Canal Quotations

I myself was born beside a river - the Avon in Sarum. So when I first encountered New York's great harbor and the Hudson River as a teenager, and came to understand their historic canal and railroad links to the vast spaces of the Midwest, I felt both the thrill of a new adventure and a deep sense of homecoming.

When President Teddy Roosevelt posed for the cameras astride a massive steam shovel during construction of the Panama Canal in 1906, it was more than a simple photo op. Though the scene was clearly staged, it symbolized a crucial moment in American history.

I had a galvanised voice: I could sing through a 105 fever or a flu or a root canal or anything that you could throw at me.

Ships are obliged to take on harbor or river pilots - who provide specialized local navigation - when they approach a port, but in the canal, a Suez crew is also obligatory. The crew members are there in case the ship needs to be moored during the canal transit, but this rarely happens.

Egypt does not possess rich natural resources. Its agricultural area is relatively small - less than 10 per cent of the total land. Its growth relies on tourism, Suez Canal tariffs, and foreign investment.

In Ghazalia, Mr. Hussein showed his contempt for the majority Shiites in ways large and small. He refused to allow them even one mosque, while the Sunnis had nearly a dozen. To worship, the Shiites had to cross an inconveniently located bridge over the sewage canal to Shula.

The Peripheral Canal automatically throws you into a heated argument that doesn't solve the problem.

Nobody strikes a medal for the Royal Military Canal campaign any more, but a pint in the back bar of the ancient Mermaid Inn, perched in front of one of the biggest and oldest inglenooks you're ever likely to see, is its own reward.

I was staying in a hotel on Canal Street, on the 16th floor, and I opened up the windows and it was just black outside,

If the canal chooses not to expand, trade will continue to flow and go elsewhere.

We're pretty confident that's going to get finished today. The sheet pile will close the canal to the lake.

It causes no adverse impact to existing city of Palm Bay and Melbourne-Tillman Water Canal District drainage.

Jenn probably had the game of her career, which we need her to have. We're going to need her to have another big game against Canal Winchester.

My mom lived off the canal of a river, ... It looked like a bomb went off. I never thought it was going to be that bad. I stayed the night (in Texas), then Monday morning after the storm had gone more up north, we went back thinking it was okay. It took us a long time because of all the traffic that was leaving. Normally, it would take an hour, but it took six hours because of all the evacuees. It took a good 11 or 12 hours to get to Texas, and it usually only takes five.

You knew it was going to be like a root canal in the second half. They just came after us with everything they had, but in the end we are still standing. You look at our players right now and we got ice bags all over the place, cramps all over the place, but we did not quit. So we keep on playing for at least one more game.

While Mr. Trudeau was in office and I was president in 1977, we celebrated the signing of the Panama Canal treaties, and in recent years, we worked together on hemispheric issues at The Carter Center, ... We will remember him as a vibrant and charismatic man who applied his talents to further Canada and later, other countries in the Western Hemisphere. Our thoughts and prayers are with his family.

We thought finding so many at one spot was a mass drowning, but instead it could be a canal or creek that washed them to this low spot, 100 or 500 years apart. I've learned, it's never what it seems.

There is quite a lot of research around which suggests that although it is an effective form of pain relief, an epidural means many women will spend longer pushing the baby out of the birth canal and are more likely to need some other intervention.

The opening of the Erie Canal to New York in 1825 stimulated other cities on the Atlantic seaboard to put themselves into closer commercial touch with the West.

Without earmarks, the Canal Walk, which is now an official cultural district in Indianapolis and a destination place for residents and visitors, would likely not have been possible.

We're in 24-hour-a-day operations to adjust the canal levels roughly a foot (30cm) in most areas, ... We know they're going to fill back up.

This weekend might be like root canal in the sense the way Seton Hall is playing right now. That's the first order of business.

We knew going in that it was going to be a root canal in the second half. They just went after us with everything they had, but in the end, we were still standing.

Though our employees are scattered across the country like many of clients, we have been operating virtually for about 10 days now. Our only limitation is access to paper files and a temporary inability to access servers housed at our Canal Street office.

We chose this site in the first place because vacant property next to the canal is very rare.

Drivers don't seem to be as concerned with current prices as they would have been in the past. Perhaps it's human nature. Once you've been through root canal without anesthetic, getting a filling doesn't seem nearly as scary as it used to be.

The waters in the industrial canal had risen very rapidly ... far above what was ever predicted or anticipated in the area.

The shipping community wants to have some comfort that the transfer will be a seamless one and that Panamanian authorities have seized their responsibility to run the canal in a professional way.

The snook migration has begun, so most of the fish are around the canal mouths.

The breach in the 17th Street canal is about 200 feet (60 meters) wide, ... The water is going to keep coming in until it reaches the level of the lake. I don't know what they are going to do.

The breach in the 17th Street canal is about 200 feet (60 meters) wide,

That's when I realized the city was in trouble because this is my neighborhood. Ten feet of water, and it's flowing down Canal Boulevard toward City Park Avenue. It was not standing water. It was a torrent of water.

They've done lots of work on the levees, and nobody expected them to break. If it hadn't been for the canal break we wouldn't have had all this nonsense.

They modeled the recovery of the canal for the volumes of water we had in the '04 storms, and there was less water than we had during the actual storms.

There's a massive police staging area on Canal Street right by the casino, ... The 82nd Airborne is here in force. They're patrolling the city. There's a massive military staging area near the Convention Center by the I-10. The helicopter traffic is the most I've seen since I was stationed at Ft. Hood.

A baby is an alimentary canal with a loud voice at one end and no responsibility at the other

It is our hope the locks system will be completed prior to the bridge completion. The canal will not open before the bridge is finished. We hope the canal will be open by the end of the year.

That'll catch the runoff from the roof here and the property. It then goes eventually into the canal system." ()

Everyone on the ship is trying to decide if we should deliver the ship via the Panama Canal or the Northwest Passage.

That is sediment that came from the contaminated industrial canal. The sediments in the industrial canal were absolutely contaminated. Our neighborhood association had a study done (before Katrina) that found all kinds of toxic sediments, heavy metals -- arsenic lead -- far above the standards of the Louisiana Department of Environmental Quality. And post Katrina all of those chemicals were found in the soil.

I walked up and down this canal for my exercise, saw wildlife, fed my fish.

I'm told that the 17th Street Canal pump will go on today, but I've been told a lot of things over the past week that didn't work out.

I heard cars running through water and I don't recall it raining last night . So I peaked out and I thought our canal back here had flooded. But I came out to take a look and this is what you see .

I ask people, 'Have you been to New Orleans? ... These are people who drove your carriage down Canal Street. They carried your bags to your hotel room and picked up the dishes when you finished eating. By golly, we're going to be there to take care of them now.

I don't want to go into history; I want to go into the Canal Zone.

I don't think they can build an earthquake-proof canal. . . . Pumping several billion dollars into a Peripheral Canal is money that could be spent on water transfers and efficiencies.

However, cases came to light later in which canal rays containing only positive ions showed a Doppler effect in the spectral lines emitted by them.

For the Panama Canal a couple of years ago we did a balcony, since there is more to see and there were six ports of call in 12 days. Most of our cruises, we have stayed in a cabin with a window just to get the feel of a larger room and to check the weather before going out.

The French Quarter and Uptown, you see life basically as it was before the storm. It's eerie, because life really is normal in those neighborhoods and then you cross over the Industrial Canal and enter the lower Ninth Ward or eastern New Orleans, and it looks like a bomb just went off yesterday.

The discussion of the Peripheral Canal consumes so much oxygen you don't get to talk about a comprehensive solution.

I took the canal zone and let congress debate, and while the debate goes on the canal does also