Continental Quotes

55 Continental quotes by 53 unique authors

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 checked—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
They would always be a family, but if she'd learned anything in the past few weeks it was that a family wasn't a static thing.… — Kristin Hannah
The 19th-century Continental porcelain plaques that are worth the most money are the pretty ones. — Judith Miller
Local government in England is simply too big. Our lowest tier serves an average population of 118,500, while in the U.S. and across continental Europe… — Geoff Mulgan
Africa is the second-largest continent, a landmass second from Asia. It also is the second most populated continent, with 900 million people. In fact -… — Euvin Naidoo
The nearest the modern general or admiral comes to a small-arms encounter of any sort is at a duck hunt in the company of corporation… — C. Wright Mills
Let us work toward greater cooperation with all Caribbean Countries, whether we speak English, Dutch, French or Spanish, whether we are independent or not, and… — Said Musa
Well, as a general remark, I would say that I was discouraged by the physical and economic conditions in continental Europe after the war. — David K. E. Bruce
The broadest pattern of history - namely, the differences between human societies on different continents - seems to me to be attributable to differences among… — Jared Diamond
If the area were on or near the U.S. continental shelf, such data could well provide an enemy with strategically invaluable insights into undersea access… — Frank Gaffney
The thing that scares me is a place like the Amazon - which is the size of the continental U.S. and mostly unexplored and has… — Oren Peli

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