Continent Quotes

345 Continent quotes by 271 unique authors

Jewish intellectuals contributed a great deal to insure that Europe became a continent of humanism, and it is with these humanist ideals that Europe must… — Daniel Barenboim
The coast is an edgy place. Living on the coast presents certain stark realities and a wild, rare beauty. Continent confronts ocean. Weather intensifies. It's… — Carl Safina
Children, I suppose, are always unfinished business: they begin as part of your own body, and continue as separate as another continent. — Jeanette Winterson
Thus we behold Kentucky, lately an howling wilderness, the habitation of savages and wild beasts, become a fruitful field; this region, so favourably distinguished by… — Daniel Boone
Australia is the most isolated continent. — Jared Diamond
Until all Africans stand and speak as free human beings, equal in the eyes of the Almighty; until that day, the African continent shall not… — Haile Selassie
New York [cannot] remain the center of commerce and capital for this continent, unless it has an independent bar and an honest judiciary. — Samuel J. Tilden
It is believed that the average person uses no more than 10% of his or her potential. Ten percent! We’re not even scratching the surface… — Clifton Anderson
I am learning, as I make my way through my first continent, that it is remarkably easy to do things, and much more frightening to… — Ted Simon
In England and America a beard usually means that its owner would rather be considered venerable than virile; on the continent of Europe it often… — Rebecca West
[Africa] is a continent of many countries, not one country. If we are down to three or four conflicts, it means that there are plenty… — Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala
George Kimble said, 'The only thing dark about Africa is our ignorance of it.' So let's start shedding light on this amazing eclectic continent that… — Euvin Naidoo
Albania, Macedonia and Greece have managed to create a good partnership in the south of the Continent and are making progress in blocking the spread… — Fatos Nano
Purity of race does not exist. Europe is a continent of energetic mongrels. — H. A. L. Fisher
The African Union has to act in order to put an end to armed conflicts that undermine the continent, to fight against the devastation caused… — Omar Bongo
Africa has more dictators per capita than any other continent. — George Ayittey
Far away in Montana, hidden from view by clustering mountain-peaks, lies an unmapped northwestern corner- the Crown of the Continent. The water from the crusted… — George Bird Grinnell
The fact that a cloud from a minor volcanic eruption in Iceland—a small disturbance in the complex mechanism of life on the Earth—can bring to… — Slavoj Å½iÅ¾ek
I still like being in North of England and I keep a place there. But there are a lot of things about the Continent that… — Andrew Eldritch
Big Sur is at the end of the continent. It attracts really crazy people. — Carter Burwell
Genius is intensity of life; an overflowing vitality which floods and fertilizes a continent or a hemisphere of being; which makes a nature many-sided and… — Hamilton Wright Mabie
There are certain fixed rules that one observes for one's own comfort. For instance, never be flippantly rude to any inoffensive grey-bearded stranger that you… — Hector Hugh Munro
I have come to believe that this is a mighty continent which was hitherto unknown. I am greatly supported in this view by reason of… — Christopher Columbus
Europe by the end of this century will be a continent after the neutron bomb. The grand buildings will still be standing, but the people… — Mark Steyn
Love knows not distance; it hath no continent; its eyes are for the stars, its feet for the swords; it continueth, though an army lay… — Gilbert Parker

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