Top 1200 North America Quotes & Sayings - Page 2

Ina May Gaskin is the most important person in maternity care in North America, bar none.

I was born in Sarnia, Ontario; a small town, it's where oil was pretty much discovered in North America.

America is thataway, Mr. Lincoln," laughed Davis, pointing north. "You're in Mississippi now.

We're seeing a decline in religion in North America but, I hope, a rise in individual spirituality. Whatever that means to people.

Montreal's a unique city, very fascinating stories of architecture and history, and it's this sort of bizarre mixture of Europe and North America. It's not quite Canada and it's not quite America, and it's definitely got this very Euro feel to it. It's a very, very interesting city.

The areas off the greens are masterpieces. I don't think there's anything like it in North America.

Myself and Cameron Lickle travel around North America in an RV and we conduct tennis clinics in clubs.

When directors like Joe Russo, who understand story from a very global perspective, start working more and more with Chinese filmmakers, you'll start seeing Chinese films that connect with audiences all over Asia, Europe, and South America - maybe even North America.

The black man in North America was economically sick and that was evident in one simple fact: as a consumer, he got less than his share, and as a producer gave least. The black American today shows us the perfect parasite image - the black tick under the delusion that he is progressing because he rides on the udder of the fat, three-stomached cow that is white America.

We have been blessed in many respects with the explosion of the development of shale gas resources here in North America. It's both U.S. and in Canada.

The North Koreans will sell anything to anybody for hard currency. If Al Queda came up with enough dollars to buy a nuclear weapon from North Korea I don't have any doubt that the North Koreans would sell it to them.

In contrast, Western historians, and those in South Korea, say the North attacked the South on June 25, 1950. Both sides agree that after the war began, the North Korean Army captured Seoul in three days and pushed as far south as Pusan before American troops arrived to drive back the North Koreans nearly as far north as the border to China.

Mass transportation is doomed to failure in North America because a person's car is the only place where he can be alone and think.

Nafta has been responsible for a race to the bottom in standards across North America, with working conditions declining along with wages.

I was born in Norfolk, Virginia. I began school there, the first year of public school. When I was 7, the family shifted back to North Carolina. I grew up in North Carolina; had my schooling through the college level in North Carolina.

British Columbia's got one of the most ambitious climate change plans in North America.

We live in the United States. British settlers founded the first colony in North America. And English is our language.

I live in a 'sky island,' a unique mountain valley environment where half the animal species of North America can be found.

I've never seen a worse situation than that of young writers in the United States. The publishing business in North America is so commercialized.

Only in North America is it regarded as a major achievement to speak one language moderately well.

We're all already aware of boobies; it is the general state of most people in North America! THANKS, MEDIA AND THE MALE GAZE

Japan and South Korea are on high alert after North Korea successfully launched a long-range rocket. Both countries are surprised by North Korea's successful launch, but definitely not as surprised as North Korea.

I was adopted my black Americans, I feel that I'm a 'Hybrid'. When I'm around Africans'I suddenly feel very black American. And when I'm around black Americans'I feel very North African. North Africa and black America are both the creators of Kola Boof.

My scientific career has developed on three continents: Asia, Europe and North America.

America is looking for answers. She's looking for a new direction; the world is looking for a light. That light can come from America's great North Star; it can come from Alaska.

In America the most widespread type of forest is the evergreen coniferous woodland of the north.

I've played matches in Mexico, Canada and the United States. The people of North America have always welcomed me.

Britain is relatively compact and much closer to the borders of the U.S.S.R. than anywhere in North America.

Materialism has never been so ominous as now in North America, as management takes over.

The direction is going the right way for respect for aboriginal people in North America, and all we can do is stand up and say, 'Please do it faster.'

Security of character would be like a compass, you know? Other people may say that this way is north, or this way might be north. But the compass just says -- north. That's what we count on.

I can recognize the calls of practically every bird in North America. There are some in Africa I don't know, though.

In North America, more than half of all children travel to school by bus. We need a similar programme in London.

The decline of education in North America and I suppose in Western Europe makes it harder to have a common body of references.

We understand U.S. position, but we have to find a way to make trade translate into better jobs in North America.

If you can find a PS3 anywhere in North America that's been on shelves for more than five minutes, I'll give you 1,200 bucks for it.

A lot of the Indians who came to North America in the '70s, and who made very successful adjustments, always had an idea of the India that they had left, not realizing that the India that they had left has changed more profoundly than the America they came to.

And also, we are providing, you know, a nuclear power plant in the north, two light water systems, so some 4 or 5 billion dollars we are providing to meet with North Korean requests on the condition North Korea will not produce a nuclear weapon.

North Korea is no threat at all. I have already spoken about it during countless televised interviews. I visited North Korea and mingled with its people. There, nobody wants war. The North Korean people paid a terrible price for their independence. Its civilians were murdered mercilessly in tunnels by Western forces; its women were brutally raped, entire villages and towns leveled to the ground, or burned to ashes. All this is never discussed in the West, but is remembered in North Korea.

New Orleans was a thrilling place of all kinds of races, it was a dangerous place. It was really and truly the only international city on the continent of North America. There were all different races and everything was celebrated, and it was a place of difference, and everybody was different and it was so odd, the minute that America took over, the minute that the Louisiana territory became part of the United States of America, instantly you were either black or white. There was no nuance. and so a free man of color who could own property was suddenly not allowed to.

Most people don't know how underpaid and often ill-equipped urban fire departments are across North America.

Through hard work, passion and determination my teammates and I transformed TFC and made it one of the best clubs in MLS and in North America.

Mexico and the USA are friends, partners and allies and should continue to work together for competivity and development across North America.

A lot of people don't know this, but Toronto is probably the most multicultural city in North America.

North America can easily fragment quickly as did the Eastern Bloc in 1989.

It is well known, that on the Ohio, and in many parts of America further north, tusks, grinders, and skeletons of unparalleled magnitude are found in great numbers, some lying on the surface of the earth, and some a little below it ... But to whatever animal we ascribe these remains, it is certain that such a one has existed in America, and that it has been the largest of all terrestrial beings.

With production alone as the goal, industry in North America was dominated by the assembly line, standardization for mass consumption.

To compare the United States of America - the beacon of the free world - to the brutal North Korean dictatorship is as insulting as it is asinine.

For a woman to be a lesbian in a male-supremacist, capitalist, misogynist, racist, homophobic, imperialist culture, such as that of North America, is an act of resistance.

While Shakespeare wasn't the first voice in the room, in North America and Europe, he's one of the loudest voices.

We've played in the North and in the South, and it seems like the young people around America just want to feel good now.

We are seeing historic, record-breaking sales across all types of our accounts in North America for 'The Lost Symbol.'

I feel that we have some opportunity in North America to go back and say the American Revolution was the real thing.

I can recognize the calls of practically every bird in North America. There are some in Africa I don't know, though

If my life be spared, nothing shall stop me short of visiting every nation of Indians on the Continent of North America.

I'm lucky that I have people listening to my music, waiting to see me in North America.

Her name is Ago, and she belonged to the last culture to evolve in North America.

If you think about the history of mobile handsets, in many respects there was a time when Asia and then Europe all led North America.

Prior to 2001, hardly any company in North America or Europe would buy from India.

I am very happy here [on Cuba], but I feel I have work to do in the United States. It's where I can identify with the total world struggle for socialism. But I think as a North American, as a Black North American, I have certain understandings - certain contributions - to make that are unique to the North Amerian experience.