Continents Quotes - Page 4

• The European organisation contemplated could not oppose any ethnic group, on other continents or in Europe itself, outside of the League of Nations, any more than it could oppose the League of Nations.

  Aristide Briand

  Europe, League, Groups

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

  James Agee

  Sky, Palms, Frank

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• We settled this continent without art. So it was easy for us to treat it as an imported luxury, not a necessity.

  Arthur Erickson

  Art, Luxury, Easy

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

  Winston Churchill

  War, Iron, History

  Address at Westminster College, Fulton, Mo., 5 Mar. 1946.

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• 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

  Moving, Australia, England

  New York Daily News, 2000.

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• They walked along, two continents of experience and feeling unable to communicate.

  William Golding

  Two, Feelings, Communicate

  William Golding (2013). “Lord of the Flies : Text , Criticism , Giossary and Notes”, p.65, Al Manhal

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• Thousands of years ago, civilizations flourished in Africa which suffer not at all by comparison with those of other continents. In those centuries, Africans were politically free and economically independent. Their social patterns were their own and their cultures truly indigenous.

  Haile Selassie

  Independent, Years, Civilization

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• In spite of the six thousand manuals on child raising in the bookstores, child raising is still a dark continent and no one really knows anything. You just need a lot of love and luck - and, of course, courage.

  Bill Cosby

  Courage, Children, Dark

  Bill Cosby (1987). “Fatherhood”, Berkley Publishing Group

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• The first day or so we all pointed to our country. The third or fourth day we were pointing to our continent. By the fifth day, we were aware of only one Earth.

  Sultan bin Salman Al Saud

  Country, Earth, Firsts

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• I've raced on all seven continents at least twice. I've probably run thousands of races. But the single race that I'm most proud is a 10K. Yes, a 10K. I ran it with my daughter on her 10th birthday.

  Dean Karnazes

  Daughter, Mother, Running

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• I was the toast of two continents: Greenland and Australia.

  Dorothy Parker

  Art, Two, Australia

  Quoted in John Keats, You Might As Well Live: The Life and Times of Dorothy Parker (1970)

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• The standard of truth has been erected: no unhallowed hand can stop the work from progressing, persecutions may rage, mobs may combine, armies may assemble, calumny may defame, but the truth of God will go forth boldly, nobly, and independent till it has penetrated every continent, visited every clime, swept every country, and sounded in every ear, till the purposes of God shall be accomplished and the great Jehovah shall say the work is done.

  Joseph Smith, Jr.

  Country, Independent, Army

  "History of the Church", 4:540, March 1, 1842.

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• On Monday mornings I am dedicated to the proposition that all men are created jerks.

  H. Allen Smith

  Monday, Morning, 4th Of July

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• The sexual life of adult women is a "dark continent" for psychology.

  Sigmund Freud

  Women, Dark, Psychology

  The Question of Lay Analysis pt. 4 (1926)

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• The Olympic flag [] has a white background, with five interlaced rings in the centre: blue, yellow, black, green and red []. This design is symbolic; it represents the five continents of the world, united by Olympism, while the six colours are those that appear on all the national flags of the world at the present time.

  Pierre de Coubertin

  Blue, Yellow, White

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• Why did Africa let Europe cart away millions of Africa's souls from the continent to the four corners of the wind? How could Europe lord it over a continent ten times its size? Why does needy Africa continue to let its wealth meet the needs of those outside its borders and then follow behind with hands outstretched for a loan of the very wealth it let go? How did we arrive at this, that the best leader is the one that knows how to beg for a share of what he has already given away at the price of a broken tool? Where is the future of Africa?

  Ngugi wa Thiong'o

  Letting Go, Wind, Hands

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• There is a grandeur in the uniformity of the mass. When a fashion, a dance, a song, a slogan or a joke sweeps like wildfire from one end of the continent to the other, and a hundred million people roar with laughter, sway their bodies in unison, hum one song or break forth in anger and denunciation, there is the overpowering feeling that in this country we have come nearer the brotherhood of man than ever before.

  Eric Hoffer

  Country, Fashion, Song

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• A Life in Men is a joyful, ambitious novel that is also an adventure traversing three continents, as well as a meditation on love, sex, and, most important, friendship, which can overcome time, distance, and even death.

  Bonnie Jo Campbell

  Sex, Distance, Adventure

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• It is believed that the average person uses no more than 10% of his or her potential. Ten percent! We’re not even scratching the surface of what we’re capable of. We are all blessed with a continent of unexplored gifts and talents. Use them, or lose them!

  Clifton Anderson

  Blessed, Average, Use

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• New York [cannot] remain the center of commerce and capital for this continent, unless it has an independent bar and an honest judiciary.

  Samuel J. Tilden

  New York, Independent, Bars

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• I had a swell racket. I was rewarded with honors, medals, promotions. l might have given Al Capone a few hints. The best he could do was to operate a racket in three city districts. The Marines operated on three continents.

  Smedley Butler

  Marine, Cities, Honor

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• Thus we behold Kentucky, lately an howling wilderness, the habitation of savages and wild beasts, become a fruitful field; this region, so favourably distinguished by nature, now become the habitation of civilization, at a period unparalleled in history, in the midst of a raging war, and under all the disadvantages of emigration to a country so remote from the inhabited parts of the continent.

  Daniel Boone

  Country, War, Kentucky

  Daniel Boone, Francis Lister Hawks (1996). “Daniel Boone: His Own Story”, p.1, Applewood Books

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• Children, I suppose, are always unfinished business: they begin as part of your own body, and continue as separate as another continent.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Inspirational, Children, Kids

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• The coast is an edgy place. Living on the coast presents certain stark realities and a wild, rare beauty. Continent confronts ocean. Weather intensifies. It's a place of tide and tantrum; of flirtations among fresh- and saltwaters, forests and shores; of tense negotiations with an ocean that gives much but demands more. Every year the raw rim that is this coast gets hammered and reshaped like molten bronze. This place roils with power and a sometimes terrible beauty. The coast remains youthful, daring, uncertain about tomorrow. The guessing, the risk; in a way, we're all thrill seekers here.

  Carl Safina

  Ocean, Reality, Years

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• Obviously over the years, it's been America, it's been Europe. It's all been very kind of divided between those two continents. It's nice to kind of see that Asia is starting - and especially China - starting to get recognized in this sport, too.

  Kim Clijsters

  Sports, Nice, Two

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