47 North Quotes & Sayings

Just like an alley in New York -like every alley in the world, apparently- it smelled like cat pee. — Cassandra Clare

These were all middle-class kids from literary backgrounds, joining this sort of train going by, this pop train, jumping on. Whereas the rest of the rock scene, you'll find that there's mostly working-class people. — Kevin Ayers

I know how to read people. When you grow up in a rough environment, you have to have a sixth sense. — Daddy Yankee

God bless Merle Haggard. He did all the things that Johnny Cash was supposed to have done. — Lewis Grizzard

I don't have a system." "Theology is a system." "Not my theology." "Then what is it?" "What is it? It's the overwhelming combination of all that I've seen, felt, and cannot explain, that has stayed with me and refused to depart, that drives me again and again to a faith of which I am not sure, that is alluring because it will not stoop to be defined by so inadequate a creature as man. Unlike Marxism, it is ineffable, and it cannot be explained in words. — Mark Helprin

I see where we are starting to pay some attention to our neighbors to the south. We could never understand why Mexico wasn't just crazy about us, for we have always had their good will, and oil and minerals, at heart — Will Rogers

I read somewhere ... how important it is in life not necessarily to be strong, but to feel strong ... to measure yourself at least once. — Jon Krakauer