Montreal Quotes

• And some places you been before are so great that you don't ever mind going back. Some places you been before you don't ever want to go back, you know, like Montreal in the Winter.

  Morgan Freeman

  Winter, Mind, Want

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• You know, what's nice about Montreal? Not only is it a beautiful city, but you have Cuban cigars...

  Jamie Farr

  Beautiful, Nice, Cities

  Interview with Peter Anthony Holder, www.peteranthonyholder.com. May 24, 1995.

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• No, I love Montreal... I think I love Montreal more than Montreal loves me... I love the food there.

  Kathy Griffin

  Thinking

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• For over 20 years, the federal and provincial governments have made enormous efforts employing a variety of approaches in an attempt to stimulate Montreal's economy.

  Kim Campbell

  Government, Years, Effort

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• For me, unemployment and poverty in the Greater Montreal area is not mainly a problem of structure, or design, or statistics. It is a profoundly human situation.

  Kim Campbell

  Design, Unemployment, Statistics

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• I ended up in the US for a month or so, before moving to Montreal with some Romanian friends.

  Nadia Comaneci

  Sports, Moving, Months

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• I think people in Montreal smoke a lot, and I used to smoke when I was 17-18, and just picked it up when I was playing juniors. But I think I stopped when I was 22, which was a big decision in my life.

  Mario Lemieux

  Thinking, People, Decision

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• I want to paint Montreal as a rather fantastic city, which it was, because nobody knows today what it was like. And I'm one of the last survivors, or rapidly becoming one.

  Christopher Plummer

  Becoming One, Cities, Survivor

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• Since the beginning, I always loved the game. When you grow up in Montreal, one day you want to be a professional hockey player. When I was six or seven, I knew that was what I wanted.

  Mario Lemieux

  Sports, Growing Up, Hockey

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• I would compare that to when I first started with the Montreal Canadiens; it was a big family then, where the guys really stuck together and worked like a unit. But when I came back in '88, it was not like that anymore.

  Guy Lafleur

  Guy, Together, Big Families

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• Growing up, mostly in Montreal, I was an only child of loving parents.

  Rudolph A. Marcus

  Children, Growing Up, Parent

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• I was born in Montreal and came from a lower-middle-class family.

  Maureen Forrester

  Class, Born, Middle

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• I was born in Montreal in 1939, the second son of poor immigrants.

  Sidney Altman

  Son, Poor, Born

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• They read their sports pages, know their statistics and either root like hell or boo our butts off. I love it. Give me vocal fans, pro or con, over the tourist types who show up in Houston or Montreal and just sit there.

  Mike Schmidt

  Sports, Roots, Giving

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• I think over there in Montreal they're a bit hardcore with the old homos. They're not that keen on them.

  Allen Carr

  Thinking, Hardcore, Bits

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• My parents were both from Scotland, but had been resident in Lower Canada some time before their marriage, which took place in Montreal; and in that city I spent most of my life.

  Maria Monk

  Cities, Scotland, Parent

  Maria Monk, Theodore Dwight, John Jay Slocum, William K. Hoyte (1836). “Awful Disclosures of Maria Monk: As Exhibited in a Narrative of Her Sufferings During a Residence of Five Years as a Novice, and Two Years as a Black Nun, in the Hotel Dieu Nunnery at Montreal”, p.9, New York : Howe & Bates

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• Yeah, I was born in Montreal and I go back to Vancouver and Toronto a lot, so I have a sense of being Canadian, and I was raised by two Canadians, and my wife is Canadian, so yeah, I feel it.

  Jason Reitman

  Two, Wife, Vancouver

  "Jason Reitman Takes Off with Up in the Air". Interview with Brian Gallagher, movieweb.com. February 24, 2010.

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• Being drafted by the Montreal Canadiens, that was the greatest moment in my career. And stealing the Stanley Cup in 1978 and bringing it back to my hometown of Thurso.

  Guy Lafleur

  Careers, Cups, Hometown

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• Without Montreal, Canada would be hopeless.

  Anthony Bourdain

  Would Be, Canada, Hopeless

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• Montreal, this wonderful town… Pearl of Canada, Pearl of the world.

  Mikhail Gorbachev

  World, Pearls, Canada

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• Some say that no one ever leaves Montreal, for that city, like Canada itself, is designed to preserve the past, a past that happened somewhere else.

  Leonard Cohen

  Past, Somewhere Else, Cities

  Leonard Cohen (2003). “The Favorite Game: A Novel”, Vintage Books

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• Montreal's not a city. It's a Disney World for alcoholics.

  Mike Wilmot

  Cities, World, Alcoholics

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• Montreal is a very cosmopolitan, sophisticated, erudite, educated, glorious city today. But it wasn't quite that way when I was growing up there. There was a lot of anti-Semitism. And I had to deal with that in an area of the city that had very few Jews.

  William Shatner

  Growing Up, Cities, Today

  "William Shatner: The ESQ+A". Interview with Scott Raab, www.esquire.com. April 18, 2012.

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• I don't think I know anyone who has a steady job in Montreal.

  Grimes

  Jobs, Thinking, Steady

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• It was my dream playing for the Montreal Canadiens - it was my dad's team.

  Guy Lafleur

  Dream, Dad, Team

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