Charlevoix Quotes & Sayings

Really, for a man who had been out of practice for so many years it was a splendid laugh! — Charles Dickens

Standardized testing has swelled and mutated, like a creature in one of those old horror movies, to the point that it now threatens to swallow our schools whole. — Alfie Kohn

There was something refreshingly and wildly musical to my ears in the very name of the white man's canoe, reminding me of Charlevoix and Canadian Voyageurs. The batteau is a sort of mongrel between the canoe and the boat, a fur-trader's boat. — Henry David Thoreau

POSITIVISM- A philosophy that denies our knowledge of the Real and affirms our ignorance of the Apparent. Its longest exponent is Comte, its broadest Mill and its thickest Spencer. — Ambrose Bierce

Arista," the wizard said, "sharks don't eat seafood because they like it, but because chickens don't swim. We all do the best we can with the tools we have, but at some point you have to ask yourself where the tools came from. — Michael J. Sullivan

How few friends would remain friends if each could see the sentiments of the other in their entirety. — Georg C. Lichtenberg

We're all what we are. And we're all subject to change. It is a journey from here to there. — Elif Shafak

Within the substandard construction of the Charlevoix church, literally upon a shaky foundation, I was baptized into the Orthodox faith; a faith that had existed long before Protestantism had anything to protest and before Catholicism called itself catholic; a faith that stretched back to the beginnings of Christianity, when it was Greek and not Latin, and which, without an Aquinas to reify it, had remained shrouded in the smoke of tradition and mystery whence it began. — Jeffrey Eugenides

But, in my opinion, if I am not formed for love, it follows that I am not formed for marriage. — Charlotte Bronte

I worked for a newspaper in Europe for, I lived in Europe for about seven years, so I worked in this sort of a yellow journalism kind of a thing, it was like a scandal sheet. — Kurt Loder

For Celia, her whole surround was animate, and each tapioca lump had a dense, nauseating little soul. — Lionel Shriver

I think it's my memory of this period that makes me fantasise about living in the country. In reality I know there would be no shops and I would kill myself. — Frankie Boyle

Age - it's the one mountain you can't overcome. — Joan Rivers

The Roman Catholic Church and its rituals were so much part of life that, although my parents would often question a small matter of dogma and none of us seemed more religious than anyone else, no one ever questioned the rituals or the basic tenets of belief. — Colm Toibin

Oh Mockingbird have you ever heard words that I've never heard — Bob Marley

We can't afford to be killing one another. — Nelson Mandela