Best Northern Sayings
310 Northern quotes by 259 unique authors
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Before you rip off three feet of toilet paper, consider that each year 500,000 acres of virgin boreal forest in northern Alberta and Ontario are…
— Alex Shoumatoff
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If you would and you could brighten my northern sky.
— Nick Drake
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The external reality and inner dynamic of happenings in Northern Ireland between 1968 and 1974 were symptomatic of change, violent change admittedly, but change nevertheless,…
— Seamus Heaney
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Obviously one of the things that poets from Northern Ireland and beyond - had to try to make sense of was what was happening on…
— Paul Muldoon
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I was born in Northern Ireland in 1951. I lived most of my life there until 1986 or 1987
— Paul Muldoon
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On the other hand, at some level the mass of unresolved issues in Northern Ireland does influence the fact that there are so many good…
— Paul Muldoon
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The world generally speaking is now drifting on a more and more devastating course towards the absurd target of extermination - or rather, to be…
— Alva Myrdal
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From the clayey soil of northern Wyoming is mined bentonite, which is used as filler in candy, gum, and lipstick. We Americans are great on…
— Gretel Ehrlich
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There is not a single injustice in Northern Ireland that is worth the loss of a single British soldier or a single Irish citizen either.
— James Callaghan
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Operation Northern Star with Canada has made significant progress in battling meth from the north, and we are engaged in numerous training opportunities in Mexico…
— Greg Walden
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There is a simple way of avoiding excess risk-taking by the managers of our financial institutions. It is to make it a crime ... had…
— Paul Collier
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Thus the American people were maneuvered into a Civil War which they neither envisioned nor desired. They were manipulated by Masonic Canaanite conspirators working together…
— Eustace Mullins
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The systematic, wanton, and long continued agitation of the slavery question, with the actual and threatened aggressions of the Northern States and a portion of…
— Isham G. Harris
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Canada is a Northern European welfare state in the worst sense of the term, and very proud of it
— Stephen Harper
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Having undertaken, for the glory of God, and advancement of the Christian faith, and honor of our King and Country, a voyage to plant the…
— William Bradford
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After the allied victory of 1918, at the end of my father's war, the victors divided up the lands of their former enemies. In the…
— Robert Fisk
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On golfer Rory McIlroy's collapse in the final round of the 2011 Masters: We had hoped to compare the young Northern Irishman to the great…
— Unknown Author
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One day, millions of men will leave the Southern Hemisphere to go to the Northern Hemisphere. And they will not go there as friends. Because…
— Unknown Author
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I long ago suggested the hypothesis, that in the basin of the Thames there are indications of a meeting in the Pleistocene period of a…
— Charles Lyell
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I would be quite happy to see the Northern Alliance steam across northern Afghanistan and take Kabul.
— Geoff Hoon
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I nominate the Reverend Ian Paisley for the position of First Minister of northern Ireland
— Gerry Adams
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Arizona's forest fires are not waiting for April, and neither will we. That is why I am pushing for stepped up deployment for Hot Shot…
— Rick Renzi
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It is the maintenance of slavery by law in a state, not parallels of latitude, that makes its a southern state; and the absence of…
— William H. Seward
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For far too long, the people of Northern Ireland have been denied an equal voice and equal representation in government. It is time for the…
— James T. Walsh
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People look at black pride in America and sport's impact on it. In the major cities it took off the first time Jackie Robinson stole…
— Jerry Izenberg
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