Canada: A few acres of snow.
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ALBERTO MANGUEL When people bore me, I close my eyes and try to remember the order the Seven Dwarfs marched in. But ...
STEPHAN PASTIS I grew up on the edge of a national park in Canada - timberwolves, creeks, snow drifts.
DAN AYKROYD After all, is our idea of God anything more than personified incomprehensibility?
{Said i...
GEORG CHRISTOPH LICHTENBERG Few people even realize that Canada has a rainforest.
IAN MCALLISTER Few people even realize that Canada has a rainforest,
IAN MCALLISTER I grew up on the edge of a national park in Canada - timberwolves, creeks, snow drifts. I really did...
DAN AYKROYD Growing up in Canada, I dated a few ice hockey players.
KATHERINE RYAN How inexpressible is the meanness of being a hypocrite! how
horrible is it to be a mischievous and...
VOLTAIRE (FRANCOIS MARIE AROUET VOLTAIRE) You know nothing, Jon Snow.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN I don’t know what message to send to Bran. Help him Tyrion.”
“What help could I give him?...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Happy the man whose wish and care a few paternal acres bound, content to breathe his native air in h...
ALEXANDER POPE the opportunities to become an astronaut in Canada were far and few.
JULIE PAYETTE Common sense is not so common.
[Fr., Le sens commun n'est pas si common.]
- Voltaire (Franco...
VOLTAIRE (FRANCOIS MARIE AROUET VOLTAIRE) One does not arrest Voltaire.
CHARLES DE GAULLE Thus, though I dislike to differ with such a great man, CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS Think for yourself and let others enjoy the privilege of doing so too.
VOLTAIRE A garden, you know, is a very usual refuge of a disappointed politician. Accordingly, I have purchas...
ALEXANDER HAMILTON Plymouth has 62,000 acres of land, of which 26,000 acres are tax exempt. Creating a more diverse tax...
DENIS HANKS God is a comedian playing to an audience that is too afraid to laugh.
VOLTAIRE I should like to know which is worse: to be ravished a hundred times by pirates, and have a buttock ...
VOLTAIRE One man's Voltaire is another man's Screech.
DENNIS MILLER It is not a field of a few acres of ground, but a cause, that we are defending, and whether we defea...
THOMAS PAINE It is not a field of a few acres of ground, but a cause, that we are defending, and whether we defea...
THOMAS PAINE We currently have 18 conservation easements totaling about 1,825 acres. The largest is 700 acres, an...
BRYAN PIERCE If the bookseller happens to desire a privilege for his
merchandise, whether he is selling Rabelais...
VOLTAIRE (FRANCOIS MARIE AROUET VOLTAIRE) I love Canada, and I dated someone who was Canadian a few years ago, and she brought me into a deepe...
EILEEN MYLES Three acres and a cow.
JEREMY BENTHAM "Ten acres and a mule."
UNATTRIBUTED AUTHOR In 1984, we had snow down to the reservoirs in Oakley and Salmon Falls. This year we have a few reco...
RON ABRAMOVICH My grandmother has about 400 acres of land; 120 to 130 of it is timber acres. We'd like to start bur...
MARC MILLER There are, and always have been, destructive pseudo-scientific notions linked to race and religion; ...
MARTIN GARDNER By 2007, we expect the number of triple-stacked acres in our national corn brands will surpass the n...
CARL CASALE We have 60 acres here and we farm 56 acres of it. It's one of the ways we raise money for our charit...
FRANK PEZZORELLO Forty acres is plenty of space for a long, long time.
KATHY WOOLRIDGE A few men own from ten thousand to two hundred thousand acres each. The poor Laborer can find no res...
DENIS KEARNEY I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it."N. B.: This quote...
S. G. TALLENTYRE I am convinced that everything has come down to us from the banks of the Ganges, - astronomy, astrol...
VOLTAIRE You are very harsh.'
'I have seen the world.
VOLTAIRE One man's Voltaire is another man's Screech.
DENNIS MILLER It's just a little ranch. Thirty-five acres. In Texas, if it's not a thousand acres, it'...
BETTY BUCKLEY I never really got more than a few feet off the water. This was the first time that I tried to fly i...
MATT EVANS I'm expecting a decline in acres of rice statewide. It's a question of how much.
CHUCK WILSON Lord Snow wants to take my place now.' He sneered. 'I'd have an easier time teaching a wolf to juggl...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN The high years for Utah County were back in 2001, when there was 56,000 acres of grasshoppers and in...
LARRY LEWIS get a bunch of horses, buy 20 acres there, and get to work.
CURTIS SLIWA I have some property. We have a few acres, so I like working on it, whether it's cutting stuff d...
ED HARRIS Know that each acre of fallow ought to support yearly two sheep at the least, then a hundred acres o...
ROBERT GROSSETESTE In Africa, you can make three acres sustainable relatively easily, but 50,000 acres? It's not ab...
JOCHEN ZEITZ Farming and agriculture is a high-tech business. There are machines that are doing the work of men. ...
ROB DAVIDSON There's a Bible on the shelf there. But I keep it next to Voltaire-poison and antidote.
BERTRAND RUSSELL We raked probably 25 acres.
FRANK MERRITT we're pushing 5 million acres.
BRUCE BABBITT Originally, we had about 275 acres in this farm. The state took 13 acres of the land to build the hi...
HAYES HARBOUR We can be thankful to a friend for a few acres, or a little money; and yet for the freedom and comma...
LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA Moving Twin Branch Acres to Lowry was a huge mistake.
JACQUIE SINGLETON People with 20 acres of lava and sagebrush have been stuck.
DAVE HUNNICUTT A lot of people don't know, but New Jersey has, like, 700,000 acres of farmland.
CHARLIE PUTH Canada is virtually a junior partner of the US. It is at America's suggestion that Canada has loosen...
BHARAT KARNAD That's a whack of snow.
COLLEEN JONES But nothing is more estimable than a physician who, having
studied nature from his youth, knows the...
VOLTAIRE (FRANCOIS MARIE AROUET VOLTAIRE) (The Panthers) weren't able to throw their No. 1 or No. 2 guys, but not to take away anything from m...
ASHLEY BURNETT It is love; love, the comfort of the human species, the preserver of the universe, the soul of all s...
VOLTAIRE There are few sights more pleasant to the eye than a wide cotton field when it is in bloom. It prese...
SOLOMON NORTHUP In the bleak midwinter Frosty wind made moan, Earth stood hard as iron, Water like a stone; Snow had...
CHRISTINA ROSSETTI In the bleak midwinter
Frosty wind made moan,
Earth stood hard as iron,
Water like a sto...
CHRISTINA G. ROSSETTI I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.
S.G. TALLENTYRE Snow White one, Snow White two,
Sorrow is coming out for you.
Snow White three, Snow White...
CAMERON JACE Jesus wept; Voltaire smiled. From that divine tear and from that human smile is derived the grace of...
VICTOR HUGO I reverse the phrase of Voltaire, and say that if God really existed, it would be necessary to aboli...
MIKHAIL BAKUNIN Legislatures represent people, not acres or trees.
EARL WARREN It's looking very exciting. The cold weather has helped, the snow over the last few days has helped ...
BILL GIVEN Jon:'What are you doing up there? Why aren't you at the feast?'
Tyrion: 'Too hot, too noisy, an...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN What we had in 16 acres, ... they have in three counties.
CHRIS EDWARDS A year of snow, a year of plenty.
FRENCH PROVERB I grow 10 heirloom varieties in my garden, but I get mine locally from Green Acres on Route 51 near ...
RICK WELCH I love snow, snow, and all the forms of radiant frost.
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY I strongly feel we need this. He's giving 6 acres of land to a swimming pool, playgrounds
.
DON BARNETT I am alarmed that people are starting to see Canada as a country more beholden to a pack of greedy h...
PAMELA ANDERSON The flowery style is not unsuitable to public speeches or
addresses, which amount only to complimen...
VOLTAIRE (FRANCOIS MARIE AROUET VOLTAIRE) I always like coming to Canada. It feels like Canada is the Scotland of North America. And that's a ...
NICK MCCARTHY Perhaps there were a few million dollars that might have been stolen in the process. But how many mi...
JEAN CHRETIEN Despite our snow dances, there's no snow. We have a huge inflatable snow globe that we dance under, ...
CAROL MACK Be careful you don't cut yourself. The edges are sharp enough to shave with.'
'Girls don't shav...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN This is not Winterfell', he told him as he cut his meat with fork and dagger. 'On the Wall, a man ge...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN A lot of funny stuff happens in Canada.
SAMANTHA BEE We've lost numerous other structures, five vehicles and tens of thousands of acres of land.
DAN WARE Folks are always talking about 40 acres and a mule, but what we need is some psychoanalysis. Forget ...
LATANYA RICHARDSON The 6,015 acres in question constitute only three one-hundredths of 1 percent of the land in the sta...
CATHY JOHNSON We believe this is a fair price for Sears Canada. Sears Canada faces tough competition from a slew o...
CHRIS BRATHWAITE Goodbye, city life; Dream Acres, we are here!
DONNA JOHNSON I love Canada. I am from Canada. I will bash the Canadian government but never Canada.
JASON PRIESTLEY I was there so long, I remember when we were stationed out of a barn at Redwood Acres.
RANDY FOSTER My goodness, everyone is planting grapes, even a neighbor with only five acres.
DOC SEVERINSEN The few dens we've been to we've seen the tracks. It looks like they came out, saw the 15 to 20 feet...
CARL LACKEY I'm not saying that I'm better than anyone... I'm just saying that I'm one-of-a-kind.
C LIONG A person of value have skill, a vision & a deep desire to achieve what they dream for. Happiness com...
DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA A man of guilt acknowledges and changes himself immediately on being hinted slightly about his fault...
ANUJ SOMANY The school year progressed slowly. I felt as if I had been in the sixth grade for years, yet it was ...
LUCY GREALY The value of a consultant;An outsider can see what an insider cannot see or has decided to ignore.
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