"Canada is not so much a country as a clothesline nearly 4,000 miles long. St John's in Newfoundland is closer to Milan, Italy than to Vancouver."

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Simon Hoggart

#Country Quotes #Long Quotes #Canada Quotes

“Young bloods can't spell but they can rock you in Playstation”
“Parents provoke their children to anger by not practicing biblical love, not considering their children as more important than themselves, and not dying to self to become a servant of the Lord Jesus Christ.”
“I've always felt a little different than everyone - you know, most of the other kids in my class - and I didn't quite see things the way they did or I didn't experience things the same way they did. I often felt a little bit like an outcast.”

Source : Source: blogs.indiewire.com
“Everything great in the world comes from neurotics. They alone have founded our religions and composed our masterpieces.”
“In science there are no 'depths'; there is surface everywhere.”
“I think the terminology I would use is 'a continuous process of reflection'. I've always thought of only two questions that have mattered to me personally. One is what is really needed in the world and the second is what's really important to me and how these two intersect. It's always been a reflective process - spiraling around these two poles.”
“Learning teacheth more in one year than experience in twenty.”

Source : Roger Ascham (1815). “The English Works. A New Ed”, p.229
“I got very keen on biography because I wanted to change it. I wanted to stretch the form. I think of it as a way of capturing souls.”

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