Continent Quotes

345 Continent quotes by 271 unique authors

About fifteen miles above New Orleans the river goes very slowly. It has broadened out there until it is almost a sea and the water… — Frank Yerby
Moreover it is becoming the Britons, whether scientific or unscientific, who boast at all fitting occasions of their aptitude to rule the waves, should know… — Edward Forbes
But unless some great revolution in nature modifies the present relative level between land and sea, it may safely be maintained that the present outer… — Louis Agassiz
The workman cut to the left, still laying on his horn, and roared around the drunkenly weaving limousine. He invited the driver of the limo… — Stephen King
Thoughtful men must feel that the fate of civilization upon this continent is involved in the issue of our contest. Among the most satisfying proofs… — Abraham Lincoln
We're here to mark that day in history when the Allied peoples joined in battle to reclaim this continent to liberty. For four long years,… — Ronald Reagan
[P]rogressivism is a top-down, continent-wide tissue of taxes, mandates, and other coercions. — George Will
The establishment of democracy on the American continent was scarcely as radical a break with the past as was the necessity, which Americans faced, of… — James A. Baldwin
From time to time the continent shifts, and everything that isn't fastened down slides into Southern California. — Frank Lloyd Wright
I remember as a child reading or hearing the words 'The Great Divide' and being stunned by the glorious sound, a proper sound for the… — John Steinbeck
On the Continent stray cats are judged individually on their merit-some are loved, some are only respected; in England they are universally worshipped as in… — George Mikes
People on the Continent either tell you the truth or lie; in England they hardly ever lie, but they would not dream of telling you… — George Mikes
If somebody tells you an obviously untrue story, on the Continent you would remark, "You are a liar, Sir, and a rather dirty one at… — George Mikes
On the Continent there is one topic which should be avoided-the weather; in England, if you do not repeat the phrase "Lovely day, isn't it?"… — George Mikes
Being human signifies, for each one of us, belonging to a class, a society, a country, a continent and a civilization; and for us European… — Claude Levi-Strauss
Having made the trip from St. Louis to the Pacific Ocean myself going up up up against twenty-five hundred miles of the Missouri River, I… — William Least Heat-Moon
Three hundred men, who all know each other direct the economic destinies of the Continent and they look for successors among their friends and relations.… — Walther Rathenau
So for everybody who allows themselves to be separated from me because I said 'African' instead of 'Nubian' or 'Black' or 'Kemet' or 'original' or… — Sister Souljah
Australia is properly speaking an island, but it is so much larger than every other island on the face of the globe, that it is… — Charles Sturt
Seeking fortunes in America led to Germany losing people, and the American continent received many people whose contributions are particularly clear in the agricultural and… — Julius Streicher
The United States and Mexico are trapped - economically, culturally, politically and because of drug crime - in the same continent. — Barry McCaffrey
I have been aware all the time that my peoples, spread far and wide throughout every continent and ocean in the world, were united to… — Queen Elizabeth II
Sometime we will have to stop overevaluating the word. We shall learn to realize that it is only one of the many bridges that connect… — Rainer Maria Rilke
Cuvier had even in his address & manner the character of a superior Man, much general power & eloquence in conversation & great variety of… — Humphry Davy
It must be those brief moments when nothing has happened - nor is going to. Tiny moments, like islands in the ocean beyond the grey… — Hans BÃ¸rli

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