Age Quote by Vincent Massey

In fact, in the far North one sees the northern lights facing south!

— Vincent Massey

It is the University's function to turn out well-balanced persons with an understanding of themselves and of their place in life.

— Vincent Massey

We are not born of the passions of war or of the fervours of revolution. And we grew quietly into the realization that, set…

— Vincent Massey

Old wives' tales are not enough in a day when old wives and old men, too, are constantly moving away from their labours.

— Vincent Massey

Canada is not a melting-pot. Canada is an association of peoples who have, and cherish, great differences but who work together because they can…

— Vincent Massey

The great menace of civilization in the present is that we offer an education with too little regard for the roots.

— Vincent Massey

It would be foolish and wrong to ignore the fact that all our universities today tread a very dangerous path. Increasingly, they are accepting…

— Vincent Massey

We can best serve the cause of Canadian unity and understanding by living first in and through and then beyond our own immediate traditions.

— Vincent Massey

Technology has been defined, perhaps a little ungenerously, as "a long Greek name for a bag of tools".

— Vincent Massey

How great a quality is horse sense! Someone has defined it as that something which keeps horses from betting on men!

— Vincent Massey

In opening and conquering a country great and wild and rich - a country indeed not yet fully known or conquered - we have…

— Vincent Massey

History is the necessary food of good and noble sentiments. It ought to give us at once humility and confidence in the face of…

— Vincent Massey