Quotes About Canadian Confederation

#1. When the Canadian confederation took place in 1867, a lot of people in Quebec said, 'Could we have a referendum?' They said, 'Oh, no. In the British tradition, the Parliament can do anything, excluding changing a man into a woman, and, therefore, no referendum' - and that was that.

Jacques Parizeau

#2. Yes, I can!
I certainly can!
I can have
A gratitude-flower-heart
That shall remain open
At all hours.

Sri Chinmoy

#3. On the road to wisdom, behave like a raven and observe everything carefully!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#4. Anytime a sage displays humanness - in regard to money, food, sex, relationships - we are shocked, shocked, because we are planning to escape life altogether, not live it, and the sage who lives life offends us.

Ken Wilber

#5. your reading will be even better then, after a lifetime of thought and effort, because it will come from conscious understanding. Grace attained like that is deeper and fuller than grace that comes freely, and furthermore, once you've gained it, it will never leave you.

Philip Pullman

#6. My doctor told me to watch my drinking. Now I drink in front of a mirror.

Rodney Dangerfield

#7. Our only hope is to control the ...

Medgar Evers

#8. I went down to my baby's house and I sit down on her steps. She said, now come on in now, you know, my husband just left.

Muddy Waters

#9. I'm definitely gonna be the People's champion ... but I just ain't gonna be the champ the way you want me to be the champ. I'm gonna be the champ the way I wanna be.

Muhammad Ali

#10. I began to see, in the place of emptiness, presence. I began to see not only the visible landscape but the invisible one, a landscape in which history, unrecorded and unremembered as it is, had transmuted itself into an always present spiritual dimension.

Sharon Butala

#11. It is a sad truth in life that when someone has lost a loved one, friends sometimes avoid the person, just when the presence of friends is most needed.

Lemony Snicket