Top 34 Sub Continent Quotes
#1. India is the one area of the sub-continent where we haven't won since I have been involved with England
Duncan Fletcher
#2. Not only has wilderness been a force in molding our character as a people, but its influence continues, and will, if we are wise enough to preserve it on this continent, be a stabilizing power as well as a spiritual reserve for the future.
Sigurd F. Olson
#3. Let us suppose, that the Old and New worlds were formerly but one continent, and that, by a violent earthquake, the ancient Atalantis [sic] of Plato was sunk ... The sea would necessarily rush in from all quarters, and form what is now called the Atlantic ocean.
Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte De Buffon
#4. To all those who have drawn the inference from my words that Africa, as a continent, is somehow genetically inferior, I can only apologise unreservedly.
James D. Watson
#5. Between highway sounds I heard waves and thought how the curve of the coastline here had sheltered and nurtured live-born sharks, humans, and migrating whales. Here, at the edge of the continent, time and distance stopped; in the lull between sets of waves I could get a fresh start.
Gretel Ehrlich
#6. If we compare Europe with other continents, it is marked out as [another] persecuting continent.
Bertrand Russell
#7. Our continent must be allowed to do its own things, charting its course and destiny.
Nelson Mandela
#8. As a young woman, I dreamed of changing the world. In my twenties, I went to Africa to try and save the continent, only to learn that Africans neither wanted nor needed saving. Indeed, when I was there, I saw some of the worst that good intentions, traditional charity, and aid can produce ...
Jacqueline Novogratz
#9. It must also be noted that until the present time this malady, like religious controversy, has been wholly confined to the continent of Europe.
Voltaire
#10. When I want an opinion, I'll get it from my peers - from men of vision, like our great railroad builders ... Stanford, Huntington, Dinsmore ... fellows with imaginations broad enough to span the continent.
Jonathan Raban
#12. The presence and the present of America are a future; our continent is, by its nature, the land which does not exist on its own, but as something which is created and invented.
Octavio Paz
#13. Get ready the greatest new educational facility at the approximate dynamic population center of the North American continent
R. Buckminster Fuller
#14. It has been lately urged in a very respectable quarter that it is the mission of this country to spread civil and religious liberty all over the globe, and especially over this continent - even by force, if necessary. It is a sad delusion.
John C. Calhoun
#15. She'd visited the Continent five times on vacation and twice on business trips with Alfred, so about a dozen times altogether, and to friends planning tours of Spain or France she now liked to say, with a sigh, that she'd had her fill of the place.
Jonathan Franzen
#16. All art is based on nonconformity ... Without nonconformity we would have had no Bill of Rights or Magna Carta, no public education system, no nation upon this continent, no continent, no science at all, no philosophy, and considerably fewer religions.
Ben Shahn
#17. Jahan mein ehle-e-imaan soorat-e-khursheed jeetay hain,
Idhar doobey, udhar nikley; udhar doobey, idhar nikley
In this world, men of faith and self-confidence are like the sun,
They go down on one side to come up on the other.
Allama Iqbal
#18. For a thousand years Europe had been trying to drive Mohammedanism out of the continent.
Mary Platt Parmele
#19. Purity of race does not exist. Europe is a continent of energetic mongrels.
H.A.L. Fisher
#20. Africa is rich, and why are we poor then if our continent is rich. It is not right.
Mo Ibrahim
#21. Come to Africa and help! Wherever you may be in the world, there is something you can give back to the continent that gave you a name and an identity, at least.
Nana Awere Damoah
#22. Patriots is quite simple; there's seven continents in the world, if you had to sacrifice one continent and make it six would you do it?
Sam Worthington
#23. Way I can explain it to you is by saying that, for a second or two, I felt as though, instead of going to the center of a continent, I were about to set off for the
Joseph Conrad
#24. The African continent has always been more queer than generally acknowledged.
Chantal Zabus
#25. I never saw such crazy musicians. Everybody in Frisco blew. It was the end of the continent; they didn't give a damn.
Jack Kerouac
#26. An island always pleases my imagination, even the smallest, as a small continent and integral portion of the globe. I have a fancyfor building my hut on one. Even a bare, grassy isle, which I can see entirely over at a glance, has some undefined and mysterious charm for me.
Henry David Thoreau
#27. Yet there are moments when I feel a continent apart, when their belonging seems easy and unforced and my own is only pantomime.
Nayomi Munaweera
#28. Africa is not a country, but it is a continent like none other. It has that which is elegantly vast or awfully little.
Douglas Wilder
#29. But by spring, she had again yielded to the tug and tide of his mind, allowing its currents to carry her back across the continent and wash them up on the remote shores of his evergreen island..
Ruth Ozeki
#30. A gentleman of one of the first fortunes upon the continent ... sacrificing his ease, and hazarding all in the cause of his country.
John Quincy Adams
#31. The life of an actor is very hard irrespective of the continent you are in. It is doubly hard when you are only eligible for minority roles.
Kabir Bedi
#32. Our relationship with the European Union, which has done so much to promote stability, stimulate economic growth, and foster the spread of democratic values and ideals across the continent and beyond.
Barack Obama
#33. 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
#34. Africa's agricultural sector has enormous scope for development, which would benefit both the continent's economy and its people.
Richard Attias
