Continents Quotes - Page 10

• Look at a globe and what you are seeing really is a snapshot of the continents as they have been for just one-tenth of 1 per cent of the earths history.

  Bill Bryson

  Looks, Snapshots, Earth

  Bill Bryson (2014). “A Short History of Nearly Everything”, p.168, Lulu Press, Inc

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• Taking the continent as a whole, this religious tension may be responsible for the revival of the commonest racial feeling. Africa is divided into Black and White, and the names that are substituted- Africa south of the Sahara, Africa north of the Sahara- do not manage to hide this latent racism. Here, it is affirmed that White Africa has a thousand-year-old tradition of culture; that she is Mediterranean, that she is a continuation of Europe and that she shares in Graeco-Latin civilization. Black Africa is looked on as a region that is inert, brutal, uncivilized - in a word, savage.

  Frantz Fanon

  Religious, Latin, Black And White

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• Not a single star will be left in the night. The night will not be left. I will die and, with me, the weight of the intolerable universe. I shall erase the pyramids, the medallions, the continents and faces. I shall erase the accumulated past. I shall make dust of history, dust of dust. Now I am looking on the final sunset. I am hearing the last bird. I bequeath nothingness to no one.

  Jorge Luis Borges

  Stars, Sunset, Past

  Jorge Luis Borges, Alastair Reid (1977). “The Gold of the Tigers: Selected Later Poems : a Bilingual Edition”, Dutton Adult

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• America has been killing people on this continent since it was started. This country is not worth dying for.

  Cindy Sheehan

  Country, America, People

  "Cindy Sheehan Unplugged". Cindy Sheehan's speech at a rally to honor Lynne Stewart at San Francisco State University, archive.frontpagemag.com. April 27, 2005.

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• 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

  Life, Motivational, Courage

  Brian Tracy (2010). “Goals!: How to Get Everything You Want -- Faster Than You Ever Thought Possible”, p.149, Berrett-Koehler Publishers

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• When Franklin drew the lightning from the clouds, he little dreamed that in the evolution of science his discovery would illuminate the torch of Liberty for France and America. The rays from this beacon, lighting this gateway to the continent, will welcome the poor and the persecuted with the hope and promise of homes and citizenship.

  Chauncey Depew

  Dream, Home, Science

  Chauncey Mitchell Depew (1902). “The Library of Oratory: Ancient and Modern, with Critical Studies of the World's Great Orators by Eminent Essayists”

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• Rivers must have been the guides which conducted the footsteps of the first travelers. They are the constant lure, when they flow by our doors, to distant enterprise and adventure, and, by a natural impulse, the dwellers on their banks will at length accompany their currents to the lowlands of the globe, or explore at their invitation the interior of continents.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Adventure, Rivers, Doors

  Henry David Thoreau (2012). “The Portable Thoreau”, p.92, Penguin

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• Globalization was supposed to break down barriers between continents and bring all peoples together. But what kind of globalization do we have with over one billion people on the planet not having safe water to drink?

  Mikhail Gorbachev

  People, Water, Together

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• The biggest challenge of public policy is to know when and how the world has changed. We are no longer an empty continent with endless absorptive capacity. We have a cash-wage economy that is having terrible problems finding jobs for its own people. The concern about immigration is not nativism but common sense.

  Richard Lamm

  Jobs, People, Common Sense

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• Pre-season was very challenging with the African Championships on my continent. Unfortunately, I failed to qualify for the Games there. It was an emotional moment for me due to the context, but I quickly accepted the result as evidence of what my preparation has been the past 3 years.

  Benjamin Boukpeti

  Athlete, Past, Emotional

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• You are not called to be a canary in a cage. You are called to be an eagle, and to fly sun to sun, over continents.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Opportunity, Eagles, Sun

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• I saw for the first time the earth's shape. I could easily see the shores of continents, islands, great rivers, folds of the terrain, large bodies of water. The horizon is dark blue, smoothly turning to black. . . the feelings which filled me I can express with one word-joy.

  Yuri Gagarin

  Airplane, Dark, Islands

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• In order to persuade Britain to pack up, to compel her to make peace, it was essential to rob her of her hope of being able still to confront us, on the continent itself, with an adversary of a stature equal to our own.

  Adolf Hitler

  Order, Essentials, Able

  "The Testament of Adolf Hitler: the Hitler-Bormann documents, February-April 1945". Book by Adolf Hitler, Martin Bormann, London: Cassell, (February 15, 1945), 1961.

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• From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Atlantic, an iron curtain has descended across the Continent. Behind the line lie all the capitals of the ancient states of Central and Eastern Europe... All these famous cities and the populations around them lie in what I must call the Soviet sphere, and all are subject in one form or another, not only to Soviet influence but to a very high and, in many cases, increasing measure of control from Moscow.

  Winston Churchill

  War, Lying, Europe

  "The Sinews of Peace". Winston Churchill's speech at Westminster College in Fulton, Missouri, www.nato.int. March 5, 1946.

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• At the southern tip of the continent, a rich reward is in the making, an invaluable gift is in the preparation, for those who suffered in the name of all humanity when they sacrificed everything - for liberty, peace, human dignity and human fulfillment.
  The value of our shared reward will and must be measured by the joyful peace which will triumph, because of the common humanity that bonds both black and white into one human race, will have said to each one of us that we shall all live like the children of paradise.

  Nelson Mandela

  Children, Black And White, Common Humanity

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• But some of the nonsense was evil, since it concealed great crimes. For example, teachers of children in the United States of America wrote this date on blackboards again and again, and asked the children to memorize it with pride and joy: 1492. The teachers told the children that this was when their continent was discovered by human beings. Actually, millions of human beings were already living full and imaginative lives on the continent in 1492. That was simply the year in which sea pirates began to cheat and rob and kill them.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Teacher, Children, Pride

  Kurt Vonnegut (1973). “Breakfast of champions: or, Goodbye blue Monday!”, Dell

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• Who will find peace with the lands? The future of humankind lies waiting for those who will come to understand their lives and take up their responsibilities to all living things. Who will listen to the trees, the animals and birds, the voices of the places of the land? As the long forgotten peoples of the respective continents rise and begin to reclaim their ancient heritage, they will discover the meaning of the lands of their ancestors. That is when the invaders of the North American continent will finally discover that for this land, God is red.

  Vine Deloria Jr.

  Lying, Responsibility, Animal

  "God Is Red". Book by Vine Deloria Jr., 1973.

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• Until all Africans stand and speak as free human beings, equal in the eyes of the Almighty; until that day, the African continent shall not know peace.

  Haile Selassie

  Eye, Speak, Almighty

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• I am learning, as I make my way through my first continent, that it is remarkably easy to do things, and much more frightening to contemplate them.

  Ted Simon

  Firsts, Way, Easy

  Ted Simon (2007). “Jupiter's Travels”, p.194, Penguin UK

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• [Africa] is a continent of many countries, not one country. If we are down to three or four conflicts, it means that there are plenty of opportunities to invest in stable, growing, exciting economies where there's plenty of opportunity.

  Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala

  Country, Mean, Opportunity

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• George Kimble said, 'The only thing dark about Africa is our ignorance of it.' So let's start shedding light on this amazing eclectic continent that has so much to offer.

  Euvin Naidoo

  Motivation, Inspiration, Ignorance

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• Albania, Macedonia and Greece have managed to create a good partnership in the south of the Continent and are making progress in blocking the spread of the conflict. But any spillover could destroy this European-oriented partnership and create problems for the European Union countries themselves.

  Fatos Nano

  Love, Country, Block

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• Africa has more dictators per capita than any other continent.

  George Ayittey

  Dictator

  "George Ayittey: How to Defeat a Dictator". Interview with Thor Halvorssen, www.huffingtonpost.com.

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• Far away in Montana, hidden from view by clustering mountain-peaks, lies an unmapped northwestern corner- the Crown of the Continent. The water from the crusted snowdrift which caps the peak of a lofty mountain there trickles into tiny rills, which hurry along north, south, east and west, and growing to rivers, at last pour their currents into three seas. From this mountain-peak the Pacific and the Arctic oceans and the Gulf of Mexico receive each its tribute. Here is a land of striking scenery.

  George Bird Grinnell

  Lying, Ocean, Sea

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• We may have charted all the continents on the planet, and we may have discovered all the mammals, but that doesn't mean that there's nothing left to explore on Earth.

  Nathan Wolfe

  Mean, Mammals, Earth

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