Quotes About North

Many of the town's residents summered up North, along with their horses. Others took long, slow weekends at the beach or on the lake or in the mountains, in family homes built by their great grandparents and passed through the generations like prized silver. The rest of us simply tempered our pace and entered into the peace that floated around us on the breeze of a slow-moving fan.

Well, it may be north, but near Niagara Falls we have a microclimate that lets us produce ice wine, from grapes picked very late when they have shriveled and frozen. They make a wonderful dessert wine. It's very concentrated, so we sell it in small bottles.

If we accept the abolitionist portrait of Northern Unionists, we are left to wonder how many cotton merchants there really were in the North!

Everett's quick conversion to the war cause after Sumter was just as typical of the North as had been his confusion during the secession winter.

hard race from the north who ruled Kemet with iron,

West is too materialist; East is too spiritual; North is too cold; South is too loose!

The GOP survived the Civil War and North v South. It will not fade as we have a common enemy. A democrat.

North of the 49th parallel we value equality; south of it, they treasure freedom.

Hail to the herbs within you! Welcome is the pure to me Utterance 304 Antechamber, North Wall The king climbs to the sky on a ladder

We know that power is shifting from brawn to brains, from north to south and west to east, from old corporate behemoths to agile start-ups, from entrenched dictators to people in town squares and cyberspace.

Even fervent abolitionists, viewing blacks as equal in rights but inferior socially and culturally, didn't relish having freedmen come north to live beside them but wanted them to stay down south.

proslavery southerners contended that the greatest failing of the North was its dependence on a lower-class stratum of menial white workers.

I watched a storm pass to the north, trailing veils of dark rain.

History had turned violent again and Mr MacGhiolla with a special gleam in his eyes had departed for the North. He left my father books with trapped strands of red hair and a faint sulphuric whiff of nationalism trapped within the pages.

The hostile shore facing the British stretched now from the Friesian Islands in the north

FROM BUNDI I wanted to leave immediately for the South – that sunlit place in my imagination, for whose old-world charm and civility I had developed a positive yearning after several months at a stretch in the barbarous North.

La mappa dice che vado verso il Nord tra due regioni storiche, la Carelia e la Botnia. Due mondi diversi, parrebbe, ma a destra e sinistra vedo gli stessi laghi e gli stessi nevai

Noi siamo sul bordo sud del Mare del Nord, tu sul bordo nord del Mare del Sud

Even if he's quite mad north-northwest. At least the wind is usually southerly.

Es posible cultivar sueños del Norte y sueños de Sur, de Occidente y de Oriente. Lo inevitable, al parecer, es no querer estar donde se está.

All dwellers in the Teutonic north, looking out at the winter sky, are subject to spasms of nearly irresistible pull, when the entire Italian peninsula from Trieste to Agrigento begins to function like a lodestone. The magnetism is backed by an unseen choir, there are roulades of mandoline strings in the air; ghostly whiffs of lemon blossom beckon the victims south and across the Alpine passes.

People even travelled to Lapland, up there in the North, with its eternal ice and savages who gorged themselves on raw fish.

Aldersgate Street, the bottom of the A1 - which was the modern designation of the original Great North Road, built by the Romans two thousand years ago to march its garrisons to the very edge of the empire three hundred miles to the north. Their duty was to reinforce Hadrian's Wall, keeping the outer darkness at bay and the empire safe.

But more than that was the strangeness she felt here, the deep, unscratchable itch, the nagging wrongness written into her bones. It was as though there had been a compass in her, hidden and unknown yet totally fundamental to her sense of the world, and now that compass no longer had a north to point at.