Ontario Quotes

• My great-grandfather, Sam Aykroyd, was a dentist in Kingston, Ontario, and he was also an Edwardian spiritualist researcher who was very interested in what was going on in the invisible world, the survival of the consciousness, precipitated paintings, mediumship, and trans-channeling.

  Dan Aykroyd

  Survival, Grandfather, World

  "Q&A: Dan Aykroyd Is Keeping Ghostbusters 3 Alive". Interview with Michael B. Dougherty, www.esquire.com. December 4, 2012.

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• I was born in Darien, Connecticut, but in 1959, when I was four, my parents moved to the suburbs of Toronto. Then, in the late 1960s, they bought a cottage in a resort/trailer park in the Kawarthas region of Ontario, and we moved up there. I wrote a book about it in 2000 called 'Last Resort: Coming of Age in Cottage Country.

  Linwood Barclay

  Country, Book, Parent

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• When I was a kid a growing up in Ontario, Canada, Lake Erie was so polluted, I never thought it would ever, EVER be turned around where they could start cleaning it out in my lifetime!

  Rick Danko

  Growing Up, Kids, Lakes

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• As a kid growing up in the little city of Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario, I dreamed of one day playing in the NHL, but never did I expect it to be as much fun as it turned out to be.

  Ron Francis

  Growing Up, Fun, Kids

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• I saw Ronnie Hawkins play near my hometown, Port Dover, Ontario, and I saw him play there on New Year's Eve and the following spring I booked myself to be his opening act on maybe five shows, and he hired me after the first night.

  Rick Danko

  New Year, Spring, Night

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• When I was planning Family Viewing, the Ontario Film Development Corporation came into existence.

  Atom Egoyan

  Development, Corporations, Planning

  Interview with Ron Burnett, rburnett.squarespace.com.

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• We are very grateful for what the Ontario provincial government is doing, and for cooperation from provincial and local police forces all across Canada.

  Paul Cellucci

  Grateful, Government, Police

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• As long as the sun rises over Ontario and sets over the Pacific, I will dedicate myself to bringing the people of Oregon what they want and need most - an era of hope, change, and economic renewal.

  Ted Kulongoski

  Oregon, People, Long

  Ted Kulongoski's Inaugural Address, January 13, 2003.

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• I toured Ontario in the winter of '48, in a touring company of The Drunkard, in which I played the bartender.

  Jonathan Frid

  Winter, Bartending, Bartender

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• Canada is like an old cow. The West feeds it. Ontario and Quebec milk it. And you can well imagine what it's doing in the Maritimes.

  Tommy Douglas

  Inspirational, Humorous, Cows

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com. June 29, 1983.

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• I then moved to the University of Western Ontario where I was made a full professor in 1985.

  J. Philippe Rushton

  Gdp, Made, Professors

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• The winds of change are blowing across Ontario.

  Thomas Mulcair

  Wind, Winds Of Change

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• I dragged my wife from our honeymoon in Africa and landed her in Ontario, Canada, when it was -40 degrees.

  Ryan Reynolds

  Wife, Degrees, Canada

  "Ryan Reynolds Talks Holding Blake Lively Captive and 'Grade-A Sh*t' Advice in Cannes" by Lindsay Miller, www.popsugar.com. May 16, 2014.

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• The world is hungry for the discoveries that young, leading-edge brain researchers are making in Ontario today. This collaboration will help them bring their best ideas to market, improving the quality of life for Ontarians while creating good jobs and promoting economic growth.

  Brad Duguid

  Jobs, Ideas, Creating

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• The issues of going back to coal in Ontario? I don't think we're going to win that one.

  Ken Boshcoff

  Winning, Thinking, Issues

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• I hear voices. A shout. A laugh. Clay's laugh. I strained to see through the night. Fog had rolled in from Lake Ontario, but I could hear him laughing. The concrete turned to grass. The fog wasn't from the lake, but from a pond. Our pond. I was at Stonehaven, bounding through the back acres. Clay was running ahead of me.

  Kelley Armstrong

  Running, Night, Lakes

  Kelley Armstrong (2012). “Werewolves: Book One: Bitten, Stolen and Beginnings”, p.506, Vintage Canada

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• Saturday Night Live was actually started with a show that Lorne Michaels and I did at a summer camp called Timberlane in Ontario when we were 14 and 15. We would do an improvisational show with music, comedy and acting.

  Howard Shore

  Summer, Night, Acting

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• By the time I was 13, I was the only one in London, Ontario, who knew how to play rock n' roll.

  Robbie Robertson

  Rocks, Play, London

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• Erie, and Ontario, and Huron, and Superior, and Michigan possess an ocean-like expansiveness, with many of the ocean's noblest traits... they are swept by Borean and dismasting blasts as direful as any that lash the salted wave; they know what shipwrecks are, for out of sight of land, however inland, they have drowned full many a midnight ship with all its shrieking crew.

  Herman Melville

  Ocean, Sight, Land

  Herman Melville (2006). “Moby Dick the Whale Volume I EasyRead Ed”, p.344, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Thanks to the FedDev Ontario funding we were able to get a number of key initiatives underway to mitigate the potential negative economic impact of the Heinz closure. With this additional funding we will continue to be in high gear within the food processing sector to continue with business retention, expansion and attraction activities in the Windsor-Essex region.

  Sandra Pupatello

  Numbers, Impact, Keys

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• There can be no return to prosperity while the government (of Ontario) believes that taking money from the people who have earned it and giving it away to the people who haven't, in exchange for their votes and regardless of merit, is the essence of fairness.

  Conrad Black

  Believe, Essence, Government

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• It may be that this autobiography [Aimee Semple McPherson's] is set down in sincerity, frankness, and simple effort. It may be, too, that the Statue of Liberty is situated in Lake Ontario.

  Dorothy Parker

  Simple, Lakes, Effort

  New Yorker, 25 Feb. 1928

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• I wrote 'Millie's Cafe' driving out of Ft. Worth, Texas one time. I was in a dust storm in my old bus. Beer inside. It was like a sailboat, you know...we couldn't see anything. Some things about Texas are so different than Ontario. I was just thinking about how different it is from where I live and, you know, whatever happens to inspire a song happened.

  Fred Eaglesmith

  Song, Writing, Beer

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• I grew up in a really rural town, Stratford, Ontario, with 30,000 people. There's a big festival thrown in the town. A lot of people travel from all over the world to see it, and growing up, I actually used to busk on the street. I'd play my guitar, sing, and people would throw money in the case.

  Justin Bieber

  Growing Up, Guitar, Play

  Interview with Martha Stewart, www.interviewmagazine.com. July 13, 2015.

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• Taking the politics out of setting the minimum wage provides fairness for workers and predictability for businesses. This legislation will also protect the most vulnerable workers and level the playing field for employers who play by the rules. These are the right steps to take; they will make Ontario a better place to work and run a business.

  Kevin Flynn

  Running, Play, Minimum Wage

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