Continents Quotes

When we contemplate the whole globe as one great dewdrop, striped and dotted with continents and islands, flying through space with other stars all singing and shining together as one, the whole universe appears as an infinite storm of beauty.

John Muir

Beauty, Nature, Stars

Travels in Alaska, ch.1,'The Puget Sound and British Columbia' (published1915).

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I dream of the realization of the unity of Africa, whereby its leaders combine in their efforts to solve the problems of this continent. I dream of our vast deserts, of our forests, of all our great wildernesses.

Nelson Mandela

Dream, Effort, Leader

"Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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Nay, be a Columbus to whole new continents and worlds within you, opening new channels, not of trade, but of thought.

Henry David Thoreau

Change, Workout, Thoughtful

Henry David Thoreau, Laura Ross (2009). “Walden, Or, Life in the Woods: Bold-faced Ideas for Living a Truly Transcendent Life”, p.421, Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.

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No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent.

John Donne

Teamwork, Men, Grieving

Devotions upon Emergent Occasions no. 17 (1624)

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Love knows not distance; it hath no continent; its eyes are for the stars.

Gilbert Parker

Love, Relationship, Stars

Gilbert Parker “The Complete Works of Gilbert Parker”, Library of Alexandria

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Every British Subject born on the continent of America, or in any other of the British dominions, is by the law of God and nature, by the common law, and by act of parliament, (exclusive of all charters from the crown) entitled to all the natural, essential, inherent and inseparable rights of our fellow subjects in Great- Britain.

James Otis

Rights, Law, America

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The great obstacle to discovering the shape of the earth, the continents, and the oceans was not ignorance, but the illusion of knowledge.

Daniel J. Boorstin

Ocean, Ignorance, Knowledge

"The Discoverers: A History of Man's Search to Know His World and Himself (Knowledge Trilogy, Book 1)". Book by Daniel J. Boorstin, 1983.

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To stand at the edge of the sea, to sense the ebb and flow of the tides, to feel the breath of a mist moving over a great salt marsh, to watch the flight of shore birds that have swept up and down the surf lines of the continents for untold thousands of years, to see the running of the old eels and the young shad to the sea, is to have knowledge of things that are as nearly eternal as any earthly life can be.

Rachel Carson

Running, Moving, Years

Paul Brooks, Rachel Carson (1972). “The house of life: Rachel Carson at work”

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One thing is certain: wherever the enemy lands, if once we can get to grips with him on the Continent, where we are not dependent on supplies from overseas, that ought to be, and will be, all right with us.

Heinrich Himmler

Land, Enemy, Certain

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I've been very lucky in my long life. On three continents, in diverse cultures, through happy moments, not-so-happy moments, and moments as marvelous as this one, I've had the privilege of working with the cinema's greatest masters.

Dino De Laurentiis

Long, Lucky, Three

"Producer Dino de Laurentiis Passes Away at Age 91" by Brian Gallagher, movieweb.com. November 11, 2010.

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Seeking fortunes in America led to Germany losing people, and the American continent received many people whose contributions are particularly clear in the agricultural and technical fields.

Julius Streicher

Agriculture, America, People

"Der Stürmer" Newspaper, 1944.

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The immense cities lie basking on the beaches of the continent like whales that have taken to the land.

Arnold J. Toynbee

Beach, Lying, Taken

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On the Continent people have good food; in England people have good table manners.

George Mikes

Food, People, Cooking

How to Be an Alien (1946)

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Eight years involved with the nuclear industry have taught me that when nothing can possible go wrong and every avenue has been covered, then is the time to buy a house on the next continent.

Terry Pratchett

Eight, Years, House

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All my life I have lived and behaved very much like the sandpiper - just running down the edges of different countries and continents, 'looking for something'.

Elizabeth Bishop

Country, Running, Travel

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About fifteen miles above New Orleans the river goes very slowly. It has broadened out there until it is almost a sea and the water is yellow with the mud of half a continent. Where the sun strikes it, it is golden.

Frank Yerby

New Orleans, Sea, Rivers

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Quite likely the twentieth century is destined to see the natural forces which will enable us to fly from continent to continent with a speed far exceeding that of a bird.

Simon Newcomb

Airplane, Bird, Speed

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It is extremely important that mass media, having freed from the relics of the Cold War, served for peace and dialogue between nations and religions, the rich and the poor, countries and continents.

Nursultan Nazarbayev

Country, War, Media

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If we have major geographic areas within our continent that have a tremendous lack of economic opportunity, we found that that is going to produce instability economic, political and social.

William Weld

Opportunity, Political, Economic

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American literature has never been content to be just one among the many literatures of the Western World. It has always aspired to be the literature not only of a new continent but of a New World.

Christopher Dawson

Literature, World, Western

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Prior to September 11, we thought the world beyond our shores was one world of risk and the world in our continent was another world of risk

John Ashcroft

Risk, September 11, World

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Jewish intellectuals contributed a great deal to insure that Europe became a continent of humanism, and it is with these humanist ideals that Europe must now intervene in the Middle East conflict.

Daniel Barenboim

Europe, Middle East, Conflict

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There is an irresistible demand to strengthen the leadership of the constructive forces of the world at the present momentous time. This is true because of stupendous, almost unbelievable changes which have taken place in recent years on every continent.

John Mott

Leadership, Taken, Years

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The British merchants represented that they received some profit indeed from Virginia and South Carolina, as well as the West Indies; but as for the rest of this continent, they were constant losers in trade.

Ezra Stiles

West Indies, Virginia, South Carolina

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The historical circumstance of interest is that the tropical rain forests have persisted over broad parts of the continents since their origins as stronghold of the flowering plants 150 million years ago.

E. O. Wilson

Rain, Years, Historical

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