Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bob Iger

Our parks are the No. 1 tourist destinations for every continent where we have a presence,

Tracy Morgan

I love animals, but I don't want to talk to them. I'd rather be able to talk to other people on other continents and understand them.

Obviously, South Africa is our most important market, but we are also gradually increasing our presence throughout East and West as well as North Africa. It is a continent with a lot of potential which we plan to tap into.

Yaya Toure

I represent my country, but I also represent the continent of Africa when I play in Europe. That's why it's important to try to achieve something big.

The Garden of Wonders project encompasses the knowledge that Be Open has accumulated over the years of work on different continents and different spheres.

Yanis Varoufakis

Bankruptocracy is as much a European predicament as it is an American 'invention.' The difference between the experience of the two continents is that at least Americans did not have to labour under the enormous design faults of the eurozone.

Omar Bongo

The resources of our continent attract, more than ever, the interests of rich countries.

Kabir Bedi

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.

Djimon Hounsou

One of the things I find extremely challenging about the continent of Africa is that when the immediate needs and the social needs of people are not met, that kills dreams, and it's all about survival.

Djimon Hounsou

Africa is a continent that provides so much for the existence of the rest of the world. We go around the world and cultivate so many things.

Eleni Zaude Gabre-Madhin

Like its agriculture, Africa's markets are highly under-capitalized and inefficient. We know from our work around the continent that transaction costs of reaching the market, and the risks of transacting in rural, agriculture markets, are extremely high. In fact, only one third of agricultural output produced in Africa even reaches the market.

John Hall

The person who needed the supplies down there should be able to get them now, and hopefully that will hold them over until they can get her off the continent in the fall,

Laura Bush

Nigeria is a very important country on the continent of Africa, and because of your forthrightness and your style and your commitment, you are a very important leader on this continent,

Ninety-five percent of the economists on the continent were with Blair. There is an economic justification to spend more on research and development at the European level.

Reynolds Price

I said to one of my students a couple of years ago, what is it with you people? You never get off the phone to one another, you travel through whole continents to be with one another for 14 hours. And he said, Mr. Price, we had to invent families of our own, our own families disappeared.

Loretta Napoleoni

Multiculturalism may well be our saviour, wresting us out from the straitjacket of our history, thrusting the old continent into an environment where other ethnicities, less cynical and more positive, will play a big role in its future.

Edmund Barton

A nation for a continent, and a continent for a nation.

Unusually warm weather significantly reduced the winter draw on (natural gas) inventories, leaving the continent very well supplied.

Leonid Hurwicz

I had the belief that many troubles you could observe on the European continent were due to politicians not understanding economic phenomena. Even if they had good intentions, they didn't have the skills to solve problems.

Kolo Toure

We're really going for it... It would be great to win on the continent before going to the World Cup.

Florentino Perez

We want people from every continent to come and see it so we can show them what we represent.

John Muir

The grand show is eternal. It is always sunrise somewhere; the dew is never dried all at once; a shower is forever falling; vapor is ever rising. Eternal sunrise, eternal dawn and gloaming, on sea and continents and islands, each in its turn, as the round earth rolls.

Diane Kruger

In between films I like to travel and hope to visit every continent before I become a mother.

Stephen Leacock

A 'Grand Old Man'. That means on our continent any one with snow white hair who has kept out of jail till eighty.

Francois Bourguignon

After many years, the continent is showing growth that could deliver much more poverty reduction than in the recent past.

Mo Ibrahim

Africa is rich, and why are we poor then if our continent is rich. It is not right.

Angelique Kidjo

This continent - that's where my inspiration comes from.

John Adams

It ought to be solemnized with pomp and parade, with shows, games, sports, guns, bells, bonfires, and illuminations, from one end of this continent to the other, from this time forward for evermore,

Europe is probably doing better than most continents in protecting diversity but is not yet doing enough.

You may enjoy the pleasures of hundreds of thousands of women, and rule the nine continents of the world. But without the True Guru, you will not find peace; you will be reincarnated over and over again.

George C. Wallace

I've read about foreign policy and studied - I know the number of continents (during his 1968 presidential campaign)

The significance is that it is a completely new continent that we need to be looking at.

Sam Shepard

The thing about American writers is that, as a group, they get stuck in the same idea: that we're a continent and the world falls away after us. And it's just nonsense.