#geography

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

— Terry Pratchett

#humor #humour #humor

Geography is the key, the crucial accident of birth. A piece of protein could be a snail, a sea lion, or a systems analyst, but it had to start somewhere. This is not science; it is merely metaphor. And the landscape in which the protein "starts" shapes its end as surely as bowls shape water. ↗

— Annie Dillard

#metaphor #science #sea-lion #snail #systems-analyst

All I ever wanted was a world without maps. ↗

— Michael Ondaatje

#english

Right now, there are a limited number of customers for Canadian oil. Due to simple geography - and without the pipeline - it's really only cost effective for Canadian oil producers to sell their oil to North American customers, mostly American Midwesterners. ↗

— Ron Wyden

#canadian #cost #customers #due #effective

The UK is not going to leave the European Union. Of course not. We are inextricably wound up with Europe. In terms of culture, history and geography, we are a European nation. ↗

— Nick Clegg

#culture #europe #european #european union #geography

Coming out involves varying degrees of difficulty that are affected by class, race, religion, and geography. ↗

— Lance Loud

#class #coming #degrees #difficulty #geography

Everything has to do with geography. ↗

— Judy Martz

#geography

Nature, I have constantly argued in my work, is the real superpower of this godless universe. It is the ultimate disposer of human fate, randomly recarving geography over 10,000-year epochs. ↗

— Camille Paglia

#constantly #epochs #fate #geography #godless

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

#because #blame #books #built #even

I failed world geography, civics, Spanish and English. And when you fail Spanish and English, they do not consider you bilingual. They may call you bi-ignorant because you can't speak any language. ↗

— Tim Scott

#because #bilingual #call #civics #consider