Louis St. Laurent famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

I didn't know at first that there were two languages in Canada.Ijustthoughtthatthere was oneway tospeak to my father and another to talk to my mother.
-- Louis St. Laurent

#Mother #Father #Two
Socialists are Liberals in a hurry.
-- Louis St. Laurent
There are two kinds: one takes the music too fast, and the other too slow. There is no third!
-- Louis St. Laurent

#Two #Kind #Thirds
If we are to preserve civilization, we must first remain civilized.
-- Louis St. Laurent

#Civilization #Firsts #Civilized

Before you count the profit, count the cost of a working mother.
Well, knowledge is a fine thing, and mother Eve thought so; but she smarted so severely for hers, that most of her daughters have been afraid of it since.
My father was a film-maker. He always said he wanted to go like Humphrey Jennings, the legendary director who stepped backwards over a cliff while framing a better shot.
I think about how truly interesting and odd it is that when a woman marries, traditionally she loses her name, becoming absorbed by the husband's family name - she is in effect lost, evaporated from all records under her maiden name. I finally understand the anger behind feminism - the idea that as a woman you are property to be conveyed between your father and your husband, but never an individual who exists independently. And on the flip side, it is also one of the few ways one can legitimately get lost - no one questions it.
I was raised Catholic, but my father's people were Methodist, so we went to both churches.
Roxy Sorkin, your father just won the Academy Award. I'm going to have to insist on some respect from your guinea pig.
I was born in the Bronx, and then my father moved us to the country at an early age.
Plant trees. They give us two of the most crucial elements for our survival: oxygen and books.
Eagleton has spent his life inside two mental boxes, Catholicism and Marxism, of both of which he is a severe internal criticâ€”that is, he frequently kicks and scratches at the inside of the boxes, but does not leave them. Neither are ideologies that loosen their grip easily, and people who need the security of adherence to a big dominating ideology, however much they kick and scratch but without daring to leave go, hold on to it every bit as tightly as it holds onto them. The result is of course strangulation, but alas not mutual strangulation: the ideology always wins.
What's so great about television. You're able to tell a long story, where you couldn't really do that in a film because you have to tell a story in an hour and a half or two hours.

Louis St. Laurent famous quotes

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