Continents Quotes

429 Continents quotes by 343 unique authors

It's very hard having a career in different continents and two different languages. — Kristin Scott Thomas
Nay, be a Columbus to whole new continents and worlds within you, opening new channels, not of trade, but of thought. — Henry David Thoreau
The immense cities lie basking on the beaches of the continent like whales that have taken to the land. — Arnold J. Toynbee
The historical circumstance of interest is that the tropical rain forests have persisted over broad parts of the continents since their origins as stronghold of… — E. O. Wilson
Shakespeare is, essentially, the emanation of the Renaissance. The overflow of his fame on the Continent in later years was but the sequel of the… — George Edward Woodberry
1492. As children we were taught to memorize this year with pride and joy as the year people began living full and imaginative lives on… — Kurt Vonnegut
No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main. If a clod be… — John Donne
While the astronauts, heroes forever, spent mere hours on the moon, I have remained in this new world for nearly thirty years. I know that… — Jhumpa Lahiri
No other continent has endured such an unspeakably bizarre combination of foreign thievery and foreign goodwill. — Barbara Kingsolver
For a transitory enchanted moment man must have held his breath in the presence of this continent, compelled into an aesthetic contemplation he neither understood… — F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Heart is the Capital of the Mind— The Mind is a single State— The Heart and the Mind together make A single Continent— One—is… — Emily Dickinson
Small islands, not capable of protecting themselves, are the proper objects for kingdoms to take under their care; but there is something absurd, in supposing… — Thomas Paine
In short, Europe’s colonization of Africa had nothing to do with differences between European and African peoples themselves, as white racists assume. Rather, it was… — Jared Diamond
Kallor said: 'I walked this land when the T'lan Imass were but children. I have commanded armies a hundred thousand strong. I have spread the… — Steven Erikson
And before me was the great raw bulge and bulk of my American continent; somewhat far across, gloomy, crazy New York was throwing up its… — Jack Kerouac
Why is it that some Christians cross land and sea, continents and cultures, as missionaries? What on earth impels them? It is not in order… — John Stott
If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their currency, first by inflation, then by deflation, the banks and corporations… — Thomas Jefferson
For a hundred years or more the world, our world, has been dying. And not one man, in these last hundred years or so, has… — Henry Miller
So, is there hope for a truly democratic Africa? Long answer: Only if continent-wide improvements in education, human rights and public health are coupled with… — Jon Stewart
This grand show is eternal. It is always sunrise somewhere; the dew is never dried all at once; a shower is forever falling; vapor is… — John Muir
Virginia Woolf wrote, "Across the broad continent of a woman's life falls the shadow of a sword." On one side of that sword, she said,… — Elizabeth Gilbert
California is a place in which a boom mentality and a sense of Chekhovian loss meet in uneasy suspension; in which the mind is troubled… — Joan Didion
My mother and I were like two continents moving slowly but inexorably apart; my father, the bridge builder, constantly extending the fragile edifice he had… — Diane Setterfield
Why would an all-powerful creator decide to plant his carefully crafted species on islands and continents in exactly the appropriate pattern to suggest, irresistibly, that… — Richard Dawkins
It seemed that we loved each other better when there were large swaths of two continents between us. The daily work of love was often… — Aleksandar Hemon

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