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Northern
«We have two companies of Marines running rampant all over the northern half of this island, and three Army regiments pinned down in the southwestern corner, doing nothing. What the hell is going on?»
Author: Gen John W. Vessey, Jr.
| Keywords:
doing nothing, Marine, Marines, Northern, pinned, pin down, rampant, regiment, regimented, Southwestern
«There's a graveyard in northern France where all the dead boys from D-Day are buried. The white crosses reach from one horizon to the other. I remember looking it over and thinking it was a forest of graves. But the rows were like this, dizzying, diagonal, perfectly straight, so after all it wasn't a forest but an orchard of graves. Nothing to do with nature, unless you count human nature.»
«And we love to dance, especially that new one called the Civil War Twist. The Northern part of you stands still while the Southern part tries to secede.»
Author: Dick Gregory
| Keywords:
civil war, new one, Northern, secede, seceded, southern, The Civil War, twist, war dance
«When I told the people of Northern Ireland that I was an atheist, a woman in the audience stood up and said, 'Yes, but is it the God of the Catholics or the God of the Protestants in whom you don't believe?»
Author: Quentin Crisp
(Author)
| Keywords:
atheist, audience, Catholics, Ireland, Northern, Northern Ireland, People of, Protestants, stood, The God
«Thy easterly regions, and thy northern, thy southerly (regions), O earth, and thy western, shall be kind to me as I walk (upon thee)! May I that have been placed into the world not fall down!»
«YANKEE, n. In Europe, an American. In the Northern States of our Union, a New Englander. In the Southern States the word is unknown. (See DAMNYANK.)»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| Keywords:
American union, an American, New Englander, Northern, Northern States, southern, Southern states, The northern states, Yankee
«The religion most prevalent in our northern colonies is a refinement on the principles of resistance: it is the dissidence of dissent, and the Protestantism of the Protestant religion»
Author: Edmund Burke
(Philosopher, Statesman)
| About:
Principles,
Protestantism,
Religion
| Keywords:
colonies, colony, dissent, dissidence, Northern, prevalent, Protestant, Protestantism, Protestants, refinement, refinements, the colonies
«At last the anchor was up, the sails were set, and off we glided. It was a sharp, cold Christmas; and as the short northern day merged into night, we found ourselves almost broad upon the wintry ocean, whose freezing spray cased us in ice, as in polished armor.»
«Washington was a city of Southern efficiency and Northern charm»
Author: John Fitzgerald Kennedy
(President)
| Keywords:
efficiency, Northern, southern, Washington, with efficiency
«But I am constant as the northern star, Of whose true-fix'd and resting quality There is no fellow in the firmament»
Author: William Shakespeare
(Dramatist, Playwright, Poet)
| Keywords:
constant, firmament, fix, fixed star, Northern, resting
