Quotes About Northerners

#1. I think we typically, as Northerners, stereotype what the South is in so many negative ways. We kind of forget all the beautiful things that they contribute to make this country a country.

Genevieve Gorder

#2. Counting both Northerners and Southerners, more American lives were lost in the Civil War than in any other conflict.

Richard Shenkman

#3. Northerners, even abolitionists, knew more about how and why to chop down the slavery tree than they ever knew what to do with its sour fruit.

Jane Smiley

#4. In the South of England northerners were regarded then as uncouth, brutish, undisciplined savages ...

Alison Weir

#5. I don't have an accent. Northerners just talk funny.

Lili St. Crow

#6. All true Northerners should bare steel to their enemies, and stand true to the course they have chosen, for when the heart is divided by fear then the battle is already lost.

Steven Poore

#7. I think that, in comparison, New Yorkers and Northerners are so guarded.

Genevieve Gorder

#8. Northerners are exactly like their weather - cold and boring. And I swear, none of them has one iota of etiquette or propriety.

Beth Hoffman

#9. Basically there is no difference between whites and blacks, browns and yellows. I decided to think no more of people as Northerners and Southerners.

Ethel Waters

#10. Americans are much more American than they are Northerners, Southerners, Westerners, or Easterners ... California Chinese, Boston Irish, Wisconsin German, yes, Alabama Negroes, have more in common than they have apart ... The American identity is an exact and provable thing.

John Steinbeck

#11. Before the thunderous clamor of political debate or war set loose in the world, love insisted on its promise for the possibility of human unity: between men and women, between blacks and whites, northerners and southerners, haves and have-have-nots, self and self.

Aberjhani

#12. Ruddy hell, the cold smacked my face with an iron spade! Now I knew why northerners go in for beards, woad, and body grease.

David Mitchell

#13. He was from Yorkshire, or somewhere like that, and like many Northerners with issues, he'd moved to London as a cheap alternative to psychotherapy.

Ben Aaronovitch

#14. Since the nineteen-fifties, rural Florida has marketed itself to Northerners and Midwesterners as an unexplored paradise of citrus and mermaids.

Anne Hull

#15. Places change you, Miss Timms, and deserts change us pale northerners so much, our own mothers wouldn't recognize us.

David Mitchell

#16. may my touch
always...be tender

as i would stroke
mother's cheeks
when she cried.

Sanober Khan

#17. We write as if our lives depended upon it. They do.

Erica Jong

#18. The mind of man is more intuitive than logical, and comprehends more than it can coordinate.

Luc De Clapiers

#19. Thank God, He is in the business of not only forgiveness but restoration.

MaryLu Tyndall

#20. That's the hardest part,' he says. 'The absence of certainty.' - Tucker

Cynthia Hand

#21. A flexible mind has a better chance to think differently and take a unique path in the life journey.

Pearl Zhu

#22. Lion sounds that have not grown from the mouse may exude naked power ... but cannot convey any wisdom or understanding ... The initial steps on the path to courageous speech then are the first tentative steps into the parts of us that cannot speak.

David Whyte

#23. Writing does not exclude the full life; it demands it.

Katherine Anne Porter

#24. I think the people from Mississippi ought to come to Chicago to learn how to hate. Martin Luther King, Jr. after the violent reception he received in Chicago in 1966.

Rick Perlstein

#25. God is just what happens when humanity is connected. Humanity connected is god. Each one of us is a creator but, together, we are THE creator.

Jim Gilliam

#26. Good medicine always tastes bad.

Ron Hall

#27. I think regular Iowans are cynical of this whole idea of corporate welfare, with the biggest awards going to the most profitable companies. It doesn't make sense.

David F. Swensen