Jean Drapeau famous quotes

I have it on good authority-from the roads department chief, Mr. Arpin-that it will not snow after the fifteenth of March.
-- Jean Drapeau

#Snow #March #Authority

What the masses want are monuments.
-- Jean Drapeau

#Want #Mass #Monument

The Olympics can no more lose money than a man can have a baby.
-- Jean Drapeau

#Baby #Men #Olympics

Let Toronto become Milan. Montreal will always be Rome.
-- Jean Drapeau

#Rome #Toronto #Montreal

The real amateur of wine can only enjoy it along with friends, sharing with them the art of conversation and the art of drinking. Wine is indeed essentially a sign of civilization, a factor of sociability, friendship.
-- Jean Drapeau

#Art #Real #Drinking

Please remember the hundreds of tiny empty stomachs in our communities. Winter is a tough time for birds and other small creatures as food can become buried beneath snow or frozen ground. Scatter seeds in your yard, nearby parks.

Snow. White, white, white, soft and clean, and maddening shapes, with the whole world in them.

Time is a snow globe; you shake it and everything changes.

We have witnessed the terrible increases in the incidence of alcoholism, the advent of drug dependency, the protests, marches, strikes and human alienation.

Marches alone won't bring integration when human respect is disintegratin

Strike up the drum and march courageously.

Do you remember that in classical times when Cicero had finished speaking, the people said, "How well he spoke" but when Demosthenes had finished speaking, they said, "Let us march.

No moral system can rest solely on authority.

Authority does not equal competency. Pass decisions down to those who can best handle them.

The driving force behind doing everything that I've been doing as a stand-up is having problems with authority and not liking to be told what to do.