Famous quotes containing the words north and/or aisle:
“The English were very backward to explore and settle the continent which they had stumbled upon. The French preceded them both in their attempts to colonize the continent of North America ... and in their first permanent settlement ... And the right of possession, naturally enough, was the one which England mainly respected and recognized in the case of Spain, of Portugal, and also of France, from the time of Henry VII.”
—Henry David Thoreau (18171862)
“At about that time I was once sitting at my place and whisperingit was naughty, I knowwith my neighbor. Then you, Herr Professor Rudner, got up from your desk, came calmly down the aisle to me: Did you speak? and slapped me smack in the face. And Ithe fury is inside me to this dayI didnt hit back. Such were the methods of objectivity.”
—Alfred Döblin (18781957)