Up North Quotes

• Up North you are holding your own. Everyone considers themselves a comedian.

  Johnny Vegas

  Comedian, Holding On

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• You know, I understand that a lot of people, especially up north, put fruits and nuts in their stuffing, which is good, but for myself personally, I love an old-timey savory dressing.

  Paula Deen

  Nuts, People, Fruit

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• Before my grandpa built his own church, we went to the neighboring town, and it was a white community. You know, up north, mostly middle European people and Indians, Chippewa Indians. We were welcome to that church, but once we got in, they didn't know what to do with us.

  James Earl Jones

  White, People, Grandpa

  "The Voice of Triumph". Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 29, 1996.

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• My mom moved up north to make more money to support the family, and I was left with my dad and I was just bounced around from one family to another.

  Diamond Dallas Page

  Mom, Dad, Support

  Source: screenanarchy.com

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• I like the South because it is so much warmer on the sidelines than it is up North.

  Tom Landry

  Southern, Sidelines, South

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• Going up north with the redwoods and driving along the coast, it's got everything, man. It's got the desert, the mountains, and the ocean. It's beautiful.

  Chad Smith

  Beautiful, Ocean, Men

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• Our friends up north spend over five billion dollars on research and development and all they seem to do is copy Google and Apple.

  Steve Jobs

  Inspirational, Research And Development, Apples

  Steve Jobs (0101). “Motivating Thoughts of Steve Jobs”, p.58, Prabhat Prakashan

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• Things seem to be at a boiling point all the time. In fact, it has been that way my whole life. I find it interesting, and I like the fact that the emotions are in your face all the time. You always know where you stand. None of that "we don't have any racial problems here" attitude that you get, say, up north. All of this is rich fodder for a crime novelist.

  George Pelecanos

  Attitude, Interesting, Novelists

  Interview with Keith Phipps, www.avclub.com. September 19, 2001.

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• I don't know how it is up North, of course, but down South there are times when Southern women feel a need for privacy.

  John Lee Mahin

  Women, Southern, Needs

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• We do have a big kind of history in literate tradition of Vikings and we have a lot of Viking blood in Scotland, I mean especially up north wherever you go you see a plastic Viking sitting outside a shop and Viking calendars and - because they - you know they came down and stole all our chicks and then some of them didn't quite get back and ended up settling down here. So there's a lot of Viking blood in Scotland.

  Craig Ferguson

  Mean, Blood, Scotland

  "Hot Scots Craig Ferguson and Gerard Butler join comedic forces in DreamWorks 'How To Train Your Dragon'". Chicago Parent Interview, www.chicagoparent.com. November 23, 2010.

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• Up north, you could find these radio stations with no name on the dials that played pre-rock 'n' roll things - country blues. We would hear Slim Harpo or Lightnin' Slim and gospel groups, the Dixie Hummingbirds, the Five Blind Boys of Alabama. I was so far north, I didn't even know where Alabama was.

  Bob Dylan

  Country, Boys, Rocks

  "Bob Dylan interview: 'Passion is a young man's game, older people gotta be wise'". Interview with Robert Love, www.independent.co.uk. February 7, 2015.

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• A lot of people up North, they think everybody from the South is married to their sister and has seen a UFO. I told them, 'I'm just dating my sister and couldn't swear that it wasn't a weather balloon.'

  Jeff Foxworthy

  Thinking, Weather, People

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• I became the magnet for a lot of scary aggression. Cos it's scary Up North!

  Marc Almond

  Scary, Magnet, Aggression

  Source: thequietus.com

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• Growing up north of San Francisco, I immersed myself in the local landscape and in books about Native Americans, cowboys, and pioneers that seemed to ground me in it, but to pursue culture in those days meant being spun around until dizzy and then pushed east.

  Rebecca Solnit

  Growing Up, Book, Native American

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Canada's north is going to change a lot in the new few years. We have every resource imaginable up north.

  Jean Charest

  Years, Canada, Resources

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• I bought a little hideaway up north, so I'll ship my motorcycle up there. It's much less dangerous than West Hollywood.

  Johnny Galecki

  Motorcycle, Hollywood, Littles

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• I grew up north of Chicago, not far from where the Schwinn bicycle plant used to be, and was conscious of the fact that these beautiful, everlasting bikes were made just down the road.

  Dave Eggers

  Beautiful, Chicago, Facts

  "Dave Eggers: 'We tend to look everywhere but the mirror'". Interview with Elizabeth Day, www.theguardian.com. January 26, 2013.

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• In my heart, I'm an Alabaman who went up north to work.

  E. O. Wilson

  Heart, My Heart

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• Puddleglum,' they've said, 'You're altogether too full of bobance and bounce and high spirits. You've got to learn that life isn't all fricasseed frogs and ell pie. You want something to sober you down a bit. We're only saying it for your own good, Puddleglum.' That's what they say. Now a job like this --a journey up north just as winter's beginning looking for a prince that probably isn't there, by way of ruined city nobody's ever seen-- will be just the thing. If that doesn't steady a chap, I don't know what will.

  C. S. Lewis

  Jobs, Winter, Journey

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• None. I think we should send a country some cupcakes. You think some cupcakes would cheer up North Korea? Kill 'em with deliciousness.

  Gerard Way

  Country, Cheer, Thinking

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• When I think back about my immediate reaction to that redheads girl, it seems to spring from an appreciation of natural beauty. I mean the heart pleasure you get from looking at speckled leaves or the palimpsested bark of plane trees in Provence. There was something richly appealing to her color combination, the ginger snaps floating in the milk-white skin, the golden highlights in the strawberry hair. it was like autumn, looking at her. It was like driving up north to see the colors.

  Jeffrey Eugenides

  Girl, Appreciation, Spring

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• It's impossible to explain to a Yankee what `tacky' is. They simply have no word for it up north, but my God, do they ever need one.

  Pat Conroy

  Yankees, Tacky, Needs

  Pat Conroy (2016). “The Great Santini, The Lords of Discipline, and The Prince of Tides: Three Classic Novels in One Collection”, p.532, Open Road Media

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• It was like autumn, looking at her. it was like driving up north to see the colors.

  Jeffrey Eugenides

  Autumn, Color, Driving

  Jeffrey Eugenides (2003). “Middlesex”, p.324, A&C Black

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• Growing up in Georgia, I used to think people up north or out west were so different. They're really not. They're just regular people who live in small towns. They grow up and try to raise families and have a job and go to church and play softball. It's that way everywhere.

  Alan Jackson

  Softball, Jobs, Growing Up

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The dude in red's back at the pole,
  Up North where everything is cold.
  But if he were right here tonight,
  He'd say 'Merry Christmas! And to all, a good night!'

  Kurtis Blow

  Good Night, Rap, Merry Christmas

  Song: Christmas Rappin', Album: Kurtis Blow, 1980

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