east by history - and on the south by friends'.* We hope that will always be the case and we hope it will be the case not only with respect to the United States, your immediate neighbor to the south, but with respect to all your southern neighbors - and ours - who are bound by the great forces of geography and history which are distinctive to the New World.

I'm interested in geography and weather and things like that, and if you don't write love songs, you've gotta go somewhere. I wrote a lot about places because that's what else there was. I had to stop myself from writing more of them.

The biggest difference between England and America is that England has history, while America has geography.

Making sure that the geography and timelines work is always the hardest part of writing. But you owe it to the readers to get it right!

You know, we live here in America and sometimes don't understand the realities of geography and demographics in Eastern Europe.

So much of our lives depends on accidents of birth, time, and geography. This haunts me. In some lives, few "or"s are possible. The pain of that is behind the second stanza of this poem.

The cell, too, has a geography, and its reactions occur in colloidal apparatus, of which the form, and the catalytic activity of its manifold surfaces, must efficiently contribute to the due guidance of chemical reactions.

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

What, after all, is more real to us than the geography of our childhoods?

Paris is not so square. I'm not good at the geography of the city in Paris, so I'm always lost. Here, in New York, you can never be lost. In Paris, even when I walk to my gallery or whatever, I always take another route, because Paris is not built that way.

Most of these - most people's stage personas are created out of the flotsam and jetsam of their internal geography.