African Canadian Quotes & Sayings

Every movie that I've had to really knock down the door for has been an enormous success for me. Not just like a financial success but a real personal success. — Jodie Foster

I went to the Missing Persons Bureau but no one was there. — George Carlin

Nature is where my heart is. — William Clay Ford Jr.

Sometimes that's a year, sometimes it's 18 months, where all I'm doing is taking notes. I'm reconstructing the story from the back to the front so that I know where the front is. — John Irving

When the death toll among British troops was added to that of the carriers the official 'butcher's bill' in the East Africa campaign exceeded 100,000 souls. The true figure was undoubtedly much higher: as many a British official admitted, 'the full tale of the mortality among [the] native carriers will never be told'.2 Even 100,000 deaths is a sobering enough figure. It is almost double the number of Australian or Canadian or Indian troops who gave their lives in the Great War; indeed it is equivalent to the combined casualties - the dead and wounded - sustained by Indian troops. It is as if the entire African workforce employed at the time in the mines of South Africa had been wiped out. Yet the East Africa campaign remains, by and large, a forgotten theatre of war. — Edward Paice

What kind of person doesn't like chocolate? — Hend Hegazi

The meals we remember are the ones we have with others, not the TV. — Pamela Heyne

Because the sweeter the cake, the more bitter the jelly can be. — Lady Gaga

In school, I hated poetry - those skinny,
Malnourished poems that professors love;
The bad grammar and dirty words that catch
In the mouth like fishhooks, tear holes in speech.
Pablo, your words are rain I run through,
Grass I sleep in. — George Elliott Clarke

We are echolocators," Joel-and-Peter said. They were also, apparently, very sharp of hearing. — Ransom Riggs

Facts do not become historical evidence until someone thinks up something for them to prove or disprove. — Cary Carson

Could it be that sexual perversion and romanticism sprang from the same longing for distant horizons? — Colin Wilson

It may be inevitable that mankind has to suffer so that it may gain experience to transcend and transform her collective consciousness. — Debasish Mridha

The moon twangs its silver strings;
The river swoons into town;
The wind beds down in the pines,
Covers itself with stars. — George Elliott Clarke

I think the average guy thinks they're pro-woman, just because they think they're a nice guy and someone has told them that they're awesome. But the truth is far from it. — Junot Diaz

If you want to relax the worry-tightened muscles in your face, let the half smile come to your face. As the half smile appears, all the facial muscles begin to relax. The longer the half smile is maintained, the better. It is the same smile you see on the face — Thich Nhat Hanh