Cape Breton County

Famous quotes containing the words cape, breton and/or county:

    “A great proportion of the inhabitants of the Cape are always thus abroad about their teaming on some ocean highway or other, and the history of one of their ordinary trips would cast the Argonautic expedition into the shade.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    “Much ado there was, God wot,
    He would love and she would not.
    She said, never man was true;
    He said, none was false to you.”
    —Nicholas Breton (1542–1626)

    “In the county there are thirty-seven churches
    and no butcher shop. This could be taken
    as a matter of all form and no content.”
    —Maxine Kumin (b. 1925)