134 Continent Quotes for You to Enjoy

After numerous generations of people dedicated to killing wolves on the North American continent, one generation devoted itself to letting wolves live. Lydia Millet

Generation People Live Numerous Generations Devoted Continent Wolves Itself North North American American After Dedicated Letting

After the Meiji restoration in 1868, Japan adopted an expansionist and colonial attitude towards its neighbours. It sought to identify itself with the West and looked down upon the Asian continent as backward and inferior. For most of the next 70 years, Japan was at war, mainly with its neighbours. Martin Jacques

Attitude War Down Backward Neighbours Restoration Adopted Colonial Mainly Towards Most Looked Identify Sought Continent West Years Itself Inferior After Japan Asian Next

Europe is no longer a Christian continent; few Europeans attend religious services on Sunday, and the European Union recently refused to refer to Europe's religious heritage in its fledgling constitution. Meir Soloveichik

Constitution Sunday Few Christian Heritage Religious Attend Longer Continent Refer Refused Union Europe European European Union Europeans Services Recently

The genus Drosophila is one of the great success stories. There's hundreds of species within the genus. They're on every continent except Antarctica, they're in tropical rain forests, they're in deserts, they've evolved many exotic mating behaviors, and they're capable of incredibly long-distance flights. Michael Dickinson

Success Great Rain Every Incredibly Hundreds Evolved Except Tropical Long-Distance Great Success Within Continent Antarctica Mating Exotic Forests Behaviors Stories Capable Success Stories Flights Many Deserts Species

The vast majority of the online crime cases, we don't even know which continent the attacks are coming from. And even if we are able to find online criminals, quite often there is no outcome. The local police don't act, or if they do, there's not enough evidence, or for some reason we can't take them down. Mikko Hypponen

Police Crime Down Enough Local Criminals Evidence Outcome Find Able Some Cases Online Vast Vast Majority Attacks Take Know Majority Continent Coming Quite Often Which Them Act Reason Even

The dignity of everyday life - the beauty of it, the attitude of it - is what I live around. And it is never on screen, and it is certainly never associated with Africa. If we see Africa at all, it is always used as a backdrop: a big blob of a continent rather than a specific street or a country or a place. Mira Nair

Life Attitude Dignity Everyday Life Country Beauty Big Live Everyday On-Screen Backdrop See Rather Never Around Always Continent Than Africa Screen Place Used Certainly Specific Street Associated

Sudan has been an experiment that resonated across Africa: if we, the largest country on the continent, reaching from the Sahara to the Congo, bridging religions, cultures and a multitude of ethnicities, were able to construct a prosperous and peaceful state from our diverse citizenry, so too could the rest of Africa. Mo Ibrahim

Rest Country Experiment Too State Our Has-Been Citizenry Religions Able Diverse Construct Could Prosperous Reaching Sahara Continent Were Been Cultures Africa Across Congo Sudan Peaceful Multitude Largest

Africa is rich, and why are we poor then if our continent is rich. It is not right. Mo Ibrahim

Rich Our Continent Africa Poor Then Why Right

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. Omar Bongo

Fight Sustainable Development Other AIDS States Member Promote Devastation Put Contagious Development Armed Undermine Continent Caused End Diseases African Order Sustainable Conflicts Against Act Union

I think about issues like climate change, and how six of the 10 worst impacted nations by climate change are actually on the continent of Africa. People are reeling from all sorts of unnatural disasters, displacing them from their ancestral homes and leaving them without a chance at making a decent living. Opal Tometi

Change People Living Think Ancestral Worst Unnatural Impacted About Like Disasters Sort Without How Making Climate Climate Change Continent Leaving Reeling Issues Six Decent Nations Africa Them Homes Actually Chance

I always tell people that I am most proud of the fact that the Ushahidi story has provided an inspiration to other techies in Kenya and Africa as an example of the kind of talent the continent holds. Ory Okolloh

People Example Other Tell Kind Fact Inspiration Talent Most Always Proud Am Continent Provided Africa Holds Story Kenya

While I am a huge proponent of us as Africans telling our own stories and countering the negative stereotypes out there since no one else will, I am also cognizant of the power that the mainstream Western media still has on shaping perceptions of the continent. Ory Okolloh

Negative Will Power Own Else Our Out Telling Perceptions Proponent No-One Shaping Mainstream Since Stereotypes Also Am Continent Still Western Huge African Stories While Us Media Cognizant

The First World War not only destroyed European civilisation and the empires at its heart; its aftermath led to a second conflagration, the Second World War, which divided the continent until the end of the century. Paul Keating

War Heart World First Destroyed Only Civilisation Divided Empires Until First World First World War Continent Led End Aftermath Which Century European Second World War Second World War

Africa is a vibrant, varied continent with a growing consumer base. Paul Polman

Varied Consumer Continent Vibrant Africa Base Growing

The Malthusian Theory - that mankind, for biological and sociological reasons, is so fertile, so fecund, that if you started out with the new continent and plenty of land for everybody, in several generations we would multiply our numbers. Paul Samuelson

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

Solitude Power Rather Island Continent Conductor Stand

Swaziland is a small part of south-east Africa, the last country in the continent to gain its independence. Richard Grant

Independence Country Small Small Part Part Continent Africa Gain Last

The Catholics of Maryland were the first people on the new continent to declare universal religious toleration. Let this be remembered to their eternal honor. Robert Green Ingersoll

People Honor First Religious Maryland Remembered New First People Catholics Continent Were Eternal Declare Toleration Universal

There's a huge expanse of this continent that so seldom gets photographed. Sam Jaeger

Photographed Seldom Continent Huge Expanse Gets

There's no way to escape the fact that we've grown up in a violent culture, we just can't get away from it, it's part of our heritage. I think part of it is that we've always felt somewhat helpless in the face of this vast continent. Helplessness is answered in many ways, but one of them is violence. Sam Shepard

Culture Face Think Heritage Our Way Ways Fact Somewhat Vast Part Felt Always Answered Continent Up Escape Get Just Them Many Helpless Helplessness Grown Away Grown-Up Violence Violent

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