Quotes for All
I guess the prime example is in North America there’s a thing where if there’s no opportunity to move forward with the puck, then a [hockey] player is told to dump the puck into the other zone. Just give up the puck and dump it in. Give it to the other team. And to the … Read more
The Arctic Ocean encircles with a belt of eternal ice the desert confines of Siberia and North America–the uttermost limits of the Old and New worlds, separated by the narrow, channel, known as Behring’s Straits. Eugene Sue
I was in Vancouver, and I was in what I was told was the poorest neighborhood in North America – which I find very hard to believe because has anyone here ever been to Detroit? Eugene Mirman
In North America, the medium-to-large publishers are generally confining investment to enhancements, upgrades and opportunities for incremental capacity and efficiency improvements, while among the smaller newspapers, there continues to be interest in systems that can provide a significant boost in production capabilities. Eric Bell
Mexico and the USA are friends, partners and allies and should continue to work together for competivity and development across North America. Enrique Pena Nieto
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 of his present home. Ellsworth Huntington
George Macdonald said, ‘If you knew what God knows about death you would clap your listless hands’, but instead I find old people in North America just buying this whole youth obsession. I think growing older is a wonderful privilege. I want to learn to glorify God in every stage of my life. Elisabeth Elliot
Napoleon had been fighting this army of slaves and free people in Haiti and it depleted his forces. And after the Revolution, when the French were driven out, they stopped and sold this big chunk of North America to the Americans for very little money. Edwidge Danticat
I understand and sympathize with the reasonable needs of a reasonable number of people on a finite continent. All life depends upon other life. But what is happening today, in North America, is not rational use but irrational massacre. Man the Pest, multiplied to the swarming stage, is attacking the remaining forests like a plague … Read more
Over-taxation cost England her colonies of North America. Edmund Burke