Quotes About North America

#1. 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

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

Arthur Erickson

#3. A people that has licked a more formidable enemy than Germany or Japan, primitive North America ... a country whose national motto has been "root, hog, or die."

D. W Brogan

#4. 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

#5. 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

#6. First, to begin with, Mexico is North American; the one that is using wrong the term is United States. United States is not North America. North America is Mexico, United States, and Canada.

Vicente Fox

#7. The Bostonians are really, as a race, far inferior in point of anything beyond mere intellect to any other set upon the continent of North America. They are decidedly the most servile imitators of the English it is possible to conceive.

Edgar Allan Poe

#8. Democracy was a terrifying concept for the old world of Europe, and even the new world of North America, where income inequality was rife. The finest minds of the nineteenth century warned against giving the vote to the workingman, for fear of mob rule or the tyranny of the majority.

George Megalogenis

#9. Say 'Toronto' or 'Ontario,' and the immediate thought associations are with a somewhat blander version of North America: a United States with a welfare regime and a more polite street etiquette, and the additionally reassuring visage of Queen Elizabeth on the currency.

Christopher Hitchens

#10. We've seen progressive rock all over the world, in South America, Europe, Asia, across the US and North America and Australia. There's huge audiences for this stuff. For me it's always been there and it's just a matter of time before the people have more of the means to spread the word.

John Petrucci

#11. Many people who are drawn to work about racism and transphobia may be new to thinking deeply about colonialism and indigenous resistance in their North America.

Dean Spade

#12. 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

#13. affinities under the crust of colonialism. This brief overview of precolonial North America suggests the magnitude of what was lost to all humanity and counteracts the settler-colonial myth of the wandering Neolithic hunter.

Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz

#14. 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

#15. like most people of the time, that North America

Noel Gerson

#16. 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

#17. 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

#18. Critics of NAFTA and CAFTA warned at the time that the agreements were actually a move toward ... an eventual merging of North America into a border-free area. Proponents of these agreements dismissed this as preposterous and conspiratorial. Now we see that the criticisms appear to be justified.

Ron Paul

#19. Alasdair MacIntyre is one of the world's most influential living moral philosophers. He has written 30 books on ethics and held a variety of professorial chairs over the past four decades in North America.

John Cornwell

#20. I was born in Sarnia, Ontario; a small town, it's where oil was pretty much discovered in North America.

Chris Hadfield

#21. The Arctic Ocean encircles with a belt of eternal ice the desert confines of Siberia and North America
the uttermost limits of the Old and New worlds, separated by the narrow, channel, known as Behring's Straits.

Eugene Sue

#22. The morning skate was a game-day ritual dating back to the seventies, introduced in North America by the Russians, and used as an attendance taking to make sure players who may have been out carousing the night before finished sweating the alcohol out of their system before the game.

Shawna Richer

#23. 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

#24. The men and women who occupied the east coast of North America between 1607 and 1800 have been more closely scrutinized than any other collection of people in American history.

Edmund Morgan

#25. Turkey tail mushrooms have been used to treat various maladies for hundreds of years in Asia, Europe, and by indigenous peoples in North America. Records of turkey tail brewed as medicinal tea date from the early 15th century, during the Ming Dynasty in China.

Paul Stamets

#26. Expert victimologists estimate that 91.2 percent of people in North America and Europe now qualify as victims, at least in their own minds.

John Leo

#27. The only reason so many are so pissed off at the US is because they see North America as promoting a 'bad deal' for its own masses, not because it is ruining the rest of the world!

Andre Vltchek

#28. 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 York - and where there are, among other natural curiosities, two unusual formations of land.

F Scott Fitzgerald

#29. 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

#30. There were incredibly complex societies already existing in North America long before Europeans arrived. So many people think that before European contact it was just Natives huddling around a fire, waiting for civilization to come save them. But that was not the case.

Joseph Boyden

#31. The first transatlantic cable was not laid until 1956, and it could transmit only 36 calls at any one time. As late as 1966, only 138 simultaneous calls could take place between Europe and all of North America,

Michael Strong

#32. 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

#33. In North America and Western Europe, ten percent of the population of the world consumes fifty percent of its energy.

Yehuda Levi

#34. Obviously, I would have been happier if Canada had not been conquered in the past by the English, if this part of North America had remained French, but you can't rewrite history.

Jean Chretien

#35. 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

#36. The first transatlantic line that enabled ordinary citizens to call between North America and Europe was laid only in 1956.

Steven Johnson

#37. 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

#38. The biggest disease in North America is busyness.

Thomas Merton

#39. I think it's wrong for North America in particular, the West in general to make a comparison between the economic situation in Cuba and the extraordinarily developed industrial complex of North America.

Huey Newton

#40. 'Molly's Game' was a true story about a remarkable young woman named Molly Bloom. She was this close to going to the Olympics; she was ranked third in North America in women's moguls.

Aaron Sorkin

#41. 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.

Patrick Marnham

#42. 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

#43. Until the Second Coming, sin will remain a part of earthly existence. And as long as there is sin, there will be suffering and pain. But suffering by persecution is not a sine qua non of the church. If it is, there are few if any true churches in North America today.

Keith A. Mathison

#44. The wealth-income ratio in the United States has always been lower than in Europe. The main reason in the early years was that land values bulked less in the wide open spaces of North America. There was, of course, much more land, but it was very cheap.

Robert Solow

#45. 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

#46. North America in 1492 was not a virgin wilderness but a network of Indigenous nations, peoples of the corn. The link between peoples of the North and the South can be seen in the diffusion of corn from Mesoamerica.

Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz

#47. I'm beginning to think we're attending the most cray-cray high school in North America.

Jennifer L. Armentrout

#48. I believe that Mexico, geographically, is located in a privileged position. We serve as the meeting point with North America and the rest of Latin America.

Enrique Pena Nieto

#49. War has generally had grave and fateful consequences for the American monetary and financial system. We have seen that the Revolutionary War occasioned a mass of depreciated fiat paper, worthless Continentals, a huge public debt, and the beginnings of central banking in the Bank of North America.

Murray Rothbard

#50. If you can find a PS3 anywhere in North America that's been on shelves for more than five minutes, I'll give you 1200 bucks for it.

Jack Tretton

#51. 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

#52. The annual flight of the dragonflies goes mostly unnoticed, though it is one of the great migrations of flying creatures that occur across North America.

Richard Preston

#53. In North America, the greatest threat to the Jewish people is not the external force of antisemitism, but the internal forces of apathy, inertia and ignorance of our own heritage.

Michael Steinhardt

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

James Dobson

#55. 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

#56. 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

#57. 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.

Donal Logue

#58. Most people don't know how underpaid and often ill-equipped urban fire departments are across North America.

Denis Leary

#59. Major theme of the book [ Hotels of North America], from my point of view: what is persona, what is self, in the digital sphere, and/or what is the effect of it on self in a prolonged interaction.

Rick Moody

#60. There is a delicate-looking plant native to North America called bleeding heart.

Josh Aterovis

#61. We're all already aware of boobies; it is the general state of most people in North America! THANKS, MEDIA AND THE MALE GAZE

Ryan North

#62. Land. If you understand nothing else about the history of Indians in North America, you need to understand that the question that really matters is the question of land.

Thomas King

#63. Scientists have always thought that because mammoths roamed such a huge territory - from Western Europe to Central North America - that North American woolly mammoths were a sideshow of no particular significance to the evolution of the species.

Hendrik Poinar

#64. Literacy in North America has historically been focused on reading, not writing; consumption, not production.

Clive Thompson

#65. Coyote: A small canid (Canis latrans) native to western North America that is closely related to the American wolf and whose cry has often been compared to that of Sippie Wallace and Janis Joplin, amongst others.

Sherman Alexie

#66. Who," asked Hitler, "remembers the Red Indians?" For Hitler, Africa was the source of the imperial references but not the actual site of empire; eastern Europe was that actual site, and it was to be remade just as North America had been remade.

Timothy Snyder

#67. I like driving. I'm a real sucker for driving across North America - I never get sick of it, ever.

Neko Case

#68. North America makes a ton of movies and there's a ton of movies that are exceptional.

Joel Edgerton

#69. Materialism has never been so ominous as now in North America, as management takes over.

Arthur Erickson

#70. Bad grammar is the leading cause of slow, painful death in North America,

Dave Barry

#71. 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

#72. In North America, many fans know Cristiano Ronaldo's smirk and can recognize Didier Drogba in a commercial. Maybe they know too much for the good of M.L.S.

George Vecsey

#73. And you know, it was like I was breathing my own self back into me to say these word,s to remember that these things existed
the green trees of the eastern woodland at home in North America, their strong and supple branches, sunlight through the trees.

Elizabeth Wein

#74. If you think about the history of mobile handsets, in many respects there was a time when Asia and then Europe all led North America.

Stephen Elop

#75. 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

#76. With 586,400 square miles, Alaska is the largest state in the U.S. It's home to over half the world's glaciers, the highest mountain in North America, 29 volcanoes, and over 33,000 miles of coastline. Only around 700,000 people live there, so I would say there's lots of room for adventure.

Rusty Wilson

#77. On December 7, 1941, an event took place that had nothing to do with me or my family and yet which had devastating consequences for all of us - Japan bombed Pearl Harbour in a surprise attack. With that event began one of the shoddiest chapters in the tortuous history of democracy in North America.

David Suzuki

#78. 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

#79. We will achieve North America energy independence by 2020, by taking full advantage of our oil, our gas, our coal, our renewables and our nuclear power. Abundant, inexpensive, domestic energy will not only create energy jobs, it will bring back manufacturing jobs.

Mitt Romney

#80. 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

#81. If my life be spared, nothing shall stop me short of visiting every nation of Indians on the Continent of North America.

George Catlin

#82. Black people in America will never be free so long as they're on the white man's land ... We can't be free until we get our own land and our own country in North America. When we separate from America and take maybe ten states, then we'll be free.

Muhammad Ali

#83. In North America, more than half of all children travel to school by bus. We need a similar programme in London.

Zac Goldsmith

#84. In North America, hip-hop and urban music are much more developed than it could be in Europe, except for a couple of markets like France, for example, or Germany, they're a little bit more aware.

K-Maro

#85. The reality is that most of North America knows next to nothing of the 20th century's first genocide - the systematic slaughter of 1.5 million Armenians in the First World War.

Chris Bohjalian

#86. My scientific career has developed on three continents: Asia, Europe and North America.

Susumu Tonegawa

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

Steve Kanaly

#88. We're seeing a decline in religion in North America but, I hope, a rise in individual spirituality. Whatever that means to people.

Lori Lansens

#89. 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

#90. Prairie grassland once covered much of North America's midsection. European settlers turned nearly all of it into farms and ranches, and today the prairie landscape survives mainly in isolated reserves.

Stephen Kinzer

#91. Europe and North America, we are told, are less dependent on energy-intensive heavy industry than in the 1960s and 1970s. It seems we squeeze more GDP out of a barrel of oil than in those benighted days.

James Buchan

#92. For more than 3,000 years, China and India accounted for half of the world's economic output. But then the Industrial Revolution gave North America and Europe 150 golden years. If you take the long-term perspective, our economic dominance has been more of an exception than the rule.

Paul Achleitner

#93. When I came to North America, it was hard. It was hard to understand, hard to get someone to understand me. I only knew Russian. I studied French in school, but it didn't help. I forgot most of that.

Pavel Datsyuk

#94. Just as it is important in Latin America to discuss ideas that come from North America, I think it is interesting for North Americans to discuss ideas that come from Latin America or Africa and do not insert themselves into capitalist interests.

Paulo Freire

#95. I sketched North America onto my crude and now crowded map, and Hao was astounded to learn that it was not a piece of Europe, as he had always assumed.

Howard W. French

#96. White men in North America are the beneficiaries of the single biggest affirmative action program in world history. It's called world history.

Michael Kimmel

#97. Prior to 2001, hardly any company in North America or Europe would buy from India.

Baba Kalyani

#98. Native Americans are not and must not be props in a sort of theme park of the past, where we go to have a good time and see exotic cultures. "What we have done to the peoples who were living in North America" is, according to anthropologist Sol Tax, "our Original Sin.

James W. Loewen

#99. The 2003 flu season started early in North America, with the first cases showing up in the fall. By Thanksgiving doctors were seeing the usual flu-related pneumonias. As always, the most severe cases resulted from secondary bacterial infections in flu-congested lungs.

Jessica Snyder Sachs

#100. Nowhere has specialization penetrated so deeply into the building professions as North America.

Arthur Erickson