Canals Quotes

• Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other.

  Ronald Reagan

  Funny, Baby, Military

  Ronald Reagan, Bill Adler (1981). “The Reagan wit”, Jameson Books

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• When the blind lead the blind, they all fall in the canal.

  Tony Hancock

  Fall, Blind

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• Amsterdam was a great surprise to me. I had always thought of Venice as the city of canals; it had never entered my mind that I should find similar conditions in a Dutch town.

  James Weldon Johnson

  Cities, Venice, Mind

  James Weldon Johnson, Sondra K. Wilson (1995). “The Selected Writings of James Weldon Johnson: Social, political, and literary essays”, p.331, Oxford University Press on Demand

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• Good roads, canals, and navigable rivers, by diminishing the expence of carriage, put the remote parts of the country more nearly upon a level with with those of the neighbourhood of the town. They are upon that the greatest of all improvements.

  Adam Smith

  Country, Rivers, Levels

  Adam Smith (2016). “The Wealth of Nations: the Great Master”, p.173, VM eBooks

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• The crowning fortune of a man is to be born to some pursuit which finds him employment and happiness, whether it be to make baskets, or broadswords, or canals, or statues, or songs.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Life, Positive, Happiness

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1866). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations”, p.422

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• People generally have more feeling for canals and roads than education. However, I hope we can advance them with equal pace.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Education, People, Feelings

  Thomas Jefferson (1854). “The Writings of Thomas Jefferson”, p.217

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• We have seen pictures [of mars] where there there are canals, we believe, and water. If there is water, that means there is oxygen. If oxygen, that means we can breathe.

  Dan Quayle

  Believe, Mean, Science

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• Venice is ever the fragile labyrinth at the edge of the sea and it reminds us how brief and perilous the journeys of our lives are; perhaps that is why we love it so. City of plagues and brief liaisons, city of lingering deaths and incendiary loves, city of chimeras, nightmares, pigeons, bells. You are the only city in the world whose dialect has a word for the shimmer of canal water reflected on the ceiling of a room.

  Erica Jong

  Journey, Sea, Cities

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• I do not object to the construction of rail roads and canals.

  Gerrit Smith

  Construction, New Roads, Rail

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• I took the Canal Zone and let Congress debate; and while the debate goes on, the canal does also.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Political, Doe, Goes On

  Quoted in N.Y. Times, 24 Mar. 1911

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• Not houses finely roofed or the stones of walls well builded, nay nor canals and dockyards make the city, but men able to use their opportunity.

  Alcaeus

  Wall, Opportunity, Men

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• Sooner or later the Internet will become profitable. It's an old story played before by canals, railroads and automobiles.

  Paul Samuelson

  Railroads, Stories, Internet

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• The physiologist who succeeds in penetrating deeper and deeper into the digestive canal becomes convinced that it consists of a number of chemical laboratories equipped with various mechanical devices.

  Ivan Pavlov

  Numbers, Succeed, Chemicals

  Ivan Petrovich Pavlov (1957). “Experimental psychology, and other essays”

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• In Amsterdam, the river and canals have been central to city life for the last four centuries.

  Janet Echelman

  Cities, Rivers, Four

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• I believe that painting should come through the avenues of meditation rather than the canals of action.

  Mark Tobey

  Believe, Meditation, Serenity

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• One learns little more about a man from the feats of his literary memory than from the feats of his alimentary canal.

  Frank Moore Colby

  Memories, Men, Littles

  "Constrained Attitudes".

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• The last time I had this much fun was a root-canal operation.

  Larry Ziegler

  Fun, Golf, Roots

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• The digestive canal represents a tube passing through the entire organism and communicating with the external world, i.e. as it were the external surface of the body, but turned inwards and thus hidden in the organism.

  Ivan Pavlov

  World, Body, Passing

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• A beam of luminous hydrogen canal rays has, owing to its velocity, exactly the same direction as that of the electric field in which it may be made to move.

  Johannes Stark

  Moving, Rays, Owing

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• My first movie was this independent that I did on the Erie Canal in 1995, called Erie, that I don't know if you could even get, actually with Felicity Huffman. And then from that I did this film that was eventually called The Broken Giant later that fall. And then I kind of started getting into doing pilots.

  Will Arnett

  Fall, Independent, Broken

  "The Will Arnett Interview". Television Without Pity, 2005.

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• Married sex is like being awake during your own autopsy. It is root canal work without anesthetic.

  Al Goldstein

  Sex, Roots, Married

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• Mars is essentially in the same orbit. Mars is somewhat the same distance from the Sun, which is very important. We have seen pictures where there are canals, we believe, and water.

  Dan Quayle

  Distance, Believe, Oxygen

  "A Quayle Vision of Mars" by Kathy Sawyer, www.washingtonpost.com. September 1, 1989.

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• Equally important is the lack of cultivable land for farmers, a profound problem when you take into account that Afghanistan has always largely been an agricultural country, and that even before the wars destroyed lands and irrigation canals, only 5 per cent of the land was cultivable.

  Khaled Hosseini

  Country, War, Land

  Interview with Razeshta Sethna, newslinemagazine.com. November, 2003.

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• What vast additions to the conveniences and comforts of living might mankind have acquired, if the money spent in wars had been employed in works of public utility; what an extension of agriculture even to the tops of our mountains; what rivers rendered navigable, or joined by canals; what bridges, aqueducts, new roads, and other public works, edifices, and improvements might not have been obtained by spending those millions in doing good, which in the last war have been spent in doing mischief.

  Benjamin Franklin

  War, Bridges, Rivers

  Benjamin Franklin (2006). “The Portable Benjamin Franklin”, p.332, Penguin

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• There are celestial sights more dazzling, spectacles that inspire more awe, but to the thoughtful observer who is privileged to see them well, there is nothing in the sky so profoundly impressive as the canals of Mars. Fine lines and little gossamer filaments only, cobwebbing the face of the Martian disk, but threads to draw one's mind after them across the millions of miles of intervening void.

  Percival Lowell

  Thoughtful, Sight, Sky

  Percival Lowell (1908). “Mars as the abode of life”

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