Continents Quotes - Page 2

• I daresay I was the worst bed partner in five continents.

  Martha Gellhorn

  Bed, Partners, Worst

  Martha Gellhorn, Caroline Moorehead (2006). “The letters of Martha Gellhorn”, Vintage

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• The United States and Mexico are trapped - economically, culturally, politically and because of drug crime - in the same continent.

  Barry McCaffrey

  Drug, United States, Mexico

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• The advantage to Great Britain of a regular free trade in corn would, therefore, be more by raising the rest of the world to our standard and price, than by lowering the prices here to the standard of the Continent.

  Joseph Hume

  World, Corn, Advantage

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• The grand show is eternal
  It is always sunrise somewhere

  John Muir

  Sunrise, Vapor, Nature Beauty

  John Muir, Edwin Way Teale, Henry Bugbee Kane (2001). “The Wilderness World of John Muir”, p.312, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Some otherwise sane scientists have seriously proposed that we tuck this deadly garbage under the edges of drifting continents but how can they be sure the moving land masses will climb over the waste and not just push it forward?

  David R. Brower

  Moving, Land, Garbage

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• Australia is properly speaking an island, but it is so much larger than every other island on the face of the globe, that it is classed as a continent in order to convey to the mind a just idea of its magnitude.

  Charles Sturt

  Islands, Order, Ideas

  Charles Sturt (1834). “Two expeditions into the interior of Southern Australia: during the years 1828, 1829, 1830 and 1831 with observations on ... New South Wales”, p.12

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• Even in our day, science suspects beyond the Polar seas, at the very circle of the Arctic Pole, the existence of a sea which never freezes and a continent which is ever green.

  H. P. Blavatsky

  Ocean, Sea, Circles

  H.P. Blavatsky (2016). “The Secret Doctrine”, p.556, Penguin

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• Africa is a continent in flames. And deep down, if we really accepted that Africans were equal to us, we would all do more to put the fire out. We're standing around with watering cans, when what we really need is the fire brigade.

  Bono

  Fire, Flames, Needs

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• Americans are people who prefer the Continent to their own country, but refuse to learn its languages.

  E. V. Lucas

  Country, Learning, People

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• The inventions and the great discoveries have opened up whole continents to reciprocal communication and interchange, provided we are willing.

  Alva Myrdal

  Communication, Discovery, Invention

  Alva Myrdal's Nobel Lecture in Oslo, Norway, www.nobelprize.org. December 11, 1982.

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• 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

  Country, Veterans Day, War

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• If the Spray discovered no continents on her voyage, it may be that there were no more continents to be discovered. She did not seek new worlds, or sail to pow-wow about the dangers of the sea.

  Joshua Slocum

  Inspirational, Funny, Journey

  Joshua Slocum (1985). “The Voyages of Joshua Slocum”, p.372, Sheridan House, Inc.

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• Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Change, Freedom, Father

  Gettysburg Address, Gettysburg, Pa., 19 Nov. 1863

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• We will continue to count on your unwavering support and commitment to working with leaders of our continent in bringing about the desired renaissance of Africa.

  Thabo Mbeki

  Commitment, Support, Leader

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• The concern around probable questions, which in a sense have been hidden, will grow around the world and the matter is critical, the reason we are doing all this is so we can respond correctly to what is reported to be a major catastrophe on the African continent.

  Thabo Mbeki

  World, Matter, Reason

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• But there are rock and roll fans all over this continent and all over the globe, really, and we're just set at marking the planet with Styx music until the day we die.

  James Young

  Music, Rocks, Rock And Roll

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• Those who oppressed us described us as the Dark Continent!

  Thabo Mbeki

  Dark, Swag, Oppressed

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

  Stephen Harper

  World, Canada, Share

  Canadian Alliance Defence Policy Paper: The New North Strong and Free, May 5, 2003.

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• I still like being in North of England and I keep a place there. But there are a lot of things about the Continent that are to be preferred. The social institutions work better, women have a better position in society and the food is another thing.

  Andrew Eldritch

  England, Social, Institutions

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• The human brain now holds the key to our future. We have to recall the image of the planet from outer space: a single entity in which air, water, and continents are interconnected. That is our home.

  David Suzuki

  Life, Home, Intelligent

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• The fact is that ours is the first generation that can look disease and extreme poverty in the eye, look across the ocean to Africa, and say this, and mean it. We do not have to stand for this. A whole continent written off - we do not have to stand for this.

  Bono

  Ocean, Eye, Mean

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• And I believe that it becomes a troubled continent because there are those who must always cause confusion so that we do not keep these natural resources.

  Miriam Makeba

  Believe, Confusion, Causes

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• Why did human development proceed at such different rates on different continents for the last 13,000 years?

  Jared Diamond

  Years, Different, Development

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• The great hindrance to the development of this continent has lain in the lack of capital.

  William Graham Sumner

  Development

  "What Social Classes Owe to Each Other".

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• Big Sur is at the end of the continent. It attracts really crazy people.

  Carter Burwell

  Crazy, People, Big Sur

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