"Why did human development proceed at such different……" — Jared Diamond

More Continents Quotes

This quote is filed under Continents Quotes, one of 429 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:

• Continents may break up, continents may emerge, but the human race is immortal in its origin and in its growth,… — Annie Besant
• All my life I have lived and behaved very much like the sandpiper - just running down the edges of… — Elizabeth Bishop
• Even in our day, science suspects beyond the Polar seas, at the very circle of the Arctic Pole, the existence… — H. P. Blavatsky
• This continent, an open palm spread frank before the sky. — James Agee
• Africa is a continent in flames. And deep down, if we really accepted that Africans were equal to us, we… — Bono
• The fact is that ours is the first generation that can look disease and extreme poverty in the eye, look… — Bono
• Traveling, you realize that differences are lost: each city takes to resembling all cities, places exchange their form, order, distances,… — Italo Calvino
• People are increasingly frustrated that decisions taken further and further away from them mean their living standards are slashed through… — David Cameron
• After the Berlin Wall came down I visited that city and I will never forget it. The abandoned checkpoints. The… — David Cameron
• What Churchill described as the twin marauders of war and tyranny have been almost entirely banished from our continent. Today,… — David Cameron
• From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic, an iron curtain has descended across the Continent. — Winston Churchill
• The biggest challenge of public policy is to know when and how the world has changed. We are no longer… — Richard Lamm

See all 429 Continents Quotes »