Trans Canada Highway

Famous quotes containing the words trans, canada and/or highway:

    “The treason pleases, but the traitors are odious.”
    —Spanish proverb, pt. 1, bk. 4, ch. 7, quoted in Miguel de Cervantes, Don Quixote (1605, trans by P. Motteux)

    “I fear that I have not got much to say about Canada, not having seen much; what I got by going to Canada was a cold.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    “In one notable instance, where the United States Army and a hundred years of persuasion failed, a highway has succeeded. The Seminole Indians surrendered to the Tamiami Trail. From the Everglades the remnants of this race emerged, soon after the trail was built, to set up their palm-thatched villages along the road and to hoist tribal flags as a lure to passing motorists.”
    —For the State of Florida, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)