Continents Quotes - Page 3

• 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

  Wife, Lambs, Sauce

  Charles Farrar Browne “The Complete Works of Artemus Ward, Part 7”, Library of Alexandria

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• Australia is the most isolated continent.

  Jared Diamond

  Australia, Isolated

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• In particular, Australia, because of its ancient geography, soil profile and distinctive weather patterns, is more adversely affected by climate variability than some other continents.

  Peter Garrett

  Weather, Australia, Climate

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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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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• They have just succeeded in raising the two thousand pounds here, by subscription, that was wanted towards an exploration fund, for fitting out an expedition, that will probably start for the interior of our continent next March.

  William John Wills

  Travel, Two, Next

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• Traditions are imploding and exploding everywhere - everything is coming together, for better or worse, and we can no longer pretend were all living in different worlds because were on different continents.

  Philip Glass

  Together, Different, World

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• It is quite possible we may have formed entirely erroneous ideas of what we actually see. The greenish gray patches may not be seas at all, nor the ruddy continents, solid land. Neither may the obscuring patches be clouds of vapor.

  Edward E. Barnard

  Clouds, Sea, Land

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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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• The conductor's stand is not a continent of power, but rather an island of solitude.

  Riccardo Muti

  Islands, Solitude, Conductor

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• The history of American women is all about leaving home - crossing oceans and continents, or getting jobs and living on their own.

  Gail Collins

  Jobs, Ocean, Home

  Gail Collins (2009). “America's Women: 400 Years of Dolls, Drudges, Helpmates, and Heroines”, p.8, Harper Collins

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• Purity of race does not exist. Europe is a continent of energetic mongrels.

  H. A. L. Fisher

  Race, Europe, Doe

  A History of Europe ch. 1 (1935)

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• We know less about the sexual life of little girls than of boys. But we need not feel ashamed of this distinction; after all, the sexual life of adult women is a 'dark continent' for psychology.

  Sigmund Freud

  Girl, Dark, Boys

  The Question of Lay Analysis pt. 4 (1926)

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• So I have known Islam on three continents before coming to the region where it was first revealed

  Barack Obama

  Muslim Faith, Mind Blowing, Islam

  A New Beginning: Speech at Cairo University, delivered 4 June 2009, Cairo, Egypt

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• As I looked down, I saw a large river meandering slowly along for miles, passing from one country to another without stopping. I also saw huge forests, extending along several borders. And I watched the extent of one ocean touch the shores of separate continents. Two words leaped to mind as I looked down on all this: commonality and interdependence. We are one world.

  John-David F. Bartoe

  Country, Ocean, Two

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• I have been aware all the time that my peoples, spread far and wide throughout every continent and ocean in the world, were united to support me in the task to which I have now been dedicated with such solemnity.

  Queen Elizabeth II

  Ocean, Support, Tasks

  Queen Elizabeth II's Speech on her Coronation Day, www.royal.uk. June 2, 1953.

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• Samuel Beckett's 'Waiting for Godot,' billed as 'the laugh sensation of two continents,' made its American debut at the Coconut Grove Playhouse, in Miami, Florida, in 1956. My father, Bert Lahr, was playing Estragon, one of the two bowler-hatted tramps who pass the time in a lunar landscape as they wait in vain for the arrival of a Mr. Godot.

  John Lahr

  Father, Florida, Two

  "Panic Attack". www.newyorker.com. May 18, 2009.

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• Prayers have no boundaries. They can leap miles and continents and be translated instantly into any language.

  Billy Graham

  Prayer, Language, Boundaries

  Franklin Graham, Billy Graham (2011). “Billy Graham in Quotes”, p.267, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• This grand show is eternal. It is always sunrise somewhere; the dew is never dried all at once; a shower is forever falling; vapor is ever rising. Eternal sunrise, eternal dawn and gloaming, on sea and continents and islands, each in its turn, as the round earth rolls.

  John Muir

  Life, Time, Nature

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

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• Traveling, you realize that differences are lost: each city takes to resembling all cities, places exchange their form, order, distances, a shapeless dust cloud invades the continents.

  Italo Calvino

  Travel, Distance, Clouds

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• Eternal sunrise, eternal sunset, eternal dawn and gloaming, on seas and continents and islands, each in its turn, as the round earth rolls.

  John Muir

  Sunset, Islands, Sea

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

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• Continents may break up, continents may emerge, but the human race is immortal in its origin and in its growth, and there is nothing to be afraid of, even if the foundations of the earth be moved.

  Annie Besant

  Race, Growth, Foundation

  ANNIE BESANT (1911). “THE IMMEDIATE FUTURE”

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• America has been the New World in all tongues, to all peoples, not because this continent was a new-found land, but because all those who came here believed they could create upon this continent a new life -- a life that should be new in freedom.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Land, America, New Life

  Franklin D. Roosevelt (1995). “The Essential Franklin Delano Roosevelt”, Gramercy

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• While men inhabiting different parts of this vast continent cannot be expected to hold the same opinions, they can unite in a common objective and sustain common principles.

  Franklin Pierce

  Men, Presidential, Principles

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• The function of our Government is to insure to all its citizens, now and hereafter, their rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. If we of this generation destroy the resources from which our children would otherwise derive their livelihood, we reduce the capacity of our land to support a population, and so either degrade the standard of living or deprive the coming generations of their fight to life on this continent.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Children, Fighting, Pursuit Of Happiness

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• England and France were rivals, not only on the continent, but in the West Indies, in India, and in Europe.

  Albert Bushnell Hart

  West Indies, Europe, India

  Albert Bushnell Hart, Ph.D. (1909). “Epochs of American History”

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