38 Geographical Quotes for You to Enjoy

This world was not created piecemeal. Africa was born no later and no earlier than any other geographical area on this globe. Africans, no more and no less than other men, possess all human attributes, talents and deficiencies, virtues and faults. Haile Selassie

World Men Other Deficiencies Virtues Later Faults Possess Born More Area Talents Globe Attributes Geographical Than Any Human Africa African Created Less Earlier

It is dangerous when you start calling people from one part of the world terrorists or fanatic, and you reduce them to some abstract notion. If evil has a geographical place, and if the evil has a name, that is the beginning of fascism. Real life is not this way. You have fanatics and narrow-minded people everywhere. Marjane Satrapi

Life You People World Dangerous Evil Real Life Beginning Way Everywhere Some Part Abstract Name Calling Reduce Geographical Narrow-Minded Terrorists Real Fanatic Fanatics Place Them Notion Fascism Start

Whoever speaks of Europe is wrong: it is a geographical expression. Otto von Bismarck

Wrong Geographical Speaks Europe Whoever Expression

We still have many neighborhoods that are racially identified. We still have many schools that even though the days of state-enforced segregation are gone, segregation because of geographical boundaries remains. Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Gone Neighborhoods Though Segregation Remains Boundaries Days Identified Schools Because Geographical Still Many Even

Harvard prides itself on its diversity - economic, racial, social, geographical - but it remains intellectually segregated. It's not what conservative commentators seem to imagine - a bastion of liberal professors force-feeding radical opinions to a naive student body. Alexandra Petri

To get to New Orleans you don't pass through anywhere else. That geographical location, being aloof, lets it hold onto the ritual of its own pace more than other places that have to keep up with the progress. Allen Toussaint

You Progress Own Other Else Location More Ritual Through Onto New Aloof Pass Geographical New Orleans Up Than Get Being Hold Pace Anywhere Anywhere Else Places Keep Lets Orleans

Bahia is the Amazon's geographical next-of-kin: the same climate, forest canopy, diverse floor. But there is no wild cacao; the tree was introduced, most likely by a Frenchman, Louis Frederick Warneaux, who, in 1746, sowed seeds near one of Bahia's large rivers. Bill Buford

I only made two studio movies, that was a long time ago and obviously I removed myself. I think some of that is geographical. I live in New York and I want to work there, it's as simple as that. Campbell Scott

Why should Ireland be treated as a geographical fragment of England - Ireland is not a geographical fragment, but a nation. Charles Stewart Parnell

Nation Fragment Geographical Ireland Should England Why Treated

Catch-22's admirers cross boundaries - ideological, generational, geographical. Christopher Buckley

Admirers Cross Generational Catch-22 Boundaries Ideological Geographical

Babies are born bow-legged in South Dakota. By the age of 12, they can purchase guns. At 14, they can take their driving test. Fortunately, since the geographical area of South Dakota can accommodate both France and Germany, but has a population of only 750,000, the chances of hitting anything are pretty slim. Clive Sinclair

Age Babies France Slim Purchase Guns Born Pretty Only Both Area Take Driving Since Geographical Test Accommodate South South Dakota Germany Hitting Anything Fortunately Population Dakota Chances

I really believe in the way the energy can consolidate in certain geographical spots. You can find it in a lot of different places, beautiful natural spots, or if you look at Islam or Judaism or Christianity, these ideas of holy places. Conor Oberst

We share a wonderful, I think, physical or geographical heritage. Dan Miller

Wonderful Think Heritage Physical Share Geographical

When a number of crimes - for instance, burglaries - can be linked to the same offender, police often plot the locations on a map. The art of finding the location of the criminal's home based on the crime sites is a key objective in what is known as geographical profiling. Daniel Goldstein

Art Home Key Police Crime Crimes Criminal Location Locations Plot Finding Objective Instance Known Geographical Linked Offender Same Sites Often Map Based Profiling Number

Moreover, all our knowledge of organic remains teaches us, that species have a definite existence, and a centralization in geological time as well as in geographical space, and that no species is repeated in time. Edward Forbes

Time Knowledge Space Organic Our Definite Moreover Remains Well Geographical Geological Repeated Existence Centralization Us Teaches Species

Local politics, like everything else, are not what they used to be. But the fact is that our political system - like our physical existence - still breaks down along geographical lines. Eric Alterman

We do not discuss the anatomical, physiological, and mental characteristics of man considered as an individual; but we are interested in the diversity of these traits in groups of men found in different geographical areas and in different social classes. Franz Boas

Man Men Diversity Considered Characteristics Classes Mental Area Physiological Individual Geographical Discuss Traits Different Interested Social Groups Found

The primary theory embraced by the Bush administration to justify its War on Terror policies was that the 'battlefield' is no longer confined to identifiable geographical areas, but instead, the entire globe is now one big, unlimited 'battlefield.' Glenn Greenwald

To accomplish its mission, the FBI relies heavily upon its law enforcement and intelligence partners around the nation and around the globe. By combining our resources and our collective expertise, we are able to investigate national security threats that cross both geographical and jurisdictional boundaries. James Comey

Intelligence Law Collective Nation National Our Resources Security Able Law Enforcement Threats Cross Both Investigate Boundaries Combining Mission Globe Partners Around Geographical Accomplish National Security Expertise Enforcement

If you care to define the South as a poor, rural region with lousy race relations, that South survives only in geographical shreds and patches and most Southerners don't live there any more. John Shelton Reed

One might almost say that the history of geographical discovery, properly so called, begins with Captain Cook, the motive of whose voyages was purely scientific curiosity. Joseph Jacobs

History Say Purely Properly Almost Scientific Geographical Motive Discovery Begins Curiosity The History Of So-Called Might Cook Captain Whose

The U.K. is fortunate in its geographical position. We're an island. But we are living in a completely interconnected world where disruptions in countries far away will have major impacts. Mark Walport

World Will Living Impacts Countries Major Island Geographical Where Interconnected Far Far Away Fortunate Away Disruption Position

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