#continent

In a continent but recently settled, many parts of which have as yet little historical or cultural background, the material for this volume has been gathered from a section that was one of the first to be colonized. ↗

— Hervey Allen

#been #continent #cultural #first #gathered

Some otherwise sane scientists have seriously proposed that we tuck this deadly garbage under the edges of drifting continents but how can they be sure the moving land masses will climb over the waste and not just push it forward? ↗

— David R. Brower

#continents #deadly #drifting #edges #forward

Traveling, you realize that differences are lost: each city takes to resembling all cities, places exchange their form, order, distances, a shapeless dust cloud invades the continents. ↗

— Italo Calvino

#cities #city #cloud #continents #differences

What Churchill described as the twin marauders of war and tyranny have been almost entirely banished from our continent. Today, hundreds of millions dwell in freedom, from the Baltic to the Adriatic, from the Western Approaches to the Aegean. ↗

— David Cameron

#approaches #baltic #banished #been #churchill

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

#arrived #art #been #before #being

I dream of the realization of the unity of Africa, whereby its leaders combine in their efforts to solve the problems of this continent. I dream of our vast deserts, of our forests, of all our great wildernesses. ↗

— Nelson Mandela

#combine #continent #deserts #dream #efforts

The United States and Mexico are trapped - economically, culturally, politically and because of drug crime - in the same continent. ↗

— Barry McCaffrey

#continent #crime #culturally #economically #mexico

If I can join hands with FIFA and other continental bodies to promote football globally, then I can do more than that to raise African football to new heights. ↗

— Roger Milla

#bodies #continental #fifa #football #globally

My music was typically continental - nothing like, say, The Beatles. ↗

— Giorgio Moroder

#continental #like #music #nothing #say

Eight years involved with the nuclear industry have taught me that when nothing can possible go wrong and every avenue has been covered, then is the time to buy a house on the next continent. ↗

— Terry Prachett

#been #buy #continent #covered #eight