24 Quotes by Adrienne Clarkson

When you get on the boat that's saving you, don't pull up the ladder behind you

As I go across the country and privately visit women's shelters and counselling centres, I am appalled that the most vulnerable people in our society are still women.

Every Remembrance Day he came for tea (and scotch!) and was a vivid reminder of our country's heroism,

At our best, we are in constant search of something beyond, of national dreams and destinies that we reach toward, together.

Stumbling through darkness and racing through light, we have persisted in the creation of a Canadian civilization.

A society like Canada's, with its four centuries of give-and-take, compromise and acceptance, wrong-doing and redress, is basically a forgiving society.

It reflects an intense personal, as well as a national, gratitude for what Ukrainian Canadians have done for freedom in the country of origin of their ancestors and the example they helped set for the world,

I'm not turning my back on anything, I'm just leaving Ottawa,

I have felt the warmth of your society, the welcome given to anyone who comes to be with you, to share and to understand,