Canoe Quotes
48 quotes by 42 authors
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Every man paddles his own canoe.
— Frederick Marryat
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As one goes through life, one learns that if you don't paddle your own canoe, you don't move.
— Katharine Hepburn
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Although we are in different boats you in your boat and we in our canoe we share the same river of life.
— Oren Lyons
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If the family were a boat, it would be a canoe that makes no progress unless everyone paddles.
— Letty Cottin Pogrebin
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What sets a canoeing expedition apart is that it purifies you more rapidly and inescapably than any other travel. Travel a thousand miles by train…
— Pierre Trudeau
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What does it mean when a man falls in love with a radiant face across the room? It may mean that he has some soul…
— Robert Bly
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The feel of a canoe gunnel at the thigh, the splash of flying spray in the face, the rhythm of the snowshoe trail, the beckoning…
— Grey Owl
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When I was 88 years old, I gave up meat entirely and switched to a plant foods diet following a slight stroke. During the following…
— Benjamin Spock
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You can't fire a cannon, from a canoe!
— Charles Poliquin
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There is magic in the feel of a paddle and the movement of a canoe, a magic compounded of distance, adventure, solitude, and peace. The…
— Sigurd F. Olson
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When a man is part of his canoe, he is part of all that canoes have ever known.
— Sigurd F. Olson
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But there are important calls to both my personal life and professional endeavors about which I am excited to pursue, including projects and initiatives that…
— Joe Jacobi
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I stood looking down through the beech trees. When I threw a stone I could count to five before the splash. Then I jumped in…
— Alice Oswald
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A Canadian is somebody who knows how to make love in a canoe.
— Pierre Berton
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Even through you and I are in different boats, you in your boat and we our canoe, we share the same river of life. What…
— Oren Lyons
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It gave me a moment of exquisite satisfaction to find myself moving away from civilisation in this rude canvas canoe of a model that has…
— John Millington Synge
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A dugout is much superior to a conventional manufactured canoe because you can get soaking wet without bothering to capsize it.
— P.J. O'Rourke
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. . . perhaps our grandsons, having never seen a wild river, will never miss the chance to set a canoe in singing waters .…
— Aldo Leopold
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Wherever there is a channel for water, there is a road for the canoe.
— Henry David Thoreau
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The way of a canoe is the way of the wilderness, and of a freedom almost forgotten.
— Sigurd F. Olson
Who Wrote These Canoe Quotes
42 authors contributed a total of 48 Canoe Quotes, led by these top contributors: