North American People

Famous quotes containing the words north american, north, american and/or people:

    “We might hypothetically possess ourselves of every technological resource on the North American continent, but as long as our language is inadequate, our vision remains formless, our thinking and feeling are still running in the old cycles, our process may be “revolutionary” but not transformative.”
    —Adrienne Rich (b. 1929)

    “It is the sea that whitens the roof.
    The sea drifts through the winter air.
    It is the sea that the north wind makes.
    The sea is in the falling snow.
    This gloom is the darkness of the sea.”
    —Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)

    “The American people abhor a vacuum.”
    —Theodore Roosevelt (1858–1919)

    “How people used to meet!
    starved, intense, the old
    Christmas gifts saved up till spring,
    and the old plain words,”
    —Adrienne Rich (b. 1929)