Asia quotes

There is a wind of nationalism and freedom blowing round the world, and blowing as strongly in Asia as elsewhere.

- Stanley Baldwin, 1st Earl Baldwin (of Bewdley)
  Speech, Dec.

Sitting as huge as Asia, seismic with laughter, Gin and chicken helpless in her Irish hand.

- George Granville Barker
  'To My Mother'.

John to the seven churches which are in Asia: Grace be unto you, and peace, from him which is, and which was, and which is to come.

-Bible (NewTestament)
Revelation1:4.

I was in the Spirit on the Lord's day, and heard behind me a great voice, as of a trumpet, Saying, I am Alpha and Omega, the first and the last: and, What thou seest, write in a book, and send it unto the seven churches which are in Asia.

-Bible (NewTestament)
Revelation1:10^11.

The dusty catastrophe of Asia.Green only on the banner of the Prophet. Nothing grows here except mustaches.

- Ioseph Brodsky
  Less Than One,'Flight From Byzantium'.

   We declared war on America and Britain out of Our sincere desire to ensure Japan's self-preservation and the stabilisation of East Asia.

-Hirohito
  Declaration,15  Aug. Quoted in Edward Behr Hirohito (1989).

Holla, ye pampered Jades of Asia; What, can ye draw but twenty miles a day?

- Christopher Marlowe
  Tamburlaine the Great (published1590), pt.2, l.3980^1.