#continent

The entire North Polar ice cap is disappearing before our very eyes. It's been the size of the continental United States for the last 3 million years and now 40 percent is gone and the rest of it is going. ↗

— Al Gore

#before #cap #continental #disappearing #entire

One thing is certain: wherever the enemy lands, if once we can get to grips with him on the Continent, where we are not dependent on supplies from overseas, that ought to be, and will be, all right with us. ↗

— Heinrich Himmler

#continent #dependent #enemy #get #grips

Love knows not distance; it hath no continent; its eyes are for the stars. ↗

— Gilbert Parker

#continent #distance #eyes #hath #knows

In a continent but recently settled, many parts of which have as yet little historical or cultural background, the material for this volume has been gathered from a section that was one of the first to be colonized. ↗

— Hervey Allen

#been #continent #cultural #first #gathered

My wife is one of the best wimin on this Continent, altho' she isn't always gentle as a lamb with mint sauce. ↗

— Charles Farrar Browne

#best #continent #gentle #lamb #mint

Housing associations have fingered the fact that they cannot use their assets as liquidity due to Bank of England rules unlike their continental equivalents. This has emerged to be one of the main bottlenecks to getting investment going in the U.K. It is a Bank of England issue. ↗

— Vince Cable

#associations #bank #cannot #continental #due

It's important to debunk the myths of Africa being this benighted continent civilized only when white people arrived. In fact, Africans had been creators of culture for thousands of years before. These were very intelligent, subtle and sophisticated people, with organized societies and great art. ↗

— Henry Louis Gates

#arrived #art #been #before #being

All my life I have lived and behaved very much like the sandpiper - just running down the edges of different countries and continents, 'looking for something'. ↗

— Elizabeth Bishop

#continents #countries #different #different countries #down

American literature has never been content to be just one among the many literatures of the Western World. It has always aspired to be the literature not only of a new continent but of a New World. ↗

— Christopher Dawson

#american #american literature #among #aspired #been

Well, as a general remark, I would say that I was discouraged by the physical and economic conditions in continental Europe after the war. ↗

— David Bruce

#conditions #continental #discouraged #economic #europe