Quotes with continent

  • 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.
  • 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.
  • In England and America a beard usually means that its owner would rather be considered venerable than virile; on the continent of Europe it often means that its owner makes a special claim to virility.

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  • Rebecca West In England and America a beard usually means that its owner would rather be considered venerable than virile; on the continent of Europe it often means that its owner makes a special claim to virility.
    Rebecca West
    British author (1892 - 1983)
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  • John Donne No man is an island entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main.
    John Donne
    English poet (1572 - 1631)
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  • H. A. L. Fisher Purity of race does not exist. Europe is a continent of energetic mongrels.
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  • Henry David Thoreau The generative energy, which, when we are loose, dissipates and makes us unclean, when we are continent invigorates and inspires us. Chastity is the flowering of man; and what are called Genius, Heroism, Holiness, and the like, are but various fruits which succeed it.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Barry Eichengreen Across the continent, political divisions are deepening. For all of these reasons, the specter of a euro zone collapse has not been dispatched.
    Barry Eichengreen
    American economist
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  • Bono 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
    Irish singer, songwriter, philanthropist, activist and businessman (1960 - )
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  • Carlos Saavedra Lamas America is the world of peace and must be made the continent of its definite consequence.
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  • Arundhati Roy Do you think that the people of South Africa, or anywhere on the continent of Africa, or India, or Pakistan are longing to be kicked around all over again?
    Arundhati Roy
    Indian author (1961 - )
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  • Albert Bushnell Hart England and France were rivals, not only on the continent, but in the West Indies, in India, and in Europe.
    Albert Bushnell Hart
    American historian, writer, and editor (1854 - 1943)
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  • Abraham Lincoln Fourscore 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
    American statesman (1809 - 1865)
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  • Winston Churchill From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic, an iron curtain has descended across the continent.
    Iron Curtain Speach, 05-03-1946
    Winston Churchill
    English statesman (1874 - 1965)
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  • Bill Cosby 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
    American actor, comedian, producer (1937 - )
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  • John Louis O'Sullivan 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.
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  • James Baldwin 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
    American writer (1924 - 1987)
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  • Bono 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
    Irish singer, songwriter, philanthropist, activist and businessman (1960 - )
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  • Boris Johnson The idea that the EU is somehow the guarantor of peace on the continent - that is in itself rash, in my view, and risks undermining the vital role of Nato.
    Boris Johnson
    British politician and author (1964 - )
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  • Arnold J. Toynbee The immense cities lie basking on the beaches of the continent like whales that have taken to the land.
    Arnold J. Toynbee
    British historian and author (1889 - 1975)
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  • Barbara W. Tuchman The open frontier, the hardships of homesteading from scratch, the wealth of natural resources, the whole vast challenge of a continent waiting to be exploited, combined to produce a prevailing materialism and an American drive bent as much, if not more, on money, property, and power than was true of the Old World from which we had fled.
    Barbara W. Tuchman
    American historian (1912 - 1989)
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  • Brian Tracy 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
    Canadian-American motivational public speaker and self-development aut (1944 - )
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  • Barry McCaffrey The United States and Mexico are trapped - economically, culturally, politically and because of drug crime - in the same continent.
    Barry McCaffrey
    American Army officer, professor and business consultant (1942 - )
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