Continents Quotes

429 Continents quotes by 343 unique authors

Never was a continent naturally so clean, and made so dirty, as Australia. There was not an animal pest, scarcely a vegetable pest; fools and… — Unknown Author
Every British Subject born on the continent of America, or in any other of the British dominions, is by the law of God and nature,… — James Otis
Freedom is indivisible, and when one man is enslaved, all are not free. When all are free, then we can look forward to that day… — John F. Kennedy
Language is a city, to the building of which every human being brought a stone; yet he is no more to be credited with the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
I had a swell racket. I was rewarded with honors, medals, promotions. l might have given Al Capone a few hints. The best he could… — Michael Parenti
This means more to me than any Grammy I could ever win ... It will take a village and an army, [some] countries and continents… — Lady Gaga
If we imagine an observer to approach our planet from outer space, and, pushing aside the belts of red-brown clouds which obscure our atmosphere, to… — Eduard Suess
Thus we conclude, that the strata both primary and secondary, both those of ancient and those of more recent origin, have had their materials furnished… — John Playfair
The Montefiores have taken Australia for their own, and there is not a gold field or a sheep run from Tasmania to New South Wales… — Unknown Author
British ferries have stopped transporting live animals to the Continent. This has made it very difficult for England fans to get to Away matches. — Jo Brand
President Bush has embarked on an eight-day tour of the continent. He hopes this one goes better than the other ones he's made recently. Obviously… — Stephen Colbert
Life in the oceans must be sheer hell. A vast, merciless hell of permanent and immediate danger. So much of a hell that during evolution… — Werner Herzog
Wherever you go - in every country, or in every continent, people yearn and hunger for only one thing, to love and be loved. Love… — Michael Jackson
Canada is the linchpin of the English-speaking world. Canada, with those relations of friendly, affectionate intimacy with the United States on the one hand and… — Winston Churchill
I’d have thought 50,000 years of existing on the continent would have qualified as settled. — Unknown Author
What is such a resource worth? Anything it costs. If we never hike it or step into its shade, if we only drive by occasionally… — Wallace Stegner
The generative energy, which, when we are loose, dissipates and makes us unclean, when we are continent invigorates and inspires us. Chastity is the flowering… — Henry David Thoreau
The Pan-Africanism that envisaged the ideal of wholeness was gradually cut down to the size of a continent, then a nation, a region, an ethnos,… — Ngugi wa Thiong'o
Reading, therefore, is a co-production between writer and reader. The simplicity of this tool is astounding. So little, yet out of it whole worlds, eras,… — Ben Okri
There is something absurd in supposing a continent to be perpetually governed by an island. — Thomas Paine
People go to Africa and confirm what they already have in their heads and so they fail to see what is there in front of… — Chinua Achebe
Who controls the food supply controls the people; who controls the energy can control whole continents; who controls money can control the world. — Henry A. Kissinger
There are signs that Allah will grant Islam victory in Europe - without swords, without guns, without conquests. The 50 million Muslims of Europe will… — Muammar al-Gaddafi
England [sic] is just a small island. Its roads and houses are small. With few exceptions, it doesn't make things that people in the rest… — Mitt Romney
America is now the only global superpower, and Eurasia is the globe's central arena. Hence, what happens to the distribution of power on the Eurasian… — Zbigniew Brzezinski

Who Wrote These Continents Quotes

343 authors contributed a total of 429 Continents Quotes, led by these top contributors: