Chairs Quote by George Steiner

“In American terms, the accomplishment of Genghis Khan might be understood if the United States, instead of being created by a group of educated…

— Jack Weatherford

I am honoured to be asked to take on this role, especially as it comes at such an integral time for our relationship with…

— Paul Boateng

As Africans, we need to share common recognition that all of us stand to lose if we fail to transform our continent.

— Thabo Mbeki

The workman cut to the left, still laying on his horn, and roared around the drunkenly weaving limousine. He invited the driver of the…

— Stephen King

Today, any action anywhere on earth has an immediate repercussion on all five continents. News of a victory of the Eastern armies in Morocco…

— Nikos Kazantzakis

Almost every continent in the world, including our own, has refugees. But how often when we hear the word do we pause to remind…

— Scott Simon

The seasons, like greater tides, ebb and flow across the continents. Spring advances up the United States at the average rate of about fifteen…

— Edwin Way Teale

From the world wars of Europe to the jungles of the Far East, from the deserts of the Middle East to the African continent,…

— John Hoeven

At independence Kenya's economic indicators were equal to those of South Korea, but 45 years down the road, Korea's economy is 40 times that…

— Raila Odinga

Revisiting the Revolutionary War is a bracing reminder that the fate of a continent, and the shape of the modern world, turned on the…

— Anonymous

Africa is not a country, but it is a continent like none other. It has that which is elegantly vast or awfully little.

— Douglas Wilder

From time to time the continent shifts, and everything that isn't fastened down slides into Southern California.

— Frank Lloyd Wright