(62 quotes found)
“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
“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
“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
“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
“I have a trunk containing continents.”
Beryl Markham
“Europe, partly because of the sort of political miracle it accomplished on the European continent, has developed a very strong faith in international institutions, international legal mechanisms, as the key to international order, and have really begun to view military power as an illegitimate form of activity, but in any case, something that is to be avoided at almost all costs.”
Robert Kagan
“I want to be cautious here, because Africa is a hugely complex continent and you can't really generalize about it.”
Stephen Lewis
“I've read about foreign policy and studied - I know the number of continents (during his 1968 presidential campaign)”
George Wallace
“The rational mind of man is a shallow thing, a shore upon a continent of the irrational, wherein thin colonies of reason have settled amid a savage world.”
Wilford O. Cross
“I was the toast of two continents: Greenland and Australia.”
Dorothy Parker
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