Continents Quotes
429 Continents quotes by 343 unique authors
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The incomparable James Walvin has done it again: he has crafted a beautifully written and deeply informed single volume history of the Atlantic slave trade…
— David W. Blight
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I was going to save the world, and I thought I would start with the African continent.
— Jacqueline Novogratz
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We of the United States consider ourselves blessed. We have much to give thanks for. But the gift of providence we cherish most is that…
— Lyndon B. Johnson
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Canada and the United States have reached the point where we no longer think of each other as 'foreign' countries. We think of each other…
— Harry S. Truman
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No nation in the world has had greater fortune than mine in sharing a continent with the people and the nation of Canada.
— Lyndon B. Johnson
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As two proud and independent peoples, there is much that distinguishes us one from the other, but there is also much that we share: a…
— Ronald Reagan
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While men inhabiting different parts of this vast continent cannot be expected to hold the same opinions, they can untie in a common objective and…
— Franklin Pierce
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This world has seen a great many civilizations. And many of them have survived for longer periods than ours up to the present. They were…
— Thor Heyerdahl
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If the Spray discovered no continents on her voyage, it may be that there were no more continents to be discovered. She did not seek…
— Joshua Slocum
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A single factory, potentially capable of supplying a whole continent with its particular product, cannot afford to wait until the public asks for its product;…
— Edward Bernays
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Africa is one continent, one people, and one nation. The notion that in order to have a nation it is necessary for there to be…
— Kwame Nkrumah
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The several tribes of Indians inhabiting the regions of the Upper Missouri. . . are undoubtedly the finest looking, best equipped, and most beautifully costumed…
— George Catlin
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The independence of Ghana is meaningless unless it is linked-up with the total liberation of the African Continent
— Kwame Nkrumah
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But how do European railways manage without them? How do they continue to convey millions of travellers and mountains of luggage across a continent? If…
— Peter Kropotkin
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The inventions and the great discoveries have opened up whole continents to reciprocal communication and interchange, provided we are willing.
— Alva Myrdal
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Shakespeare was an intellectual ocean, whose waves touched all the shores of thought; within which were all the tides and waves of destiny and will;…
— Robert Green Ingersoll
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Our continents unification is at hand and we must stand to account.
— Romano Prodi
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Never forget that it is we New Yorkers and New Englanders who have the monopoly of whatever oxygen there is in the American continent.
— Van Wyck Brooks
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There is a grandeur in the uniformity of the mass. When a fashion, a dance, a song, a slogan or a joke sweeps like wildfire…
— Eric Hoffer
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But some of the nonsense was evil, since it concealed great crimes. For example, teachers of children in the United States of America wrote this…
— Kurt Vonnegut
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