Trey Parker Quotes

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

I once knew a girl who didn't know where anywhere was in the world. Not a clue. I asked her if she knew where Africa was and she answered, 'Is it the orange one on a map?'

Most Americans don’t know the difference between Romania and Somalia

It might be a bad thing, not to know what's going on in the world. I can't say I really approve of it.

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

By the time I was in sixth grade I could bound every country in the world from memory.

I didn't know a single person who had ever been there. I wasn't even sure how to spell Chechnya.

I've only been to these foreign countries: Canada, L.A. and Miami.

Your map of Africa is really quite nice. But my map of Africa lies in Europe. Here is Russia, and here... is France, and we're in the middle — that's my map of Africa.

I thought Europe was a country.

Americans don't learn about the world; they don't study world history, other than American history in a very one-sided fashion, and they don't study geography.

By the time I was 10 or 13, I'd learned the world capitals.

I [had] added another small piece to the pages of the atlas that were real to me.

It is quite common to meet people that live a few kilometers away from Mexico and that have never been there.

If it would not look too much like showing off, I would tell the reader where New Zealand is.

The axis of the earth sticks out visibly through the center of each and every town or city.

I've never even been to Long Island

I have a neighbor who knows 200 types of wine. ... I only know two types of wine - red and white. But my neighbor only knows two types of countries - industrialized and developing. And I know 200.

The Ignorance the people live in leads them to commit mistakes against their own happiness

So many people don't know who's on the State Seal and they don't know, not just in California but the United States of America, things they look at every day and they say, 'Wow! I didn't know that.'

Ignorance, as they say, is usually fatal, but sometimes it can be bliss.

I've never been overseas. I can only imagine what that's like.

Dr. Kissinger was surprised that I knew where Ghana was.

Like most parents, I've been stumped by homework, the big questions, such as: 'What is the point of geography - the pilot always knows where we are going?'. Answer: 'If you didn't know any geography, people would think you were an American, and you wouldn't be able to put them right because you wouldn't know where they live.'

Based on the considerations of history, ancient history, and international axioms, the logic of following up a citizen with his shadow for the purpose of the demarcation of political frontiers of any state has been discounted for international conventions. For example the Arabs cannot ask Spain just because they were there some time in the past nor can they ask for any other area outside the frontiers of the Arab homeland