Famous quotes containing the words north american, north, american and/or people:
“Civilization does not engross all the virtues of humanity: she has not even her full share of them. They flourish in greater abundance and attain greater strength among many barbarous people. The hospitality of the wild Arab, the courage of the North American Indian, and the faithful friendships of some of the Polynesian nations, far surpass any thing of a similar kind among the polished communities of Europe.”
—Herman Melville (18191891)
“Civilization must be destroyed. The hairy saints
Of the North have earned this crumb by their complaints.”
—Wallace Stevens (18791955)
“As a rule we develop a borrowed European idea forward, and ... Europe develops a borrowed American idea backwards.”
—Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (18351910)
“The people who resent me do so because Im a woman, Im young, and Im a Bhutto. Well, the simple answer is, it doesnt matter that Im a woman, it doesnt matter that Im young, and its a matter of pride that Im a Bhutto.”
—Benazir Bhutto (b. 1953)