Nova Scotia Quotes

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  • About half of the loyalists who left the United States ended up going north to Canada, settling in the province of Nova Scotia and also becoming pioneering settlers in the province of New Brunswick.

    Half   Canada   Becoming  
    Source: www.npr.org
  • I'm a tomboy from Nova Scotia.

    "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
  • I was in a store in Halifax, Nova Scotia that I love, sort of like an environmental friendly sort of store. But they had a great book section. So I went in there all the time. The woman who worked there - which I feel so bad; I've forgotten her name - she handed me the book and she said, "Hey, you should read this. I think it would make a good movie." I remember reading the back of it and I was like, "Huh." Then I just devoured the book and I was so moved by it and said, "Why don't we start developing this into a film?" So that's how it ['Into the Forest'] all started.

    Book   Reading   Thinking  
    "Into The Forest: Ellen Page and Evan Rachel Wood Survive a Quiet Apocalypse". Interview with Don Kaye, www.denofgeek.com. July 28, 2016.
  • Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, and Canada are the horns, the head, the neck, the shins, and the hoof of the ox, and the United States are the ribs, the sirloin, the kidneys, and the rest of the body.

    William Cobbett (1933). “The Progress of a Plough-boy to a Seat in Parliament: As Exemplified in the History of the Life of William Cobbett, Member for Oldham”
  • I didn't know that there were any radio stations in Nova Scotia.

  • I grew up in Nova Scotia, so there werent a whole lot of rules.

    "Playing Buck Hunter with Diego Klattenhoff of Homeland and The Blacklist". Interview with Anna Peele, www.esquire.com. September 27, 2013.
  • We spent a month in Japan last year, a week in Istanbul for the United Nations, and nearly three months in my native Nova Scotia, where my two brothers have homes; and we'll go back there this summer.

    Summer   Brother   Home  
  • Never be discouraged. If I were sunk in the lowest pits of Nova Scotia, with the Rocky Mountains piled on me, I would hang on, exercise faith, and keep up good courage, and I would come out on top.

  • On every album I've put out, I've put diverse Canadian songs on it. They're not provincial album; my albums are national albums. There'll be a song about Saskatchewan and Vancouver and Nova Scotia on there.

    Song   Vancouver   Albums  
  • I find happiness comes from numerous sources in my life. Most often, the happy moments I cherish most are quiet moments with my wife and family back home in Nova Scotia.

  • I come from Nova Scotia, and I'd never seen a theater or been inside of a theater. When I was 17, my dad asked me what I wanted to do, and I said I thought I would like to be an actor. I didn't have any idea what it was to be an actor. None. I'd wanted to be either an actor or a sculptor, which are both essentially the same thing. That's how it all started for me.

    Dad   Ideas   Actors  
    "Donald Sutherland on 'Forsaken', Working with His Son for the First Time, and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. February 21, 2016.
  • I was a crown attorney in my home town in Nova Scotia, and I learned that victims of crime needed better laws to better protect them. I saw politics as a means to improve this protection for them.

    Home   Mean   Law  
  • Maybe that’s why I’ve made it as far as I have – 2,521 miles. If I ran to a doctor every time I got a little cyst or abrasion I’d still be in Nova Scotia. Or else I’d never have started. I’ve seen people in so much pain. The little bit of pain I’m going through is nothing. They can’t shut it off, and I can’t shut down every time I feel a little sore.

    Pain   Doctors   People  
  • Ben Farmer brings a legend to life in Evangeline, evoking with grace and panache the travails of the Acadians in mid-eighteenth century America from Nova Scotia to New Orleans. Farmer is a wonderful storyteller, and readers won't soon forget this tale of love and fortitude. Simply riveting.

  • America, so far as her physical history is concerned, has been falsely denominated the New World. Hers was the first dry land lifted out of the waters, hers the first shore washed by the ocean that enveloped all the earth beside; and while Europe was represented only by islands rising here and there above the sea, America already stretched an unbroken line of land from Nova Scotia to the Far West.

    Ocean   Science   Islands  
    Louis Agassiz (1873). “Geological Sketches”, p.1
  • Though born in Nova Scotia, I am of almost pure New England descent.

    Simon Newcomb (1903). “The reminiscences of an astronomer”, Harper and Brothers
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