134 Continent Quotes for You to Enjoy

The several tribes of Indians inhabiting the regions of the Upper Missouri, and of whom I spoke in my last Letter, are undoubtedly the finest looking, best equipped, and most beautifully costumed of any on the Continent. George Catlin

All over Africa, people are wearing what Americans once wore and no longer want. Visit the continent, and you'll find faded remnants of secondhand clothing in the strangest of places. George Packer

You People Secondhand Once Visit Find Wearing Faded Longer Over Continent American Africa Clothing Want Places Wore Strangest

Around the continent, governments worry that indigenous groups are fertile ground for extremist, terrorist groups. We are trying to make sure that doesn't happen here. Gonzalo Sanchez de Lozada

Worry Extremist Indigenous Make Sure Around Terrorist Continent Fertile Governments Trying Happen Ground Groups Here

I've wrestled on every continent but Antarctica and in every country in the world except for China and the U.S.S.R. Harley Race

World Country Every Except Continent Antarctica China

It's very clear that global climate change is occurring on earth, but it's also been very clear that that has always happened on earth. We've always had a changing climate on earth. We all know about ice ages. We know when our continent was covered with ice sheets. We know glaciers come and they go. It puzzles me that people forget that. Heidi Hammel

Me Change People Changing Our Earth About Glaciers Had Clear Puzzles Come Global Know Also Sheets Always Climate Climate Change Continent Go Been Covered Very Forget Happened Ice Ages

It's never happened in history that every region in the world could affect every other region simultaneously. The Roman empire and the Chinese empire didn't know much about each other and had no means of interacting. Now we have every continent able to reach every other. Henry Kissinger

History World Roman Empire Every Other Able About Could Never Had Simultaneously Empire Reach Know Continent Affect Roman Interacting Happened Chinese Region Much Means Each Now

It's important to debunk the myths of Africa being this benighted continent civilized only when white people arrived. In fact, Africans had been creators of culture for thousands of years before. These were very intelligent, subtle and sophisticated people, with organized societies and great art. Henry Louis Gates

Art Great Culture People Important Before White Great Art Thousands Thousands Of Years Only Civilized Fact Had Myths Sophisticated Continent Arrived Were Been Years Very Intelligent Africa African Being In Fact Subtle Organized Creators Societies

America means far more than a continent bounded by two oceans. It is more than pride of military power, glory in war, or in victory. It means more than vast expanse of farms, of great factories or mines, magnificent cities, or millions of automobiles and radios. Herbert Hoover

War Great Pride Victory Power Military Mines Cities More Magnificent Vast Factories Bounded Glory Continent Oceans Expanse Than America Automobiles Far Means Farms Military Power Millions Two

Africa is the most weathered continent in the world; 75 percent of its soil has been degraded. You don't just bring that back. I always like to say it's like putting an oxygen mask on a cadaver; it just isn't going to work. Howard Graham Buffett

Spanglish is the encounter: perhaps the word is marriage or divorce of English and Spanish, but also of Anglo and Hispanic civilizations - not only in the United States but in the entire continent and, perhaps, also in Spain. Ilan Stavans

Marriage Word States Entire Only Civilizations Divorce Perhaps Also Continent Encounter Hispanic Spain Spanish English United United States

But there are rock and roll fans all over this continent and all over the globe, really, and we're just set at marking the planet with Styx music until the day we die. James Young

Music Day Fans Marking Over Until Globe Rock Rock And Roll Continent Styx Roll Die Just Planet Really Set

China is not a country, it's a continent. India is not a country, it's a continent. Jan Chipchase

Country India Continent China

In 1913 many believed that there would never again be a war in Europe. The great powers of the continent were so closely intertwined economically that the view was widespread that they could no longer afford to have military confrontations. Jean-Claude Juncker

This was a continent of divisions, of wars, of conflicts, of divergences, differences... When I am in Asia, in Africa, people admire what we have managed to do. Europe is beautiful seen from other continents. Jean-Claude Juncker

Beautiful People Seen Differences Other Admire Divisions Am Continent Continents Africa Conflicts Asia Europe Wars

Looking at the numbers, the transatlantic slave trade matches the Holocaust in horror - maybe even without counting subsidiary effects like internal strife and deaths inflected on the continent, death during transport, death during ownership, collapse of African economies, and such. Jens Martin Skibsted

Death Looking Ownership Strife Collapse Horror Counting Economies Like Without Trade Matches Continent Deaths Effects Maybe African Holocaust Transport Internal Even Slave Numbers

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

World Thought September Our Risk Beyond Another Prior Continent Shores

I've learned how to sleep on airplanes. When I'm taking a trans-Atlantic flight or going to a different continent, I will always read because reading puts me to sleep. When you watch a movie, you have all that light coming to your eyes, but with reading, I can't get through 15 or 20 pages. John Isner

Me You Eyes Light Will Reading Airplane Through Puts Taking Read Learned Because Always How Continent Coming Get Going Different Movie Pages Your Flight Watch Sleep

When the enemies' land force is once conquered and expelled from the continent, our Marine will rise as if by enchantment and become, within the memory of persons now living, the wonder and envy of the world. John Paul Jones

We direct the destinies of a mighty continent. Our resources are unlimited: our means unbounded. If we be true to ourselves, the glory of other nations, in comparison to ours, shall resemble but a tale from the days of chivalry. John Tyler

Every year, I travel extensively in the autumn and the spring. I set most of the winter and summer aside for my family and my own tribal relatives. But during that traveling time, I often find myself visiting other native communities around the continent - perhaps a dozen or more each year. Joseph Bruchac

Time Myself Family Travel Winter Relatives Tribal Year Spring Own Autumn Every Other Summer Visiting Find My Own More Perhaps Most Around Continent Often Native Aside Communities Each Traveling Each Year Dozen Set

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