North Quotes
1176 North quotes by 897 unique authors
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So the case stands, and under all the passion of the parties and the cries of battle lie the two chief moving causes of the…
— Charles Dickens
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The American people, North and South, went into the [Civil] war as citizens of their respective states, they came out as subjects ... what they…
— H. L. Mencken
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In fact, the history of North America has been perhaps more profoundly influenced by man's inheritance from his past homes than by the physical features…
— Ellsworth Huntington
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If history is any guide at all, it seems to me to suggest that there is a final theory. In this century we have seen…
— Steven Weinberg
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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…
— Philip Guedalla
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This boa, the American columns, are being besieged between Basra and other towns north, west, south and west of Basra. The Americans are the people…
— Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf
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James's expedition to Scotland is wholly imaginary, though there appears to have been space for it during Henry's progress to the North to pay his…
— Charlotte Mary Yonge
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At each of these northern posts there were interesting experiences in store for me, as one who had read all the books of northern travel…
— Ernest Thompson Seton
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Growing up in Georgia, I used to think people up north or out west were so different. They're really not. They're just regular people who…
— Alan Jackson
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We have North Shore, Hawaii and Lost all there, so they have softball tournaments between the casts. It's hilarious.
— Josh Holloway
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Terrorists in 6 weeks have been able to command 300 million North Americans to do away with the entirety of their civil liberties that took…
— Unknown Author
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Well, I'm a daughter of the great migration as, really, the majority of African Americans that you meet in the north and west are products…
— Isabel Wilkerson
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There are more Muslims in North America then Jews Now.
— Dan Rather
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Aristotle, in spite of his reputation, is full of absurdities. He says that children should be conceived in the Winter, when the wind is in…
— Bertrand Russell
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You and I both know, deep in your heart, you agree with me. And I will prove it with one hypothetical scenario: you are alone…
— Frazier Glenn Miller, Jr.
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...2009 saw the eighth 'ten-year flood' of Fargo, North Dakota, since 1989. In Iowa, Cedar Rapids was hit last year by a flood that exceeded…
— Al Gore
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There are a lot of universities that are as dangerous with the indoctrination of the children as terrorists are in Iran or North Korea. We…
— Glenn Beck
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Terrorism is not a limited threat, it is a world wide operation. Today, many countries in the east, and in the west, in the north,…
— Pratibha Patil
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Civilization must be destroyed. The hairy saints of the North have earned this crumb by their complaints.
— Wallace Stevens
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On December 7, 1941, an event took place that had nothing to do with me or my family and yet which had devastating consequences for…
— David Suzuki
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We know where they are [Iraq's weapons of mass destruction]. They're in the area around Tikrit and Baghdad and east, west, south and north somewhat.
— Donald Rumsfeld
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We fought a military war; our opponents fought a political one. We sought physical attrition; our opponents aimed for our psychological exhaustion. In the process…
— Henry A. Kissinger
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We remember the grind of the insurgency -- the roadside bombs, the sniper fire, the suicide attacks. From the 'triangle of death' to the fight…
— Barack Obama
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The days are cold, the nights are long, The North wind sings a doleful song; Then hush again upon my breast; All merry things are…
— Dorothy Wordsworth
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And as we kept driving north, the whole family in the care together, it got darker, and snowier, until finally the road delivered us to…
— John Green
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