Continents Quotes
429 Continents quotes by 343 unique authors
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My first impulse is not to grab her or kiss her or yell at her. I simple want to touch her cheek, still flushed from…
— Gayle Forman
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A few months ago you assassinated a man who called himself a god; now you're going after a goddess in truth. Unless you can figure…
— Brent Weeks
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It was a quiet way - He asked if I was his - I made no answer of the tongue But answer of the eyes…
— Emily Dickinson
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If you throw me out of this house, I shall sleep on the path outside. If you return to the Continent without me, I shall…
— Eloisa James
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They say no land remains to be discovered, no continent is left unexplored. But the whole world is out there, waiting, just waiting for me.…
— Lisa Ann Sandell
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…he glanced over his shoulder at her, regarding her, as he often did before they made love, as if she were a lost continent about…
— Tom Robbins
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In spite of the six thousand manuals on child raising in the bookstores, child raising is still a dark continent and no one really knows…
— Bill Cosby
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When Europeans arrived on this continent, they blew it with the Native Americans. They plowed over them, taking as much as they could of their…
— Mary Pipher
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I take this continent with me into the grave.
— Ray Bradbury
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I mean you ACRES of harm,' Dalrymple growled. 'Untold QUANTITIES of harm. I will visit a whole CONTINENT of harm upon you before we are…
— Derek Landy
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Give her the continent and she wanted the hemisphere.
— Anthony Kiedis
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Our prime minister could embrace and forgive the people who killed our beloved sons and fathers, and so he should, but he could not, would…
— Peter Carey
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The greatest obstacle to discovering the shape of the earth, the continents, and the oceans was not ignorance but the illusion of knowledge.
— Daniel J. Boorstin
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You can live a lifetime and, at the end of it, know more about other people than you know about yourself. You learn to watch…
— Beryl Markham
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I keep trying to forget, but I must remember. And gather the scattered continents of a self, once whole. Before they plant flags and boundary…
— Saul Williams
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If more Africans had eaten missionaries, the continent would be in better shape
— Maya Angelou
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There’s light at the end of the tunnel. The problem is that tunnel is in the back of your mind. And if you don’t go…
— Terence McKenna
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Look at a globe and what you are seeing really is a snapshot of the continents as they have been for just one-tenth of 1…
— Bill Bryson
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Twelve thousand miles of it, to the other side of the world. And whether they came home again or not, they would belong neither here,…
— Colleen McCullough
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What I can say is that it was clear to many of us that an indigenous African literary renaissance was overdue. A major objective was…
— Chinua Achebe
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Taking the continent as a whole, this religious tension may be responsible for the revival of the commonest racial feeling. Africa is divided into Black…
— Frantz Fanon
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Not a single star will be left in the night. The night will not be left. I will die and, with me, the weight of…
— Jorge Luis Borges
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And there, row upon row, with the soft gleam of flowers opened at morning, with the light of this June sun glowing through a faint…
— Ray Bradbury
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One hurries through, even though there's time; the past, the continent, is behind; the future is the glowing mouth in the side of the ship;…
— F. Scott Fitzgerald
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With my mother's death all settled happiness, all that was tranquil and reliable, disappeared from my life. There was to be much fun, many pleasures,…
— C.S. Lewis
Who Wrote These Continents Quotes
343 authors contributed a total of 429 Continents Quotes, led by these top contributors: