Continents Quotes

429 Continents quotes by 343 unique authors

Moses has revealed the existence of God to his nation. Jesus Christ to the Roman world, Muhammad to the old continent... — Napoleon Bonaparte
Compassionate thought is the most precious thing there is. It is something that only we human beings can develop. And if we have a good… — Dalai Lama
The brain is a world consisting of a number of unexplored continents and great stretches of unknown territory. — Santiago Ramon y Cajal
They have just succeeded in raising the two thousand pounds here, by subscription, that was wanted towards an exploration fund, for fitting out an expedition,… — William John Wills
Notwithstanding, therefore, that we have not witnessed of a large continent, yet, as we may predict the future occurrence of such catastrophes, we are authorized… — Charles Lyell
We may confidently come to the conclusion, that the forces which slowly and by little starts uplift continents, and that those which at successive periods… — Charles Darwin
When the aggregate amount of solid matter transported by rivers in a given number of centuries from a large continent, shall be reduced to arithmetical… — Charles Lyell
Combining in our survey then, the whole range of deposits from the most recent to the most ancient group, how striking a succession do they… — Roderick Murchison
Amid all the revolutions of the globe, the economy of Nature has been uniform, ... and her laws are the only things that have resisted… — John Playfair
The distribution of species on islands and continents throughout the world is exactly what you'd expect if evolution was a fact. The distribution of fossils… — Richard Dawkins
What an extraordinary time to be alive. We're the first people on our planet to have real choice: we can continue killing each other, wiping… — Frances Moore LappÃ©
The portion we see of human beings is very small: their formats and faces, voices and words.... beyond these, like an immense dark continent, lies… — Freya Stark
I've raced on all seven continents at least twice. I've probably run thousands of races. But the single race that I'm most proud is a… — Dean Karnazes
My first novel, 'The Tiger's Daughter,' embodies the loneliness I felt but could not acknowledge, even to myself, as I negotiated the no man's land… — Bharati Mukherjee
We have vexed and bothered every plant and every animal on every continent. — Diane Ackerman
Let us suppose, that the Old and New worlds were formerly but one continent, and that, by a violent earthquake, the ancient Atalantis [sic] of… — Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon
While vast continents are shrouded in darkness... the burden of proof lies upon you to show that the circumstances in which God has placed you… — Ion Keith-Falconer
Come watch with me the shaft of fire that glows in yonder West; the fair, frail palaces, The fading Alps and archipelagoes and great cloud… — Thomas Bailey Aldrich
We are like the explorers of a great continent, who have penetrated its margins in most points of the compass and have mapped the major… — H. Bentley Glass
[To the cultures of Asia and the continent of Africa] it is the Western impact which has stirred up the winds of change and set… — Barbara Ward, Baroness Jackson of Lodsworth

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