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| "Now I know what a statesman is; he is a dead
politician, and what this country needs is more of them." |
| - Bob Edwards |
| Source: Bolton, Ken, et al. The Albertans. Edmonton: Lone Pine
Media Productions, 1981, p. 27. |
|
| "I never think about being old, I just call
myself chronologically enriched" |
| - Vera Jacques Ireland |
| Source: Brennan, Brian. Building a Province: 60 Alberta lives.
Calgary: Fifth House Publishers, 2000, p. 72. |
|
| "Writing is like playing a dart game with the
lights out so that the writer has no way of knowing whether his darts are
coming anywhere near the bull’s-eye or are missing the board entirely." |
| - W.O. Mitchell |
| Source: Mitchell, W.O., An Evening with W.O. Mitchell.
Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1997, p. ix. |
|
| "Every book you write, you’re still trying to
find out if you can write it or not." |
| - Rudy Wiebe |
| Source: Weibe, Rudy. River of Stone: Fictions and Memoirs.
Toronto: Vintage Books, 1995, p. 332. |
|
| "The country is one of pleasant temperatures with
very little snowfall. Sleighs are seldom, if ever, used in Southern
Alberta" |
| - CPR promotional brochure |
| Source: Brennan, Brian. Building a Province: 60 Alberta Lives.
Calgary: Fifth House Publishers, 2000, p. 72. |
|
| "This is a first – even the good guys in the
movies don’t wear pure white hats, just pastel." |
| - Morris Shumiatcher |
| Source: Brennan, Brian. Building a Province: 60 Alberta Lives.
Calgary: Fifth House Publishers, 2000, p. 48. |
|
| "If you look for a long while from here, you are
seized with a fancy that all the earth is rolling towards the west, and there
is nothing beyond the Rockies; they end the world and meet the sky." |
| - Moira O’Neill |
| Source: John Robert Colombo’s Famous Lasting Words.
Vancouver; Toronto: Douglas & McIntyre, 200, p. 463. |
|
| "The critics say you can’t run government like a
business. I respond, well, we can’t run government like a government any
more." |
| - Ralph Klein |
| Source: John Robert Colombo’s Famous Lasting Words.
Vancouver; Toronto: Douglas & McIntyre, 200, p. 19. |
|
| "To approach the badlands is to find a gap in the
known and expected world.." |
| - Robert Kroetsch |
| Source: John Robert Colombo’s Famous Lasting Words.
Vancouver; Toronto: Douglas & McIntyre, 200, p. 19. |
|
| "It’s not only about putting a sandwich in the
hand of a person that’s hungry. It’s also important to let these people know
that somebody cares about them and loves them." |
| - Tom Jackson |
| Source: McCoy. Singing song of hope. Calgary Herald Nov. 30, 2003: p. D1. |
|
| "Canada is, literally, too good to lose, but we
have to work at building and keeping it." |
| - Joe Clark |
| Source: Clark, Joe. A Nation too Good to Lose: Renewing the Purpose of
Canada. Toronto: Key Porter, 1994, p. 10. |
|
| "I like the endless riding over the endless
prairie, the winds sweeping the grass, the great silent sunshine, the vast
skies and the splendid line of the Rockies, guarding the west." |
| - Agnes Higginson Skrine |
| Source: Sanderson, Kay. 200 Remarkable Alberta Women. Calgary:
Famous 5 Foundation, 1999, p. 18. |
|
| "I’m also alternative because of Canada—there’s
something romantic about being Canadian. We’re a relatively unpopulated,
somewhat civilized, and clean and resourceful country. I always push the fact
that I’m Canadian." |
| - K.D. .Lang |
| Source: Lang, K.D. k.d. lang: in her own words. London:
Omnibus, 1995, p. 16. |
|
| "We are a hopeful people—we hope that our fond
expectations will be realized.." |
| - Alexander Rutherford |
| Source: Brennan, Brian. Building a Province: 60 Alberta Lives.
Calgary: Fifth House, 2000, p. 1. |
|
| "I am a Canadian first and an Albertan by choice,
for it is like no other place in all the world.." |
| - Andy Russell |
| Source: Alberta on My Mind. Edmonton: Helena, Mont.:
Lone Pine; Falcon Press, 1990, p. 7. |
|
| "Our farm neighbours were still without cars,
tractors, trucks, telephones, electric lights and radios. Plumbing wise they
had three rooms and a path." |
| - Grant MacEwan |
| Source: Von Hauff, Dnna. Everyone’s Grandfather. Edmonton: Grant
MacEwan Community College Foundation, 1994, p. 173. |
|
| "It was a wind of forgiveness, pardoning plants,
insects, animals and humans with reprieve from winter punishment, breathing
over the Pacific, off the Japanese current, and then gusting high above the
Rockies and down the Eastern slopes with gathering speed and power to clear
grey skies, honey-comb ice, melt and shrink the snowdrifts." |
| - W.O. Mitchell |
| Source: Mitchell, W.O. Roses are Difficult Here. Toronto:
McClelland & Stewart, 1990, p. 7. |
|
| "There can be nothing more ludicrous that a grown
man with a paunch teetering around Calgary on the high heels and pointed toes
of cowboy boots, attempting to capture some primitive cachet from some distant
past.." |
| - Allan Fotheringham |
| Source: Fotheringham, Allan. Fictionary of Facts and Follies.
Toronto: Key Porter, 2001, p. 18. |
|
| "The horn goes and they’re off.." |
| - Joe Carbury |
| Source: Rebecca Eckler: National Post. July 14, 1999. |
|
| "We have no pessimists in Alberta – a pessimist
could not succeed. We are optimistic and always look on the brighter side of
affairs." |
| - Alexander Rutherford |
| Source: Colombo, John Robert, ed. New Canadian Quotations. Edmonton:
Hurtig, 1987, p. 2. |
|
| "Old-timers impatiently called Alberta the “next
year country.” I call it “now country.” |
| - Peter Lougheed |
| Source: Colombo, John Robert, ed. New Canadian Quotations. Edmonton:
Hurtig, 1987, p. 8. |
|
| "I skate to where the puck is going to be, not
where it’s been." |
| - Wayne Gretzky |
| Source: Colombo’s All-Time Great Canadian Quotations.
Toronto: Stoddard, 1994, p. 237 |
|
| "The grain elevator is the only architecture
that’s of any importance at all on the prairies. Like France’s cathedrals, the
prairies have their grain elevators. White and silver and red – I think they’re
lovely things. I’d like to spend two or three months just kicking around
Alberta towns and painting them." |
| - A. Y Jackson |
| Source: Colombo, John Robert, ed. New Canadian Quotations. Edmonton: Hurtig,
1987, p. 416-417. |
|
| "A lot of people think senators are entirely
preoccupied with protocol, alcohol and Geritol.." |
| - Ernest Manning |
| Source: Brennan, Brian. Alberta Originals: Stories of Albertans Who Made a
Difference. Calgary: Fifth House Publishers, 2001, p. 119 |
|
| "When Solomon said there was a time and a place
for everything, he had not encountered the problem of parking his
automobile." |
| - Bob Edwards |
| Source: Edwards, Robert. Best of Bob Edwards. Edmonton: Hurtig,
1975, p. 226. |
|
| "The book. The book…think about a book. What a
perfect invention. The best and most important ever." |
| - Jann Arden |
| Source: Arden, Jann. If I Knew, Don’t You Think I’d Tell You?.
Toronto: Insomniac Press, 2002, p. 95. |
|
| "You will never get anything in this world that
you do not get for yourself." |
| - Henry Wise Wood |
| Source: Bolton, Ken, et al. The Albertans. Edmonton: Lone Pine
Media Productions, 1981, p. 44. |
|
| "The worst sting of defeat is the sympathy that
goes with it.." |
| - Bob Edwards |
| Source: Ferguson, Will. "Bull’s Eye".
Alberta Views . May/June 2004, p. 40. |
|
| "…a newspaper should wait till it knows what it
is talking about before offering an opinion on it." |
| - Edmonton Bulletin |
| Source: Birth of the Province. Edmonton:
United Western Communications, 1992, p. 427. |
|
| "Somehow I was never afraid, and used to go
outside, the better to hear the coyotes. I still like to hear them howl; they
were company when no one else was around." |
| - Mrs. J. Miller |
| Source: Birth of the Province. Edmonton: United
Western Communications, 1992, p. 356. |
|
| "The Canadian Rockies are equivalent to fifty or
sixty Switzerlands rolled into one." |
| - Edward Whymper |
| Source: Birth of the Province. Edmonton: United
Western Communications, 1992, p. 239. |
|
| "A terror to old ladies…an object of curiosity to
kids, the cause of profuse profanity in teamsters, but a thing of joy forever
to its owner…" |
| - July 25, 1906 |
| Source: Birth of the Province. Edmonton: United
Western Communications, 1992, p. 190. |
|
| "You have to choose whether you want to be a
winner or loser. A winner is not one who always wins in the field of life, but
one who gains satisfaction in doing his personal best." |
| - Caen Gladstone Bly |
| Source: Sanderson, Kay. 200 Remarkable Alberta Women. Calgary:
Famous 5 Foundation, 1999, p. 101. |
|
| "You don’t have to be in Parliament to get things
done.." |
| - Maude Riley |
| Source: Brennan, Brian. Alberta Originals: Stories of Albertans Who Made a
Difference. Calgary: Fifth House Publishers, 2001, p. 51. |
|
| "There seems no end to this vast, white land. But
it is not a dead land. It is very much alive – alive with veins of fire that
glint in the sun." |
| - Fred Brewster |
| Source: Bolton, Ken, et al. The Albertans. Edmonton: Lone Pine
Media Productions, 1981, p. 46-47. |
|
| "That faith, courage and greatness of heart of
all our early settlers lives on in the way of life that makes Alberta the good
land it is today." |
| - John Patrick Gillese |
| Source: Bolton, Ken, et al. The Albertans. Lone Pine Media
Productions, 1981, p. 15. |
|
| "Accomplishment is not about notches on your
revolver. It’s about strength within your community and where the community is
going. If you ensure the people are strong, then strong people will build your
community for you." |
| - Al Duerr |
| Source: Ferguson, Eva. " Duerr shares secrets of
his success". Calgary Herald March 16, 2003,
p. C3. |
|
| "It’s dare to dream. It’s dare to think what we
could be, what we should be, what we might look for." |
| - Mayor David Bronconnier |
| Source: Derworiz, Colette." Calgarians to
envision life in the year 2104". Calgary Herald June 9, 2004, p. B3. |
|
| "It took all 20 guys to get us here tonight, and
nobody can take it away from us. It’s just a great feeling." |
| - Theoren Fleury |
| Source: Steinhart, David, "Cup Quotes". Calgary Herald May 26, 1989, p. C3. |
|
| "Books were always very big at home. I’m lucky my
parents understood how important reading really is." |
| - Kyle Shewfelt |
| Source: Ferguson, Eva. "Olympic gold medal a
storybook triumph", Calgary Herald September 30, 2004, p. R1.
|
|
| "I had forecast that Hurtig Publishers would be
sold out by Christmas, but we quickly realized that the estimate had been far
too pessimistic. Four days after publication, we were completely sold out of
all 154,500 sets." |
| - Mel Hurtig |
| Source: Hurtig, Mel. At Twilight in the Country: Memoirs of Canadian
Nationist. Toronto: Stoddart, 1966, p. 220. |
|
| "Rows and floes of angel hair and ice cream
castles in the air and feather canyons ev’ry where I’ve looked at clouds that
way" |
| - Joni Mitchell |
| Source: Mitchell, Joni. “Both Sides
Now." Clouds. Reprise, n.d. |
|
| "Calgary is surely the only major North American
city where, as a reflection of its cow-town past, auto expressways are still
called trails." |
| - John M. Scott |
| Source: Katz, Eliakim, [ed.] Eh Canada?: Wit and Wisdom from the Frozen North.
Toronto: Stoddart, 1999, p. 25. |
|
| "How confident is Alberta? The provincial bird is
the great horned owl, the official flower is the wild rose, and the official
mammal is the bighorn sheep." |
| - Mike O’Brien |
| Source: O’Brien, Mike. Calling the Prairies Home: Origins, Attitudes,
Quirks & Curiosities. Vancouver: Raincoast Books, 1999, p.
19. |
|
| "No service will be provided at this bar to any
Calgarian on a horse." |
| - 1971 |
| Source: O’Brien, Mike. Calling the Prairies Home: Origins, Attitudes,
Quirks & Curiosities. Vancouver: Raincoast Books, 1999, p.
119. |
|
| "Always in Alberta there is a fresh wind
blowing.." |
| - Nellie McClung |
| Source: McClung, Nellie. The Stream Runs Fast: My Own Story.
Toronto: Thomas Allen, 1965, p. 184. |
|
| "To the province of Alberta belongs the credit
for clearing up the vexed question of whether or not women are persons,
according to the laws of the British Empire.." |
| - Nellie McClung |
| Source: McClung, Nellie. The Stream Runs Fast: My Own Story.
Toronto: Thomas Allen, 1965, p. 185. |
|
| "Sunny Alberta is a land of contrasts….In
temperature it will freeze you at a few hours notice with forty below zero and
then wipe it all out with a Chinook wind and beg your pardon for it.." |
| - Stephen Leacock |
| Source: Leacock, Stephen. My Discovery of the West: A Discussion of East and
West in Canada. Toronto: Thomas Allen, 1937, p. 112. |
|
| "I think this is the greatest and best country in
all the world, with its great sunlit spaces and its long long roads, and best
of all the roads that are not made yet, and the stories that no one has told
because they are too busy living them." |
| - Nellie McClung |
| Source: Millar, Nancy. The Famous Five: Emily Murphy and the Case of the
Missing Persons. Cochrane: Deadwood Publishing; Western Heritage
Centre, 1999, p. 79. |
|
| "The Police have protected us as the feathers of
the bird protect it from the frosts of winter. I wish them all good, and trust
that all our hearts will increase in goodness from this time forward. I am
satisfied. I will sign the treaty." |
| - Chief Crowfoot |
| Source: Dempsey, Hugh. Crowfoot: Chief of the Blackfeet.
Edmonton: Norman: Formac; Hurtig; University of Oklahoma Press, 1972, p. 103. |
|
| "Gardening is indeed a challenge for the majority
of gardeners on much of this vast continent, but southern Alberta takes the
cake when it comes to an inhospitable climate for gardening, what with
Chinooks, winter dehydration, and a short growing season." |
| - David Tarrant |
| Source: The Calgary Gardener. Calgary: Fifth
House Publishers, 1996, p. ix. |
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