Continent Quotes

345 Continent quotes by 271 unique authors

It has been said by a distinguished philosopher that England is "usually the last to enter into the general movement of the European mind." The… — Isaac Todhunter
Oh God! that one might read the book of fate, And see the revolution of the times Make mountains level, and the continent, Weary of… — William Shakespeare
You and I both know, deep in your heart, you agree with me. And I will prove it with one hypothetical scenario: you are alone… — Frazier Glenn Miller, Jr.
One of the most helpful things that anybody can learn is to give up trying to catch the last eighth - or the first. These… — Jesse Lauriston Livermore
These are the boys of Pointe du Hoc. These are the men who took the cliffs. These are the champions who helped free a continent.… — Ronald Reagan
The first day or so we all pointed to our country. The third or fourth day we were pointing to our continent. By the fifth… — Unknown Author
If we would reach a degree of civilization higher and grander than any yet attained, we should welcome to our ample continent all nations, kindreds… — Frederick Douglass
Never was a continent naturally so clean, and made so dirty, as Australia. There was not an animal pest, scarcely a vegetable pest; fools and… — Unknown Author
Every British Subject born on the continent of America, or in any other of the British dominions, is by the law of God and nature,… — James Otis
Freedom is indivisible, and when one man is enslaved, all are not free. When all are free, then we can look forward to that day… — John F. Kennedy
Language is a city, to the building of which every human being brought a stone; yet he is no more to be credited with the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
The Montefiores have taken Australia for their own, and there is not a gold field or a sheep run from Tasmania to New South Wales… — Unknown Author
British ferries have stopped transporting live animals to the Continent. This has made it very difficult for England fans to get to Away matches. — Jo Brand
President Bush has embarked on an eight-day tour of the continent. He hopes this one goes better than the other ones he's made recently. Obviously… — Stephen Colbert
Wherever you go - in every country, or in every continent, people yearn and hunger for only one thing, to love and be loved. Love… — Michael Jackson
I’d have thought 50,000 years of existing on the continent would have qualified as settled. — Unknown Author
What is such a resource worth? Anything it costs. If we never hike it or step into its shade, if we only drive by occasionally… — Wallace Stegner
The generative energy, which, when we are loose, dissipates and makes us unclean, when we are continent invigorates and inspires us. Chastity is the flowering… — Henry David Thoreau
The Pan-Africanism that envisaged the ideal of wholeness was gradually cut down to the size of a continent, then a nation, a region, an ethnos,… — Ngugi wa Thiong'o
There is something absurd in supposing a continent to be perpetually governed by an island. — Thomas Paine
People go to Africa and confirm what they already have in their heads and so they fail to see what is there in front of… — Chinua Achebe
There are signs that Allah will grant Islam victory in Europe - without swords, without guns, without conquests. The 50 million Muslims of Europe will… — Muammar al-Gaddafi
England [sic] is just a small island. Its roads and houses are small. With few exceptions, it doesn't make things that people in the rest… — Mitt Romney
America is now the only global superpower, and Eurasia is the globe's central arena. Hence, what happens to the distribution of power on the Eurasian… — Zbigniew Brzezinski
The great hinderance to the development of this continent has lain in the lack of capital. — William Graham Sumner

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