"My dream is for people around the world to look up and to see Canada like a little jewel sitting at the top of the continent."

--

Tommy Douglas

#Dream Quotes #Jewels Quotes #People Quotes

“There is a vast difference between how things seem from the outside and how they feel on the inside.”
“As a child, I would put on shows in my neighborhood with friends and perform Barbra Streisand songs for my classmates.”
“For me being the youngest, there was never ever anything that was an issue to cause rivalry between me and my sisters.”
“The time has come for America to hear the truth about this tragic war. In international conflicts, the truth is hard to come by because most nations are deceived about themselves. Rationalizations and the incessant search for scapegoats are the psychological cataracts that blind us to our sins. But the day has passed for superficial patriotism. He who lives with untruth lives in spiritual slavery.”
“I wanted to be a writer that had an impact. I wanted, and still I say the same thing, I want to write books that change people's lives, change how we think and live and read and write. I wanna write books that are read in 50 or 100 years.”
“Even though mother's issues are not front page news, they touch us all personally, some more than others, and I believe passionately in the power of grassroots engagement.”

Source : "Back to the Basics" by Joan Blades, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 13, 2006.
“Everyone wishes to have truth on his side, but not everyone wishes to be on the side of truth.”
“I'll lie here and learn How, over their ground, Trees make a long shadow And a light sound.”

Source : Louise Bogan (1941). “Poems and new poems”

You may also like:

J. S. Woodsworth
Political leader
Jack Layton
Member of the Canadian House of Commons
John A. Macdonald
Former Prime Minister of Canada
John Diefenbaker
Former Prime Minister of Canada
Kiefer Sutherland
Actor
Lester B. Pearson
Former Prime Minister of Canada
Pierre Trudeau
Former Prime Minister of Canada
RomÃ©o Dallaire
Canadian Senator
Terry Fox
Athlete