Continental Quotes

55 quotes by 54 authors

There is a gyre of discarded floating plastic the size of the continental USA in the ocean. In it, plastic trash outweighs plankton 40 to… — David Suzuki
I think experience has shown that privateers have done more toward distressing the trade of our enemies, and furnishing these States with necessaries, than Continental… — William Whipple
For nine miles along a submerged ridge, the corals rise in lumpy hillocks that spread out 100 yards or more, resembling heaped scoops of rainbow… — James Dwight Dana
Margaret Thatcher, growing up in a bombed and battered Britain, derived a distrust which has grown with the years not just of Germany but of… — Douglas Hurd
My revenge is fraternity! No more frontiers! The Rhine for everyone! Let us be the same Republic, let us be the United States of Europe,… — Victor Hugo
If I can join hands with FIFA and other continental bodies to promote football globally, then I can do more than that to raise African… — Roger Milla
A great number of soundings, mainly along the continental slope of the New England States were also taken by the vessels of the United States… — Alexander Agassiz
This African American Vernacular English shares most of its grammar and vocabulary with other dialects of English. But it is distinct in many ways, and… — William Labov
My music was typically continental - nothing like, say, The Beatles. — Giorgio Moroder
It turns out one of my ancestors fought in the Continental Army, so I was inducted into the Sons of the American Revolution. — Henry Louis Gates
We all want a United Africa, United not only in our concept of what unity connotes, but united in our common desire to move forward… — Kwame Nkrumah
I'm English enough to feel something of a gut-reaction to modernism, to continental philosophising and anything that smacks of a refusal to pay attention to… — Will Self
Even if Zuma was to develop the authoritarian impulses of a Mugabe, he would be checkedâ€”not least by his own party, which set a continental… — Mark Gevisser
You can drill in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, on every continental shelf and atop every hill in America for that matter, and you still… — Roscoe Bartlett
To exclude from positions of trust and command all those below the age of 44 would have kept Jefferson from writing the Declaration of Independence,… — John F. Kennedy
In politics continental Europe was infantile - horrifying. What America lacked, for all its political stability, was the capacity to enjoy intellectual pleasures as though… — Saul Bellow
What the working man sells is not directly his Labor, but his Laboring Power, the temporary disposal of which he makes over to the capitalist.… — Karl Marx
The entire North Polar ice cap is disappearing before our very eyes. It's been the size of the continental United States for the last 3… — Al Gore
There was no male vampire type in existence. Someone suggested an actor of the Continental School who could play any type, and mentioned me. — Bela Lugosi
I had four hundred thousand pages of continental philosophy and lit theory in my head. And by God, I was going to use it to… — David Foster Wallace

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