Continent Quotes

...wherever one is, some part of oneself remains on another continent.

— Margot Fonteyn

Every man contains within himself a ghost continent.

— Loren Eiseley

I take this continent with me into the grave.

— Ray Bradbury

America, my country, is almost a continent and hardly yet a nation.

— Ezra Pound

The only continent with a growth rate lower than Europe is Antarctica.

— Gisela Stuart

“At beyond continent of reality, there are oceans of ideas.”

— Toba Beta [Betelgeuse Incident

We have vexed and bothered every plant and every animal on every continent.

— Diane Ackerman

Africa is my continent. It is where I opened my eyes.

— Djimon Hounsou

My foundation was created so I can find a way to improve the living conditions of my people in the African continent,…

— Dikembe Mutombo

My love, my passion, my everything is this continent of Africa. I have always celebrated African humanity.

— John Kani

“Don't keep your nation-changing thoughts to yourself. Else it won't actually change the nation. Impact!”

— Nike Thaddeus

The life of an actor is very hard irrespective of the continent you are in. It is doubly hard when you are…

— Kabir Bedi

Without an adequate response, an epidemic can develop into a pandemic, which generally means it has spread to more than one continent.

— Alan Huffman

I don't trust any country that looks around a continent and says, "Hey, I'll take the frozen part."

— Jon Stewart

In the empty immensity of earth, sky, and water, there she was, incomprehensible, firing into a continent.

— Joseph Conrad

The Native American cultures on this continent, most of them, were matrilineal, and some women were the chiefs. Societies were about balance.

— Gloria Steinem

As always on this boulevard, the faces were young, coming annually in an endless migration from every country, every continent, to alight…

— Brian Moore

I have come to believe that this is a mighty continent which was hitherto unknown. I am greatly supported in this view…

— Christopher Columbus

I always hope for the better for the continent and what I know comes from Africa. Living in the West we feel…

— Djimon Hounsou

Let there be freedom for the Indians, wherever they may be in the American Continent or elsewhere in the world, because while…

— Rigoberta Menchu

Never was a continent naturally so clean, and made so dirty, as Australia. There was not an animal pest, scarcely a vegetable…

— Randolph Bedford

Africa is a continent in flames. And deep down, if we really accepted that Africans were equal to us, we would all…

— Bono

Language is a city, to the building of which every human being brought a stone; yet he is no more to be…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Cut off from the Mediterranean by the desert which he had no means of crossing, and bounded elsewhere by oceans which he…

— T. Lothrop Stoddard

Africa is the second-largest continent, a landmass second from Asia. It also is the second most populated continent, with 900 million people.…

— Euvin Naidoo

The vast majority of the online crime cases, we don't even know which continent the attacks are coming from. And even if…

— Mikko Hypponen

In the beginning, after this earth was prepared for man, the Lord commenced his work upon what is now called the American…

— Brigham Young

The thing to keep in mind is that we're still in the very early days when it comes to the search for…

— Seth Shostak

L.A. as a geographical entity is very much a mixture of surf, desert, and the mountains, earthquakes and urban sprawl. Within an…

— Michael C. McMillen

1492. As children we were taught to memorize this year with pride and joy as the year people began living full and…

— Kurt Vonnegut

The genus Drosophila is one of the great success stories. There's hundreds of species within the genus. They're on every continent except…

— Michael Dickinson

President Bush has embarked on an eight-day tour of the continent. He hopes this one goes better than the other ones he's…

— Stephen Colbert

“Our creaturely existence is registered, measured, discussed, and represented in increasingly abstract terms. Maybe this helps explain how someone like me, who…

— Tim Winton

“What does Africa — what does the West stand for? Is not our own interior white on the chart? black though it…

— Henry David Thoreau

A nation for a continent, and a continent for a nation.

— Edmund Barton

Europe is my continent, not my country

— John Redwood

Africa is no more this poor continent. It's on the march.

— Claire Denis

I come from Brazil, which is a Portuguese speaking part of the continent.

— Walter Salles

Australia is the most isolated continent.

— Jared Diamond

The Continent will not suffer England to be the workshop of the world.

— Benjamin Disraeli