Top 68 Layton Quotes
#1. Those of us who have tested gravity under a hoop know its mystical properties. Robin Layton, as I would have expected, has turned this staple of Americana into a gorgeous art form.
George Vecsey
#2. Y-you, Marley Layton, are my favouritist big brother called Marley. The best, my very bestest one." George points her finger up at me as she speaks.
"I'm your only big brother called Marley."
"This true, this is vrery, vrery true," she slurs.
Lesley Jones
#3. You told me last night I healed you, but you healed me just as much. I love you, Layton. I'll love you forever, too.
Kelly Elliott
#4. The reason it was so scary was that there was only one climber capable of rescuing us, and that was Layton Kor, and he was in Colorado.
Yvon Chouinard
#5. I am, as many people are, inspired by Jack Layton's legacy and the way that he approached politics,
Justin Trudeau
#6. Time flames like a paraffin stove / and what burns are the minutes I live.
Irving Layton
#7. I don't know why we'd need so many more prisons when the crooks seem so happy in the Senate.
Jack Layton
#8. We love in another's soul whatever of ourselves we can deposit in it; the greater the deposit, the greater the love.
Irving Layton
#9. You do not have opportunities for influence by accident. God-given opportunities bring God-intended responsibilities. Do all the good you can wherever God puts you. Apply this to your situation among family members, your neighbors, and your coworkers.
Layton Talbert
#10. I played a lot of squash for a lot of years.
Jack Layton
#11. Cherish every moment with those you love at every stage of your journey.
Jack Layton
#13. Some people think the NDP may want to get rid of the monarchy but I can assure you that that's absolutely not the case. My Dad was a big time monarchist and so am I.
Jack Layton
#15. People that go through serious illness - you can either go one way or the other. You can either become despondent about it all. Or it kind of rejuvenates you, makes you focus on what's important.
Jack Layton
#17. Canada is a great country, one of the hopes of the world.
Jack Layton
#18. Canadians look down on the United States and consider it Hell. They are right to do so. Canada is to the United States what, in Dante's scheme, Limbo is to Hell.
Irving Layton
#19. It amazes me that organs that piss Can give human beings such perfect bliss.
Irving Layton
#20. According to FBI statistics, false accusations of rape are no more common than for other crimes.
Different Crimes, Different Criminals: Understanding, Treating and Preventing Criminal Behavior, p109
Doris Layton MacKenzie
#21. I'd put it this way: Canadians want politicians to work together on their behalf. So that's what I'm committed to doing. I think it's been the goal of every NDP leader. Because we had a profound belief that we could do a good job on behalf of Canadians ... if we were given that opportunity.
Jack Layton
#22. Whom the gods do not intend to destroy, they first make mad with poetry.
Irving Layton
#23. We want to challenge the established ideas with new ideas.
Jack Layton
#24. Well, I say it's time to take Stephen Harper to the woodshed!
Jack Layton
#25. To other Canadians who are on journeys to defeat cancer and to live their lives, I say this: please don't be discouraged that my own journey hasn't gone as well as I had hoped. You must not lose your own hope.
Jack Layton
#27. I believe that when Paul Martin cancelled affordable housing across this country it produced a dramatic rise in homelessness and deaths due to homelessness and I've always said I hold him responsible for that.
Jack Layton
#28. Don't let them tell you it can't be done.
Jack Layton
#29. Are we allowed to sing? I imagine that at times, it might improve the tone of the debate.
Jack Layton
#30. Politics matters. Ideas matter. Democracy matters, because all of us need to be able to make a difference.
Jack Layton
#31. If it's a flash it's been an awfully long flash. I've been around for 20 years in one of the largest media and political markets in the country, so I'd call it more of a slow burn.
Jack Layton
#32. If I have tried to bring anything to federal politics, it is the idea that hope and optimism should be at their heart.
Jack Layton
#33. And me happiest when I compose poems:
Love, power, the huzza of battle
are something, are much:
yet a poem includes them like a pool
water and reflection.
Irving Layton
#34. When you're sick, you present your medicare card, not your credit card ...
Jack Layton
#35. I am a genius who has written poems that will survive with the best of Shakespeare, Wordsworth and Keats.
Irving Layton
#36. Free speech is one of our fundamental principles and it's pretty hard to speak freely when people are yelling at you when it's your turn. That would never be allowed in a classroom or in any other kind of meeting.
Jack Layton
#37. God is indeed dead. He died of self-horror when He saw the creature He had made in His own image.
Irving Layton
#38. I've always favoured proposition over opposition. But we will oppose the government when it's off track.We'll support positive suggestions that we'll bring forward and support the government when it's making progress.
Jack Layton
#39. The responsibility of a minister is to step aside when there is a criminal investigation of the department. That protects the propriety of Parliament and of responsible government.
Jack Layton
#40. Since I no longer expect anything from mankind except madness, meanness, and mendacity; egotism, cowardice, and self-delusion, I have stopped being a misanthrope.
Irving Layton
#41. Treatments and therapies have never been better in the face of this disease. You have every reason to be optimistic, determined, and focused on the future. My only other advice is to cherish every moment with those you love at every stage of your journey, as I have done this summer.
Jack Layton
#42. Canadians can get Parliament working again. Here's how to do that: elect more New Democrats.
Jack Layton
#43. Remember our proud history of social justice, universal health care, public pensions and making sure no one is left behind. Let's continue to move forward.
Jack Layton
#44. How seasonably
leaf and blossom uncurl
and living things arrange their death,
while someone from afar off
blows birthday candles for the world.
Irving Layton
#45. We have this historic problem that we have a quarter of our population, the people of Quebec, who have never signed on to the Constitution. That can't go on forever.
Jack Layton
#46. Ideas are always more important than money.
Jack Layton
#47. There are great challenges before you, from the overwhelming nature of climate change to the unfairness of an economy that excludes so many from our collective wealth, and the changes necessary to build a more inclusive and generous Canada. I believe in you.
Jack Layton
#48. My neighbor doesn't want to be loved as much as he wants to be envied.
Irving Layton
#49. A prime minister's job is to make sure the government works for those who have elected him, and not for big corporations.
Jack Layton
#50. Remember when I told you I knew about you? You interrupted me. I wasn't going to say I sympathized with you; I was going to say I didn't give a damn. Life is hard for everyone, some more than others. But the damage you cause to other people, that's on you. Your pain has made you into a monster.
Layton Green
#51. I believe how I live my life every day is my act of worship.
Jack Layton
#52. I want to share with you my belief in your power to change this country and this world.
Jack Layton
#53. You can wait forever for perfect conditions or you can make do with what you have.
Jack Layton
#54. Always have a dream that will outlast your lifetime,
Jack Layton
#55. I think Paul Martin doesn't mean what he says. He said he would clear this sort of thing up and he didn't do it.
Jack Layton
#56. Oh. Well, as long as it's not my fault.
Mary Layton
#57. To this pass Christianity has come There is no God, and Jesus is his son.
Irving Layton
#59. A poet is deeply conflicted and it's in his work that he reconciles those deep conflicts. The place is the harbor. It doesn't set the world in order, you know, it's the place of reconciliation. It's the Consolamentum, the kiss of peace.
Irving Layton
#60. A Canadian is someone who keeps asking the question, 'What is a Canadian?
Irving Layton
#61. My friends, love is better than anger. Hope is better than fear. Optimism is better than despair. So let us be loving, hopeful and optimistic. And we'll change the world.
Jack Layton
#62. Progress of a marriage: There was a time when you couldn't make me happy. Now the time has come when you can make me unhappy.
Irving Layton
#63. God rules and governs all events, including the free acts of men and their external circumstances, and directs all things to their appointed ends for His glory.
Layton Talbert
#64. Only the tiniest fracton of mankind want freedom. All the rest want someone to tell them theyare free.
Irving Layton
#65. When you argue with your inferiors, you convince them of only one thing: they are as clever as you.
Irving Layton
#67. In Pierre Elliott Trudeau, Canada has at last produced a political leader worthy of assassination.
Irving Layton
#68. team factors for agile project success: the dedicated team and the cross-functional team.
Mark C. Layton
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