Continents Quotes

429 Continents quotes by 343 unique authors

The conductor's stand is not a continent of power, but rather an island of solitude. — Riccardo Muti
My wife is one of the best wimin on this Continent, altho' she isn't always gentle as a lamb with mint sauce. — Charles Farrar Browne
As Africans, we need to share common recognition that all of us stand to lose if we fail to transform our continent. — Thabo Mbeki
Why did Africa let Europe cart away millions of Africa's souls from the continent to the four corners of the wind? How could Europe lord… — Ngugi wa Thiong'o
American literature has never been content to be just one among the many literatures of the Western World. It has always aspired to be the… — Christopher Dawson
Prior to September 11, we thought the world beyond our shores was one world of risk and the world in our continent was another world… — John Ashcroft
Who will find peace with the lands? The future of humankind lies waiting for those who will come to understand their lives and take up… — Vine Deloria, Jr.
The Olympic flag [] has a white background, with five interlaced rings in the centre: blue, yellow, black, green and red []. This design is… — Pierre de Coubertin
About a billion years ago, long before the continents had separated to define the ancient oceans, or their own outlines had been determined, a small… — James A. Michener
Jewish intellectuals contributed a great deal to insure that Europe became a continent of humanism, and it is with these humanist ideals that Europe must… — Daniel Barenboim
Cocoa-buttered girls were stretched out on the public beach in apparently random alignments, but maybe if a weather satellite zoomed in on one of those… — Bonnie Jo Campbell
A Life in Men is a joyful, ambitious novel that is also an adventure traversing three continents, as well as a meditation on love, sex,… — Bonnie Jo Campbell
The Second World War is the largest single event in human history, fought across six of the world's seven continents and all it oceans. It… — John Keegan
The European organisation contemplated could not oppose any ethnic group, on other continents or in Europe itself, outside of the League of Nations, any more… — Aristide Briand
Obviously over the years, it's been America, it's been Europe. It's all been very kind of divided between those two continents. It's nice to kind… — Kim Clijsters
The coast is an edgy place. Living on the coast presents certain stark realities and a wild, rare beauty. Continent confronts ocean. Weather intensifies. It's… — Carl Safina
As I looked down, I saw a large river meandering slowly along for miles, passing from one country to another without stopping. I also saw… — Unknown Author
Children, I suppose, are always unfinished business: they begin as part of your own body, and continue as separate as another continent. — Jeanette Winterson
Thus we behold Kentucky, lately an howling wilderness, the habitation of savages and wild beasts, become a fruitful field; this region, so favourably distinguished by… — Daniel Boone
Australia is the most isolated continent. — Jared Diamond

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