Canals Quotes

Go pick bananas, we'll run the canal.

— Meldrim Thomson, Jr

“The city's canals outnumber those in Venice,”

— Lonely Planet

The Panama Canal was dug with a microscope.

— Ronald Ross

When the blind lead the blind, they all fall in the canal.

— Tony Hancock

The last time I had this much fun was a root-canal operation.

— Larry Ziegler

I do not object to the construction of rail roads and canals.

— Gerrit Smith

Maria Canals-Barrera is Cuban and from Miami and I'm part Cuban and from Miami, so needless to say she became a quick…

— Bella Thorne

Amsterdam has more than 150 canals and 1,250 bridges, but it never seems crowded, nor bent and bitter from fleecing the tourist.

— Julie Burchill

Who's Britannica to tell me that the Panama Canal was built in 1914? If I want to say that it was built…

— Stephen Colbert

I believe that painting should come through the avenues of meditation rather than the canals of action.

— Mark Tobey

We should keep [the Panama Canal]. After all, we stole it fair and square.

— S. I. Hayakawa

I had rather get a root canal without anesthesia than to call your customer service office for help.

— Jon Jones

dating you would be like a series of unnecessary root canals interspersed with occasional makeout sessions.

— John Green

She's as plastic as you are. If you ever have kids, they'll come out of the birth canal with Fisher-Price stamped on…

— Susan Elizabeth Phillips

We didn't stow away!" Dan protested. "You sunk our boat and pulled us out of the canal!" "Good point," Ian agreed. "Return…

— Gordon Korman

As was to be expected, the discovery of the nervous apparatus of the salivary glands immediately impelled physiologists to seek a similar…

— Ivan Pavlov

The average household might prepare for root canal, traffic accident, unemployment or illness, but how the household will meet, manage and even…

— John Longenecker

Actors do have good and bad sides. It's because the passage down the birth canal distorts the face. People born by caesarean…

— Richard Griffiths

Good roads, canals, and navigable rivers, by diminishing the expence of carriage, put the remote parts of the country more nearly upon…

— Adam Smith

When you're in the womb, you're in a sterile environment. When you enter the birth canal and are born, you're no longer…

— Paul A. Offit

We were essentially torn from the Gaian womb, thrust into the birth canal of history, and expelled sometime around the fall of…

— Terence McKenna

You probably have to have redundant levee systems with canals in between them, like the Dutch have, to make sure that incoming…

— Billy Tauzin

I am SHADOW, and my dwelling is near to the Catacombs of Ptolemais, and hard by those dim plains of Helusion which…

— Edgar Allan Poe

Venice is ever the fragile labyrinth at the edge of the sea and it reminds us how brief and perilous the journeys…

— Erica Jong

Irrigation, unscientifically conducted, would not give us such truly wonderful mathematical fitness [as we observe in the Martian canals]. . . .…

— Percival Lowell

You can replace houses. You can't replace people. I mean, it's left me speechless. I was talking to P.J. about it. When…

— Chris Paul

She gave Pretty Boy a surreptitious glance. Did he honestly expect her to believe he was gay? True, there were the gay…

— Susan Elizabeth Phillips

There are celestial sights more dazzling, spectacles that inspire more awe, but to the thoughtful observer who is privileged to see them…

— Percival Lowell

American banks may have been unable to supply adequate loans, but the Rothschild consortium in Britain was both able and willing. It…

— G. Edward Griffin

No monster vibration, no snake universe hallucinations. Many tiny jeweled violet flowers along the path of a living brook that looked like…

— Allen Ginsberg

The first western gardens were those in the Mediterranean basin. There in the desert areas stretching from North Africa to the valleys…

— Penelope Hobhouse

We landed, in fact, parallel to a canal, like there were two runways: one for us and one for waterfowl.

— John Green

It's nice, this. The canal." He looks at me. "You." "I'll bet you say that to all the canals.

— Gayle Forman

One learns little more about a man from his feats of literary memory than from the feats of his alimentary canal.

— Frank Moore Colby

People generally have more feeling for canals and roads than education. However, I hope we can advance them with equal pace.

— Thomas Jefferson

I always scout locations first. The apartments, the railway tracks, the café, the canal - I figure out the geography of the…

— Claire Denis

If anything can rival Venice in its beauty, it must be its reflection at sunset in the Grand Canal.

— Peggy Guggenheim

In Amsterdam, the river and canals have been central to city life for the last four centuries,

— Janet Echelman

A new State of Israel with broad frontiers, strong and solid, with the authority of the Israel Government extending from the Jordan…

— Moshe Dayan

Peacock bass like to hide at ambush points, away from the strong canal currents. If you fish early and know those peacock…

— Mark Hall