Halifax Quotes

• I was on a founding members of the Canadian theatre movement in the late 60's till the mid 70's and performed theatre from Halifax to Vancouver and all places in between.

  Nick Mancuso

  Theatre, Vancouver, Movement

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• In America there's lot of cool cities, but in Canada there's, like, well, Vancouver, Toronto and Halifax may be cool, but they're so expensive. Montreal is the only city that's affordable but also has buses and culture.

  Grimes

  Cities, America, Vancouver

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• I was in a store in Halifax, Nova Scotia that I love, sort of like an environmental friendly sort of store. But they had a great book section. So I went in there all the time. The woman who worked there - which I feel so bad; I've forgotten her name - she handed me the book and she said, "Hey, you should read this. I think it would make a good movie." I remember reading the back of it and I was like, "Huh." Then I just devoured the book and I was so moved by it and said, "Why don't we start developing this into a film?" So that's how it ['Into the Forest'] all started.

  Ellen Page

  Book, Reading, Thinking

  "Into The Forest: Ellen Page and Evan Rachel Wood Survive a Quiet Apocalypse". Interview with Don Kaye, www.denofgeek.com. July 28, 2016.

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• The band may be small in terms of numbers with only two members, but Halifax rockers The Town Heroes are mighty in sound.

  Ken Kelly

  Hero, Two, Numbers

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• The people of Halifax also invented the harmonium, a device for castrating pigs during Sunday service.

  Mike Harding

  Humorous, Sunday, Pigs

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• Halifax against Spurs, the original David against Goliath confrontation

  John Helm

  Soccer, Football, Spurs

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• The Halifax area has long played a major role in Canada's military operations, being the port of departure for convoys, naval task forces and army units over the past 100 years or so.

  Willie Morris

  Military, Army, Past

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• Perhaps the highest goodness attainable is a life of service to all mankind. Such an ideal is supported in nearly every page in the Gospels-the parables, the sermons, and the countless acts of service by our Lord Himself. The ideal is not limited to any particular kind of service, nor a given quantity of service. The ideal is accepting life itself as a trust to be used in the welfare of mankind. It is a life that is glad for the chance to be of any help, an attitude that 'service is the rent we pay for our own room on earth.' (Lord Halifax)

  Obert C. Tanner

  Attitude, Rooms, Earth

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• Why get rid of Chamberlain to put in Halifax? It's like getting rid of the organ-grinder to put in the monkey.

  Barbara Castle, Baroness Castle of Blackburn

  Monkeys, Organs, Grinder

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• It is the English, not their Government; for if they were not blind cowards, they would lynch Chamberlain and Halifax and all the other smarmy traitors.

  Enoch Powell

  Government, Coward, Blind

  "Like the Roman. The Life of Enoch Powell" by Simon Heffer, (p. 53), 1999.

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