“He was my North, my South, my East and West, My working week and my Sunday rest.”
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“From north to south, from east to west.”
First Week, Second Day. Compare: "From north to south, from east to west", William Shakespeare, A Winter's Tale, act i. sc. 2.
La Semaine; ou, Création du monde (1578)
As quoted in A Dictionary of Thoughts : Being a Cyclopedia of Laconic Quotations from the Best Authors of the World, both Ancient and Modern (1908) edited by Tryon Edwards
TV Series and Specials (Includes DVDs), Trick of the Mind (2004–2006)
“The frontiers are not east or west, north or south, but wherever a man fronts a fact”
A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext03/7cncd10.txt (1849), Thursday
Context: The frontiers are not east or west, north or south, but wherever a man fronts a fact, though that fact be his neighbor, there is an unsettled wilderness between him and Canada, between him and the setting sun, or, farther still, between him and it.
“The north and the west and the south are good hunting ground, but it is forbidden to go east.”
By the Waters of Babylon (1937)
Context: The north and the west and the south are good hunting ground, but it is forbidden to go east. It is forbidden to go to any of the Dead Places except to search for metal and then he who touches the metal must be a priest or the son of a priest. Afterwards, both the man and the metal must be purified. These are the rules and the laws; they are well made. It is forbidden to cross the great river and look upon the place that was the Place of the Gods — this is most strictly forbidden. We do not even say its name though we know its name. It is there that spirits live, and demons — it is there that there are the ashes of the Great Burning. These things are forbidden — they have been forbidden since the beginning of time.
“Music is my mother and my father; it is my work and my rest… my blood… my compass… my love…”
Source: Eritrean Archbishop describes new door of peace as a miracle https://www.vaticannews.va/en/africa/news/2018-06/eritrean-archbishop-describes-new-door-of-peace-as-a-miracle.html (27 June 2018)
“Fourteen heart attacks and he had to die in my week. In MY week.”
On being shunted off the front page of Newsweek magazine by the late ex-President Dwight D. Eisenhower following his death; New Musical Express interview, (12 April 1969); cited in The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations