Continent Quotes · Page 3

My continent knows more about me than I do myself.

— Winnie Madikizela-Mandela

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

— John Kani

I represent my country, but I also represent the continent of Africa when I play in Europe. That's why it's important to…

— Yaya Toure

I've wrestled on every continent but Antarctica and in every country in the world except for China and the U.S.S.R.

— Harley Race

Every continent on Earth has a form of bullroarer - it's the oldest instrument known to man.

— Brian Reitzell

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

The resources of our continent attract, more than ever, the interests of rich countries.

— Omar Bongo

Across the continent, political divisions are deepening. For all of these reasons, the specter of a euro zone collapse has not been…

— Barry Eichengreen

Africa has a genious for extremes, for the beginning and the end. It seems simultaneously connected to some memory of Eden and…

— Lance Morrow

I always felt that I had to leave a legacy on the African continent. As I was only the third player to…

— Dikembe Mutombo

We are like the explorers of a great continent, who have penetrated its margins in most points of the compass and have…

— H. Bentley Glass

I don't think there would be many examples of South Africa pushing its weight around the African Continent. I don't think the…

— Thabo Mbeki

The forests of America, however slighted by man, must have been a great delight to God; for they were the best he…

— John Muir

Fidel Castro represents the dignity of the South American continent against empires. He's a living legend: an icon of independence and freedom…

— Nicolas Maduro

No country in Europe has a larger proportion of men and women of immigrant descent, mainly from the African continent and mainly…

— Timothy Garton Ash

I've always wanted to explore North America. I drive a motorbike and have always wanted to spend a couple of months exploring…

— George Blagden

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

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

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

— Seth Shostak

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

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 land is the appointed remedy for whatever is false and fantastic in our culture. The continent we inhabit is to be…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

America has been killing people on this continent since it was started. This country is not worth dying for...

— Cindy Sheehan

Unraveling the euro is a terrible thing. This is a 50-year endeavor to get this continent together and that's a wonderful endeavor.

— Jamie Dimon

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

— John Donne

If we compare Europe with other continents, it is marked out as [another] persecuting continent.

— Bertrand Russell

The perception of Africa, whether in the U.S. or in Europe, is of a continent that needs help, and cannot pull itself…

— David Oyelowo

“the continent with the highest proportion of its dryland areas classified as severe or moderately desertified is North America, at 74 percent.”

— Judith D. Schwartz

“It’s like we are having a harvest of destruction in our nations, continent and world today, all because of ignorance.”

— Sunday Adelaja

We forgot this continent for a long time - and now, finally Africa is being rediscovered.

— Fernando Meirelles

“There was no way in hell she was going to move to the southern continent without all of her books.”

— Sarah J. Maas

Radical Islamists spread from Western Africa through the Middle East, all the way to South Asia to sub-Indian continent.

— Jack Keane

From time to time the continent shifts, and everything that isn't fastened down slides into Southern California.

— Frank Lloyd Wright

Swaziland is a small part of south-east Africa, the last country in the continent to gain its independence.

— Richard Grant

“We must eradicate ignorance and illiteracy from our nations and continent to the nearest minimum for us to have a national development.”

— Sunday Adelaja

Patriots is quite simple; there's seven continents in the world, if you had to sacrifice one continent and make it six would…

— Sam Worthington

In between films I like to travel and hope to visit every continent before I become a mother.

— Diane Kruger