Twelve thousand miles of it, to the other side of the world. And whether they came home again or not, they would belong neither here, nor there, for they would have lived on two continents and sampled two different ways of life.
Traveling carries with it the curse of being at home everywhere and yet nowhere, for wherever one is some part of oneself remains on another continent.
. . . wherever one is, some part of oneself remains on another continent.
Frost grows on the window glass, forming whorl patterns of lovely translucent geometry. Breathe on the glass, and you give frost more ammunition. Now it can build castles and cities and whole ice continents with your breath’s vapor. In a few blinks you can almost see the winter fairies moving in. . . But first, you hear the crackle of their wings.
I have traveled to all the continents except for one, and I know what is going on out there. . . The world is rapidly becoming Ahmadinejadized.
The ocean, king of mountains and the mighty continents Are not heavy burdens to bear when compared To the burden of not repaying the world's kindness.
Those who oppressed us described us as the Dark Continent!
India is the one area of the sub-continent where we haven't won since I have been involved with England
Africa is an article of faith. I believe in this continent.
There are many, many different worlds. Just as there are different continents on earth, there are different dimensional planes.
I take this continent with me into the grave.
A nation for a continent, and a continent for a nation.
One day, when all the continents have been buried in ocean, we’ll slowly float past each other in our little boats, hearing our own hearts in each other’s chest, and watch each other like stars we don’t know are dead.
This means more to me than any Grammy I could ever win. . . It will take a village and an army, [some] countries and continents to make bullying a hate crime.
I always hope for the better for the continent and what I know comes from Africa. Living in the West we feel like we're so removed from the continent that we can somewhat shut off.
A soil adapted to the growth of plants, is necessarily prepared and carefully preserved; and, in the necessary waste of land which is inhabited, the foundation is laid for future continents, in order to support the system of the living world.
The conductor's stand is not a continent of power, but rather an island of solitude.
Charles V used to say that "the more languages a man knew, he was so many more times a man. " Each new form of human speech introduces one into a new world of thought and life. So in some degree is it in traversing other continents and mingling with other races. As a hawk flieth not high with one wing, even so a man reacheth not to excellence with one tongue.
Our continents unification is at hand and we must stand to account.
More people saw me than saw Napoleon, Lincoln and Cleopatra. I was better known than Einstein and Picasso. . . . I changed the fashion of two continents. The style of the Gay Nineties became the rage. . . women were trying to walk and talk like me. Women became more sex-conscious - sex was out in the open and fun.