Best Northern Qoutes
310 Northern quotes by 259 unique authors
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I have in this War a burning private grudge—which would probably make me a better soldier at 49 than I was at 22: against that…
— J.R.R. Tolkien
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A crystalline moment shatters, and the world is a different place. Where there was confinement, now there is release. Recoiling from my sudden liberation, my…
— Aron Ralston
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Lane himself lit a cigarette as the train pulled in. Then, like so many people, who, perhaps, ought to be issued only a very probational…
— J D Salinger
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Laistrygonians. Cannibals. Northern Giants. Sasquatch legend. Yep, yep. They are not birds. Not birds of North America.
— Rick Riordan
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Everyone under the age of sixty called it the War Between the States, while everyone over sixty called it the War of Northern Aggression, as…
— Kami Garcia
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But I didn't walk a single step. I stopped a lot to stretch, but I never walked. I didn't come here to walk. I came…
— Haruki Murakami
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And I have tried to forget him, I have tried to convince myself that it was just one of those things, but it’s difficult to…
— John Boyne
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Farewell sweet earth and northern sky, for ever blest, since here did lie and here with lissom limbs did run beneath the Moon, beneath the…
— J.R.R. Tolkien
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A strangely reflective, even melancholy day. Is that because, unlike our cousins in the northern hemisphere, Easter is not associated with the energy and vitality…
— Hugh Mackay
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I was nerdy girl who went to Catholic school and wanted to be an engineer. I was all set to attend the Illinois Institute of…
— Cindy Morgan
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I was one of the many kids in Northern Ireland who grew up in the countryside and had an idyllic childhood well away from the…
— James Nesbitt
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I spent my childhood in northern New York State, and like many kids, bugs and other critters fascinated me.
— Romulus Whitaker
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We evolved living in more sunlight than today. We make our own vitamin D when sunlight hits our skin cells. Many people living in the…
— Paul Stamets
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I do think one success of Northern Europe, which the United States came from, was its willingness to accept innovation in business practices like Adam…
— James D. Watson
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Polenta is to northern Italy what bread is to Tuscany, what pasta is to Emilia-Romagna and what rice is to the Veneto: easy to make,…
— Yotam Ottolenghi
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Neapolitans are extremely empathetic, whereas the typical northern attitude is more about not showing or sharing your feelings.
— Toni Servillo
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My sights have always been on acting, on the creative process, never the lifestyle. Growing up in Northern Ireland when I did, everything was against…
— Colin Morgan
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I grew up in Northern California, so the hippies were still around. My father and mother were very Republican, very strait-laced and very uptight, but…
— Grant Show
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I look at my own reservation, the White Earth reservation in northern Minnesota - on my reservation, one quarter of our money is spent on…
— Winona LaDuke
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Probably half the cases of Civil War dead were not identified. And so there was no way to let loved ones know, and there were…
— Drew Gilpin Faust
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Often, Americans think any northern English accent is Australian.
— Ryan Cartwright
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In Northern Ireland, helicopters are not usually used to promote poetry.
— Seamus Heaney
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A person from Northern Ireland is naturally cautious.
— Seamus Heaney
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Loyalism, or Unionism, or Protestantism, or whatever you want to call it, in Northern Ireland - it operates not as a class system, but a…
— Seamus Heaney
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I would say that something important for me and for my generation in Northern Ireland was the 1947 Education Act, which allowed students who won…
— Seamus Heaney
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