Quotes About Canoe

From the bow of the canoe she asked, Do you know a rain dance? First I need a virgin.

My youngest brother and I went on a ten-day canoe trip in Bowron Provincial Park in British Columbia years ago. Believe it or not, we took only granola, thinking we'd be eating a lot of lake trout. Well, we neglected to bring along a net, and our fishing line was only 8-lb. test.

The girls stepped back into the canoe and paddled off. As they rounded the next bend, Helen cried, "There's the Lilac Inn dock!" When the canoe came abreast of the dock, Nancy secured it to a post. The girls hopped out and started up the path that led to the inn. On both sides of the path were groves of lilac trees which displayed a profusion of blooms, from creamy white to deep purple.

Today New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie announced that he's endorsing Mitt Romney for president. It's good news for Romney. I mean, you always want Chris Christie on your side. Unless you're in a canoe.

When you look at the face of Canada and study the geography carefully, you come away with the feeling that God could have designed the canoe first and then set about to conceive a land in which it could flourish." BILL MASON

It gave me a moment of exquisite satisfaction to find myself moving away from civilisation in this rude canvas canoe of a model that has served primitive races since men first went to sea.

Three hundred years later, Charles Darwin encountered a canoe bearing tribal members

What's that?" "It looks like something from Linus... It is! He sent me a little birch-bark canoe from camp! He said he made it himself... Sometimes I think I don't deserve a nice brother like Linus..." "I have often thought the same thing." "Dear Linus, please send me another canoe. The first one broke when I threw it at Charlie Brown.

A Canadian is somebody who knows how to make love in a canoe." Tripping, Page 231,by

I have gone into town to buy a few last things we need for the expedition: Peruvian wasp repellent, toothbrushes, canned peaches, and a fireproof canoe. It will take a while to find the peaches, so don't expect me back until dinnertime. Stephano, Gustav's replacement, will arrive today by taxi. Please make him feel welcome. As you know, it is only two days until the expedition, so please work very hard today. Your giddy uncle, Monty

I once paddled a canoe the length of the Mississippi River all the way from Itasca to New Orleans.

The birch-bark canoe of the savage seems to me one of the most beautiful and perfect things of the kind constructed by human art.

he dug the paddle into the water first on one side of the canoe, then on the other.

La canoa se deslizaba costeando el bosque, o lo que podía parecer bosque en aquella oscuridad. Más por instinto que por indicio alguno Subercasaux sentía

It glides along the water looking blackly, Just like a coffin clapt in a canoe, Where none can make out what you say or do.

And the books that came into the house, some of them secretly—well, Samuel rode lightly on top of a book and he balanced happily among ideas the way a man rides white rapids in a canoe. But Tom got into a book, crawled and groveled between the covers, tunneled like a mole among the thoughts, and came up with the book all over his face and hands. Violence

The way of a canoe is the way of the wilderness, and of a freedom almost forgotten.

A dugout is much superior to a conventional manufactured canoe because you can get soaking wet without bothering to capsize it.

canoe is the most graceful, the most sensitive, the most inexplicable contrivance of man. With its paddle you may dip up stars along quiet shores or steal into the very harbor of dreams. I

If life is like a canoe in a raging river then wisdom is the paddle to successfully navigate.

And the eagles. They seemed to mark the canoe's progress from the gray spires of dead spruce, spaced downriver like watchmen on some lost frontier...