Quotes of Continent - somelinesforyou

“ A round ball of a man with protruding lower lip and seal-colored eyes, he spun like a top from continent to continent, jabbing a pudgy forefinger at everything that stood in his way. ”

- Ted Morgan

“ From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic an iron curtain has descended across the Continent. ”

- Winston Churchill

“ I think the impetus is still there. This continent cannot be allowed to die nightly in the pornography of poverty that is our news screens. ”

- Bob Geldof

“ 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

“ I'd move to Los Angeles if New Zealand and Australia were swallowed up by a tidal wave, if there was a bubonic plague in England and if the continent of Africa disappeared from some Martian attack. ”

- Russell Crowe

“ The rational mind of man is a shallow thing, a shore upon a continent of the irrational, wherein thin colonies of reason have settled amid a savage world. ”

- Wilford O. Cross

“ It is a common popular statement that the languages of the American continent are innumerable and mutually unintelligible. ”

- John W. Dawson

“ The world is now unipolar and contains o-nly o-ne superpower. Canada shares a continent with that superpower. ”

- Stephen Harper

“ The ultimate plan, which proved too visionary, was to consolidate under one control a vast network of lines extending all over the continent. ”

- John Moody

“ If a man be gracious and courteous to strangers, it shows he is a citizen of the world, and that his heart is no island cut off from other lands, but a continent that joins to them. ”

- Francis Bacon

“ Entire new continents can emerge from the ocean in the time it takes for a Web page to show up on your screen. ”

- Dave Barry

“ I know that Nature designs that this whole continent, not merely these thirty-six states, shall be, sooner or later, within the magic circle of the American union. ”

- William Seward

“ This continent, an open palm spread frank before the sky. ”

- James Agee

“ From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic, an iron curtain has descended across the Continent. ”

- Winston Churchill

“ Purity of race does not exist. Europe is a continent of energetic mongrels. ”

- Herbert Albert Laurens Fisher

“ I've read about foreign policy and studied, I now know the number of continents. ”

- George Wallace

“ We must ever mandate the principle that the people of this continent alone have the right to decide their own destiny. ”

- James Polk

“ The American continents… are henceforth not to be considered as subjects for future colonization by any European powers. ”

- James Monroe

“ Other nations have tried to check… the fulfillment of our manifest destiny to overspread the continent allotted by Providence for the free development of our yearly multiplying millions. ”

- John Louis O’Sullivan

“ The establishment of democracy on the American continent was scarcely as radical a break with the past as was the necessity, which Americans faced, of broadening this concept to include black men. ”

- James Baldwin

“ The potential of the average person is like a huge ocean unsailed, a new continent unexplored, a world of possibilities waiting to be released and channeled toward some great good. ”

- Brian Tracy

“ The treacherous, unexplored areas of the world are not in continents or the seas; they are in the hearts and minds of men. ”

- Allen E. Claxton

“ The wind of change is blowing through the continent. Whether we like it or not, this growth of national consciousness is a political fact. ”

- Harold Macmillan

“ Traveling, you realize that differences are lost: each city takes to resembling all cities, places exchange their form, order, distances, a shapeless dust cloud invades the continents. ”

- Italo Calvino

“ As children we were taught to memorize this year with pride and joy as the year people began living full and imaginative lives on the continent of North America. Actually, people had been living full and imaginative lives on the continent of North America for hundreds of years before that… ”

- Kurt Vonnegut

“ Nay, be a Columbus to whole new continents and worlds within you, opening new channels, not of trade, but of thought. Every man is the lord of a realm beside which the earthly empire of the Czar is but a petty state, a hummock left by the ice. Yet some can be patriotic who have no self-respect, and sacrifice the greater to the less… ”

- Henry David Thoreau

“ People go to Africa and confirm what they already have in their heads and so they fail to see what is there in front of them. This is what people have come to expect. It's not viewed as a serious continent. It's a place of strange, bizarre and illogical things, where people don't do what common sense demands. ”

- Chinua Achebe

“ If a visitor from Mars came to planet earth and wouldn't get anything else to know about Europe other than the EU household, he would believe that Europe was a pre-modern continent where nothing was more important than agriculture. ”

- Joschka Fischer

“ From the world wars of Europe to the jungles of the Far East, from the deserts of the Middle East to the African continent, and even here in our own hemisphere, our veterans have made the world a better place and America the great country we are today. ”

- John Hoeven

“ People began to understand that with the acquisition of California the nation had obtained practically half a continent, of which the future possibilities were almost unlimited, so far as the development of natural resources and the genera production of wealth were concerned. ”

- John Moody
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