Continents Quotes
429 Continents quotes by 343 unique authors
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We're here to mark that day in history when the Allied peoples joined in battle to reclaim this continent to liberty. For four long years,…
— Ronald Reagan
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[P]rogressivism is a top-down, continent-wide tissue of taxes, mandates, and other coercions.
— George Will
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It is well to fetter the wings of our fancy and restrain its flights. It is quite possible we may have formed entirely erroneous ideas…
— Edward E. Barnard
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The establishment of democracy on the American continent was scarcely as radical a break with the past as was the necessity, which Americans faced, of…
— James A. Baldwin
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From time to time the continent shifts, and everything that isn't fastened down slides into Southern California.
— Frank Lloyd Wright
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I remember as a child reading or hearing the words 'The Great Divide' and being stunned by the glorious sound, a proper sound for the…
— John Steinbeck
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On the Continent stray cats are judged individually on their merit-some are loved, some are only respected; in England they are universally worshipped as in…
— George Mikes
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People on the Continent either tell you the truth or lie; in England they hardly ever lie, but they would not dream of telling you…
— George Mikes
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If somebody tells you an obviously untrue story, on the Continent you would remark, "You are a liar, Sir, and a rather dirty one at…
— George Mikes
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On the Continent there is one topic which should be avoided-the weather; in England, if you do not repeat the phrase "Lovely day, isn't it?"…
— George Mikes
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Sometimes I have a notion that what might improve the situation is to have women take over the occupations of government and trade and to…
— Phyllis McGinley
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Being human signifies, for each one of us, belonging to a class, a society, a country, a continent and a civilization; and for us European…
— Claude Levi-Strauss
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Samuel Beckett's 'Waiting for Godot,' billed as 'the laugh sensation of two continents,' made its American debut at the Coconut Grove Playhouse, in Miami, Florida,…
— John Lahr
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Having made the trip from St. Louis to the Pacific Ocean myself going up up up against twenty-five hundred miles of the Missouri River, I…
— William Least Heat-Moon
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Three hundred men, who all know each other direct the economic destinies of the Continent and they look for successors among their friends and relations.…
— Walther Rathenau
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I've been very lucky in my long life. On three continents, in diverse cultures, through happy moments, not-so-happy moments, and moments as marvelous as this…
— Dino De Laurentiis
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So for everybody who allows themselves to be separated from me because I said 'African' instead of 'Nubian' or 'Black' or 'Kemet' or 'original' or…
— Sister Souljah
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Australia is properly speaking an island, but it is so much larger than every other island on the face of the globe, that it is…
— Charles Sturt
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Seeking fortunes in America led to Germany losing people, and the American continent received many people whose contributions are particularly clear in the agricultural and…
— Julius Streicher
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To disguise nothing, to conceal nothing, to write about those things that are closest to our pain, our happiness; to write about our sexual clumsiness,…
— John Cheever
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There are many, many different worlds. Just as there are different continents on earth, there are different dimensional planes.
— Frederick Lenz
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Its funny how human beings tend to think that they're the masters of the earth never realizing that the earth, for a time, simply tolerates…
— Frederick Lenz
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If you meditate, then the real miracle is the transformation of your awareness field beyond the body. Beyond the body there are oceans of light,…
— Frederick Lenz
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The United States and Mexico are trapped - economically, culturally, politically and because of drug crime - in the same continent.
— Barry McCaffrey
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I have been aware all the time that my peoples, spread far and wide throughout every continent and ocean in the world, were united to…
— Queen Elizabeth II
Who Wrote These Continents Quotes
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