North Quotes

• Women are oppressed in the east, in the west, in the south, in the north. Women are oppressed inside, outside home, a woman is oppressed in religion, she is oppressed outside religion.

  

  Taslima Nasrin
  • Religion
  • West
  • South

• Nobody but a Southerner knows the wrenching rinsing sadness of the cities of the North.

  

  Walker Percy
  • Sadness
  • Southern
  • North

• Too often, when Europeans talked of trans-Atlantic ties, we focused on the North Atlantic only.

  

  Federica Mogherini
  • Focused
  • Often
  • North

• I grew up sailing in the North Sea.

  

  Laura Dekker
  • Up
  • Sea
  • Sailing

• Well, I've been to Iraq twice now. I was in Baghdad in June and then north of Baghdad in November.

  

  Gary Sinise
  • Now
  • November
  • June

• I have carried bills concerning Sudan. I've carried bills concerning Congo. I've carried bills concerning North Korea and Iran and Iraq.

  

  Sam Brownback
  • Iran
  • North Korea
  • North

• I'm from the north, so I'm anti-Thatcher.

  

  Faye Marsay
  • North

• Satellite images suggest North Korea is building a light-water reactor and working on uranium enrichment. This is troubling.

  

  Yukiya Amano
  • Light
  • Water
  • Working

• Kashmir, the 86,000-square-mile region in India's north, both is and isn't the India of the popular imagination.

  

  Hanya Yanagihara
  • Imagination
  • Popular
  • India

• The North can be a deceptive place; it is not a done deal.

  

  Ian Paisley
  • Place
  • North
  • Deceptive

• Canada's Far North is where I knew I had to go.

  

  Bern Will Brown
  • North
  • I Knew

• When you hear someone from the very north of Scotland speaking, I think its nice, very musical and harmonious.

  

  Sean Connery
  • Scotland
  • Harmonious
  • North

• Behold a people shall come from the north, and a great nation. They shall hold the bow and the lance; they are cruel and will not show mercy; their voice shall roar like the sea, and they shall ride upon horses every one put in array, like a man to the battle.

  

  Conn Iggulden
  • People
  • Cruel
  • Bow

• Most people in England don't live in the North, and people are snobby in England, so they wanted a band from the South.

  

  Mick Jagger The Rolling Stones
  • People
  • Live
  • Band

• The fires of frustration and discord are burning in every city, North and South,’ he said. ‘Where legal remedies are not at hand, redress is sought in the streets in demonstrations, parades and protests, which create tensions and threaten violence—and threaten lives.

  

  C. Vann Woodward
  • Frustration
  • South
  • Remedies

• Twelve days north of Hopeless and a few degrees south of Freezing to Death

  

  Cressida Cowell
  • Death
  • Hopeless
  • South

• I grew up in leafy suburbs in north and east Belfast, but if I had been born a mile down the road closer to the city centre, you might never heard of me.

  

  Mike Nesbitt
  • Down
  • Heard
  • Centre

• By insisting on having your bottle pointing to the north when the cork is being drawn, and calling the waiter Max, you may induce an impression on your guests which hours of laboured boasting might be powerless to achieve. For this purpose, however, the guests must be chosen as carefully as the wine.

  

  Hector Hugh Munro
  • Purpose
  • Wine
  • Bottle