Best Ottawa Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“I was a very good tennis player in Ottawa, Canada - nationally ranked when I was, like, 13. Then I moved to Los Angeles when I was 15, and everyone in L.A. just killed me. I was pretty great in Canada. Not so much in Los Angeles.”

Player Moved Very Good Tennis Canada Los Angeles Tennis Player Ottawa

Author:Matthew Perry

“I became a big Kings fan, and then later on my hometown of Ottawa got a team, so then I was very, very torn. I just love both of those teams very much.”

Bigs Team Fans Kings Torn Hometown Ottawa

Author:Matthew Perry

“It's one thing for a courier service transport letters and documents from one city to another at a cost that only big business can afford; but it's another thing to take a letter from an Indian boy studying at the University of Ottawa to his mother in Old Crow.”

Bigs Mother Cities Boys Study One Thing Cost Letters University Indian Documents Crow Transport Big Business Ottawa

Author:Jean Chretien

“In Washington they have their hawks and doves and in Ottawa we have our parrots.”

Dove Hawks Parrots Ottawa

Author:Tommy Douglas

“Less than fifteen cents to the province and more than twenty-five cents to Ottawa, this is far from being excessive!”

Five Twenties Cents Fifteen Provinces Twenty Five Ottawa

Author:Maurice Duplessis

“Whenever it was necessary to have a large entourage, we used military vehicles or, as for the two state funerals and our state swearing in, we hired every spare Cadillac from every undertaking firm in Ottawa. It's a make-shift way to operate a country of the size and rank of Canada.”

Way Two Country States Used Military Size Firm Canada Funeral Vehicle Spares Undertakings Swearing Cadillacs Entourage Ottawa

Author:Judy LaMarsh

“Ottawa - a sub-arctic lumber-village converted by royal mandate into a political cockpit.”

Political Village Royal Mandates Arctic Lumber Cockpit Ottawa

Author:Goldwin Smith

“On a craggy bluff above the majestic Ottawa River stands the remarkable embodiment of our system of governance: Parliament.”

Rivers Remarkable Parliament Governance Embodiment Majestic Bluffs Ottawa

Book:The House of Commons at Work

Source: The House of Commons at Work

“The spineless pussy willows in Ottawa are actually helping to condition the Canadian public to accept the surrender of our country, which American forces were unable to accomplish in 1776 and 1812.”

Country Helping Force Accepting Conditions Accomplish Surrender Our Country Canada Pussy Spineless Ottawa

Author:Paul Hellyer

“I was born in the Ottawa General Hospital right after the Gray Cup Football Game in 1939. Six months later, I was backpacked into the Quebec bush. I grew up in and out of the bush, in and out of Ottawa, Sault Ste. Marie and Toronto.”

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Book:Margaret Atwood: Conversations

Source: Margaret Atwood: Conversations

“Ontario's gas tax rebates and infrastructure programs help create sustainable transit to improve quality of life for Ottawa residents with significant environmental benefits.”

Helping Quality Taxes Benefits Program Environmental Significant Gas Infrastructure Quality Of Life Residents Ontario Ottawa

Author:Bob Chiarelli

“We want to build the most entrepreneurial postsecondary system in North America. That's why we're pleased that academic institutions, like Algonquin College, University of Ottawa and Carlton University are working to make that happen through the Campus-Linked Accelerator program. They are helping nurture our business visionaries and igniting their entrepreneurial spirit, helping them to succeed and to expand our economy.”

“You can never capture a person in picture, never. You might get an interesting expression or gesture. I almost never research a picture subject ahead of time. I think Karsh is full of baloney. Can you imagine spending a whole week out in La Jolla with Jonas Salk soaking up his ambiance, then wind up making him look as if he's in the studio in Ottawa with his thumb under his chin?”

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Author:Duane Michals

“Some years later I met Queen Elizabeth II, in our capital Ottawa at a Canada Day celebration. David Foster and I were doing the show and we both met her afterwards. She told me how much she loved the Canadian Railroad Trilogy. She looked at me and said, "oh, that song", and then said again, "that song", and that was all she said.”

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Author:Gordon Lightfoot

“I recently did a reading at an elementary school in Ottawa, and one of the children asked me if I was a girl. I said yes. Another child commented that I had a deep voice. I responded: "Can girls have deep voices?" There was a pause and then the group responded, "Yes!"”

Ifs Children Said School Girl Reading Voice Groups Pauses Elementary School Ottawa

Author:Vivek Shraya

“I don't think spending time in Ottawa is a good use of my time as the leader.”

Thinking Use Leader Spending My Time Spending Time Ottawa

Author:Kevin O'Leary

“I was born in Quebec City, I've lived there many years before moving to Montreal and then Ottawa. And I mean, Quebec City is a very, you know, closed city if I may say. So it's not easy to be accepted living in Quebec City. So if you're from a different faith, you may be a bit timid in showing your faith. So I mean, you're already from a different country, you're an immigrant and hearing what you hear about Islam, you might not wish to be identified as a Muslim, and you may be very discreet into your faith and going to the mosque.”

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Author:Andre Pratte

“When I appointed the Minister of the Environment to major cabinet status, the Planning and Priorities committee, the signals that that sent through Ottawa were major, because that's what the bureaucracy understands.”

Environment Majors Priorities Planning Ministers Committees Bureaucracy Signals Cabinets Ottawa

Author:Brian Mulroney

“I came to Ottawa with the firm belief that the only people in this country who should have guns are police officers and soldiers.”

People Should Country Belief Gun Should Have Police Soldier Firm Officers Police Officer Firearms Firm Beliefs Ottawa

Author:Allan Rock

“We can no longer tolerate what's going on in Ottawa and Edmonton. What I would challenge you to do is to put a lot of effort into trying to see whether there's a legal way of throwing our so-called leaders into jail because what they're doing is a criminal act.”

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Author:David Suzuki

“In Sussex Drive, Linda Svendsen takes us deep behind the lines of Ottawa’s politics, polls and pomp, and into the lives of Canada’s two most powerful women. By turns shocking, funny, sizzling and illuminating, this story is brilliantly written with an unnerving authenticity that makes it seem all too real. You’re going to want to read this.”

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Author:Terry Fallis

“Withdraw from the Canada Pension Plan... Collect our own revenue from personal income tax... Resume provincial responsibility for health-care policy. If Ottawa objects to provincial policy, fight in the courts... [E]ach province should raise its own revenue for health... It is imperative to take the initiative, to build firewalls around Alberta.”

“With the year off, I think most guys were excited to get going, but coming to Ottawa, a new place, made me even more excited.”

Thinking Years Made Guy Excited New Places Ottawa

Author:Dany Heatley

“When I signed in Ottawa two years ago, I felt it was to be an integral part of the team. Over the last two years and more recently over the past year, I feel my role was diminished. This past season, it diminished a lot more. “I would like the opportunity to go somewhere where I can play to the best of my capabilities and be the player that I can be.”

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Author:Dany Heatley

“There's more coming tomorrow than there was today. Quite a few people coming from Ottawa to watch. There were still a lot of people out there today. Some coming from farther tomorrow.”

People Stills Today Watches Tomorrow Figure Skating Ottawa

Author:Alaine Chartrand

“The last two years, nationals have been close to home for me, so I've had big family support from friends and club support. Especially last year in Ottawa, I had a whole section my grandpa got for all my family, and the skating club (supported me). I feel like I'm a veteran at this now.”

Feels Years Has Beens Two Whole Home Bigs Lasts Support My Family Clubs Two Years Last Year Sections Veteran Skating Figure Skating Grandpa Big Families Ottawa Family Support

Author:Alaine Chartrand

“What Ottawa and Washington used to think about Turkey or Iran was not very important because we really didn't think much about either, but now what we think about them is extremely important - to ourselves and to many other peoples.”

Thinking Important Used Iran Turkeys Ottawa

Author:Arthur Hays Sulzberger

“Progressive Conservative candidates from Quebec want to exert real power in Ottawa, not simply be content with playing a secondary role.”

Want Real Roles Conservative Candidates Progressive Real Power Quebec Ottawa

Author:Kim Campbell

“My family was a good family, I had a great Canadian education and I came up in a great, little town like Ottawa.”

Littles My Family Towns Little Towns Good Family Ottawa

Author:Paul Anka

“If Ottawa giveth, then Ottawa can taketh away.”

Ifs Ottawa

Author:Stephen Harper