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"1492. As children we were taught to memorize this year with pride and joy as the year people began living full and imaginative lives on the continent of North America. Actually, people had been living full and imaginative lives on the continent of North America for hundreds of years before that. 1492 was simply the year sea pirates began to rob, cheat, and kill them." »Kurt Vonnegut: Breakfast of Champions
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"No man is an island, entire of itself every man is a piece of the continent." »John Donne
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"From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic an iron curtain has descended across the Continent." »Winston Churchill
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"Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal." »Abraham Lincoln
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"We have achieved the most amazing things, a few million people opening up half a continent. But we have not yet found a Canadian soul except in time of war. (On lack of national identity)" »Lester Bowles Pearson
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"No man is an Island, entire of itself every man is a piece of the Continent, a part of the main if a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less, as well as if a promontory were, as well as if a manor of thy friends or of thine own were any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in Mankind And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls It tolls for thee." »John Donne
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"By nature, men are nearly alike by practice, they get to be wide apart." »Confucius
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"By nature, men are nearly alike; by practice, they get to be wide apart." »Confucius, The Confucian Analects
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"It is books that are a key to the wide world if you can't do anything else, read all that you can." »Jane Hamilton
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"A wide screen just makes a bad film twice as bad." »Samuel Goldwyn
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"Better to get up late and be wide awake than to get up early and be asleep all day." »Anonymous
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"The sun does not shine for a few trees and flowers, but for the wide world's joy." »Henry Ward Beecher
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"America is the land of wide lawns and narrow minds." »Ernest Hemingway
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"There is a wide difference between speaking to deceive, and being silent to be impenetrable." »Voltaire
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"Keep thy eyes wide open before marriage, and half-shut afterwards." »Benjamin Franklin
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"Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth upon this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal...We here highly resolve that the dead shall not have died in vain, that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom and that government of the people, by the people, and for the people, shall not perish from the earth." »Abraham Lincoln
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"It takes a person who is wide awake to make his dream come true." »Roger Babson
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"The world is wide, and I will not waste my life in friction when it could be turned into momentum." »Frances Willard
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"The trouble with America is that there are far too many wide-open spaces surrounded by teeth." »Charles Luckman
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"Wide-sounding Zeus takes away half a man's worth on the day when slavery comes upon him." »Homer
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"Heaven is not the wide blue sky but the place where corporeality is begotten in the house of the Creative." »Lu Yen
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"Away back in that time-in 1492-there was a man by the name of Columbus came from across the great ocean, and he discovered the country for the white man. . . What did he find when he first arrived here Did he find a white man standing on the continent then . . . I stood here first, and Columbus first discovered me." »Chitto Harjo
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"One very important ingredient of success is a good, wide-awake, persistent, tireless enemy." »Frank Shutts
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"The secret of happiness is this: Let your interests be as wide as possible, and let your reactions to the things and persons that interest you be as far as possible friendly rather that hostile." »Bertrand Russell
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"There's something intrinsically therapeutic about choosing to spend your time in a wide, open park- like setting that non-golfers can never truly understand." »Charles Rosin
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"There is a wide world out there, my friend, full of pain, but filled with joy as well. The former keeps you on the path of growth, and the latter makes the journey tolerable." »R. A. Salvatore, Sojourn
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"In the desert a fountain is springing,
In the wide waste there still is a tree,
And a bird in the solitude singing,
Which speaks to my spirit of thee." »Lord Byron, Stanzas to Augusta
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"You will certainly not be able to take the lead in all things yourself, for to one man a god has given deeds of war, and to another the dance, to another lyre and song, and in another wide-sounding Zeus puts a good mind." »Homer
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"Once upon a time my political opponents honored me as possessing the fabulous intellectual and economic power by which I created a world-wide depression all by myself." »Herbert Clark Hoover
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"It is easy to go down into Hell night and day, the gates of dark Death stand wide but to climb back again, to retrace one's steps to the upper air - there's the rub, the task." »Virgil
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