(228 quotes found)
“But I am constant as the northern star, Of whose true-fix'd and resting quality There is no fellow in the firmament”
William Shakespeare
“When I told the people of Northern Ireland that I was an atheist, a woman in the audience stood up and said, 'Yes, but is it the God of the Catholics or the God of the Protestants in whom you don't believe?”
Quentin Crisp
“YANKEE, n. In Europe, an American. In the Northern States of our Union, a New Englander. In the Southern States the word is unknown. (See DAMNYANK.)”
Ambrose Bierce
“The religion most prevalent in our northern colonies is a refinement on the principles of resistance: it is the dissidence of dissent, and the Protestantism of the Protestant religion”
Edmund Burke
“Segregation in the South is honest, open and aboveboard. Of the two systems, or styles of segregation, the Northern and the Southern, there is no doubt whatever in my mind which is the better.”
Strom Thurmond
“It's appropriate with 2006 being Woodbine's 50th anniversary that we name a race after Northern Dancer. He really put Canada and Woodbine on the map during his racing and breeding career.”
Chris Evans
“The hurricanes are following the tropical ocean temperature. The tropical ocean temperature is following the Northern Hemisphere. And it's very hard now to believe that there's anything natural about that.”
Kerry Emanuel
“There are reports that Saddam has been spotted in central Baghdad. Parts of him were also spotted in northern Baghdad, eastern Baghdad and western Baghdad.”
Jay Leno
“The northern part of the state is very much like a Deep South state. Obviously, the Miami area is an international area.”
Allen Boyd
“Our island has been the source of eagles for both mainland populations and northern islands. It's possible that pair bonds will break. It's taken us 25 years to get to the point that we're at.”
Ann Muscat