Geographic Separation Quotes

The settlement of America had its origins in the unsettlement of Europe. America came into existence when the European was already so distant from the ancient ideas and ways of his birthplace that the whole span of the Atlantic did not widen the gulf.

At the outset, at least, all three groups had something else to recommend them, as well: They were headquartered 3,000 miles away from the East Side of Manhattan.

Staten Island is set off completely by itself in its own world, and that's one of the fascinating things about it, dramatically.

Between New England and the Middle [Atlantic] states was a gap like that between Scotland and England.

You don't see any borders between countries from space. That's man-made, and one experiences it only when you return to Earth.

You cannot have partition only on political bases or geographic bases. It should be social first of all when the communities do not live with each other.

To have one's mother-in-law in the country when one lives in Paris, and vice versa, is one of those strokes of luck that one encounters only too rarely.

There is no firm reason to anticipate that the intellectual capacities of peoples geographically separated in their evolution should prove to have evolved identically. Our wanting to reserve equal powers of reason as some universal heritage of humanity will not be enough to make it so.

In wider spaces, people bearing historical grudges with each other were separated by the muting qualities of distance.

Whether we remain in one confederacy or form into Atlantic and Mississippi Confederacies I believe not very important to the happiness of either part. Those of the Western Confederacy will be as much our children as those of the Eastern part.

One of my brothers is a body builder, and the other is an accountant. Both of them live in Australia, so I rarely get to see them. My sister lives in the U.S.

When I was 15, I was not living with my parents anymore. They were on an island in the Caribbean and I was back in Paris, where I lived with my sisters between 15 and 19.

The north-south line of 'the mountains,' meaning the Cascade Range, forty miles east of Seattle, is a rigid political frontier.

Whenever I get a job that's somewhere around America, I fly over my ex-wife and daughter and hang out with them.

I have a small family, but they are all still in Perth, and I am still very close with my high-school friends.

Oh East is East and West is West and never the twain shall meet.

I have a pretty close family and there are certain similarities - maybe a lot of families have this - where geographically, we're separated, so there are times when one family member will be needing a lot at one particular moment, so everyone rallies around that particular family member. Then there are other moments where, if [the family is] okay, I might not talk to my brother for two or three weeks, but then if I get him on the phone at five in the afternoon, it feels like we spoke that morning.