Cardinal Directions Quotes

The world is sphere, has no East or West.

Give her the continent and she wanted the hemisphere.

How do you make a compass? Uhhh hmmm so if I was a compass how would I make myself?

The most important thing to teach your children is that the sun does not rise and set. It is the Earth that revolves around the sun. Then teach them the concepts of North, South, East and West, and that they relate to where they happen to be on the planet's surface at that time. Everything else will follow.

The North isn't a place. It's just a direction out of the South.

Some have held that there are only four winds: Solanus from the east; Auster from the south; Favonius from due west; Septentrio from the north. But more careful investigators tell us that there are eight.

America is thataway, Mr. Lincoln," laughed Davis, pointing north. "You're in Mississippi now.

Remember, you can always find East by staring directly at the sun.

Every man has to learn the points of the compass again as often as he awakes, whether from sleep or any abstraction.

In practical terms the South Pointing Chariot was a simple direction finder. It could have been made to point in any direction - north, south, east or west.

Heaven has a north and a south and an east and a west. Consequently, it must be a planet.

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