Nothing ever goes away until it has taught us what we need to know. Even if we run a hundred miles an… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
Their experiments caused them to destabilize the structure of the continent and thus Atlantis sank beneath the waves. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The Pan-Africanism that envisaged the ideal of wholeness was gradually cut down to the size of a continent, then a nation, a… — Ngugi wa Thiong'o Copy Share Image
Alike and ever alike, we are on all continents in the need of love, food, clothing, work, speech, worship, sleep, games, dancing,… — Carl Sandburg Copy Share Image
Europe is, perhaps, the least worn-out of the continents, because it is the most lived in. A place that is lived in… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
There has been a great deal said about a 3,00-mile high-angle rocket. The people who have been writing these things that annoy… — Vannevar Bush Copy Share Image
On the Continent, every attempt to substitute a lighter punishment for death was fiercely denounced as a direct violation of the Divine… — William Edward Hartpole Lecky Copy Share Image
May this continent, the last explored by humankind, be the first one to be spared by humankind. — Jacques Yves Cousteau Copy Share Image
With such wisdom has nature ordered things in the economy of this world, that the destruction of one continent is not brought… — James Hutton Copy Share Image
There can be no doubt that if we had been victorious on the Vistula, the revolutionary fires would have reached the entire… — Mikhail Tukhachevsky Copy Share Image
We may have charted all the continents on the planet, and we may have discovered all the mammals, but that doesn't mean… — Nathan Wolfe Copy Share Image
To disguise nothing, to conceal nothing, to write about those things that are closest to our pain, our happiness; to write about… — John Cheever Copy Share Image
A quarter-horse jockey learns to think of a twenty-second race as if it were occurring across twenty minutes--in distinct parts, spaced in… — John McPhee Copy Share Image
Australia is properly speaking an island, but it is so much larger than every other island on the face of the globe,… — Charles Sturt Copy Share Image
A single factory, potentially capable of supplying a whole continent with its particular product, cannot afford to wait until the public asks… — Edward Bernays Copy Share Image
Reading, therefore, is a co-production between writer and reader. The simplicity of this tool is astounding. So little, yet out of it… — Ben Okri Copy Share Image
Porter Rockwell was that most terrible instrument that can be handled by fanaticism; a powerful physical nature welded to a mind of… — Fitz Hugh Ludlow Copy Share Image
It has been the White Race who has been the world builder, the maker of cities and commerce and continents. It is… — Ben Klassen Copy Share Image
Family's the one thing you can't change. You can cover yourself with tattoos. You can get a grapefruit-sized ring going through your… — Jonathan Franzen Copy Share Image
A person can be danced. In all continents the dancers carry little children on their shoulders. — Curt Sachs Copy Share Image
So I have known Islam on three continents before coming to the region where it was first revealed — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Long after this wonderful event in the Earth's history, when the human species was spread over a good deal of Asia, Europe,… — Harry Johnston Copy Share Image
By what a delicate and far-stretched contribution every island is made! What an enterprise of nature thus to lay the foundations of… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Presently I shall be introduced as 'this venerable old gentleman' and the axe will fall when they raise me to the degree… — Stephen Leacock Copy Share Image
