Pierre Berton Quotes

#1. On September 9, the day after Prevost's armistice ends, Napoleon launches and, at great cost, wins the Battle of Borodino, thus opening the way to Moscow. The casualties on that day exceed eighty thousand - a figure greater than the entire population, of Upper Canada.

Pierre Berton

#2. I may think that hornets do not have an ideal social organization. But I know better than to poke their nest.

Fred Reed

#3. A writer should be read, not seen, as they seldom are a joy to the eye.

Katarina Anhava

#4. Now you can get on Facebook and read an article, '10 Ways You Are Ruining Your Child Forever.' I'm sure it's making us better parents in some ways, but in other ways, it is sending us all a little crazy.

Liane Moriarty

#5. The nation is bound together by its creative artists and not by parallel lines of rusting steel.

Pierre Berton

#6. My best advice to writers is get yourself born in an interesting place.

Pierre Berton

#7. I'd always believed that the cello was a solitary instrument, but now I was starting to wonder if maybe I was the solitary one.

Anonymous

#8. When I touch you, I'm touching you because I want to make you happy. When I kiss you, I'm kissing you because you have the most incredible mouth I've ever seen and you know I can't not kiss it. And when I make love to you - I'm doing exactly that. I'm making love to you because I'm in love with you.

Colleen Hoover

#9. The fear of getting close to someone in case they leave me

Giovanna Fletcher

#10. There is no point in worrying about the effect [result], which has already occurred. It is worth paying attention to the facts (causes) upon which the effects [results] are based.

Dada Bhagwan

#11. Racism is a refuge for the ignorant. It seeks to divide and to destroy. It is the enemy of freedom, and deserves to be met head-on and stamped out.

Pierre Berton

#12. As a rule, indeed, grown-up people are fairly correct on matters of fact; it is in the higher gift of imagination that they are so sadly to seek.

Kenneth Grahame

#13. The more I see of the country, the less I feel I know about it. There is a saying that after five years in the north every man is an expert; after ten years, a novice.

Pierre Berton

#14. We are to put it mildly, in a mess, and there is a strong chance that we shall have exterminated ourselves by the end of the century. Our only consolation will be that as a species, we have had an exciting term of office.

Desmond Morris

#15. The speeding reader guts a book the way the skillful clean fish. The gills are gone, the tail, the scales, the fins; then the fillet slides away swifly as though fed to a seal.

William H Gass

#16. I want to live again ... with you. You've changed my world. I'm altered, no longer stuck in purgatory.

K.I. Lynn

#17. It's often the case that successful people invite criticism.

Michael Gove

#18. Begin with loss and see
how the world contradicts you,
how the horizon implies that beyond it
the water is not empty
but full of ships
all docking at another island.

Lynn Emanuel

#19. You can borrow time, but you can't steal it.

Kevin DeYoung

#20. A Canadian is somebody who knows how to make love in a canoe.

Pierre Berton

#21. The concept of barroom shoot-outs and duels in the sun have no part in our tradition either, possibly because we have had so few barrooms and so little sun. (It is awkward to reach efficiently for a six-gun while wearing a parka and two pairs of mittens.)

Pierre Berton

#22. I am an atheist, a rationalist and a humanist.

Pierre Berton

#23. The Artist always has the masters in his eyes.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#24. I only write books about dead people. They can't sue.

Pierre Berton