Continents Quotes
429 quotes by 351 authors
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Continents may break up, continents may emerge, but the human race is immortal in its origin and in its growth, and there is nothing to…
— Annie Besant
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All my life I have lived and behaved very much like the sandpiper - just running down the edges of different countries and continents, 'looking…
— Elizabeth Bishop
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Even in our day, science suspects beyond the Polar seas, at the very circle of the Arctic Pole, the existence of a sea which never…
— H. P. Blavatsky
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This continent, an open palm spread frank before the sky.
— James Agee
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Africa is a continent in flames. And deep down, if we really accepted that Africans were equal to us, we would all do more to…
— Bono
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The fact is that ours is the first generation that can look disease and extreme poverty in the eye, look across the ocean to Africa,…
— Bono
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Traveling, you realize that differences are lost: each city takes to resembling all cities, places exchange their form, order, distances, a shapeless dust cloud invades…
— Italo Calvino
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People are increasingly frustrated that decisions taken further and further away from them mean their living standards are slashed through enforced austerity or their taxes…
— David Cameron
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After the Berlin Wall came down I visited that city and I will never forget it. The abandoned checkpoints. The sense of excitement about the…
— David Cameron
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What Churchill described as the twin marauders of war and tyranny have been almost entirely banished from our continent. Today, hundreds of millions dwell in…
— David Cameron
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From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic, an iron curtain has descended across the Continent.
— Winston Churchill
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The biggest challenge of public policy is to know when and how the world has changed. We are no longer an empty continent with endless…
— Richard Lamm
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Pre-season was very challenging with the African Championships on my continent. Unfortunately, I failed to qualify for the Games there. It was an emotional moment…
— Benjamin Boukpeti
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So I have known Islam on three continents before coming to the region where it was first revealed
— Barack Obama
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You are not called to be a canary in a cage. You are called to be an eagle, and to fly sun to sun, over…
— Henry Ward Beecher
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I saw for the first time the earth's shape. I could easily see the shores of continents, islands, great rivers, folds of the terrain, large…
— Yuri Gagarin
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There are two lost continents.... We are one: the lovers.
— Tom Robbins
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Intercession is truly universal work for the Christian. No place is closed to intercessory prayer. No continent - no nation - no organization - no…
— Richard Halverson
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In order to persuade Britain to pack up, to compel her to make peace, it was essential to rob her of her hope of being…
— Adolf Hitler
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From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Atlantic, an iron curtain has descended across the Continent. Behind the line lie all the capitals…
— Winston Churchill
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