Continent Quotes - page 3

Our language, history, and civilization shine out across every continent. (Emmanuel Macron)
America is the world of peace and must be made the continent of its definite consequence. View quote
Carlos Saavedra Lamas
Unraveling the euro is a terrible thing. This is a 50-year endeavor to get this continent together and that's a wonderful endeavor. View quote
Jamie Dimon
The conductor's stand is not a continent of power, but rather an island of solitude. View quote
Riccardo Muti
One of the things about being raised British in Africa is that you get this double whammy of toughness. The continent in place itself made you quite tough. And then you've got this British mother whose entire being rejects 'coddling' in case it makes you too soft. So there's absolutely nothing standing between you and a fairly rough experience. View quote
Alexandra Fuller
The great hinderance to the development of this continent has lain in the lack of capital. View quote
William Graham Sumner
American literature has never been content to be just one among the many literatures of the Western World. It has always aspired to be the literature not only of a new continent but of a New World. View quote
Christopher Dawson
England and France were rivals, not only on the continent, but in the West Indies, in India, and in Europe. View quote
Albert Bushnell Hart
We settled this continent without art. So it was easy for us to treat it as an imported luxury, not a necessity. View quote
Arthur Erickson
My wife is one of the best wimin on this Continent, altho' she isn't always gentle as a lamb with mint sauce. View quote
Charles Farrar Browne
Big Sur is at the end of the continent. It attracts really crazy people. (Carter Burwell)
The British merchants represented that they received some profit indeed from Virginia and South Carolina, as well as the West Indies; but as for the rest of this continent, they were constant losers in trade. View quote
Ezra Stiles
About fifteen miles above New Orleans the river goes very slowly. It has broadened out there until it is almost a sea and the water is yellow with the mud of half a continent. Where the sun strikes it, it is golden. View quote
Frank Yerby
The several tribes of Indians inhabiting the regions of the Upper Missouri. . . are undoubtedly the finest looking, best equipped, and most beautifully costumed of any on the Continent. View quote
George Catlin
Australia is the only island continent on the planet, which means that changes caused by planet-warming pollution - warmer seas, which can drive stronger storms, and more acidic oceans, which wreak havoc on the food chain - are even more deadly here. View quote
Jeff Goodell
And I think that Africa is making progress that the world needs to recognize and assist the continent to continue on that path. View quote
John Dramani Mahama
I think that Africa has made quite rapid progress and a lot of the conflicts that we saw on the continent have abated. View quote
John Dramani Mahama
Happily, there's a reversal of the brain drain occurring in Ghana now. We're seeing a lot of - actually in Africa - we're seeing a lot of African professionals, you know, returning to the continent to contribute their quota. View quote
John Dramani Mahama
From the world wars of Europe to the jungles of the Far East, from the deserts of the Middle East to the African continent, and even here in our own hemisphere, our veterans have made the world a better place and America the great country we are today. View quote
John Hoeven
The African Union has to act in order to put an end to armed conflicts that undermine the continent, to fight against the devastation caused by AIDS and other contagious diseases, to promote sustainable development of its member states. View quote
Omar Bongo
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)
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. View quote
William John Wills
Those who oppressed us described us as the Dark Continent! View quote
Thabo Mbeki
The concern around probable questions, which in a sense have been hidden, will grow around the world and the matter is critical, the reason we are doing all this is so we can respond correctly to what is reported to be a major catastrophe on the African continent. View quote
Thabo Mbeki
I return to economics and to economists, and to the question of why the profession's directions have evolved in the manners evident from this book. A major conservative economist once explained that a source of his antipathy to government traced back to the defeat of his southern ancestors by a larger north economy. Here is a similar factoid. Joan Robinson once wrote that her opposition to having the U. K. enter the European Market was due to the fact that she "had more friends in [Nehru's] India than on the continent.”. View quote
Paul Samuelson