Quotes of: North Keyword

I was born into Sudan's civil war, and before I could read or write, I was using an AK47 in the conflict between the Muslim north and Animist/Christian south over the land and natural resources.

Ger Duany

I worked night and day for twelve years to prevent the war, but I could not. The North was mad and blind, would not let us govern ourselves, and so the war came.

Jefferson Davis

I think that Barack Obama faces a level of divisiveness, and I don't mean on a national level in terms of the North and the South and the Civil War; I really mean just politically.

James Spader

The north of the Central African Republic is now a war zone, with rival armed bands burning villages, kidnapping children, robbing travelers and killing people with impunity.

Nicholas D. Kristof

he had offered some of his own background. A youth in the South. An education in the North. Bred for life in the East. Trying not to die in the West.

Doc

Oh, you're a picky sort, huh?" He laughed. "That takes balls, being choosy at a time like this.

El Presidio Rides North

When I was a child I truly loved: Unthinking love as calm and deep As the North Sea. But I have lived, And now I do not sleep.

Grendel

If there are any curses left in baseball, they are all on the north side of Chicago.

Boston Red Sox: An Interactive Guide to the World of Sports

The compulsion to do good is an innate American trait. Only North Americans seem to believe that they always should, may, and actually can choose somebody with whom to share their blessings. Ultimately this attitude leads to bombing people into the a...

Ivan Illich

What I wish I had, is that I wish I was a little more Greek, in that I wish I could lose my North American driven attitude and that I could be a little bit more poetic and laissez faire.

Nia Vardalos

As a child, I spent a lot of time alone. I used to sit in my closet with one cracker. I'd pretend that I was on the North Pole freezing to death, and I had to somehow survive on this one tiny cracker.

Teri Hatcher

I really would love to do a piece like Julia Roberts or Charlize Theron in 'Erin Brockovich' or 'North Country.' They were both so amazing and so inspiring. I would love to touch someone in the way their performances touched me.

Ashley Greene

Tel Aviv is new, built on the sand dunes north of Jaffa in the 1890s, about the same time Miami was founded. The cities bear a resemblance in size, site, climate, and architecture, which ranges from the bland to the fancifully bland.

P. J. O'Rourke

When I was 16 years old, I joined a drama group called North Queensland Academy of Dramatic Art under a woman called Maggie Shephard-King. She inspired me to audition for the role of Romeo in 'Romeo and Juliet.'

Brenton Thwaites

I eat east and west, and I eat them at the same time. But I drink my coffee north to south.

I love Blue Ribbon Coffee

I wondered about her chicken-and-egg relationship with Dad. Which came first? Her helplessness or his controlling?

North of Beautiful

When the creative impulse sweeps over you, grab it. You grab it and honor it and use it, because momentum is a rare gift.

North of Beautiful

Hey, if it's a good philosophy, it works. Death is imminent. Live every day like it's your last.

North of Beautiful

He sees me when I'm lying. He hears me when I flirt.

North Pole High: A Rebel Without a Claus

Yesterday's fairy tale is today's fact. The magician is only one step ahead of his audience.

North to the Orient

A wise parent humors the desire for independent action, so as to become the friend and advisor when his absolute rule shall cease.

North and South