Adrienne Clarkson Quotes

#1. Our horizon is the creation of a noble society to which, like the medieval builder of those glorious cathedrals, you will have added your conception, your artful piece of stone.

Adrienne Clarkson

#2. No one is so poor that they cannot give, and no one is so rich that they cannot receive.

Adrienne Clarkson

#3. We firmly believe in Trafiguras unparalleled capacity to extract the full value of the Sudeste Superport.

Eike Batista

#4. When you get on the boat that's saving you, don't pull up the ladder behind you

Adrienne Clarkson

#5. Sometimes we read or hear too much news that makes us fearful or suspicious of others. We can forget that most of the people that we know, or at least encounter regularly, are decent and friendly.

Adrienne Clarkson

#6. The use of lines of code metrics for productivity and quality studies [is] to be regarded as professional malpractice starting in 1995.

Capers Jones

#7. As I go across the country and privately visit women's shelters and counselling centres, I am appalled that the most vulnerable people in our society are still women.

Adrienne Clarkson

#8. Let us try to see things from their better side: You complain about seeing thorny rose bushes; Me, I rejoice and give thanks to the gods That thorns have roses.

Alphonse Karr

#9. To be complex does not mean to be fragmented. This is the paradox and the genius of our Canadian civilization.

Adrienne Clarkson

#10. I would not run as a one-issue candidate. Anybody who does that is declaring himself to be marginal.

John Bolton

#11. There are moments of mingled sorrow and tenderness, which hallow the caresses of affection.

Washington Irving

#12. Each of us is carving a stone, erecting a column, or cutting a piece of stained glass in the construction of something much bigger than ourselves.

Adrienne Clarkson

#13. In France there are, I think, less than one per cent of people who are too skinny.

Karl Lagerfeld