Atlantic Quotes
180 quotes by 156 authors
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No, if it was up to me every record would be brand new studio material but Atlantic records asked me to put out a full…
— Sebastian Bach
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If across the Atlantic the ideology was pride, here it is delivering the goods.
— Theodor Adorno
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For a long time, I'd been vaguely fascinated by the idea that Charles Lindbergh flew the Atlantic and Babe Ruth hit 60 home runs in…
— Bill Bryson
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I hadn't realized quite how extraordinary Charles Lindbergh's achievement was in flying the Atlantic alone. He had never flown over open water before, but he…
— Bill Bryson
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Cod is more responsible for the discovery of the New World than almost anything else. Drove the Vikings across the North Atlantic, and John Cabot…
— Graydon Carter
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I always seem to get inspiration and renewed vitality by contact with this great novel land of yours which sticks up out of the Atlantic.
— Winston Churchill
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Nearly all Americans have ancestors who braved the oceans-liberty-loving risk takers in search of an ideal-the largest voluntary migrations in recorded history. Across the Pacific,…
— George H. W. Bush
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So far, we do not seem appalled at the prospect of exactly the same kind of education being applied to all the school children from…
— Edith Hamilton
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The development doctrines are doing much harm on both sides of the Atlantic, especially among intelligent mechanics, and a class of young men engaged in…
— Hugh Miller
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That's the best way to cross the Atlantic.
— Arthur Whitten Brown
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From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Atlantic, an iron curtain has descended across the Continent. Behind the line lie all the capitals…
— Winston Churchill
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If the graves of the thousands of victims who have fallen in the terrible wars of the two races had been placed in line the…
— Nelson A. Miles
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The future inhabitants of [both] the Atlantic and Mississippi states will be our sons. We think we see their happiness in their union, and we…
— Thomas Jefferson
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When I'm playful I use the meridians of longitude and parallels of latitude for a seine, and drag the Atlantic Ocean for whales. I scratch…
— Mark Twain
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As the salt flavors every drop in the Atlantic, so does sin affect every atom of our nature. It is so sadly there, so abundantly…
— Charles Spurgeon
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Let us suppose, that the Old and New worlds were formerly but one continent, and that, by a violent earthquake, the ancient Atalantis [sic] of…
— Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon
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It looks to me as if Darwinians are like someone who, having observed that tugboats sometimes maneuver ocean liners in tight places by directing high-pressure…
— Peter van Inwagen
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It was unknowable then, but so much of the progress that would define the 20th century, on both sides of the Atlantic, came down to…
— Barack Obama
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You see, it's essential that one of us stays awake during the flight [ballon]. So, rather than using the comfortable Virgin seats which we used…
— Richard Branson
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The difference between Las Vegas and Atlantic City is the difference between getting conned by a beautiful call girl and getting mugged by a crack…
— Drew Carey
Who Wrote These Atlantic Quotes
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