Continents Quotes
429 Continents quotes by 343 unique authors
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The oldest form of the Choral Dance is the circle. Even the chimpanzees dance in a circle, and people of every continent still do it.
— Curt Sachs
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Away back in that time-in 1492 - there was a man by the name of Columbus came from across the great ocean, and he discovered…
— Unknown Author
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There is a huge gap between us (Jews) and our enemies, not just in ability but in morality, culture, sanctity of life, and conscience. They…
— Moshe Katsav
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Africa is an article of faith. I believe in this continent.
— Sunil Bharti Mittal
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AUSTRALIA, n. A country lying in the South Sea, whose industrial and commercial development has been unspeakably retarded by an unfortunate dispute among geographers as…
— Ambrose Bierce
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Those new regions [America] which we found and explored with the fleet . . . we may rightly call a New World . . .…
— Amerigo Vespucci
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May this continent, the last explored by humankind, be the first one to be spared by humankind.
— Jacques Yves Cousteau
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I wish scientists would come up with an ear of corn that was big and round, because then when you were eating it, it'd be…
— Jack Handey
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Leave the fishing-rod, Great General, to us sovereigns of Pharos and Canopus. Your game is cities and kings and continents.
— Cleopatra
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I know that Nature designs that this whole continent, not merely these thirty-six states, shall be, sooner or later, within the magic circle of the…
— William S. Burroughs
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Entire new continent can emerge from the ocean in the time it takes for a Web page to show up on your screen. Contrary to…
— Dave Barry
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I am honoured to be asked to take on this role, especially as it comes at such an integral time for our relationship with South…
— Paul Boateng
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It is extremely important that mass media, having freed from the relics of the Cold War, served for peace and dialogue between nations and religions,…
— Nursultan Nazarbayev
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Three hundred men, each of whom knows all the other, govern the fate of the European continent, and they elect their successors from their entourage.
— Walther Rathenau
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There's conflict on every continent, the poverty rate is increasing, the environment's a wreck, and I'm not supposed to be affected?
— Unknown Author
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Earlier maps had underestimated the distances to other continents and exaggerated the outlines of individual nations. Now global dimensions could be set, with authority, by…
— Dava Sobel
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Lawrence Hill, a cultural and spiritual descendant of West African griots, has used his vast storytelling talents to create an epic story that spans three…
— Unknown Author
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Creativity is not a solitary movement. That is its power. Whatever is touched by it, whoever hears it, sees it, senses it, knows it, it's…
— Clarissa Pinkola Estes
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The night sky in North Korea might be the most brilliant in northeast Asia, the only airspace spared the coal dust, Gobi Desert sand, and…
— Barbara Demick
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We forgot this continent for a long time - and now, finally Africa is being rediscovered.
— Fernando Meirelles
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I dreamed of Crusades, voyages of discovery that nobody had heard of, republics without histories, religious wars stamped out, revolutions in morals, movements of races…
— Arthur Rimbaud
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I'm doing a lot of things in Africa. I've formed a company with two friends of mine called Made In Africa and we are doing…
— Ozwald Boateng
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I helped in the raping of half a dozen Central American republics for the benefit of Wall Street. The record of racketeering is long.... Looking…
— Smedley Butler
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Here's what I mean by the miracle of language. When you're falling into a good book, exactly as you might fall into a dream, a…
— Anthony Doerr
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Africa, amongst the continents, will teach it to you: that God and the Devil are one, the majesty coeternal, not two uncreated but one uncreated,…
— Isak Dinesen
Who Wrote These Continents Quotes
343 authors contributed a total of 429 Continents Quotes, led by these top contributors: