Continents Quote by James Agee Download Open image “This continent, an open palm spread frank before the sky.” — James Agee ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.3 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Continents Frank Palms Sky Spread
Palms are like cockroaches. They were here long before us, and they'll be here long after us. They're the only things standing after a… — Robert Irwin Copy Share Image
“In this becalmed zone the sea has a smooth surface, the palm-tree stirs gently in the breeze, the waves lap against the pebbles and… — Frantz Fanon Copy Share Image
I have come to believe that this is a mighty continent which was hitherto unknown. — Christopher Columbus Copy Share Image
To discover new continents, you must be willing to lose sight of the shore. — Brian Tracy Copy Share Image
The dance of the palm trees, the oceans calling, the first rays of sun and heaven is here. — Michael Dolan Copy Share Image
“From east to west, in fact, her gaze swept slowly, without encountering a single obstacle, along a perfect curve. Beneath her, the blue-and-white terraces… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Long after this wonderful event in the Earth's history, when the human species was spread over a good deal of Asia, Europe, and Africa,… — Harry Johnston Copy Share Image
“As we sit here, continents are adrift, like leaves on a pond. GPS tracking shows North America & Europe currently moving apart at the… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
“Our first assigment was at a place the old maps called Telezon. A rare town not planted on a lake, it was surrounded by… — Andrea K. Höst Copy Share Image
By some chance, here they are, all on this earth; and who shall ever tell the sorrow of being on this earth, lying, on… — James Agee Copy Share Image
The camera seems to me, next to unassisted and weaponless consciousness, the central instrument of our time. — James Agee Copy Share Image
“Yes, for every child, rich or poor, there's a time of running through a dark place; and there's no word for a child's fear,… — James Agee Copy Share Image
“Kate, the mother of thirteen, is forty-nine; delicately made; her skin creamlike where the weather has not got at it. She is smaller than… — James Agee Copy Share Image
“The passion for vengeance is a terrifyingly strong one, very easily and probably inevitably wrought up by such evidence [of atrocities], even at our… — James Agee Copy Share Image
It's kind of a test, Mary, and it's the only kind that amounts to anything. When something rotten like this happens, then you have… — James Agee Copy Share Image
It is a peculiar part of the good photographer's adventure to know where luck is most likely to lie in the stream, to hook… — James Agee Copy Share Image
“God is not here, Hannah said to herself; and made a small cross upon her breastbone, against her blasphemy.” — James Agee Copy Share Image
Well, now, some people learn a little quicker than others. It's nice to learn fast but it's nice to take your time too. — James Agee Copy Share Image
The artist's task is not to alter the world as the eye sees it into a world of aesthetic reality, but to perceive the… — James Agee Copy Share Image
Understanding, and action proceeding from understanding and guided by it, is one weapon against the world's bombardment, the one medicine, the one instrument by… — James Agee Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
On Father's Day, we pay tribute to all in our society who have taken on the responsibilitie s and joys of fatherhood. Whether our… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
Entire new continent can emerge from the ocean in the time it takes for a Web page to show up on your screen. Contrary… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
From time to time the continent shifts, and everything that isn't fastened down slides into Southern California. — Frank Lloyd Wright Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
