Continents Quotes

429 Continents quotes by 343 unique authors

It's hard to measure success when we're dealing with between 500 and 5,000 years of patriarchy depending on which continent we sit, so I would… — Gloria Steinem
It's important to debunk the myths of Africa being this benighted continent civilized only when white people arrived. In fact, Africans had been creators of… — Henry Louis Gates
My family has very strong women. My mother never laughed at my dream of Africa, even though everyone else did because we didn't have any… — Jane Goodall
The history of American women is all about leaving home - crossing oceans and continents, or getting jobs and living on their own. — Gail Collins
I'd move to Los Angeles if New Zealand and Australia were swallowed up by a tidal wave, if there was a bubonic plague in England… — Russell Crowe
No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent. — John Donne
The Arctic is an ocean. The southern pole is a continent surrounded by ocean. The North Pole is an ocean, or northern waters. It's an… — Sylvia Earle
We settled this continent without art. So it was easy for us to treat it as an imported luxury, not a necessity. — Arthur Erickson
The world is now unipolar and contains o-nly o-ne superpower. Canada shares a continent with that superpower. — Stephen Harper
From the world wars of Europe to the jungles of the Far East, from the deserts of the Middle East to the African continent, and… — John Hoeven
Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that… — Abraham Lincoln
And I think that Africa is making progress that the world needs to recognize and assist the continent to continue on that path. — John Dramani Mahama
And I believe that it becomes a troubled continent because there are those who must always cause confusion so that we do not keep these… — Miriam Makeba
I think the Internet is absolutely extraordinary. It's very, very useful and I think one of the things we've got to do is make sure… — Thabo Mbeki
We will continue to count on your unwavering support and commitment to working with leaders of our continent in bringing about the desired renaissance of… — Thabo Mbeki
I dream of the realization of the unity of Africa, whereby its leaders combine in their efforts to solve the problems of this continent. I… — Nelson Mandela
The concern around probable questions, which in a sense have been hidden, will grow around the world and the matter is critical, the reason we… — Thabo Mbeki
Those who oppressed us described us as the Dark Continent! — Thabo Mbeki
On the Continent people have good food; in England people have good table manners. — George Mikes
Love knows not distance; it hath no continent; its eyes are for the stars. — Gilbert Parker
Eight years involved with the nuclear industry have taught me that when nothing can possible go wrong and every avenue has been covered, then is… — Terry Pratchett
When I want an opinion, I'll get it from my peers - from men of vision, like our great railroad builders... Stanford, Huntington, Dinsmore... fellows… — Jonathan Raban
Africa the continent is not just what we see on the news. It's... not AIDS, and it's not just war and poverty. It's so much… — Jill Scott
Thousands of years ago, civilizations flourished in Africa which suffer not at all by comparison with those of other continents. In those centuries, Africans were… — Haile Selassie
The human brain now holds the key to our future. We have to recall the image of the planet from outer space: a single entity… — David Suzuki

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