"Definitely very proud, very honoured to be Canadian. To be able to represent your country in Canada and win a gold medal on home soil is an honour in itself. There is no doubt in my mind that we were prepared for whatever it was going to take. And I think that we battled hard and we had no doubt in our mind that if we went out there and played Canadian hockey that we would come out successful."

-- Meghan Agosta-Marciano

#Country Quotes #Home Quotes #Successful Quotes

“In Poland, my audience is all women between 18 and 30. At U.S. conventions, you have the fantasy and science fiction crowd. At Harvard you have an entirely different audience. It's so schizophrenic.”
“Money, amazingly, is losing its power... Our economy is rapidly changing from a money economy to a satisfaction economy.”
“English music is white - it evades everything.”

Source : Edward Elgar, Percy Marshall Young (1968). “A future for English music, and other lectures”
“I can't compare quarterbacks as apples and oranges in my mind because everybody's in a different system.”
“What is especially irritating about the whole abortion debate is the way the subject has been used as a political football by those on both the right and the left of the political aisle.”
“Is it to be imagined ... that women were made for no other purpose than to fabricate sweetmeats and gingerbread, construct shirts, darn stockings, and become mothers of possible presidents? Assuredly not. Should the women of America ever discover what their power might be, and compare it with what it is, much improvement might be hoped for.”

Source : Frances Milton Trollope (1832). “Domestic Manners of the Americans: Complete in One Volume”, p.225
“A Mediterranean city is really my culture.”
“To get a woman, you have to be willing to risk losing her.”

Source : Neil Strauss (2011). “The Game”, p.90, Canongate Books

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