Canals Quote by Lonely Planet

In Amsterdam the water is the mistress and the land the vassal. throughout the city there are as many canals and drawbridges as bracelets…

— Felix Marti-Ibanez

The perennial wonder of Venice is to peer at herself in her canals and find that she exists-incredible as it seems. It is the…

— Mary McCarthy

…decay and disfavor came together as other parts of the coast were developed, and the canals became weed-clogged ditches breeding mosquitoes, and the hotels…

— Edward Bunker

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

— Erica Jong

By day, Venice is a city of museums and churches, packed with great art. Linger over lunch, trying to crack a crustacean with weird…

— Rick Steves

The things of this world reveal their essential absurdity when they are put in the Venetian context. In the unreal realm of the canals,…

— Mary McCarthy

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

— Peggy Guggenheim

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

— Frank Moore Colby

I miss that time. The cities back then, just after the forests died, were full of wonders, and you'd stumble on them--these princes of…

— Anonymous

All this piling up of one technology on top of another-railroad on steamboat, interstate highway on railroad, hydroelectric dam on watermill-had reduced the Mississippi…

— Jonathan Raban

The problem was that Panama technically belonged to Colombia, which refused to sign a treaty leasing it to the United States. So Roosevelt sent…

— Dave Barry

The citizens of Love Canal provided an example of how a blue-collar community with few resources can win against great odds (a multi-billion-dollar international…

— Lois Gibbs