Quotes about North
Cross and resurrection are the South and North polls, true gospel polarities, of a single, undivided, salvation world. Remove either Paul and you've got salvation.
- Eugene Peterson
The guards stood shoulder to shoulder: six Levites per day on the east, four per day on the north and on the south, and two at a time at the storehouse.
- Eugene Peterson
At the extreme north, the voyagers are obliged to dance and act plays for employment.
- Henry David Thoreau
America, North and South, is a choice land, a land reserved for God's own purposes.
- Ezra Taft Benson
It told me many things, and among them that a new dispensation of justice, kindness, and human brotherhood was dawning not only in the North, but in the South; that the war and the slavery that caused the war were things of the past, and that the rising generation are turning their eyes from the sunset of decayed institutions to the grand possibilities of a glorious future.
- Frederick Douglass
Deep in our history of struggle for freedom, Canada was the North star
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
I had seen the flowers on her dress beside the canals in the north, she was indigenous like a herb, and I never wanted to go home.
- Graham Greene
Why should there be a patient confidence in the ultimate justice of the people? Is there any better or equal hope in the world? In our present differences is either party without faith of being in the right? If the Almighty Ruler of Nations, with his eternal truth and justice, be on on your side of the North, or on yours of the South, that truth and that justice will surely prevail by the judgement of this great tribunal of the American people.
- Abraham Lincoln
It was a matter of chance that I should have rented a house in one of the strangest communities in North America. It was on that slender riotous island which extends itself due east of New Yorkâand where there are, among other natural curiosities, two unusual formations of land.
- F Scott Fitzgerald
Awake, O north wind; and come, thou south; blow upon my garden, that the spices thereof may flow out. Let my beloved come into his garden, and eat his pleasant fruits.
- Anonymous
Fair weather cometh out of the north.
- Anonymous
My understanding of racial discrimination as a child was highly distorted because the most prominent man in Archery was an African-American bishop. When he came home from up north, where he was in charge of A.M.E. churches in five states, it was front-page news. He was the most successful man in my life.
- Jimmy Carter