north quotes

Were you with these, my prince, you'd soon forget The pale, unripened beauties of the north.

-Joseph Addison
  Cato, act1, sc.4, l.134^5.

And the talk slid north, and the talk slid south, With the sliding puffs from the hookah-mouth. Four things greater than all things are, Women and Horses and Power and War. Kipling And the Wolf that shall keep it may prosper, but the Wolf that shall break it must die.

- (Joseph) Rudyard Kipling
  'The Ballad of the King's  Jest'. 1895  The Second Jungle Book,'The Law of the  Jungle'.

I want to go south, where there is no autumn, where the cold doesn't crouch over one like a snow-leopard waiting to pounce. The heart of the North is dead, and the fingers of cold are corpse fingers.

- D(avid) H(erbert) Lawrence
  Letter to  J Middleton Murry, 3 Oct.

Lourd on my hert as winter lies The state that Scotland's in the day. Spring to the North has aye come slow But noo dour winter's like to stay For guid, And no'for guid!

-Grieve
  To Circumjack Cencrastus, or The Curly Snake.

We want you to feel unhampered tactically and strategically to proceed north of the 38th parallel.

- George C(atlett) Marshall
   Telegram to General Douglas Mac Arthur during the Korean War, Sep, later used by Mac Arthur as justification for continuing operations after the Chinese had made their presence known. Quoted in David S McLellan Dean  Acheson: The State DepartmentYears (1976).

What Great Britain calls the Far East is to us the near north.

- Sir Robert Gordon Menzies
  Quoted in the Sydney MorningHerald, 27  Apr. Menzies was one of the first  Australian statesmen to recognize the importance to his country of  Asia.

Hills of the North, rejoice: Rivers and mountain-spring, Hark to the advent voice! Valleyand lowland, sing! Though absent long, your Lord is nigh, He judgement brings, and victory.

- Charles Edward Oakley
  Hymn.

   In a march of onlya few hours, I had passed from the western to the eastern hemisphere and had verified my position at the summit of the world.It was hard to realise that on the first miles of the brief march we had been travelling due north, while on the last few miles of the same march we had been travelling due south, although we had all the time been travelling precisely in the same direction.

- Robert Edwin Peary
  Description of crossing and then passing the Pole. The North Pole (published1910).

La visio  n de una Ame  rica deslatinizada por propia voluntad, sin la extorsio  n de la conquista, y regenerada luego a imagen y semejanza del arquetipo del Norte, flota ya sobre los suen‹  os de muchos sinceros interesados por nuestro porvenir† Tenemos nuestra nordoman|a. Es necesario oponerle los l|mites que la razo  n y el sentimiento sen‹  alan. The vision of an America de-Latinized of its own will, without threat of conquest, and reconstituted in the image and likeness of the North, now looms in the nightmares of many who are genuinely concerned about our future† We have our USA-mania. It must be limited by the boundaries our reason and sentiment jointly dictate.

-Jose   Enrique Rodo 
  Ariel (translated1922), pt.5.

   O Swallow, Swallow, flying, flying South, Fly to her, and fall upon her gilded eaves, And tell her, tell her, what I tell to thee. O tell her, Swallow, thou that knowest each, That bright and fierce and fickle is the South, And dark and true and tender is the North.

-Tennyson
  The Princess, pt.4, added song, stanzas1^2.

O tell her, Swallow that thy brood is flown: Say to her, I do but wanton in the South, But in the North long since my nest is made.

-Tennyson
  The Princess, pt.4, added song, stanza 6.

Theschool that Iwenttointhenorthwas a school where more than half the children in my class never had any boots or shoes to their feet. They wore clogs, because they lasted longer than shoes of comparable price. See Bulmer-Thomas166:55.

- (James) Harold Wilson, Baron Wilson of Rievaulx
  Speech, Birmingham, 28 Jul.