Quotes About Canals

Little cats who howl too loud get drowned in the canals," warned the fair-haired bravo. "Not if they have claws.

As he made his way back to his home on the Dijver, along the canals, beside the calm waters, Borluut felt his regret, his remorse at having divulged his worries grow at the sight of the noble swans, sealed-in snow, which, prisoners of the canals, prey to the rain, the sadness of the bells, the shadow of the gables, have the modesty to remain silent and only complain, with a voice that is almost human, when they are about to die...

Papier-mache canals flowed in downtown Lowell, men smoking cigars stand by the rail spitting in the waters that reflect the drizzle hopelessness of 1926.

Venice took on the feeling of a city paved with black glass, the odd lantern, torch, or candle reflecting in the canals like distant windows into hell, the crescent moon throwing silver scythes across the water where it could find its way between buildings.

Not houses finely roofed or the stones of walls well builded, nay nor canals and dockyards make the city, but men able to use their opportunity.

The neighborhood where I live has little canals, and there are a lot of houseboats there.

Cape Coral is the largest city between Tampa and Miami, in terms of square miles, which was 120. Of greater note are its 400 miles of canals, more than any other city in the world, including Venice.

He had lived in Venice for more than fifteen years and he still didn't know all the city's nooks and crannies — but then again no one did.

He was aware for the first time of how quiet the city had gotten. After dark the streets and canals seemed to empty out. As if Venice felt less of an obligation to pretend to be part of this millennium at night, and had reverted to its medieval self again.

Amsterdam is such a fun, cool place, and it's very Instagrammable with the canals and the boats and the flowers and the architecture. It's amazing for outfit of the day shots.

Sooner or later the Internet will become profitable. It's an old story played before by canals, railroads and automobiles.

Venice is eternity itself.

Amsterdam was a great surprise to me. I had always thought of Venice as the city of canals; it had never entered my mind that I should find similar conditions in a Dutch town.

Nothing ever seems straightforward in Venice, least of all its romances.

If I could live in one city and do every single thing I do there, I would choose Venice. You can't turn your head without seeing something amazing.

They are shooting The Thief Lord in Venice at the moment.

Everything in Venice is just a little bit creepy, as much as it's beautiful.

If you want to go for a romantic break, or a quick break in Italy, it has to be Venice.

The buildings line the canals like long sentences __ each house a word, each window a letter, each gap a punctuation.

Canals are made of flat water, and flat water is difficult stuff to get hold of. It is expensive. You use locks to keep it flat when you go up hills. Sometimes, you have to take the water under hills in tunnels in order to preserve its flatness. Canals were not cheap to build.

Increasing values again brought increasing values. As with the canals and turnpikes, it was transportation, this time the railroads, that was the focus of the speculation. Here the horizons seemed truly without limit. Who could lose on what was so obviously needed?

Sooner or later the Internet will become profitable. It's an old story played before by canals, railroads and automobiles.

I have maybe a half-hour before the next surgery. Want to go and get a cup of coffee?" What I want is to meander eight kilometres down the canals with you from Kirov to your Fifth Soviet door. I want to get on the tram with you, the bus with you, sit in the Italian Gardens with you. That is what I want. I will take the cup of coffee in your hospital cafeteria.

The canals will stink; the streams of Egypt will trickle and dry up; the reeds and rushes will wither.