Drapeau Quotes & Sayings

My all-time favourite political promise - more a boast than a promise, really - came from former Montreal mayor Jean Drapeau, who said in the lead-up to the 1976 Olympics, 'The Olympics can no more lose money than a man can have a baby.' — Martin O'Malley

I have it on good authority-from the roads department chief, Mr. Arpin-that it will not snow after the fifteenth of March. — Jean Drapeau

It was common practice for me to take my children with me whenever I went shopping, out for a walk in a white neighborhood, or just felt like going about in a white world. The reason was simple enough: if a black man is alone or with other black men, he is a threat to whites. But if he is with children, then he is harmless, adorable. — Gerald Early

Remember to view yourself and your humanness with a kind heart. — Elizabeth Berrien

Sometimes we are blessed with being able to choose
the time, and the arena, and the manner of our revolution,
but more usually
we must do battle where we are standing. — Audre Lorde

I thought you were supposed to destroy yourself for art. — Edward Field

Genuine historical knowledge requires nobility of character, a profound understanding of human existence - not detachment and objectivity. — Friedrich Nietzsche

I don't want to leave my kids an inheritance, I want to leave them a legacy — Daymond John

Let Toronto become Milan. Montreal will always be Rome. — Jean Drapeau

The real amateur of wine can only enjoy it along with friends, sharing with them the art of conversation and the art of drinking. Wine is indeed essentially a sign of civilization, a factor of sociability, friendship. — Jean Drapeau

What the masses want are monuments. — Jean Drapeau