Famous Quotes & Sayings

Agnes Macphail

It is a fact that all women contribute more to marriage than men; for the most part they have to change their place of living, their method of work, a great many women today changing their occupation entirely on marriage; and they must even change their name.

Agnes Macphail

If they are willing to give women economic freedom in that home, if they are willing to live by the standard they wish women to live by, then homes will be preserves.

Agnes Macphail

I owed it to my father that I was elected to Parliament in the first place, but I owed it to my mother that I stuck it out once I got there.

Agnes Macphail

Never apologize. Never explain. Just get the thing done, and let them howl.

Stan Smith

This was a life's goal of mine. I don't know if a Canadian has ever won a PBA title before. There's nobody in recent history I know of.

There is probably upward momentum in the short term for energy prices, and in that environment, the Canadian dollar should do reasonably well.

The practical implication of this environment is that young Canadians must start saving very early in their lives, compared to previous generations in order to realize the same inflation-adjusted return on their savings. Our findings suggest this is not happening.

Matt Stairs

When you get 25 or 30 Canadians together it's going to be a very loose clubhouse. But it's also going to be a very serious clubhouse. We're going into the tournament very serious and ready for it.

Paul Martin

There are a large number of Canadians who are on their way down there to help.

We saw consolidation of the gains in the Canadian dollar from last Friday.

Don Cherry

To run up a score like that, that is wrong. First of all it is not the Canadian way.

We have been pressing for him to have Canadian counsel.

Michael Ignatieff

We have got to plant our standard firmly on the centre-left of Canadian politics.

Bob Rae

When other countries seem to be able to move forward in that area, I think Canadians expect to see their governments to be able to do the same thing.

Michael J. Fox

Tracy is more a help to me than I am to her.

Michael J. Fox

What other people think about me is not my business.

Joni Mitchell

This is a nation that has lost the ability to be self-critical, and that makes a lie out of the freedoms.

Ivan Reitman

When you have a performer as talented as Bill Murray or as Harold, that can write as well as they can perform, you can do a final draft on the set if you think of it that way.

Ivan Reitman

In many ways, I think that, while we've been remarkably violent in our media, there's been a real schizophrenia. In private, on the Internet, and on public-affairs shows or talk radio, we're way more explicit than we've ever been.

Donovan Bailey

I'm Jamaican, man. I'm Jamaican first. You gotta understand that's where I'm from. That's home. That you can never take away from me. I'm a Jamaican-born Canadian sprinter.

Nicholas Lea

The programme's evolving constantly, and it may well go back into more psychological horror - these things tend to go in cycles in long-running shows.

Ed Greenwood

I want to work with my friends because Canadian genre publishing is a really small pool.

Missy Peregrym

When 'Rookie Blue' began, I was so proud to be a Canadian on a Canadian show that was getting fans in America. I'm so used to working on American projects with Americans, it was a big deal for me to be on a show that showcases our talent... our 'peeps.'

Do not do to others what you would not have them do to you.

If I am not for myself, who will be for me? If I am not for others, what am I? And if not now, when?

Alex Lifeson

You know, we have a long history of covering different periods of this band's development with a live record... a sort of live thing that would be done for three or four records, and that was the intention with this particular package.

Rick Moranis

There will always be another group of kids going to college, drinking beer, and discovering that movie. Many of them have never even heard of SCTV.

Rick Moranis

What we see is what they're trying to sell us. It's not true nostalgic as much as it is repeating old material because it's less expensive than new material.

Stephen Harper

You know, the public health system is the only one most Canadians have ever used. It's the only one my family has ever used. We've just got to make it work.

We want to take care of our employees, because they take care of our family.

James Randi

I was not surprised by the results of the Horizon experiments, but I remain willing to observe and consider any and all other tests that are done under similarly precise conditions.

Michael Shanks

You know, if it doesn't work, we can always cut it.

Oliver Platt

You know I feel very fortunate that my life has turned out the way that it has - whatever that means - I mean... you know, to say that I would be glad would mean that I planned it.