Samuel de Champlain famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

  • The time will come when public opinion will no longer tolerate amusements based on the mistreatment and killing of animals. The time will come, but when? When will we reach the point that hunting, the pleasure in killing animals for sport, will be regarded as a mental aberration?

  • How like fish we are: ready, nay eager, to seize upon whatever new thing some wind of circumstance shakes down upon the river of time! And how we rue our haste, finding the gilded morsel to contain a hook!

  • I was the vampire Lestat again. I was back in action. New Orleans was once again my hunting ground.

  • I might be deceiving myself but I do not think that I do have an inordinate fear of death.

  • The search which takes place in my studio might best be described as a mining operation, a vertical dig in which a number of discoveries are apt to surface from a single shaft.

  • I hope it will not be irreverent in me to say, that if it be probable that God would reveal his will to others, on a point so connected with my duty, it might be supposed he would reveal it directly to me

  • Lawyers are like beavers: They get in the mainstream and damn it up.

  • Canada was built on dead beavers.

  • A beaver is about like the ninjas the suckers only work at night and they're hard to find.

  • Contrary to popular opinion, 'Leave it to Beaver' was not a documentary.