Cantons Quotes

#1. The only thing you can be sure of, Herr March, is that - whoever wins - still standing when the smoke of battle clears will be the banks of the cantons of Switzerland.

Robert Harris

#2. Switzerland is undeniably a modern country, but gender roles make occasional appearances. In some cantons women didn't get the right to vote until the 1970s. Anna knew she'd been in Switzerland too long when this stopped appalling her.

Jill Alexander Essbaum

#3. Make me a willow cabin at your gate,
And call upon my soul within the house;
Write loyal cantons of contemned love
And sing them loud even in the dead of night.

William Shakespeare

#4. There are no grotesques in nature; not anything framed to fill up empty cantons, and unnecessary spaces.

Thomas Browne

#5. When things are taking their ordinary course, it is hard to remember what matters. There are so many things you would never think to tell anyone. And I believe they may be the things that mean most to you, and that even your own child would have to know in order to know you well at all.

Marilynne Robinson

#6. The lie is elaborate and exact.

John Newlove

#7. Indecision is debilitating; it feeds upon itself; it is, one might almost say, habit-forming. Not only that, but it is contagious; it transmits itself to others.

Heinz Hopf

#8. A good government had to guide its people, sometimes gently, sometimes strictly, just as parents did. It could allow certain freedoms, but in a style that suited the country.

Amy Tan

#9. Jimmy Dickens was the essence of country music and the heart of the Grand Ole Opry.

Connie Smith

#10. The big bang, the most cataclysmic event we can imagine, on closer inspection appears finely orchestrated.

George Smoot

#11. I've always gotten along well with Texans. You've got to.

Burt Reynolds

#12. Well, when we made 'Tron' there was no internet, no cellphones.

Jeff Bridges