quotes about Continents
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In my travels, I have encountered cranes on three continents.
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India is the one area of the sub-continent where we haven't won since I have been involved with England
-- Duncan Fletcher -
A nation for a continent, and a continent for a nation.
-- Edmund Barton -
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We forgot this continent for a long time - and now, finally Africa is being rediscovered.
-- Fernando Meirelles -
Africa has more dictators per capita than any other continent.
-- George AyitteySource : "George Ayittey: How to Defeat a Dictator". Interview with Thor Halvorssen, www.huffingtonpost.com.
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All Americans (from the vast continent America) were, are, or will be border crossers.
-- Guillermo Gomez-PenaSource : Guillermo Gomez-Pena (1993). “Warrior for Gringostroika: Essays, Performance Texts, and Poetry”
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I was going to save the world, and I thought I would start with the African continent.
-- Jacqueline Novogratz -
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Africa is one continent, one people and one nation
-- Kwame Nkrumah -
Every man contains within himself a ghost continent.
-- Loren Eiseley -
I have traveled to all the continents except for one, and I know what is going on out there... The world is rapidly becoming Ahmadinejadized.
-- Mahmoud Ahmadinejad -
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Traveling carries with it the curse of being at home everywhere and yet nowhere, for wherever one is some part of oneself remains on another continent.
-- Margot Fonteyn -
I urge telecommunications regulators to develop a commercial strategy for delivering effective access to the continent.
-- Mark ShuttleworthSource : "Shuttleworth Urges Telecoms Reform". tectonic.co.za. February 24, 2006.
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I’m a child of the universe, I have lived in almost all continents.
-- Micere Githae Mugo -
I’d have thought 50,000 years of existing on the continent would have qualified as settled.
-- Nova Peris -
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The conductor's stand is not a continent of power, but rather an island of solitude.
-- Riccardo Muti -
Africa is an article of faith. I believe in this continent.
-- Sunil Bharti Mittal -
Those who oppressed us described us as the Dark Continent!
-- Thabo Mbeki -
The great hinderance to the development of this continent has lain in the lack of capital.
-- William Graham Sumner -
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Africa is always only portrayed as a continent of suffering, but most figures are vastly exaggerated.
-- James ShikwatiSource : Source: www.spiegel.de
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The Kumars... played on five continents, and even when I came up with the idea I was slightly surprised that no one else had.
-- Sanjeev Bhaskar -
I’m a child of the universe, I have lived in almost all continents.
-- Micere Githae Mugo -
I’d have thought 50,000 years of existing on the continent would have qualified as settled.
-- Nova Peris -
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I always hope for the better for the continent and what I know comes from Africa. Living in the West we feel like we're so removed from the continent that we can somewhat shut off.
-- Djimon HounsouSource : Interview with Joe Utichi, editorial.rottentomatoes.com. January 24, 2007.