Top 1200 Geography And History Quotes & Sayings - Page 3

The formidable power of geography determines the character and performance of a people.

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

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

History is a commentary on the various and continuing incapabilities of men. What is history? History is women following behind with the bucket.

Literature is not only a mirror; it is a map, a geography of the mind.

All my experiences removed geography from my world.

Universal history, the history of what man has accomplished in this world, is at bottom the History of the Great Men who have worked here.

Geography is the study of earth as the home of people

History, when they do it, is ancient history, and they sensationalize even that. Contemporary history is virtually ignored on television.

All of history misses out on the history of the soul. Human passions are so often not included in history.

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

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

Geography is the subject which holds the key to our future

London' is a gallery of sensation of impressions. It is a history of London in a thematic rather than a chronological sense with chapters of the history of smells, the history of silence, and the history of light. I have described the book as a labyrinth, and in that sense in complements my description of London itself.

There is only one history of any importance, and it is the history of what you once believed in, and the history of what you came to believe in.

The moment I realised that my history was an excuse for nothing, was the moment I was freed from my history. The great danger of history is that we use it as an excuse and remain trapped in it. I cannot blame my history for anything, and therefore I have to have high standards for myself.

As with wine, geography affects the flavor. Oysters are usually named for a locale.

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

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

Geography blended with time equals destiny.

The history of science, like the history of all human ideas, is a history of irresponsible dreams, of obstinacy, and of error.

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

As Latinos, we are many, and our geography is gigantic.

There has always been interest in certain phases and aspects of history - military history is a perennial bestseller, the Civil War, that sort of thing. But I think that there is a lot of interest in historical biography and what's generally called narrative history: history as story-telling.

Love, having no geography, knows no boundaries.

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

I was always pretty interested in my history. Not just the history of the Caribbean, the history of my people, but all walks of life.

The colonists usually say that it was they who brought us into history: today we show that this is not so. They made us leave history, our history, to follow them, right at the back, to follow the progress of their history.

Music expresses feeling, that is to say, gives shape and habitation to feeling, not in space but in time. To the extent that music has a history that is more than a history of its formal evolution, our feelings must have a history too. Perhaps certain qualities of feeling that found expression in music can be recorded by being notated on paper, have become so remote that we can no longer inhabit them as feelings, can get a grasp of them only after long training in the history and philosophy of music, the philosophical history of music, the history of music as a history of the feeling soul.

A man's ethnic identity has more to do with a personal awareness than with geography.

Cyberspace undeniably reflects some form of geography.

War is God's way of teaching Americans geography.

Geography can be a major restriction for people to not be able to showcase their talent.

What makes a nation in the beginning is a good piece of geography.

We have 45,000 square miles of geography in Ohio.

Environmental history fit[s] into the framework of New Left history. [It is] history "from the bottom up," except that here the exploited element [is] the biota and the land itself.

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

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

When we approach history, we are dealing with a conglomeration of irrational continua. Those who deal with history by nonrational processes are the ones who make history, the actors in it.

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

'London' is a gallery of sensation of impressions. It is a history of London in a thematic rather than a chronological sense with chapters of the history of smells, the history of silence, and the history of light. I have described the book as a labyrinth, and in that sense in complements my description of London itself.

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

If you really want to be part of something and you have that much passion towards it, you'll know enough to research it and find the history of it; and history is so important, history is everything.

One cannot kick against geography!

We know only a single science, the science of history. History can be contemplated from two sides, it can be divided into the history of nature and the history of mankind. However, the two sides are not to be divided off; as long as men exist the history of nature and the history of men are mutually conditioned.

I'm a great believer in geography being destiny.

Physical geography and geology are inseparable scientific twins.

The fake Zionist [regime] will disappear from the landscape of geography.

There is no history of mankind, there are only many histories of all kinds of aspects of human life. And one of these is the history of political power. This is elevated into the history of the world.

There's a lot we should be able to learn from history. And yet history proves that we never do. In fact, the main lesson of history is that we never learn the lessons of history. This makes us look so stupid that few people care to read it. They'd rather not be reminded. Any good history book is mainly just a long list of mistakes, complete with names and dates. It's very embarrassing.

Most of us, I think, are conscious of history swirling around outside the door, but when we're in the house, we're usually not dealing with history. We're not thinking about history.

God created war so that Americans would learn geography.

One of the things I know from the study of history is that history surprises you. History is not written. It's not inevitable.The victory of evil is not certain.

Chris Martin looks like a geography teacher.

History has never seen Emmitt Smith. I don't care what has come before me. That's why they call it history you create new history.

The policies of all powers are inherent in their geography.

I like science - geography, meteorology, cosmology.

I feel history is more of a story than a lesson. I know this idea of presentism: this idea of constantly evoking the past to justify the present moment. A lot of people will tell you, "history is how we got here." And learning from the lessons of history. But that's imperfect. If you learn from history you can do things for all the wrong reasons.

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

Not unlike our country's history, my personal history was founded upon an unfortunate history of racial conflict between black and white.