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Letter "C" » Continent
«As always on this boulevard, the faces were young, coming annually in an endless migration from every country, every continent, to alight here once in the long journey of their lives.»
Author: Brian Moore
(Novelist, Writer)
| Keywords:
alight, alighted, alights, annually, boulevard, boulevards, Continent, migration, migrations, The Faces
«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.»
Author: Claude Levi-Strauss
(Philosopher)
| Keywords:
belonging, class A, Continent, dweller, dwellers, European, European civilization, European country, for each one, in the first place, New class, New World, One of Us, played out, signifies
«I'd move to Los Angeles if New Zealand and Australia were swallowed up by a tidal wave, if there was a bubonic plague in England and if the continent of Africa disappeared from some Martian attack.»
Author: Russell Crowe
(Actor)
| About:
Country
| Keywords:
Africa, Angeles, bubonic, bubonic plague, Continent, disappeared, plague, swallowed, the continent, tidal, tidal wave, wave, Zealand
«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.»
Author: Bill Cosby
(Actor, Comedian, Producer)
| Keywords:
bookstore, bookstores, Continent, manuals, raising, spite, The Manual, The Six
«In England and America a beard usually means that its owner would rather be considered venerable than virile; on the continent of Europe it often means that its owner makes a special claim to virility.»
Author: Rebecca West
(Writer)
| Keywords:
beard, Continent, owner, the continent, venerable, virile, virility
«Four score and seven years ago, our father brought forth upon this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal»
Author: Abraham Lincoln
(President)
| Keywords:
ago, brought, conceived, Continent, dedicated, dedicates, dedicating, forth, Our Father, proposition, score, seven, Seven Years, The New Year
«AUSTRALIA, n. A country lying in the South Sea, whose industrial and commercial development has been unspeakably retarded by an unfortunate dispute among geographers as to whether it is a continent or an island.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| Keywords:
an island, Australia, commercial, Continent, dispute, geographer, geographers, industrial, in the south, island, lying-in, retard, retarded, retarding, South, South Sea, the South, unfortunate, unspeakably
«Entire new continent can emerge from the ocean in the time it takes for a Web page to show up on your screen. Contrary to what you may have heard, the Internet does not operate at the speed of light; it operates at the speed of the DMV.»
«If a man be gracious and courteous to strangers, it shows he is a citizen of the world, and that his heart is no island cut off from other lands, but a continent that joins to them.»
Author: Francis Bacon, Sr.
(Lawyer, Philosopher)
| About:
Courtesy,
Grace,
Relationships
| Keywords:
citizen, Continent, courteous, cutting off, cut off, gracious, island, joins, lands, show off, Strangers
«From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic, an iron curtain has descended across the Continent.»
Author: Winston Churchill
(Author, Orator, Prime Minister)
| Keywords:
across, Adriatic, An iron, Baltic, Continent, curtain, descended, iron, iron curtain, The Adriatic, the continent, Trieste
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