Geography Quotations

I eat tons, three full meals a day, and I never go to the gym. When I was a child, my geography teacher said, 'You may be slim now but if you carry on eating like that, you'll end up being really fat.' Fortunately, I really don't think I've changed much in the past two decades, so that teacher was an idiot.

I don't think there's anything inherently wrong with a bank being big. In fact, there are some good arguments about universality of geography that in theory, if you have all your eggs in one little community, and some big employer goes out, that could be your downfall.

Geography is about maps, but biography is about chaps.

Geography has no bearing on it, nor have the interests of the community in which I work.

I was a daydreamer, and there is a lot of history and geography and science I missed out on because I was in my head. And I regret that.

An island is a fixed and finite piece of geography, and usually the whole place has been carved up and claimed.

I like geography. I could tell you the capital of any country you want.

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

Geography does not define you - love does.

I'm a great believer in geography being destiny.

We must teach our people the greatness of China's historical culture. In our educational program we must stress Chinese history and geography so that all may know and appreciate China's civilization of five thousand years and the far-flung boundaries of our ancient race. This will engender a greater faith in our own future.

As a state we are so uniquely positioned in so many ways. Our geography, our placement in the country, and our history positions us to be the state that propels energy efficiency as an industry.

I like geography. I like to know where places are.

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

America is a poem in our eyes; its ample geography dazzles the imagination, and it will not wait long for metres.

On my first day of Jr. High I was in Geography class, and the teacher asked us if anybody knew the names of the continents. And I was sooo excited. I was like, Damnit! It's my first day of 7th grade, Im in jr high and i know this answer. So i raised my hand I was the first one and I said A-E-I-O-U!

Given their geography and situation, I thought that meeting with the leadership there would be a good thing,

I enjoy worldbuilding very much. I generally start with an approximation. With 'Flesh and Spirit' and 'Breath and Bone,' because I was thinking of a world on the brink of a dark age, I began with the sense of Roman Britain. But I purposely set the geography to match something other than Britain - which has been overdone.

Because of the geography and the way the Cape sticks into the ocean, we definitely have our own sub-climate. We freeze later and thaw earlier.

He works very hard at everything he takes on. He has dedicated his life to mountains, mountain geography and the conservation of mountain ecosystems.

Local search listings typically rely on geography when, in fact, there are several other factors that influence whether or not a particular merchant meets a consumer's criteria. If a consumer searches for a kitchen contractor in LA, he'll have to sort through hundreds of listings. But most of them won't be relevant either because they don't do the kind of work he's looking for or they're not seeking new clients at that moment. Our goal is to connect consumers with relevant businesses that want phone leads. Our refined search results will drive more targeted leads to merchants, who then provide new revenue for Internet publishers.

Jim Wright was one of the best proponents of geography poetry. America is always about neighborhood. Jim Wright's neighborhood was Martins Ferry and the Ohio River.

U S West was dealt some bad cards with geography (a sparsely populated region), and from 1984-2000 it took a bad hand and made it worse. That's the reason why Qwest is the orphan Bell and is likely to remain so.

I get to go to overseas places, like Canada.

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.

This name gives us a blank slate. It does connote geography but it's not being used. It gives us the opportunity to attract attention and define on our own terms just what the geography represents.

We had an outstanding first quarter with major wins for all product lines in every geography and the successful completion of several strategic initiatives.

I gradually became aware that my interiority was inseparable from my exteriority, that the geography of my city was the geography of my soul.

Geography is destiny.

There is a common problem extending control in border areas. Common geography makes it difficult. It is not an easy place to police.

There can be economic questions, U.S. geography and world geography questions.

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

What are your choices? Whom are your choices for? Not just for yourself. Chose now whom you will serve, and that choice is going to affect the next generation, and the next generation, and the next. Choice never affects just one person alone. It goes on and on and the effect goes out into geography and history. You are part of history and your choices become part of history.

Religion is a mere question of geography.

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

There is no panic, (but) we have a little bigger hill to climb in India -- it is the only major geography where we haven't had success that we have had around the world,

Besides P.E., geography was my best class in high school. I was in this gifted class when I was younger, and it was wicked!

Based on data from the mid-quarter update, we don't expect significant surprises in product or geography mix.

While we are seeing all organizations moving away from reactive IT spending and toward improved agility and long-term strategic support at a macro scale, there are a number of different trends that are specific to each industry, geography and organization size.

We're talking about post-hostilities control over a piece of geography that's fairly significant, with the kinds of ethnic tensions that could lead to other problems,

(The software) has the ability to fuse geography and unstructured text information. (This) has value across any industry, where data needs to be represented geographically.

This sounds like a geography question. I'm a geography major, so you're probably talking to the right guy.

A sound knowledge of geography is essential for understanding global events and their impact on the rest of the world. National Geographic has always recognized the need for geographic literacy and will vigorously continue its efforts to educate our young people and empower them to be informed citizens and responsible stewards of our planet.

We think the growth guidance we've given you for 2001 is sustainable for the long period given the breadth and depth of our portfolio, ... We have shown where the growth is coming from in terms of our product line, geography and our customers. We think we've made great progress in accelerating production of IT and patent generation equipment and that will bode well for us in 2001.

Anyone who believes that the way to a man's heart is through his stomach flunked geography

Certainly, there are things that all clubs fight whether it's geography or lack of winning or finances. They're fighting a whole number of issues.

It occurred to me that no matter where I lived, geography could not save me.

Anybody who owns a station is committed to that particular geography to try to serve it. They'll try to make sure their audience is satisfied, or they go out of business.

The fundamental reality of any civilization must be its geographical cradle. Geography dictates its vegetational growth and lays down often impassable frontiers. Civilizations are regions, zones not merely as anthropologists understand them when they talk about the zone of the two-headed ax or the feathered arrow; they are areas which both confine man and undergo constant change through its efforts.

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.

The geography of these projects varies from mechanical engineering to the high-tech sphere and chemical industry.

It's geography coupled with the extreme rural nature of the state, the difficulty with scheduling an appointment on a day a doctor will be here. It's already very hard here.

This is the sequel. Geography makes them seem separate, but eventually the connections between them will become clear.

I began studying geography because I wanted to learn more about the world I live in.

He photographed not so much geography as weather.

All my experiences removed geography from my world.

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

The only effort worth making is the one it takes to learn the geography of one's own nature.

Do you understand the sadness of geography?

Geography is the subject which holds the key to our future

Everywhere's been where it is ever since it was first put there. It's called geography.

I like science - geography, meteorology, cosmology.

My wound is geography. It is also my anchorage, my port of call.

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!

Geography blended with time equals destiny.

As Geography without History seemeth a carkasse without motion; so History without Geography wandreth as a Vagrant without a certaine habitation.

Without geography you're nowhere.

Your soul knows the geography of your destiny.

There is a geography of the human spirit, common to all peoples.

Everything has to do with geography.

In our changing world nothing changes more than geography.

In the U.K. we have the best geography teachers in the world.

Chris Martin looks like a geography teacher.

If geography is prose, maps are iconography,

No choice we can make as a nation lies between our history and our geography. We can hardly change either of them. They are immutable. The only choice we can make as a nation is the choice about our future.

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.

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

[L]ove, having no geography, knows no boundaries.

History is all explained by geography.

Cyberspace undeniably reflects some form of geography.

There is a future for the auto parts industry, but it needs a consolidation and a rationalization of geography in that most suppliers have facilities in the U.S., although most of their customers are overseas.

The totality of our so-called knowledge or beliefs, from the most casual matters of geography and history to the profoundest lawsof atomic physics or even of pure mathematics and logic, is a man-made fabric which impinges on experience only along the edges. Or, to change the figure, total science is like a field of force whose boundary conditions are experience.

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

In the teaching of geography and history a sympathetic understanding (should) be fostered for the characteristics of the different peoples of the world, especially for those who we are in the habit of describing as "primitive.

George W. Bush has gathered around him upper-crust C-students who know no history or geography.

We are so excited about adding additional incentives to the program. It gives them a fun reason to exercise and learn about geography as well.

The policies of all powers are inherent in their geography.

If you know a country's geography, you can understand and predict its foreign policy.

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.