Best Continents Lines
429 Continents quotes by 343 unique authors
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I am learning, as I make my way through my first continent, that it is remarkably easy to do things, and much more frightening to…
— Ted Simon
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It is quite possible we may have formed entirely erroneous ideas of what we actually see. The greenish gray patches may not be seas at…
— Edward E. Barnard
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In England and America a beard usually means that its owner would rather be considered venerable than virile; on the continent of Europe it often…
— Rebecca West
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I daresay I was the worst bed partner in five continents.
— Martha Gellhorn
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[Africa] is a continent of many countries, not one country. If we are down to three or four conflicts, it means that there are plenty…
— Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala
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George Kimble said, 'The only thing dark about Africa is our ignorance of it.' So let's start shedding light on this amazing eclectic continent that…
— Euvin Naidoo
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Albania, Macedonia and Greece have managed to create a good partnership in the south of the Continent and are making progress in blocking the spread…
— Fatos Nano
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Purity of race does not exist. Europe is a continent of energetic mongrels.
— H. A. L. Fisher
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The African Union has to act in order to put an end to armed conflicts that undermine the continent, to fight against the devastation caused…
— Omar Bongo
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Africa has more dictators per capita than any other continent.
— George Ayittey
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Far away in Montana, hidden from view by clustering mountain-peaks, lies an unmapped northwestern corner- the Crown of the Continent. The water from the crusted…
— George Bird Grinnell
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We may have charted all the continents on the planet, and we may have discovered all the mammals, but that doesn't mean that there's nothing…
— Nathan Wolfe
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The fact that a cloud from a minor volcanic eruption in Iceland—a small disturbance in the complex mechanism of life on the Earth—can bring to…
— Slavoj Žižek
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I still like being in North of England and I keep a place there. But there are a lot of things about the Continent that…
— Andrew Eldritch
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In American terms, the accomplishment of Genghis Khan might be understood if the United States, instead of being created by a group of educated merchants…
— Jack Weatherford
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Big Sur is at the end of the continent. It attracts really crazy people.
— Carter Burwell
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Genius is intensity of life; an overflowing vitality which floods and fertilizes a continent or a hemisphere of being; which makes a nature many-sided and…
— Hamilton Wright Mabie
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There are certain fixed rules that one observes for one's own comfort. For instance, never be flippantly rude to any inoffensive grey-bearded stranger that you…
— Hector Hugh Munro
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I have come to believe that this is a mighty continent which was hitherto unknown. I am greatly supported in this view by reason of…
— Christopher Columbus
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Non-African missionaries, responding generously to the Lord's call with ardent apostolic zeal, came to share the joy of revelation. Following in their footsteps, Africans are…
— Pope Benedict XVI
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To make a concrete response to the appeal of our brothers and sisters in humanity, we must come to grips with the first of these…
— Pope Benedict XVI
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Europe by the end of this century will be a continent after the neutron bomb. The grand buildings will still be standing, but the people…
— Mark Steyn
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Love knows not distance; it hath no continent; its eyes are for the stars, its feet for the swords; it continueth, though an army lay…
— Gilbert Parker
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The open frontier, the hardships of homesteading from scratch, the wealth of natural resources, the whole vast challenge of a continent waiting to be exploited,…
— Barbara Tuchman
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A person can be danced. In all continents the dancers carry little children on their shoulders.
— Curt Sachs
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