“I want to be cautious here, because Africa is a hugely complex continent and you can't really generalize about it.”
Stephen Lewis
“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
“The greatest obstacle to discovering the shape of the earth, the continents, and the oceans was not ignorance but the illusion of knowledge.”
Daniel J. Boorstin
“Continuous effort - not strength or intelligence - is the key to unlocking our potential”
Winston Churchill
“Being human signifies, for each one of us, belonging to a class, a society, a country, a continent and a civilization; and for us European earth-dwellers, the adventure played out in the heart of the New World signifies in the first place that it was not our world and that we bear responsibility for the crime of its destruction.”
Claude Levi-Strauss
“I have a trunk containing continents.”
Beryl Markham
“I have now got a bombproof shelter [the Continent] into which I retire when I sniff the coming portrait or its trajectory.”
John Singer Sargent
