Riel Quotes

#1. There I was limited to what happened the same way I am with Riel. It doesn't feel like a great burden to have your story, to some degree, set. I am enjoying figuring out what I think is the most dramatic way of telling this set of historical facts.

Chester Brown

#2. The whole crowd interrupted and told him, 'No, we won't let you go. You have worked hard for our rights and you can't quit now.'
'Then,' said Riel, 'if I must, I will desert.'
'If you desert, we will desert with you.

Gabriel Dumont

#3. Time is up for my little caravan kingdom. It's time for a window that does not look into concrete.

Leanne Hall

#4. 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

#5. Sacred soul with sparkle of divinity finds undefeatable strength.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#6. Throughout your life, you've been influenced by what you have done in the past, what you have been told you can and cannot do, and what your present circumstances seem to dictate.

Debbie Ford

#7. It was no great tragedy being Judy Garland's daughter. I had tremendously interesting childhood years - except they had little to do with being a child.

Liza Minnelli

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

Louis Riel

#9. 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

#10. 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

#11. 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

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

Louis Riel

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

Louis Riel

#14. There aren't that many people walking about who are a total class stereotype.

Ezra Koenig

#15. 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

#16. Balance is the enemy of art.

Richard Eyre

#17. There is no way of truly knowing where a road will lead until it is walked.

R.A. Salvatore

#18. You don't need to know the odds. You need to know how to do the thing you're trying to do. And then you need to do it.

Ann Leckie