A Quote by Josh Billings

Newfoundland dogs are good to save children from drowning, but you must have a pond of water handy and a child, or else there will be no profit in boarding a Newfoundland.

Josh Billings

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Josh Billings
American - Comedian
April 21, 1818 - October 14, 1885

Before Newfoundland joined Canada in 1949, there was the same sort of talk of young men sacrificing their lives so that a country might grow - that somehow it had been a great nation-building success for Newfoundland.

Michael Winter

When I was very young, my nanny was a big Newfoundland dog... whose task was to keep me from drowning.

Elizabeth Marshall Thomas

Each of us must come to care about everyone else's children. We must recognize that the welfare of our children and grandchildren is intimately linked to the welfare of all other people's children. After all, when one of our children needs lifesaving surgery, someone else's child will perform it. If one of our children is threatened or harmed by violence, someone else's child will be responsible for the violent act. The good life for our own children can be secured only if a good life is also secured for all other people's children.

Lilian Katz

I was taught that if you see a person drowning, you must jump into the water to save them, whether you can swim or not.

Irena Sendler

Nothing would have been accomplished if I didn't start in Newfoundland.

Kaetlyn Osmond

At Newfoundland, it is said, that dried cod performs the office of money

Jean-Baptiste Say

In a sense, I feel a lot more an outsider in Los Angeles than I did in Newfoundland.

Rhys Ifans

Marystown, in Newfoundland, it's where began for me. It's where most of my family still lives and where a lot of my supporters are from.

Kaetlyn Osmond

If his mother was drowning and I was drowning and he had to choose one of us to save, He says he'd save me.

Judith Viorst

the personality of St. John's, Newfoundland, hits you like a smack in the face with a dried cod, enthusiastically administered by its citizenry.

Jan Morris

If you look at footage of the Newfoundland Regiment, you see they are at rest and giddy and being silly with one another. Silliness is the antidote to trench warfare.

Michael Winter

Canada is not so much a country as a clothesline nearly 4,000 miles long. St John's in Newfoundland is closer to Milan, Italy than to Vancouver.

Simon Hoggart

I spent my childhood in Newfoundland and then my junior high and high school years in Alberta, Canada.

Sara Canning

I love America, and parts of New Jersey remind me of Newfoundland - rolling hills and gardens - it's great! I guess that's why they call it the Garden State.

Neil Sedaka

In Bogotá, our goal was to make a city for all the children. The measure of a good city is one where a child on a tricycle or bicycle can safely go anywhere. If a city is good for children, it will be good for everybody else. Over the last 80 years we have been making cities much more for cars' mobility than for children’s happiness.