Continent Quotes
Collection of top 100 famous quotes about Continent
Continent Quotes & Sayings
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Primary responsibility for Brexit lies with British conservatives, who took an entire continent hostage.
— Martin Schulz
It is only by our hands that we can build this continent to the standard that we envy and admire in the advanced countries.
— Nana Awere Damoah
Without an adequate response, an epidemic can develop into a pandemic, which generally means it has spread to more than one continent.
— Alan Huffman
Noble men in the quiet of morning hear Indians singing the continent's violent requiem.
— William Dunbar
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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
The great hinderance to the development of this continent has lain in the lack of capital.
— William Graham Sumner
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
The independence of Ghana is meaningless unless it is linked-up with the total liberation of the African Continent
— Kwame Nkrumah
Till now, madness has been thought a small island in an ocean of sanity. I am beginning to suspect that it is not an island at all but a continent.
— Machado De Assis
To my shame, my nation and the church of the lord Jesus Christ in my continent is covered head to toe in this ignorance.
— Sunday Adelaja
From time to time the continent shifts, and everything that isn't fastened down slides into Southern California.
— Frank Lloyd Wright
The fate of the African continent does not f-ing depend on a load of f-ing musicians in Hyde Park singing f-ing s-t songs to kids.
— Noel Gallagher
Africa is in fact a more Christian continent than Europe. There are now, for example, more Anglicans in Nigeria than in England.
— Niall Ferguson
I never saw such crazy musicians. Everybody in Frisco blew. It was the end of the continent; they didn't give a damn.
— Jack Kerouac
We must ever mandate the principle that the people of this continent alone have the right to decide their own destiny.
— James K. Polk
In the empty immensity of earth, sky, and water, there she was, incomprehensible, firing into a continent.
— Joseph Conrad
Each stranger is like an unexplored continent whose depths you want to explore before you plant your flag in his heart.
— Chloe Thurlow
Get ready the greatest new educational facility at the approximate dynamic population center of the North American continent
— R. Buckminster Fuller
America is the world of peace and must be made the continent of its definite consequence.
— Carlos Saavedra Lamas
But this is wishful thinking: as the Polis Governor of Bulikov, the capital city of the Continent, it is her duty to preside over all trials,
— Robert Jackson Bennett
What ? said Josie, able to hear her name if it was so much as tapped out in Morse code on a different continent.
— Kiera Cass
When a continent is poisoned by lies, truth must be an exile.
— Jason Goodwin
Africa is not just about where you are born. For me, Africa is the whole continent; from south to north, to east to west.
— Angelique Kidjo
A nation for a continent, and a continent for a nation.
— Edmund Barton
You're still carrying Africa, but it's eroding at the edges.Great. We're destroying the Dark Continent. — J.D. Robb
Everyone should be forcibly transplanted to another continent from their family at the age of three.
— Philip Larkin
The immense cities lie basking on the beaches of the continent like whales that have taken to the land.
— Arnold J. Toynbee
There's conflict on every continent, the poverty rate is increasing, the environment's a wreck, and I'm not supposed to be affected?
— Janet Tashjian
I was very pink and young and English; and quite prepared for a Continent complete with poisonous drains, roast frogs, bedbugs and vice.
— Christopher Isherwood
When you are lost in this world, or on the continent of time itself,remember who you have been and you will know who you are
— Tan Twan Eng
Sometimes Jackson thought that the past wasn't just another country, it was a lost continent somewhere at the bottom of an unknown ocean.
— Kate Atkinson
India is a continent and should be divided into separate nations. There is no need for a single government.
— C. N. Annadurai
As Africans, we need to share common recognition that all of us stand to lose if we fail to transform our continent.
— Thabo Mbeki
From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic, an iron curtain has descended across the Continent.
— Winston Churchill
To remain conscious and continent was her new goal.
— Louise Penny
Children, I suppose, are always unfinished business: they begin as part of your own body, and continue as separate as another continent.
— Jeanette Winterson
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
Moses has revealed the existence of God to his nation. Jesus Christ to the Roman world, Muhammad to the old continent ...
— Napoleon Bonaparte
If we compare Europe with other continents, it is marked out as [another] persecuting continent.
— Bertrand Russell
I don't trust any country that looks around a continent and says, "Hey, I'll take the frozen part."
— Jon Stewart
If the British think they can simply detach from the continent and sail towards the USA or China, then they are mistaken.
— Yanis Varoufakis
The United States and Mexico are trapped - economically, culturally, politically and because of drug crime - in the same continent.
— Barry McCaffrey
I urge telecommunications regulators to develop a commercial strategy for delivering effective access to the continent.
— Mark Shuttleworth
Here at this far lost end of the continent, where the trail wagons had stopped and the people with them ...
— Ray Bradbury
May this continent, the last explored by humankind, be the first one to be spared by humankind.
— Jacques-Yves Cousteau
Africa is a continent that provides so much for the existence of the rest of the world. We go around the world and cultivate so many things.
— Djimon Hounsou
I have come to believe that this is a mighty continent which was hitherto unknown.
— Christopher Columbus
We settled this continent without art. So it was easy for us to treat it as an imported luxury, not a necessity.
— Arthur Erickson
Africa is not a country, but it is a continent like none other. It has that which is elegantly vast or awfully little.
— Douglas Wilder
The first breath of air of Africa - it felt like you were in another continent - you were, you were - and it was different.
— Romeo Dallaire
There was no way in hell she was going to move to the southern continent without all of her books.
— Sarah J. Maas
To have people from every continent who are working on philanthropy, on social entrepreneurship, gives me a unique opportunity to engage.
— Darren Walker
Our continent must be allowed to do its own things, charting its course and destiny.
— Nelson Mandela
The resources of our continent attract, more than ever, the interests of rich countries.
— Omar Bongo
Assertions that Russia has undermined efforts to strengthen partnerships on the European continent do not correspond to the facts.
— Sergei Lavrov
A boundless continent, Dark, waste, and wild, under the frown of night Starless expos'd.
— John Milton
They had not yet started out across a continent of grief that a lifetime of walking could not cover.
— Sebastian Junger
Europe is my continent, not my country
— John Redwood
Some people talk of Africa being a continent cursed not blessed with minerals, but the real curse is the leaders and politicians of Africa
— Peter Mutanda
Give her the continent and she wanted the hemisphere.
— Anthony Kiedis
My foundation was created so I can find a way to improve the living conditions of my people in the African continent, not just in Congo.
— Dikembe Mutombo
Americans are people who prefer the Continent to their own country, but refuse to learn its languages.
— E. V. Lucas
When I first went to Africa, I thought that I was personally going to save the continent, if not the world.
— Jacqueline Novogratz
The world is now unipolar and contains o-nly o-ne superpower. Canada shares a continent with that superpower.
— Stephen Harper
India is the one area of the sub-continent where we haven't won since I have been involved with England
— Duncan Fletcher
There are people who refuse to say that Africa is a continent, but that doesn't remove the fact that it is a continent.
— Angelique Kidjo
It's not attractive at the moment to vouch for the European idea. I still do it, because I believe nothing would be better for our continent.
— Martin Schulz
We view South Africa as one of our closest strategic partners in the developing world and in the African continent.
— Pratibha Patil
I take this continent with me into the grave.
— Ray Bradbury
One of the great themes in American literature is the individual's confrontation with the vast open spaces of the continent.
— Justin Cronin
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[P]rogressivism is a top-down, continent-wide tissue of taxes, mandates, and other coercions.
— George Will
We will be very persistent when it comes to enforcing freedom, justice, and self-determination on the European continent.
— Angela Merkel
My passion is more about bringing the stories out from the African continent mixed with the West.
— Djimon Hounsou
To Seek Glory in Battle is Glorious emerged high above the planet's southern continent, almost two thirds of the way to the pole.
— Craig Alanson
No other continent has endured such an unspeakably bizarre combination of foreign thievery and foreign goodwill.
— Barbara Kingsolver
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
