#continent

Those who have always had faith in its final success can do no less than rejoice as if it was our own triumph after five years of daily struggle to impose Cuban music on the European continent. ↗

— Alejo Carpentier

#always #continent #cuban #daily #european

The broadest pattern of history - namely, the differences between human societies on different continents - seems to me to be attributable to differences among continental environments, and not to biological differences among peoples themselves. ↗

— Jared Diamond

#attributable #between #biological #broadest #continental

If the area were on or near the U.S. continental shelf, such data could well provide an enemy with strategically invaluable insights into undersea access routes that could be used to attack some of the millions of Americans who live on or near our coasts. ↗

— Frank Gaffney

#area #attack #coasts #continental #could

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

— Philip Glass

#better #coming #continents #different #different worlds

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. ↗

— Frank Yerby

#above #almost #broadened #continent #fifteen

I come from a country and also a continent whose identity is in the making. We're a very young culture, and I think that things are not yet crystallised. ↗

— Walter Salles

#come #continent #country #culture #i

Seeking fortunes in America led to Germany losing people, and the American continent received many people whose contributions are particularly clear in the agricultural and technical fields. ↗

— Julius Streicher

#america #american #clear #continent #contributions

He described the experience as being 'a little bit less fun, perhaps, than chain-smoking for ninety minutes while handcuffed to a dowager with asthma who used to teach Health and smells incontinent. ↗

— Adam Levin

#discomfort #incontinent #experience

There is an irresistible demand to strengthen the leadership of the constructive forces of the world at the present momentous time. This is true because of stupendous, almost unbelievable changes which have taken place in recent years on every continent. ↗

— John Raleigh Mott

#because #changes #constructive #continent #demand

The immense cities lie basking on the beaches of the continent like whales that have taken to the land. ↗

— Arnold J. Toynbee

#cities #continent #immense #land #lie