Quotes of North - somelinesforyou

“ Suffolk has something more than the coziness of Kent and Surrey. There is a hint of wildness in its tamed beauty, and the tang of the North Sea is never far away. ”

- Patricia Moyes

“ I could have ended the war in a month. I could have made North Vietnam look like a mud puddle. ”

- Barry Goldwater

“ North Dakota and America owe a great deal to the men and women who work the land and ensure that our foods are safe, affordable, and of a quality unequaled anywhere in the world. ”

- John Hoeven

“ I had some friends here from North Carolina who'd never seen a homer, so I gave them a couple. ”

- Catfish Hunter

“ There is a whole school of Canadian academics, media personalities, and politicians whose definition of a Canadian is a North American who fears or dislikes the United States. ”

- Preston Manning

“ Offhand, the only North American writers I can think of who have come from a background of rural poverty and gone on to write about it have been Negroes. ”

- Alden Nowlan

“ Women are oppressed in the east, in the west, in the south, in the north. Women are oppressed inside, outside home, a woman is oppressed in religion, she is oppressed outside religion. ”

- Taslima Nasrin

“ North Eurasia is one of the best examples of religious tolerance and peaceful coexistence of Islam and Christianity. This is a rare thing in today's world, even in its most liberal parts. ”

- Nursultan Nazarbayev

“ I think it's great now that we seem to be in an era where it's OK to be gay and I think that the society in North America has had more of a problem with it than any other society. ”

- Jason Priestley

“ You're talking to a country that is very, very unsteady, that is very weird, the way they act. But that's the way they are. ”

- Bill Richardson

“ The frontiers are not east or west, north or south, but wherever a man fronts a fact. ”

- Henry David Thoreau

“ The most important direction we can go isn't east or west or north or south, it is inside ourselves. There is a path to your own heart, your own treasure chest, and I would like you to follow it. ”

- Bernie Siegel

“ Send danger from the east unto the west, so honor cross it from the north to south. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ RED-SKIN, n. A North American Indian, whose skin is not red — at least not on the outside. ”

- Ambrose Bierce

“ He who exercises government by means of his virtue may be compared to the north polar star, which keeps its place and all the stars turn towards it. ”

- Confucius

“ Biography is a very definite region bounded on the north by history, on the south by fiction, on the east by obituary, and on the west by tedium. ”

- Philip Guedalla

“ Civilization must be destroyed. The hairy saints of the North have earned this crumb by their complaints. ”

- Wallace Stevens

“ Fame always brings loneliness. Success is as ice cold and lonely as the North Pole. ”

- Vicki Baum

“ He who governs by way of virtue can be compared to the North Pole Star, which keeps its place while all the other stars position themselves around it. ”

- Confucius

“ It is the north wind that lashes men into Vikings; it is the soft, luscious south wind which lulls them to lotus dreams. ”

- Ouida

“ News is that which comes from the North, East, West and South, and if it comes from only one point on the compass, then it is a class ; publication and not news. ”

- Benjamin Disraeli

“ We must remember that North Carolina is more than a collection of regions and people. We are one state, one people, one family, bound by a common concern for each other. ”

- Michael F. Easley

“ In America there must be only citizens, not divided by grade, first and second, but citizens, east, west, north, and south. ”

- John F. Kennedy

“ Well, the common enemy in North America is the Western consumer. The consumer has driven oil up to $50 a barrel so we have to have these wars. I think it's incumbent upon us to. ”

- Dan Aykroyd

“ Increased funding for the Weatherization Assistance Program is a priority for the Bush Administration, and I am pleased that many families in North Carolina will benefit from this increase. ”

- Richard Burr

“ I actually defeated an incumbent Republican senator who was part of the Jesse Helm's political machine in North Carolina, the result of which is I'm now the senior senator from North Carolina instead of Jesse Helms, which is a very good thing for this country. ”

- John Edwards

“ 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… ”

- Kurt Vonnegut

“ The New York Times ran a Tom Tomorrow cartoon sneering about Americans who believe with 'unwavering faith in an invisible omniscient deity who favors those born in the middle of the North American land mass.' This is how liberals conceive of America: an undifferentiated land mass in the middle of North America. ”

- Ann Coulter

“ North Korea is the biggest threat right now. Kim Jong Il is a wild card. North Korean society has collapsed on itself: There aren't many dogs or cats, there are no lights on at night. When someone like that is so isolated and has the bomb, we're in danger… ”

- David Hunt

“ The North American system only wants to consider the positive aspects of reality. Men and women are subjected from childhood to an inexorable process of adaptation; certain principles, contained in brief formulas are endlessly repeated by the Press, the radio, the churches, and the schools, and by those kindly, sinister beings, the North American mothers and wives… ”

- Octavio Paz
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