Battle Of Quebec Quotes & Sayings

Evidence my 14yr old daughter is geek-literate: In lieu of OK, one might type K while texting. She instead typed "Potassium". — Neil DeGrasse Tyson

If we tread our vices under our feet, we make of them a ladder by which to rise to higher things. — Saint Augustine

Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants. That, more or less, is the short answer to the supposedly incredibly complicated and confusing question of what we humans should eat in order to be maximally healthy. — Michael Pollan

Content is not mere facts, drummed into tender little minds under the relentless pounding of rote learning. Content--even the date of the Quebec Act, Confederation, or the Battle of Vimy Ridge, or the name of the first prime minister-- is cultural capital, a basic requirement of life that every Canadian needs to comprehend the daily newspaper, to watch the TV news or a documentary, or to argue about politics and cast a reasonably informed vote. In an increasingly complex and immediate world, cultural capital must also include some knowledge of Europe, Africa, and Asia, too. — J.L. Granatstein

Not everyone sees the goof in people like you do Emmy" Sam said
"She even sees the good in you — Kady Cross

I have looked further into space than ever human being did before me. I have observed stars of which the light, it can be proved, must take two million years to reach the earth.
[Having identified Uranus (1781), the first planet discovered since antiquity.] — William Herschel

We'll never find that one, and I'll be blamed," announced Edd Tollett, the dour grey-haired squire everyone called Dolorous Edd. "Nothing ever goes missing that they don't look at me, ever since that time I lost my horse. As if that could be helped. He was white and it was snowing, what did they expected — George R R Martin

No, Nathan, no." She wrapped his face in her hands. "I just need you
all of you
so much that I'm going crazy. I need your laugh. I need your company. I need you to sleep beside me and I need you to wake when I wake. I need you with everything in me. — Nalini Singh

Or maybe just an amphetamine freak? Clark's thoughts wandered to a particularly exciting week in Toronto, eighteen or nineteen years old, when he and Arthur had accepted some pills from a new friend at a dance club and stayed up for seventy-two hours straight. — Emily St. John Mandel

Christianity gave eroticism its savor of sin and legend when it endowed the human female with a soul. — Simone De Beauvoir

You, alone, chose and accepted responsibility for your path, and that is why you will leave this chamber on your own two feet. — Jennifer Turner

When it comes to raising children, I believe in give and take. I give orders and they take 'em. — Bernie Mac