North Quotes
1176 North quotes by 897 unique authors
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There is an Islamic population in France, most of which comes from the North African countries.
— Jean-Marie Le Pen
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Nixon did have a secret plan, and I knew that it involved making threats of nuclear war to North Vietnam.
— Daniel Ellsberg
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Harriet Tubman was an astronaut, traversing the south to the north by navigating the stars.
— Sanford Biggers
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Brooklyn Heights itself is a window on the port. Here, where the perspective is fixed by the towers of Manhattan and the hills of New…
— Alfred Kazin
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New York had all the iridescence of the beginning of the world. The returning troops marched up Fifth Avenue and girls were instinctively drawn East…
— F. Scott Fitzgerald
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[T]he only thing wrong with Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Address was that it was the South, not the North, that was fighting for a government of…
— H. L. Mencken
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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…
— Preston Manning
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Shaking hands with the Queen of England was a long way from being forced to sit in the colored section of the bus going into…
— Althea Gibson
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But the fact is, it's illegal for the Administration to spend North west taxpayers' money to develop this rate hike proposal, just so it can…
— Maria Cantwell
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At a time when we are facing threats from nations such as North Korea and Iran, and attempting to convince others such as India and…
— Ellen Tauscher
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He's a novice, but he's had these - he's experienced in leadership in tight circumstances. He started - he dropped the first bomb, led the…
— James Stockdale
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To do so, we are creating a Fairness for Switzerland Committee that will not only disseminate some of the facts, but also protect a relationship…
— Peter Munk
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The heart of our relationship, this natural environment that has blessed us really all along the west coast of North America, on both sides of…
— Dan Miller
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I never was an Abolitionest, not even what could be called anti slavery, but I try to judge farely and honestly and it become patent…
— Ulysses S. Grant
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The "Axis of Evil" was - and is - very real, as the tyrants of Iran, Iraq, and North Korea knew full well.
— Michael A. Ledeen
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Japan continues to work closely with the United States on the issue of the North Korean nuclear crisis and has played an important and constructive…
— Michael K. Simpson
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Italy is divided between us and them, rich and poor, north and south, young and old, employed and unemployed.
— Romano Prodi
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Gentrification and consumerism... have destroyed the character of my favorite American haunts, like North Beach, Berkeley, Venice and Aspen.
— Tom Hayden
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These people, as far as I can see, do not congregate in the notorious centers of the movement, like the North Beach in San Francisco…
— Alan Watts
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Come, see the north-wind's masonry, Out of an unseen quarry evermore Furnished with tile, the fierce artificer Curves his white bastions with projected roof Round…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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But unless some great revolution in nature modifies the present relative level between land and sea, it may safely be maintained that the present outer…
— Louis Agassiz
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The South creates the civilizations, the North conquers them, ruins them, borrows from them, spreads them: this is one summary of history.
— Will Durant
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Read him slowly, dear girl, you must read Kipling slowly. Watch carefully where the commas fall so you can discover the natural pauses. He is…
— Michael Ondaatje
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Midsummer Night was roasting hot. The shore, of red granite, glowed with the heat; the dark blood of the earth seemed to be rising from…
— Yevgeny Zamyatin
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The TSA must think we're mushrooms. You know, the way they are trying to keep us in the dark, and the way they keep feeding…
— Douglas Wilson
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