Continent Quotes

America, you have it better than our continent, the old one.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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

— Benjamin Disraeli

Australia is the most isolated continent.

— Jared Diamond

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

— Walter Salles

Europe is my continent, not my country

— John Redwood

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

— Claire Denis

Africa is an article of faith. I believe in this continent.

— Sunil Bharti Mittal

When California was wild, it was the floweriest part of the continent.

— John Muir

Africa's agricultural sector has enormous scope for development, which would benefit both the continent's economy and its people.

— Richard Attias

My parents don't think about Europe at all. The Continent is somewhere else. And they call it the Continent - to reflect,…

— John Gimlette

We view South Africa as one of our closest strategic partners in the developing world and in the African continent.

— Pratibha Patil

The Americas has been a relatively stable continent. The last truly new border we have is Panama in 1903.

— Juan Enriquez

“There is no other continent in the world where time is wasted like it is wasted in Africa.”

— Sunday Adelaja

“You don't necessarily need atomic bombs to destroy a nation. Politicians who value their pockets than the life of citizens always do…

— Israelmore Ayivor

Our continent must be allowed to do its own things, charting its course and destiny.

— Nelson Mandela

“By the power of three times three!” exclaimed Gillian. “You could qualify as your own continent, man!”

— Lowvee Cole

Those new regions [America] which we found and explored with the fleet . . . we may rightly call a New World…

— Amerigo Vespucci

I remember as a child reading or hearing the words 'The Great Divide' and being stunned by the glorious sound, a proper…

— John Steinbeck

I come from a country and also a continent whose identity is in the making. We're a very young culture, and I…

— Walter Salles

Now at my age I understand how sad it must have been for some directors or actors at the time the talkies…

— Jean-Luc Godard

One of the things I find extremely challenging about the continent of Africa is that when the immediate needs and the social…

— Djimon Hounsou

The fact is that ours is the first generation that can look disease and extreme poverty in the eye, look across the…

— Bono

Once the Supreme Court in 1973 decided that infanticide could be legal, it not only ended Americas inalienable right to life, it…

— Michael Moriarty

Africa the continent is not just what we see on the news. It's... not AIDS, and it's not just war and poverty.…

— Jill Scott

And before me was the great raw bulge and bulk of my American continent; somewhat far across, gloomy, crazy New York was…

— Jack Kerouac

I've always believed that this blessed land was set apart in a special way, that some divine plan placed this great continent…

— Ronald Reagan

In a way, America's the shadow of everything I do, everywhere I go, everything I carry, no matter if I travel to…

— Anne Waldman

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

Of course the U.K., and its component parts, should seek out as many connections with as many parts of the world as…

— Linda Colley

People go to Africa and confirm what they already have in their heads and so they fail to see what is there…

— Chinua Achebe

No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main. If…

— John Donne

You can fit two United States and maybe a third one into the entire continent of Africa, but on a map we…

— Baron Vaughn

“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

Africa is a vibrant, varied continent with a growing consumer base.

— Paul Polman

A continent is a piece of land, not pieces of land

— Anonymous

There's a huge expanse of this continent that so seldom gets photographed.

— Sam Jaeger

India can't be looked at as a country; it's more of a continent.

— Kabir Bedi

I take this continent with me into the grave.

— Ray Bradbury

Every man contains within himself a ghost continent.

— Loren Eiseley