Quotes About North America

People of North America: may the example of all those nations that have preceded you, and especially that of your motherland, be your guide. Beware the abundance of gold that brings about the corruption of morals and the scorn of law; beware of an unbalanced distribution of wealth that will produce a small number of opulent citizens and a horde of citizens in poverty...

Then came the Industrial Revolution, first in Britain, then in Western Europe and North America. Men and women flocked from the countryside to towns to satisfy factories' growing demand for labor.

We access virtually every producing basin, whether for natural gas or crude oil, in the U.S. and Canada.

Didn't he claim Rome was conspiring to take over North America and had sent the Jesuits to kill Lincoln?" asked Émile.

En route, he identified a few rivers, including what seems to be the Mississippi (a river he named Espiritu Santo, after "Holy Spirit"), which to European nations would become the most important river in North America.

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

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.

This was the power of Andrew Carnegie's legacy. He had used his wealth to set up over 2,000 public libraries across North America. Three generations after his death, they were continuing to pay dividends. These new American citizens were fortunate that Carnegie had thought long-term. For the Taiwanese boys, Carnegie had created the hardware, and their mother the software. This bode well for their assimilation and success in America.

I have 52 first cousins. My mom and dad were the only two to move to North America, so I've got deep family there, but I'm a California kid.

Less is paid for food, in terms of percentage of income, in North America than anywhere else on earth since the history of universal "incomes" began.

The English Puritans who migrated to Plymouth, Boston, New Haven, and other North American sites did so in order to continue the efforts to purify self, church, and society that were being frustrated in the mother country. Of many striking features of the Puritans, one of the most remarkable was their zeal in developing a Christian mind.45

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

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

South America is known as a "high contact" culture, meaning that residents stand closer to one another, touch one another more and are accustomed to more sensory stimulation than residents in, say, northern Europe, with Australians and North Americans believed to be more moderate in their cultural contact level.

the time of World War I, the Eiffel Tower provided the basis for communication with Berlin, Casablanca, and North America, and allowed the army to intercept enemy messages, including the famous intercept that led to the arrest and conviction of the German spy Mata Hari.

One of my recent acquisitions. It is called a medicine bag, from one of the native tribes of North America. A fascinating people, highly skilled in the use of plants' power. They too understand nature's essence as divine. So much so that they do not think it is man's place to own the land at all. Imagine that – think of all the wars we would have missed!

I like to think of the relationship between Canada and the United States as that of two brothers. We both share the same mother, Britain. Canada and the United States grew up in the same house, North America. The United States left home as a teenager and became a movie star. Canada decided to stay home and live with Mother.

The North American system only wants to consider the positive aspects of reality. Men and women are subjected from childhood to an inexorable process of adaptation; certain principles, contained in brief formulas are endlessly repeated by the Press, the radio, the churches, and the schools, and by those kindly, sinister beings, the North American mothers and wives. A person imprisoned by these schemes is like a plant in a flowerpot too small for it: he cannot grow or mature.

The archipelago of St-Pierre and Miquelon is a French territory, a negligible fraction of that country's once huge colonial holdings in North America.

The people of North America have little idea of religion, but they have strict public morality. The Latin people are without morality but they are highly religious.

We went to the conference expecting to hear how the church in North America was leading the global church into the new millennium. In contrast, we left the conference praying, "Lord, please don't leave the church in North America behind as you move powerfully into the world.

I can tell you that the Canadian intelligence and law enforcement agencies have been providing outstanding co-operation with our intelligence and law enforcement agencies as we work together to track down terrorists here in North America and put them out of commission.

Contemporary Americans, immersed in the busy rhythms of twenty-first-century life, rarely pause to reflect that they dwell in a land that has been inhabited for millennia. Human settlement on the continent we call North America (after the Florentine cartographer Amerigo Vespucci) began at least 15,000 years ago

By 1500, the North American population comprised an estimated seven to ten million people.