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Quotes About Montreal

When I was a teenager, a friend of mine got a job on a wrestling radio show in Montreal, and he found a local professional wrestler who was able to train us.
~ Sami Zayn
I didn't really have an idea that Montreal was a possibility. They were pretty tough at the combine, I remember that. It was definitely the toughest interview that I had.
~ Carey Price
Montreal is a great town. There's equal parts blue-collar town.
~ Jay Baruchel
I'm very happy to come back. I've always had success here and the public is fantastic. I love you, Montreal.
~ Arantxa Sanchez Vicario
She and Marie were Montreal girls, not trained to accompany heroes, or to hold out for dreams, but just to be patient.
~ Mavis Gallant
I haven't seen too many similarities between Montreal and American cities.
~ Alissa White-Gluz
Adam was charming and spoke perfect French. Like many anglophones in Montréal, he actually spoke French better than we did. They knew exactly which verbs to use in the same way that people knew which utensils to use while eating at a fancy dinner. It was very proper because they learned it from books. They didn't know slang or how to curse. They didn't know how to do anything other than be proper and reserved. It was state-sponsored, dry-clean-only French.
~ Heather O'Neill
It was good to have an imagination if you were a girl and living in Montreal at the beginning of the twentieth century. Intelligence was what she needed. But she never listened to anyone.
~ Heather O'Neill
I go to Montreal a lot - maybe twice a year.
~ Noah Schnapp
If you like having an ozone layer, you can thank an international agreement called the Montreal Protocol.
~ Bill Gates
Before the war, Hoover had maintained a number of friendly ties with Hitler's police officials. Among other examples, he sent Hitler's Gestapo chief Heinrich Himmler a personal invitation to attend the 1937 World Police Conference in Montreal. The following year, he welcomed one of Himmler's top aides to the United States, and we now know that after the war he embraced "former" Nazis into his Red-hunting FBI apparatus.
~ Fred Jerome
I haven't been back in Montreal, at all, since the playoffs ended two years ago. It's been a while.
~ Saku Koivu
I was raised in Montreal, which is very multicultural, very liberal. Then I moved to New York.
~ Antoni Porowski
I went to theatre school for four years and just wanted to do theatre. I had no ambition to be on TV or to be on camera. I just wanted to go to New York or London and be on stage... I did a lot of theatre in Montreal, got involved in TV in Toronto and then moved to L.A. I hope that film and TV will take me back to theatre.
~ Sasha Roiz
If you're big in Montreal, you're big in Quebec. If you're big in Toronto, you're big in Canada. But if you're big in New York, you're big in the rest of the world.
~ Shane Smith
Since the beginning, I always loved the game. When you grow up in Montreal, one day you want to be a professional hockey player. When I was six or seven, I knew that was what I wanted.
~ Mario Lemieux
I cannot go to Montreal without going to Beauty's, my favorite place for breakfast, where I have the Mish-Mash omelet with hot dogs, salami, eggs, green peppers, and onions, and the best banana bread in the world. It's legendary!
~ Gail Simmons
Baseball will be back to Montreal, I want to see it. I want it to happen before I die. I will see it
~ Felipe Alou
Climate change and ozone depletion are two global issues that are different but have many connections. In the ozone depletion case, we managed to work with decision makers effectively so that an international agreement called the Montreal Protocol was achieved that essentially solved the ozone depletion problem.
~ Mario J. Molina
When I was living alone in Montreal, heartbroken over a lost love, she sent me a quote from Paul Valéry. One word per letter, though, so it took me months to figure out. Breath, dreams, silence, invincible calm… you will triumph.
~ Miriam Toews
No, I love Montreal... I think I love Montreal more than Montreal loves me... I love the food there.
~ Kathy Griffin
It takes analytical skills worthy of a degree in civil engineering to understand when and where one is allowed to leave a car in Montreal.
~ Kathy Reichs
My father spoke French with a Bank of Montreal accent.
~ Hartland de Montarville Molson
I was born in Montreal in 1939, the second son of poor immigrants.
~ Sidney Altman