Dark Continent Quotes

#1. In spite of the six thousand manuals on child raising in the bookstores, child raising is still a dark continent and no one really knows anything. You just need a lot of love and luck - and, of course, courage.

Bill Cosby

#2. I don't think Africa gets as much credit as it should have on the world stage. People tend to think of us as coming from The Dark Continent, where nothing good goes on. That's not true. A huge amount of, as I say, entrepreneurship goes on.

Nicky Oppenheimer

#3. I was very conscious of race as I was writing. I was lucky to have spent real time in Portuguese Africa, but I am white and my main characters are white, outsiders at sea in the "Dark Continent."

Jon Weisman

#4. You're still carrying Africa, but it's eroding at the edges.
Great. We're destroying the Dark Continent.

J.D. Robb

#5. The sexual life of adult women is a "dark continent" for psychology.

Sigmund Freud

#6. The portion we see of human beings is very small: their formats and faces, voices and words ... beyond these, like an immense dark continent, lies all that has made them.

Freya Stark

#7. My family has very strong women. My mother never laughed at my dream of Africa, even though everyone else did because we didn't have any money, because Africa was the 'dark continent', and because I was a girl.

Jane Goodall

#8. Those who oppressed us described us as the Dark Continent!

Thabo Mbeki

#9. You never have to thank me. That's part of loving someone.

Tijan

#10. Of course we all suffer,' Priya often told her. 'But if you cling to suffering or fight it then it will hold on like a rat. If you accept it's existence and the pain it causes you, then you can release it'.

Kate Elliott

#11. Taking care of children has nothing to do with politics. I think perhaps with time, instead of there being a politicization of humanitarian aid, there will be a humanization of politics.

Audrey Hepburn

#12. The finest flowers are those transplanted, for transplanting means difficulty, a readjusting to new conditions, and through the effort put forth to find adjustment does the plant progress.

Elbert Hubbard

#13. A boundless continent, Dark, waste, and wild, under the frown of night Starless expos'd.

John Milton

#14. There is false humility and genuine humility and between them, there is a desire of the practitioner to become humble.

Radhanath Swami

#15. George Kimble said, 'The only thing dark about Africa is our ignorance of it.' So let's start shedding light on this amazing eclectic continent that has so much to offer.

Euvin Naidoo

#16. There is no memory less satisfying than a temptation that we resisted.

Erin McCarthy

#17. Patriotism means loving our country, not the government.

Mike Cloud

#18. If you beat a dead horse long enough,
you will eventually kill it.

Maximus Freeman

#19. Claude Debussy defined the guitar as an expressive harpsicord. I believe that is the best definition ever given of the Spanish guitar. This phrase is the starting point for my Concierto de Aranjuez Our guitar is the only survivor of the rich and anarchic instrumental wildlife of the Middle Ages.

Joaquin Rodrigo

#20. It's your life and we're all going to be gone one day so just be proud of yourself.

Marcus Hudson

#21. The claustrophobia of the forest. The first few trees visible before her, monochrome contrasts of black shadow and white moonlight, and beyond that an entire continent, wilderness uninterrupted from ocean to ocean with so few people left between the shores.

Emily St. John Mandel

#22. I had always loved life on the road. It was just something that appealed to me very deeply.

Jami Attenberg

#23. Was there no hope for men? They killed those they should have loved. What good was it to fight, what good was it to win, if there was no difference between ally and enemy? What was victory? Meaningless.

Brandon Sanderson

#24. I have a company, and I've got to think about that. I'm trying to do my best there, and that's a much harder task. We recycle as much as possible, and we conserve. But I've always been one to save everything - I even walk up stairs on the very inside or the very outside to not wear out the tread.

Vivienne Westwood

#25. The more closed your network, the more you hear the same ideas over and again, reaffirming what you already believe, while the more open your network, the more exposed you are to new ideas.

Whitney Johnson