equator quotes

India is a geographical term. It is no more a united nation than the Equator.

With the possible exception of the equator, everything begins somewhere.

I propose to construct a new chart for navigating, on which I shall delineate all the sea and lands of the Ocean in their proper positions under their bearings; and further, I propose to prepare a book, and to put down all as it were in a picture, by latitude from the equator, and western longitude.