North West Frontier

North West Frontier may refer to:

  • North West Frontier Province, Pakistan or Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
  • North-West Frontier Province (1901–1955), a province of British India and later of Pakistan
    • North-West Frontier (military history), the military frontier
  • North West Frontier (film), a 1959 British adventure film starring Kenneth Moore

Famous quotes containing the words north, west and/or frontier:

    “We might hypothetically possess ourselves of every technological resource on the North American continent, but as long as our language is inadequate, our vision remains formless, our thinking and feeling are still running in the old cycles, our process may be “revolutionary” but not transformative.”
    —Adrienne Rich (b. 1929)

    “It’s a fine land, the west land, for hearts as tired as mine,
    Apple orchards blossom there, and the air’s like wine.”
    —John Masefield (1878–1967)

    “It is very perplexing how an intrepid frontier people, who fought a wilderness, floods, tornadoes, and the Rockies, cower before criticism, which is regarded as a malignant tumor in the imagination.”
    —Edward Dahlberg (1900–1977)