#northern

I just feel, in life, I'm searching for something I can rely on, something that's constant and something that's going to guide me through. And I felt that the Northern Star is a very beautiful image of that. ↗

— Melanie Chisholm

#constant #feel #felt #going #guide

When I told the people of Northern Ireland that I was an atheist, a woman in the audience stood up and said, 'Yes, but is it the God of the Catholics or the God of the Protestants in whom you don't believe? ↗

— Quentin Crisp

#audience #believe #catholics #god #i

In Ethiopia, the black people became Christians 1700 years ago, hundreds of years before Northern Europe turned to Christianity... And here, most of the saints are black. ↗

— Henry Louis Gates

#became #before #black #christianity #christians

We'll be launching the new public prosecution service in Northern Ireland tomorrow. I'll be doing it in Belfast tomorrow. This is an entirely new era, in which criminal justice now exercised on an equal basis, not the old basis in which community division was a feature. ↗

— Peter Hain

#belfast #community #criminal #criminal justice #division

Growing up in northern California has had a big influence on my love and respect for the outdoors. When I lived in Oakland, we would think nothing of driving to Half Moon Bay and Santa Cruz one day and then driving to the foothills of the Sierras the next day. ↗

— Tom Hanks

#big #big influence #california #cruz #day

When the problems in Northern Ireland started, it was not a question of Protestantism or Catholicism, because the Catholic church was the only church at that time-it was a nationalist conflict. ↗

— Harri Holkeri

#catholic #catholic church #catholicism #church #conflict

Certainly there was no just cause of complaint from the Northern States - no advantage was ever sought or obtained by them for their section of the Republic. ↗

— Robert Toombs

#cause #certainly #complaint #ever #just

I pledged California to a Northern Republic and to a flag that should have no treacherous threads of cotton in its warp, and the audience came down in thunder. ↗

— Thomas Starr King

#california #came #cotton #down #flag

Hypersegregated inner-city schools - in which one finds no more than five or ten white children, at the very most, within a student population of as many as 3,000 - are the norm, not the exception, in most northern urban areas today. ↗

— Jonathan Kozol

#children #exception #finds #five #inner-city

Segregation in the South is honest, open and aboveboard. Of the two systems, or styles of segregation, the Northern and the Southern, there is no doubt whatever in my mind which is the better. ↗

— Strom Thurmond

#doubt #honest #mind #no doubt #northern