Portal:British Columbia/Quotes
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"Life's an awfully lonesome affair. You can live close against other people yet your lives never touch. You come into the world alone and you go out of the world alone yet it seems to me you are more alone while living than even coming and going."
Source: Hundreds and Thousands: The Journals of Emily Carr
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It is wonderful to feel the grandness of Canada in the raw, not because she is Canada but because she's something sublime that you were born into, some great rugged power that you are a part of.
Source: It is wonderful to feel the grandness of Canada in - Emily Carr quote
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"You always feel when you look it straight in the eye that you could have put more into it, could have let yourself go and dug harder."
Source: Emily Carr quotes
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"There is something bigger than fact: the underlying spirit, all it stands for, the mood, the vastness, the wildness.."
Source: Emily Carr quotes
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"Cedars are terribly sensitive to change of time and light - sometimes they are bluish cold-green, then they turn yellow warm-green - sometimes their boughs flop heavy and sometimes float, then they are fairy as ferns and then they droop, heavy as heartaches."
Source: Emily Carr quotes
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"This mission is a chance to spread the word to potential investors about B.C.’s competitive advantage as Canada’s Pacific Gateway and the opportunities here for partnerships in green technology, trade, investment and education."
Source: British Columbia Premier to promote life science, education in India
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"We are thrilled that Vancouver-Whistler has been selected as host for the 2010 Winter Olympic and Paralympic Games."
Source: Spirit of Vancouver - 2010 celebration quotes
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Come to the edge of the barn the property really begins there,
you see things defining themselves
Untitled. Bolster, Stephanie (1997-2008). Governor General's Award poet.
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Downstream ever further from our native
nowheres (paradise, wilderness)
we ooh and aah harder over
these sockeye come three hundred miles upstream
Adam's River. Carr, John (1997-2008). Governor General's Award poet
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Stand with Baillie-Grohman in 1882
on the shoulder of the Purcells gazing
east and north up the Rocky Mountain trench
but bear with his southwest intentions
for the arable flood plain near Creston
he'll sell once reclaimed from the Kootenay's high water
re-routing its headwaters here with a trench of his own
into the Columbia.
Canal Flats / Grand Canal. Carr, John (1997-2008). Governor General's Award poet
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There is something bigger than fact: the underlying spirit, all it stands for, the mood, the vastness, the wildness.
Carr, Emily. Hundreds and Thousands: The Journals of Emily Carr
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You always feel when you look it straight in the eye that you could have put more into it, could have let yourself go and dug harder.
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Most of the Games [ 2010 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games ] will be watched by people around the world on television. Some three billion people, we are told, will tune in to watch what happens here in British Columbia and Canada in 2010.
John Furlong, Chief Executive Officer, The Vancouver Organizing Committee for the 2010 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games
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[edit] Nominations
Feel free to add Wikiquote British Columbia quotations to the above list. Other British Columbia-related Quotes may be nominated here.
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