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North America Quotes

We have been filled with grief as we have witnessed the decline of the North American Church that was once filled with missionary zeal and yet now seems determined to bury itself in a deadly embrace with the spirit of the age.
- Peter Akinola

I've been working with them for a couple years and a couple of projects. Essentially Robert F. Kennedy Jr., is the chief litigator for this corporation, this Alliance, and their job is to prosecute corporate polluters of the great bodies of water in North America.
- Richard Dean Anderson

Well, the common enemy in North America is the Western consumer. The consumer has driven oil up to $50 a barrel so we have to have these wars. I think it's incumbent upon us to.
- Dan Aykroyd

In spite of all this noise, customers are still definitely buying in North America, and they're really, really buying internationally.
- Jim Balsillie

A recent survey or North American males found 42% were overweight, 34% were critically obese and 8% ate the survey.
- Banksy

Taking the entire globe, if North America and Western Europe can be called the 'cities of the world', then Asia, Africa and Latin America constitute 'the rural areas of the world'.
- Lin Biao

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.
- Marshall Mcluhan

Pittsburgh. I'd been there. One of the most underrated cities in North America. People who'd never been there thought of it as a graveyard of abandoned steel mills, but it was a beautiful city, and it would be good to have it back.
- Steven Brust

Laistrygonians. Cannibals. Northern Giants. Sasquatch legend. Yep, yep. They are not birds. Not birds of North America.
- Rick Riordan

Imagine the earth's population of six billion people reduced to just one hundred representatives. Statistically, that makes 30 white, 70 non-white. It means 6 people own 59% of the wealth and they all live in North America. 80 are in substandard housing. One has an education. One owns a computer. Don't blame me if it all sounds crazy.
- Grant Morrison

Over the past several years, all of us as Canadians, and as members of the North American cultural and economic environment, have been to a greater or lesser extent party to a significant attitudinal change towards our culture.
- Alex Campbell

We, in our Province, are beginning to realize and appreciate that our slowness in keeping up with our North American neighbours may well have been a blessing in disguise.
- Alex Campbell

North Americans don't understand... that our country is not just Cuba; our country is also humanity.
- Fidel Castro

This ability to have reliable sources of energy and a reliable transmission of energy here in North America is critical for both of us and for Mexico as we want to keep our economies growing.
- Paul Cellucci

We are also looking to Canada as we continue to integrate the North American energy market.
- Paul Cellucci

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.
- Paul Cellucci

We want to look at how we would respond because, as hard as we work to prevent terrorist attacks here North America, if we have a catastrophic terrorist attack, it is the military that is going to have to go in at the request of civilian authorities.
- Paul Cellucci

I went to professional men's soccer games, the old North American soccer league at that time, and I used to be a ticket holder with my family and family friends. We would go every weekend and I thought it was great, but I just thought of it as recreation, as family fun.
- Brandi Chastain

I hereby accuse the North American empire of being the biggest menace to our planet.
- Hugo Chavez

High school is such a shared experience in North American culture.
- Doug Coupland

The call of the yellow-billed cuckoo of North America is often mistaken for a bloodhound drinking a bowl of milk. He goes coulp coulp coulp.
- Will Cuppy

I'm a big traveler these days. I was in Hong Kong. I live there. I was just in Belgium with my parents and now I'm on my way to North America. You will find me all over.
- Jean Claude Van Damme

Napoleon had been fighting this army of slaves and free people in Haiti and it depleted his forces. And after the Revolution, when the French were driven out, they stopped and sold this big chunk of North America to the Americans for very little money.
- Edwidge Danticat

1492. As children we were taught to memorize this year with pride and joy as the year people began living full and imaginative lives on the continent of North America. Actually, people had been living full and imaginative lives on the continent of North America for hundreds of years before that. 1492 was simply the year sea pirates began to rob, cheat, and kill them.
- Kurt Vonnegut

The Anasazi did manage to construct in stone the largest and tallest buildings erected in North America until the Chicago steel girder skyscrapers of the 1880s.
- Jared Diamond

I'm still heard on 1,500 radio stations across North America every day, about 220 million people a day in 150 countries.
- James C Dobson

George Macdonald said, 'If you knew what God knows about death you would clap your listless hands', but instead I find old people in North America just buying this whole youth obsession. I think growing older is a wonderful privilege. I want to learn to glorify God in every stage of my life.
- Elisabeth Elliot

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

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

Nowhere has specialization penetrated so deeply into the building professions as North America.
- Arthur Erickson

You can get far in North America with laconic grunts. "Huh," "hun," and "hi!" in their various modulations, together with "sure," "guess so," "that so?" and "nuts!" will meet almost any contingency.
- Ian Fleming

North America was ready for something other than a vanilla cooking show and we were providing the double dark chocolate fudge.
- Nadia Giosia

I have taken part in ceremonies with North American and Mexican shamans, as well as Brazilian ceremonies.
- Stanislav Grof

Like most North Americans, I'd been raised on the notion that milk is the first food, and everybody must like it because it's so good and so important for growing up and for being healthy.
- Marvin Harris

In fact, the history of North America has been perhaps more profoundly influenced by man's inheritance from his past homes than by the physical features of his present home.
- Ellsworth Huntington

The compulsion to do good is an innate American trait. Only North Americans seem to believe that they always should, may, and actually can choose somebody with whom to share their blessings. Ultimately this attitude leads to bombing people into the acceptance of gifts.
- Ivan Illich

I make appearance at local park and recreation agencies when the program starts, when they have the qualifying meets at the local levels. Then I try to go to the regional competitions, and of course I'm there in Hershey, Pa., in August for the North American final.
- Rafer Johnson

Nova Scotia as a British colony also came into being as another result of these adventurous British expeditions to North America in the reign of James I.
- Harry Johnston

As a child of West Texas, I identify with Hispanic culture every bit as much as I do North American culture.
- Tommy Lee Jones

Escape Hatches - A Brief Consideration... North America. Pros: charming accent might attract general goodwill, free drinks. Cons: am frightened by the concept of Texas.
- Belle De Jour

My focus is that firearms are handled safely and that we can continue to enjoy them here in North America.
- Steve Kanaly

North Americans as a whole need to embrace having clothes altered to their body. I hear it all the time: why do the Europeans always look so good? They have a relationship with their tailor and spend the time and money to make their clothes look their best.
- Michael Kors

This African American Vernacular English shares most of its grammar and vocabulary with other dialects of English. But it is distinct in many ways, and it is more different from standard English than any other dialect spoken in continental North America.
- William Labov

I am now completing research supported by NSF and NEH that is mapping changes in the English language through all of North America, for both mainstream and minority communities.
- William Labov

The present struggle between the South and North is, therefore, nothing but a struggle between two social systems, the system of slavery and the system of free labour. The struggle has broken out because the two systems can no longer live peacefully side by side on the North American continent. It can only be ended by the victory of one system or the other.
- Karl Marx

The undisturbed coastal plain is home to a wide variety of plants and animals and is the only wilderness sanctuary in North America that protects a complete range of the arctic ecosystem.
- Dan Lipinski

Most independent filmmakers in Britain and North America work for commercial crews and then have their own projects when they've got enough money saved up to do so.
- Ann Macbeth

Imprisoning philosophy within the professionalizations and specializations of an institutionalized curriculum, after the manner of our contemporary European and North American culture, is arguably a good deal more effective in neutralizing its effects than either religious censorship or political terror
- Alasdair C Macintyre

There is a whole school of Canadian academics, media personalities, and politicians whose definition of a Canadian is a North American who fears or dislikes the United States.
- Preston Manning

Well, being a Canadian, I love SCTV, and I think it's the basis for all good North American comedy, so I compare everything to that.
- Melissa Auf Der Maur

Wanted has gone into second, third and fourth printings of the individual issues and the north American printings of Wanted #1 are now close to 100,000.
- Mark Millar

The heart of our relationship, this natural environment that has blessed us really all along the west coast of North America, on both sides of the border we've realized that this incredible natural wealth comes with a price.
- Dan Miller

For me, walking in a hard Dakota wind can be like staring at the ocean: humbled before its immensity, I also have a sense of being at home on this planet, my blood so like the sea in chemical composition, my every cell partaking of air. I live about as far from the sea as is possible in North America, yet I walk in a turbulent ocean. Maybe that child was right when he told me that the world is upside-down here, and this is where angels drown.
- Kathleen Norris

You're surrounded by electronic music in New York. I mean New York is one of the few places in North America where electronic music is the prevalent form.
- Bob Mould

To do so, we are creating a Fairness for Switzerland Committee that will not only disseminate some of the facts, but also protect a relationship that is important to all of us in North America.
- Peter Munk

I believe we could see a North American Union formed. Why else are our borders with Mexico and Canada being left wide open some six years into a War on Terror?
- George Noory

Offhand, the only North American writers I can think of who have come from a background of rural poverty and gone on to write about it have been Negroes.
- Alden Nowlan

What has been forgotten is that there were major intellectual breakthroughs in the 1960s, thanks to North American writers of an older generation. There was a rupture in continuity, since most young people influenced by those breakthroughs did not enter the professions.
- Camille Paglia

The North American intellectual tradition began, I maintain, in the encounter of British Romanticism with assertive, pragmatic North American English - the Protestant plain style in both the U.S. and Canada, with its no-nonsense Scottish immigrants.
- Camille Paglia

It's time for a recovery and reassessment of North American thinkers. Marshall McLuhan, Leslie Fiedler and Norman O. Brown are the linked triad I would substitute for Jacques Lacan, Jacques Derrida and Michel Foucault, whose work belongs to ravaged postwar Europe and whose ideas transfer poorly into the Anglo-American tradition.
- Camille Paglia

Most Europeans have no idea how wild life can be in north America.
- Tom G Palmer

The best source for finding an agent is called Literary Agents of North America. It's a complete list of agents, not only by name and address, but by type of book they represent and by what their submission criteria are.
- Sara Paretsky

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

Natural gas is the best transportation fuel. It's better than gasoline or diesel. It's cleaner, it's cheaper, and it's domestic. Natural gas is 97 percent domestic fuel, North America.
- T Boone Pickens

I think it's great now that we seem to be in an era where it's OK to be gay and I think that the society in North America has had more of a problem with it than any other society.
- Jason Priestley

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.
- Manuel Puig

In sum, as we enter the 21st century, the Euro-Atlantic community - North America and Europe together - has to face some tough challenges when it comes to improving our capability.
- Lord Robertson

First, by 2020, North America will be energy independent by taking full advantage of our oil and coal and gas and nuclear and renewables.
- Mitt Romney

Ever since the 1860s when photographers travelled the American West and brought photographs of scenic wonders back to the people on the East Coast of America we have had a North American tradition of landscape photography used for the environment.
- Galen Rowell

I presume that nobody will deny the positive aspects of the North American cultural world. These are well known to all. But these aspects do not make one forget the disastrous effects of the industrial and commercial process of 'cultural lamination' that the USA is perpetrating on the planet.
- Jose Saramago

Through the Young Men's Christian Association and principally in Australia and North America, as well as in South America, I came into contact with families of these countries.
- Fritz Sauckel

We have a big opportunity in China. We think the number of stores here can rival the number in North America.
- Howard Schultz

North American leftists just keep trying to relive the '60s, or to make the '60s happen again.
- Dave Sim

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.
- Alwaleed Bin Talal

What I wish I had, is that I wish I was a little more Greek, in that I wish I could lose my North American driven attitude and that I could be a little bit more poetic and laissez faire.
- Nia Vardalos

The demand for beef in Canada remains strong because I think people in America, in North America, know that we have a very strong food safety system and that our food is safe to eat.
- Ann Veneman

Not that there wasn't still plenty of subduing to do here in North America. "Even within our own limits, the savage still lights his death fires, to appease the wrath of an idol," he points out. What's worse, to the "north, there is an immense region of palpable darkness." (Hi, Canada!)
- Sarah Vowell

Like most North Americans of his generation, Hal tends to know way less about why he feels certain ways about the objects and pursuits he's devoted to than he does about the objects and pursuits themselves. It's hard to say for sure whether this is even exceptionally bad, this tendency.
- David Foster Wallace

The people that are running the bulk of the comic shops in North America aren't business people and they don't understand sales. They don't understand good product.
- Rob Walton

Right now, there are a limited number of customers for Canadian oil. Due to simple geography - and without the pipeline - it's really only cost effective for Canadian oil producers to sell their oil to North American customers, mostly American Midwesterners.
- Ron Wyden

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