Lanark County Quotes

#1. Take it from this Lanark County kid - you won't find any better, more flavourful syrup, than from the Maple Syrup Capital of Ontario

Arlene Stafford-Wilson

#2. I would not like to see a person who is sober, moderate, chaste and just say that there is no God. They would speak disinterestedly at least, but such a person is not to be found.

Jean De La Bruyere

#3. be careful of monsters with teeth

Harlan Ellison

#4. We had some memorable times, on those long, hot summer nights, along the shores of the mighty Rideau; but we were by no means the first to do so.

Arlene Stafford-Wilson

#5. Never wish a legendary love; you don't know who hard is to have a simple one.

M.F. Moonzajer

#6. My mother gave me my drive but my father gave me my dreams.

Liza Minnelli

#7. Some things were done a certain way and they had been done that same way for ages. Most of the time it was a good thing, a reliable thing, and we grew up being able to count on life being very predictable and very dependable.

Arlene Stafford-Wilson

#8. What made Jim truly mystical was his ability to live fully conscious of how, every day, a bit more of the sacred becomes desecrated. Still, Jim's awareness of how much had been lost didn't stop him from appreciating what remained.

Robert Jensen

#9. Trial by jury is part of the bright constellation which leads to peace, liberty and safety.

Thomas Jefferson

#10. It wasn't until I worked in the Perth Hospital kitchen in the 1970s that I began hearing stories about the ghosts that haunted their halls at night.

Arlene Stafford-Wilson

#11. Hershey was a source of pride for the townspeople of Smiths Falls, and was the instrument that put food on many tables.

Arlene Stafford-Wilson

#12. When we talk about global crisis, or a crisis of humanity, we cannot blame a few politicians, a few fanatics, or a few troublemakers. The whole of humanity has a responsibility because it is our business, human business. I call this a sense of universal responsibility. That is a crucial point.

Dalai Lama

#13. I will always remember that year in Almonte, and how their sun seemed to shine a little brighter, and the Mississippi seemed to rush along a little quicker through their town.

Arlene Stafford-Wilson

#14. In the 1970s, Washington women lawyers were getting organized. Grouping together gave us courage. And we overcame.

Carolyn R. Dimmick

#15. It is not enough just to open the door to the rooms of power. We have to get inside and rearrange the furniture!

Gertrude Mongella

#16. Photography has taken me from isolation.

Anton Corbijn

#17. Art is, for me, the process of trying to wake up the soul. Because we live in an industrialized, fast-paced world that prefers that the soul remain asleep.

Bill Viola

#18. Never wear a red t-shirt to Target. I enjoy helping people, but not every two minutes.

Kevin Nealon

#19. Art must take reality by surprise. It takes those moments which are for us merely a moment, plus a moment, plus another moment, and arbitrarily transforms them into a special series of moments held together by a major emotion.

Francoise Sagan

#20. The plants and animals all around us were waking from a long sleep, and our yard was slowly transformed into a carpet of soft green, and the skies above our house were filled with choruses of birdsong once again.

Arlene Stafford-Wilson

#21. You come to this universe as a baby but life turns you into a human being.

Debasish Mridha

#22. Looking around, from near the top of Foley Mountain, it was easy to imagine why the early settlers decided to make their home in Westport.

Arlene Stafford-Wilson

#23. When autumn gusts blew in from the Rideau Lakes, parched brown leaves swirled and scattered around the sides of the neglected building, forming mounds like grave-markers, for ghosts of the past, who lingered on the dust-covered dance floor.

Arlene Stafford-Wilson