If geography is prose, maps are iconography.

Our civilisation has lost this bond between times, and tends to measure time with a yardstick, bit by bit, from one point to another.

I am not always happy with the compliments Estonia has received.

Science will liberate us from the chains of big cities and lead us back to nature.

Security is like virginity: you're either a virgin or you're not. You either have security or you don't.

Throughout Soviet times, I understood what was really happening in the world around me.

I've never met a general yet who could milk a cow.

I was too busy looking into Yeltsin's eyes to notice what was under the table.

Looking in the mirror to check if my tie is straight is a waste of my time. I only look in the mirror once a day, and that's in the morning when I shave.

In the past, when I shot films about fishermen and hunters, I always had to admire their ability to perceive time in its entirety. The present was always temporary.

With that radio I was always swimming with the current political streams in the West. I was never stranded.

If geography is prose, maps are iconography.

Traveling is the only passion that doesn't need to feel shy in front of intellect.

History is more interesting than politics.

That radio was very important for me. It meant I always knew what was going on in the world.

If geography is prose maps are iconography.

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.

Geography is about maps, but biography is about chaps.

If some countries have too much history, we have too much geography.

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.

If some peoples pretend that history or geography gives them the right to subjugate other races, nations, or peoples, there can be no peace.

When Brian told me he grew up in New Mexico, I told him I thought it is cool that people from other countries play football. He corrected me on my geography and agreed to sit down with me anyway.

You want a lesson? I'll give you a lesson. How about a geography lesson? My father's from Puerto Rico. My mother's from El Salvador. And neither one of those is Mexico.

I'm somewhat horrified because I don't think the young people today even know what history is. Some of them don't' even study History at school anymore or Geography and they don't know where one place is from another.

The philosophy of the school was quite simple - the bright boys specialised in Latin, the not so bright in science and the rest managed with geography or the like.

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

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

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.

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

War is God's way of teaching Americans geography.

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

Everything has to do with geography.

The art of biography is different from geography. Geography is about maps, but biography is about chaps.

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

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

In particular, Australia, because of its ancient geography, soil profile and distinctive weather patterns, is more adversely affected by climate variability than some other continents.

I believe very strongly, and have fought since many years ago - at least over 30 years ago - to get architecture not just within schools, but architecture talked about under history, geography, science, technology, art.

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.

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

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

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

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.

If geography is prose, maps are iconography.

Mathematics was hard, dull work. Geography pleased me more. For dancing I was quite enthusiastic.

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.

An hour or two spent in writing from dictation, another hour or two in reading aloud, a little geography and a little history and a little physics made the day pass busily.

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

Baseball's postseason shifts from game to game because of starting pitchers and the geography of the ballparks.

I like a certain grandeur to a landscape, which both the Arctic and coastal BC have. I like it to be at all times clear that people aren't the dominant fact of a particular geography.