Canning Fok Quotes

#1. A steady patriot of the world alone, The friend of every country but his own.

George Canning

#2. I spent my childhood in Newfoundland and then my junior high and high school years in Alberta, Canada.

Sara Canning

#3. Indecision and delays are the parents of failure.

George Canning

#4. I called the New World into existence, to redress the balance of the Old.

George Canning

#5. Here's to the pilot that weathered the storm.

George Canning

#6. This is not a phone business. This is the smallest video camera, it's the smallest computer, smallest TV.

Canning Fok

#7. I feel blessed to have had such a background, where animals, food raising, harvesting and canning were a natural part of life.

Trina Paulus

#8. Each year the big garden grew smaller and Jane - who grew flowers by choice, not corn or stringbeans - worked at the vegetables more than I did. Each winter I dreamed crops, dreamed marvels of canning ... and each summer I largely failed. Shamefaced, I planted no garden at all.

Donald Hall

#9. Intimately concerned as we are with the system of Europe, it does not follow that we are therefore called upon to mix ourselves onevery occasion, with a restless and meddling activity, in the concerns of the nations which surround us.

George Canning

#10. There is nothing I know of so sublime as a fact.

George Canning

#11. When our perils are past, shall our gratitude sleep?

George Canning

#12. Canning is a whole world of a thing to do. It requires that you get out of your head. It's a Zen thing. You cannot be wondering about your inadequacies and how they drove Bob off and be making jelly. You'll wind up with big, cylindrical jujubes.

Debby Bull

#13. But of all plagues, good Heaven, thy wrath can send, Save me, oh, save me, from the candid friend!

George Canning

#14. I won all the blue ribbons for canning at the state fair.

Loretta Lynn

#15. He moves further onto the bed, making room for me. Then he beckons. And there isn't enough money, fame or fortune in the world to keep me from obeying. I'm on that bed a second later. His arms reach for me, pull me in. We're side by side, chest to chest. And Jamie Canning is kissing me again.

Sarina Bowen

#16. Man, only - rash, refined, presumptuous man, Starts from his rank, and mars creation's plan.

George Canning

#17. So down thy hill, romantic Ashbourn, glides The Derby dilly, carrying three INSIDES.

George Canning

#18. Jamie Canning was my first crush and my first love. But he was never mine to have.

Sarina Bowen

#19. I can prove anything by statistics except the truth.

George Canning

#20. I definitely fell in love with 'Dracula' when I was 13. I found it so fascinating and so dark and romantic.

Sara Canning

#21. I was a really good student. I was nerdy and ambitious. I was involved with every large theater production at my school.

Sara Canning

#22. I'm OK with firing people when they fuck up, but canning them when they've done nothing wrong - that's painful. [on the layoffs needed after 9/11 hit the business]

Marcus Samuelsson

#23. This is Martin Canning, Neil. He's written a wonderful book." "Fantastic," Neil Winters said, shaking Martin's hand. His hand was damp and soft and made Martin think of something dead you might pick up on the beach. "The first of many, I

Kate Atkinson

#24. As a young man, I lived through the Great Depression, when banks failed and so many lost their jobs and homes and went hungry. I was fortunate to have a job at a canning factory that paid 25 cents an hour.

James E. Faust

#25. I'm so fascinated with the study of people and why they are the way they are. That's my research and my archaeology, if you will, when I get a role. I'm so excited to attack a part from every angle of what makes a person a person.

Sara Canning

#26. If hush'd the loud whirlwind that ruffled the deep, The sky if no longer dark tempests deform; When our perils are past shall our gratitude sleep? No! Here's to the pilot that weather'd the storm!

George Canning

#27. And she saw herself cooking, baking, canning and working a little in the orchard.

Robyn Carr

#28. My first job ever was working a ski lift when I was 16. I also worked at a garden center, which I loved. I did that for two and a half years.

Sara Canning

#29. Everyone has always called me by my last name. Once people get to know me, they don't call me Sara anymore.

Sara Canning

#30. You know what's best for you, and you know what will make you happy.

Sara Canning

#31. I realized I had it made because you don't have to destroy anything to get honey. You can just use the same things over and over again, put it in a quart canning jar, and you've got $12.

Burt Shavitz

#32. Whene'er with haggard eyes I view This dungeon that I'm rotting in, I think of those companions true Who studied with me at the U- Niversity of Gottingen.

George Canning

#33. That day will come. But at the moment it is this day that has to be lived.

Victor Canning

#34. Gruesome that nobody wants to go near it. Then you slip away." "But the Canning Master's family,

Adam Johnson

#35. Needy knife-grinder! whither are ye going? Rough is the road, your wheel is out of order; Bleak blows the blast-your hat has got a hole in it. So have your breeches.

George Canning

#36. We are racing down Main Street. Arthur is right on the tail of a blck sedan with tinted windows that won't pull over. He slams the horn.
"Arthur," I say.
The car doesn't yield.
"Arthur," I say.
He hits the horn again, still close on the car's bummper.
"Arthur, our turn was back there.

Peter Canning

#37. Oh, don't tell me of facts, I never believe facts; you know, [George] Canning said nothing was so fallacious as facts, except figures.

Sydney Smith

#38. The same year that Ghalib died in Delhi, 1869, there was born in Porbandar in Gujarat a boy called Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi. It would be with the political movements headed by Gandhi, rather than those represented by Zafar, or indeed by Lord Canning, that the future of India would lie.

William Dalrymple

#39. The greatest and truest models for all oratorsis Demosthenes. One who has not studied deeply and constantly all the great speeches of the great Athenian, is not prepared to speak in public. Only as the constant companion of Demosthenes, Burke, Fox, Canning and Webster, can we hope to become orators.

Woodrow Wilson

#40. In matters of commerce the fault of the Dutch Is offering too little and asking too much. The French are with equal advantage content, So we clap on Dutch bottoms just twenty per cent.

George Canning

#41. Away with the cant of 'Measures not men!'-the idle supposition that it is the harness and not the horses that draw the chariot along.

George Canning

#42. If you ask me about Napoleon, I'll tell you about his relationship with sugar. And canning - thanks to Napoleon, we have canning.

Jose Andres