Continents Quote by Joshua Slocum

In the empty immensity of earth, sky, and water, there she was, incomprehensible, firing into a continent.

— Joseph Conrad

On this day there was soon wind enough and to spare. The same might have been said of the sea. The Spray was in…

— Joshua Slocum

“She had given herself to the world in her entirety and then found nothing was left”

— Angela Carter

She watched the gap between ship and shore grow to a huge gulf. Perhaps this was a little like dying, the departed no longer…

— Susan Wiggs

He simply felt that if he could carry away the vision of the spot of earth she walked on, and the way the sky…

— Edith Wharton

She didn't read books so she didn't know that she was the world and the heavens boiled down to a drop.

— Zora Neale Hurston

Give her the continent and she wanted the hemisphere.

— Anthony Kiedis

“She had no one in the world. Her whole world, what was left of it, was here, and there was no way to get…

— Robert Goolrick

She feared the unknown as we all do, and her ignorance made the unknown infinitely vast.

— Joseph Conrad

To discover new continents, you must be willing to lose sight of the shore.

— Brian Tracy

We may have charted all the continents on the planet, and we may have discovered all the mammals, but that doesn't mean that there's…

— Nathan Wolfe

It was a good thing that she got herself into this other school. It showed her that there were other worlds beside the world…

— Betty Smith