Quotes About Cape Breton

#1. I write better in Cape Breton ... too many people around in Ontario. Down there I meet all sorts of non-human people, but they don't bother me, and I don't feel I have to apologize on behalf of my species quite so often.

Farley Mowat

#2. I might be the hazardous waste site that polluted it, but Cape Breton Island is still my home.

Rebecca McNutt

#3. Living in Cape Breton, it's really all about fiddle music, so it's not like there were other instruments out there that tempted me and it was like I had to decide which one. It was automatically fiddle, because it's the predominant instrument in Cape Breton Island.

Natalie MacMaster

#4. On the other hand, if there's an underlying core of poetry that I go to, I go to the sea. I've lived on the sea all my life. I live on the sea in Cape Breton.

Richard Serra

#5. I am a very musical person. I love music, and I don't just love Cape Breton fiddling, although it's my favorite.

Natalie MacMaster

#6. I once owned a home on an island off the coast of Cape Breton, Nova Scotia.

Joseph Monninger

#7. I have travelled around the globe. I have seen the Canadian and American Rockies, the Andes, the Alps and the Highlands of Scotland, but for simple beauty, Cape Breton outrivals them all!

Alexander Graham Bell

#8. You see these young people in Antigonish who are coming from Cape Breton, and these are really smart, attractive young people, who are living in a place that's been very rough economically. It's a very special thing to be helpful there.

Gerry Schwartz

#9. I just love Cape Breton fiddling! I think it's very close. They derive their music from Scottish music. Well, in Donegal we're very influenced by Scottish music as well. Independently the two areas became very alike, because they kind of changed the music a bit from Scotland and we did the same.

Mairead Ni Mhaonaigh

#10. Our love was perfect. We were not.

Jessica Harman

#11. Alecto isn't a person! He's just something that society made and then threw away, a memory that refuses to die.

Rebecca McNutt

#12. Super 8 film is the language of silence.

Rebecca McNutt

#13. When the north wind blew across the tar ponds, voices were carried away.

Jonathan Campbell

#14. I didn't even realize that people bought contemporary art ... that people actually paid for it.

Wade Guyton

#15. Smile for the camera, pretty little Sydney Tar Ponds.

Rebecca McNutt

#16. The purpose of writing is to hold a mirror to nature, but too much today is written from small mirrors in vanity cases.

John Mason Brown

#17. In this part of Canada, it was assumed that the passengers would provide each other with entertainment.

Beatrice Rose Roberts

#18. Sing a song of Tar Ponds City, party full of lies! Four and twenty liars, seventeen hands caught in pies! When the pie was cut, Hugh Briss began to sing! Wasn't that a stonewall rat to set before the Fossil's ding?

Beatrice Rose Roberts

#19. That is the most common excuse, and the most foolish of all. Love has never prevented a man from following his dreams. If she truly loves you, she will want the best for you.

Paulo Coelho

#20. Those that we love, those essential beings, are removed from us at the will of the Almighty, or the devils that usurp them.

Sebastian Barry

#21. Well, we're originally from Glace Bay."

Grandma Elsie's eyes glittered. She was looking at one of her own, a lost Cape Bretoner in need of help and offering a new story. "Tell me all about it, dear.

Beatrice Rose Roberts

#22. She comes to naught, my dear one, she comes to naught, all that there business. What the hell, maybe twice in your life you have yourself a whore of a good time, and then you spend every night of the rest of your life trying to get that good time back. But she comes to naught.

Lynn Coady