72 Geography Quotes for You to Enjoy

Geography has made us neighbors. History has made us friends. Economics has made us partners, and necessity has made us allies. Those whom God has so joined together, let no man put asunder. John F. Kennedy

God History Man Together Made Economics Those Neighbors Asunder Allies Joined Put Partners Geography Friends Us Whom Necessity

Our world is evolving without consideration, and the result is a loss of biodiversity, energy issues, congestion in cities. But geography, if used correctly, can be used to redesign sustainable and more livable cities. Jack Dangermond

History is not everything, but it is a starting point. History is a clock that people use to tell their political and cultural time of day. It is a compass they use to find themselves on the map of human geography. It tells them where they are but, more importantly, what they must be. John Henrik Clarke

Time Day History People Political Everything Tell Must Tells Find More Point Geography Importantly Cultural Clock Human Where Them Themselves Use Map Compass Starting Starting Point

Travel stories teach geography; insect stories lead the child into natural science; and so on. The teacher, in short, can use reading to introduce her pupils to the most varied subjects; and the moment they have been thus started, they can go on to any limit guided by the single passion for reading. Maria Montessori

Teacher Travel Science Natural Passion Single Reading Guided Insect Pupils Introduce Varied Lead Thus Most Limit Geography Go Been Subjects Child Any Short Stories Natural Science Teach Use Moment Her Started

Love, having no geography, knows no boundaries. Truman Capote

Love No Boundaries Having Boundaries Knows Geography

To me, it seems a dreadful indignity to have a soul controlled by geography. George Santayana

Me Soul Patriotism Dreadful Seems Indignity Geography Controlled

All children, regardless of their income, ethnicity, or geography have the right to be protected and be given the opportunity to reach their full potential, which is why our global HSNi Cares partner is the U.S. Fund for UNICEF. Mindy Grossman

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

Time Woman Women Walk Long Long Time Sit Duty Down Other Others Distant Kind High Had Opened Geography Offered Establish Door Again Might Far Chair Hence Seats Right

As a student, I was more gifted in history and geography. Things like arithmetic were not my strength. Hubert de Givenchy

Strength History Gifted More Student Arithmetic Like Geography Were Things

I want to make sure that that future that we're creating is one that is the best it can be for people around the world, and also one that includes the full range of our talent and our skills - and, you know, gender and ethnicity, geography - to solving the world's problems. Mae Jemison

Jewish villages were built in the place of Arab villages. You do not even know the names of these Arab villages, and I do not blame you because geography books no longer exist. Moshe Dayan

You Blame Books Arab Longer Names Know Because Built Geography Were Exist Place Even Villages Jewish

Several technological and political forces have converged, and that has produced a global, Web-enabled playing field that allows for multiple forms of collaboration without regard to geography or distance - or soon, even language. Thomas Friedman

Political Language Field Distance Collaboration Several Soon Global Forces Without Geography Regard Forms Produced Multiple Even Technological Playing Playing Field

Children can take lessons in that school via the Internet and can score extra points like e.g. in Geography or History. That sounds very promising and is a fantastic basis for future steps. Anatoly Karpov

Future History School Internet Extra Promising Take Points Steps Like Geography Sounds Score Very Via Children Fantastic Lessons Basis

What does 'home' really mean? Is it merely geography, where you were born? Could it include straddling two continents and cultures? Or perhaps it's a place with a spiritual magnetism - a feeling toward a culture or people - that's tough to put into words? Brooke Baldwin

Home Spiritual You Culture People Words Tough Feeling Born Magnetism Could Put Merely Toward Perhaps Does Geography Continents Were Cultures Where Place Mean Really Include Two

It's very important to have the comfort of the regulator in every geography where you operate. Chanda Kochhar

You Important Every Operate Comfort Geography Very Where Regulator

India's prosperity is sectioned by geography, such as in Bangalore, where the information technology industry is prominent. Because they have a conduit out of India, competing in the world by the Internet, it's not regulated in corrupt ways, and it is very prosperous. Clayton M. Christensen

Technology World Prosperity Internet Ways Prominent Out India Corrupt Prosperous Industry Because Geography Very Conduit Where Information Information Technology Competing

When I was in the fourth grade, I became intensely interested in geography and I learned it well. Clyde Tombaugh

Well Learned Became Geography Grade Intensely Interested Fourth

I want my books to last, to stand the test of time, and to do that I focus on the forces that shape the subject - the cultural and sociological geography - to capture them in a way that will explain them no matter what they are doing. David Maraniss

Scotland and England may sometimes be rivals, but by geography, we are also neighbours. By history, allies. By economics, partners. And by fate and fortune, comrades, friends and family. Douglas Alexander

Family History Fate Sometimes Comrades Economics Neighbours Allies Rivals Also Partners Geography Friends Friends And Family Scotland May Fortune England

A period of time is as much an organising principle for a work of fiction as a sense of place. You can do geography, as Faulkner did, or you can dwell on a particular period. It provides the same framework. E. L. Doctorow

Work Time You Sense Framework Faulkner Particular Period Principle Geography Provides Did Same Dwell Fiction Place Much

School boards are, for the most part,made up of political wannabes who see a board seat as a stepping stone for political office, or well-meaning parents who represent an ethnic group or geography, or have some other narrow interests. Few people on them understand what governance is about. Eli Broad

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I think I've developed a sort of ADD for geography now. When I've been in a country for too long, I'm like, 'I think it's time to leave.' I don't know what that's going to do to me in later life. Elizabeth Debicki

Life Time Me Long Country Think Too Add Later Developed Like Know Sort Geography Leave Been Going Now

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