Continent Quotes

345 Continent quotes by 271 unique authors

On the Continent people have good food; in England people have good table manners. — George Mikes
Love knows not distance; it hath no continent; its eyes are for the stars. — Gilbert Parker
Eight years involved with the nuclear industry have taught me that when nothing can possible go wrong and every avenue has been covered, then is… — Terry Pratchett
When I want an opinion, I'll get it from my peers - from men of vision, like our great railroad builders... Stanford, Huntington, Dinsmore... fellows… — Jonathan Raban
Africa the continent is not just what we see on the news. It's... not AIDS, and it's not just war and poverty. It's so much… — Jill Scott
The immense cities lie basking on the beaches of the continent like whales that have taken to the land. — Arnold J. Toynbee
Shakespeare is, essentially, the emanation of the Renaissance. The overflow of his fame on the Continent in later years was but the sequel of the… — George Edward Woodberry
1492. As children we were taught to memorize this year with pride and joy as the year people began living full and imaginative lives on… — Kurt Vonnegut
No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main. If a clod be… — John Donne
While the astronauts, heroes forever, spent mere hours on the moon, I have remained in this new world for nearly thirty years. I know that… — Jhumpa Lahiri
No other continent has endured such an unspeakably bizarre combination of foreign thievery and foreign goodwill. — Barbara Kingsolver
For a transitory enchanted moment man must have held his breath in the presence of this continent, compelled into an aesthetic contemplation he neither understood… — F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Heart is the Capital of the Mind— The Mind is a single State— The Heart and the Mind together make A single Continent— One—is… — Emily Dickinson
Small islands, not capable of protecting themselves, are the proper objects for kingdoms to take under their care; but there is something absurd, in supposing… — Thomas Paine
And before me was the great raw bulge and bulk of my American continent; somewhat far across, gloomy, crazy New York was throwing up its… — Jack Kerouac
If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their currency, first by inflation, then by deflation, the banks and corporations… — Thomas Jefferson
So, is there hope for a truly democratic Africa? Long answer: Only if continent-wide improvements in education, human rights and public health are coupled with… — Jon Stewart
Virginia Woolf wrote, "Across the broad continent of a woman's life falls the shadow of a sword." On one side of that sword, she said,… — Elizabeth Gilbert
California is a place in which a boom mentality and a sense of Chekhovian loss meet in uneasy suspension; in which the mind is troubled… — Joan Didion
Somebody had tipped the American continent like a pinball machine and all the goofballs had come rolling to LA in the southwest corner. I cried… — Jack Kerouac
There are billions of men in the world, probably millions near my age. Maybe hundreds who are compatible with me. Maybe at least a dozen… — Regina Doman
The Standard of Truth has been erected; no unhallowed hand can stop the work from progressing; persecutions may rage, mobs may combine, armies may assemble,… — Joseph Smith, Jr.
We are very cruelly trapped between what we would like to be and what we actually are. And we cannot possibly become what we would… — James A. Baldwin
She fell asleep, lying there, her hand clasping his. Her last awareness, before she surrendered the responsibility of consciousness, was the sense of an enormous… — Ayn Rand
She stood upon a continent of ice, which sparkled between sea and sky, endless and dazzling, as though the world kept all its treasure there;… — Carol Ann Duffy

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