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Quotes About North America

The native music of North America, the original-roots music of this country, is also the underworld music of this country.
~ Robbie Robertson
I own almost 100 hotels in North America. Some of them are only in management, but some of them we have some small stakes in them.
~ Al-Waleed bin Talal
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.'
~ Robbie Robertson
Competitiveness demands flexibility, choice and openness - or Europe will fetch up in a no-man's land between the rising economies of Asia and market-driven North America.
~ David Cameron
You have likely heard me describe the state of churches in North America. Nearly nine out of ten are either declining, or they are growing more slowly than the communities in which they are located. In simple terms, 90 percent of our churches are losing ground in their respective communities.
~ Thom S. Rainer
But here's the thing: He didn't get hung. The man climbed on a wooden watercraft and collided with North America by accident. It doesn't matter what happened afterwards or what his motives were. He found it. It happened. He's what history is. It was his destiny to be that particular man, and it was his destiny to do those specific things.
~ Chuck Klosterman
North America Industry Classification Standard (NAICS)
~ W. Chan Kim
Civilization and culture in North America are more menaced, more strongly threatened, by internal disorders than by external pressure.
~ Gwynne Dyer
I do not support a North American Union. I disagree fundamentally with that, and I think the United States should be governing itself and not being governed by multilateral unions, the United Nations.
~ Sam Brownback
Indeed, North America Indian policy in the last half of the nineteenth century had many of the qualities of a bad movie. It was a low-budget affair with a simplistic plot: politicians, soldiers, clerics, social scientists, and people of unexamined goodwill dash about North America, saving themselves from Indians by saving Indians from themselves
~ Thomas King
the [Hawthorn] report revealed the logical fallacy that has haunted Indian history and policy in North America since contact - to wit, that all people yearn for the individual freedom to pursue economic goals. Indians are people, ergo, they want to make money and create wealth for themselves and their families.
~ Thomas King
A great many people in North America believe that Canada and the United States, in a moment of inexplicable generosity, gave treaty rights to Native people as a gift. Of course, anyone familiar with the history of Indians in North America knows that Native people paid for every treaty right, and in some cases, paid more than once. The idea that either country gave First Nations something for free is horseshit.
~ Thomas King
To be sure, they have had the occasional success, but there is little chance that North America will develop a functional land ethic until it finds a way to overcome its irrational addiction to profit.
~ Thomas King
Outside of North America, best football? Is Samoa North America? Probably Samoa. I'd say Samoa. Germany's certainly up there.
~ Mike Leach
The first English settlers of North America knew they were making history. New Englanders in particular were so sure of it that they started writing their own accounts of themselves as soon as they got here.
~ Edmund Morgan
England was the first true colonial power to use its dominion over a large part of Africa, the Middle East, Asia, Australia, North America, and many Caribbean islands, in the first half of the 20th century.
~ Fidel Castro
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.
~ Rex Tillerson
When businesses think of locating in North America, I want to make sure that they think first about Florida.
~ Rick Scott
My focus is that firearms are handled safely and that we can continue to enjoy them here in North America.
~ Steve Kanaly
The world of contemporary art has, in a way, exponentially expanded in the last couple of decades, and almost every major city in Europe and Asia and North America has fallen over themselves to have their own contemporary art museum.
~ Thomas Heatherwick
Myself and Cameron Lickle travel around North America in an RV and we conduct tennis clinics in clubs.
~ Mats Wilander
We live in the United States. British settlers founded the first colony in North America. And English is our language.
~ Trish Regan
5G will come. We can debate when in certain parts of the world. But it's quite clear that the race is heating up in North America and Northeast Asia.
~ Borje Ekholm
White North American Christians, especially those of us from the privileged strata of society, must come to terms with the fact that our reading site for the Gospel of Mark is empire, locus imperium.
~ Ched Myers