Quotes About Louis Riel

#1. Deeds are not accomplished in a few days, or in a few hours. A century is only a spoke in the wheel of everlasting time.

Louis Riel

#2. To relate a Beethoven sonata to the testicles is hardly in the style of traditional aesthetics.

Terry Eagleton

#3. We must cherish our inheritance. We must preserve our nationality for the youth of our future. The story should be written down to pass on.

Louis Riel

#4. We don't have time for perfect. In any event, perfection is unachievable.

Elizabeth Gilbert

#5. Life, without the dignity of an intelligent being, is not worth having.

Louis Riel

#6. It's not the person who is good or bad, it's the side we rub of them.

Udai Yadla

#7. My people will sleep for one hundred years, but when they awake, it will be the artists who give them their spirit back.

Louis Riel

#8. I am glad that the Crown have proved that I am the leader of the Half-breeds in the North-West. I will perhaps be one day acknowledged as more than a leader of the Half-breeds, and if I am I will have an opportunity of being acknowledged as a leader of good in this great country.

Louis Riel

#9. Now our kids must have the qualities of both an old aristocrat and a modern technocrat. No wonder they're so busy, and so frantic.

William Deresiewicz

#10. In giving alms, let us rather look at the needs of the poor than his claim to your charity.

Jean Antoine Petit-Senn

#11. I know that through the grace of God, I am the founder of Manitoba.

Louis Riel

#12. I have done my fiddling so long under Vesuvius that I have almost forgotten to play, and can only wait for the eruption and think it long of coming. Literally no man has more wholly outlived life than I. And still it's good fun.

Robert Louis Stevenson

#13. I have nothing but my heart and I have given it long ago to my country.

Louis Riel

#14. I am more convinced everyday that without a single exception I did right. And I have always believed that, as I have acted honestly, the time will come when the people of Canada will see and acknowledge it.

Louis Riel

#15. One of the big misconceptions about me is that I walk around in mini-skirts and high heels twenty-four seven and go to the gym in heels.

Carmen Electra

#16. A wise man hears one word and understands two.

Anonymous

#17. On Fantastic Mr. Fox, I got used to working with animated storyboards as a way of planning for the shoot. We did a lot of sequences that way with this movie. Partly as a result of that, I decided to build more sets in order to do certain shots.

Wes Anderson

#18. Belief in a child nurtures the belief of a child.

Renata Bowers