Canoe Quotes

48 quotes by 42 authors

Every man paddles his own canoe. — Frederick Marryat
As one goes through life, one learns that if you don't paddle your own canoe, you don't move. — Katharine Hepburn
Although we are in different boats you in your boat and we in our canoe we share the same river of life. — Oren Lyons
If the family were a boat, it would be a canoe that makes no progress unless everyone paddles. — Letty Cottin Pogrebin
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
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
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
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
You can't fire a cannon, from a canoe! — Charles Poliquin
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
When a man is part of his canoe, he is part of all that canoes have ever known. — Sigurd F. Olson
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
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
A Canadian is somebody who knows how to make love in a canoe. — Pierre Berton
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
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
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
. . . perhaps our grandsons, having never seen a wild river, will never miss the chance to set a canoe in singing waters .… — Aldo Leopold
Wherever there is a channel for water, there is a road for the canoe. — Henry David Thoreau
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

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