- Land
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- Nov 07, 2020
Canal Quotes
Waterways, history, and one dental pun.
This collection connects canal to transportation history, noting how the steamboat, canal boat, and rail car all appeared around the same time in the United States. It complements History quotes on major shifts in infrastructure.
- Last Updated on Aug 03, 2026
- Erie
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- Nov 07, 2020
New York State is giant and has some of the most beautiful landscape on the Eastern seaboard. There is so much history in New York State, from the Erie Canal to the Catskills, the birth of American stand-up comedy.
- Doing
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- Nov 07, 2020
My first movie was this independent that I did on the Erie Canal in 1995, called Erie, that I don't know if you could even get, actually with Felicity Huffman. And then from that I did this film that was eventually called The Broken Giant later that fall. And then I kind of started getting into doing pilots.
- Pilots
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- Nov 07, 2020
Ships are obliged to take on harbor or river pilots - who provide specialized local navigation - when they approach a port, but in the canal, a Suez crew is also obligatory. The crew members are there in case the ship needs to be moored during the canal transit, but this rarely happens.
- End
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- Nov 07, 2020
Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other.
- Face
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- Nov 07, 2020
Actors do have good and bad sides. It's because the passage down the birth canal distorts the face. People born by caesarean section are more symmetrical.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
I can remember when anything further downtown New York than Canal Street was risky and the whole area still looked like a '70s cop movie location; when the original loft-owners were more dash-than-cash, artistic types.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
Regarding the Panama Canal Treaty negotiations, they will find us standing up or dead, but never on our knees; NEVER!
- Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
Tax Day is right up there with 'Root Canal Day' in terms of days that no one wants to celebrate.
- Car
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the United States three new methods of transportation made their appearance at almost the same time - the steamboat, the canal boat, and the rail car.
- Dragged
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- Nov 07, 2020
The most important event I covered was the Panama Canal debate, which dragged on for months.
- Digestive
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- Nov 07, 2020
The digestive canal represents a tube passing through the entire organism and communicating with the external world, i.e. as it were the external surface of the body, but turned inwards and thus hidden in the organism.
- Convinced
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- Nov 07, 2020
The physiologist who succeeds in penetrating deeper and deeper into the digestive canal becomes convinced that it consists of a number of chemical laboratories equipped with various mechanical devices.
- Connections
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- Nov 07, 2020
Finally, as the digestive canal is a complex system, a series of separate chemical laboratories, I cut the connections between them in order to investigate the course of phenomena in each particular laboratory; thus I resolved the digestive canal into several separate parts.
- Enough Time
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- Nov 07, 2020
Which I would've done 'cause I volunteered for the draft which meant that I only had to do two years. But when the Cubans had missiles in the Canal and Kennedy made the extension, I was one of the ones who had enough time to be extended.
- Beside
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- Nov 07, 2020
I myself was born beside a river - the Avon in Sarum. So when I first encountered New York's great harbor and the Hudson River as a teenager, and came to understand their historic canal and railroad links to the vast spaces of the Midwest, I felt both the thrill of a new adventure and a deep sense of homecoming.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I wrote 'Snowy' as a result of spending a week on a narrow boat with daily classes of children, helping them to write about canal life, the work of barges, the simple pleasure of watching the water creatures. There was no doubt that the star of their week was Snowy, the working barge horse who pulled us daily along the towpath.
- Nobody
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- Nov 07, 2020
Maybe I'm naive, but I subscribe to the idea that nobody is actually making strategic decisions about their career. Trying to do that would be like playing three-card monte on Canal Street.
- Mosque
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- Nov 07, 2020