Sarnia Quotes & Sayings

Put even the plainest woman into a beautiful dress and unconsciously she will try to live up to it. — Lucy, Lady Duff-Gordon

Let us rise up and be thankful, for if we didn't learn a lot at least we learned a little, and if we didn't learn a little, at least we didn't get sick, and if we got sick, at least we didn't die; so, let us all be thankful. — Gautama Buddha

I envisaged a woman of the late nineteenth century marrying into this milieu, finding it unendurable and fleeing back with her child to the more ordinary hazards of London: of that child, given at her christening the ancient Roman name for the island, Sarnia, but reared in ignorance of her paternal background, discovering, after her mother's death, that she was an heiress, and being bidden back to claim her patrimony. Skulduggery followed naturally.
(On the writing of SARNIA) — Hilary Ford

Once rolling the train would travel under the code name "POTUS," for "President of the United States, — David McCullough

I was born in Sarnia, Ontario; a small town, it's where oil was pretty much discovered in North America. — Chris Hadfield

At work, you're replaceable ... but as a parent, you're irreplaceable. — Maria Shriver

To destroy abuses is not enough; Habits must also be changed. The windmill has gone, but the wind is still there."
~old man G--- to Monseigneur Bienvenu Myriel — Victor Hugo

I prefer the Chinese method of eating. You can do anything at the table except arm wrestle. — Jeff Smith