Saskatchewan Quotes:

The Lord said 'let there be wheat' and Saskatchewan was born

- Stephen Leacock

source: Stephen Leacock, Gerald Lynch (2002). “Leacock on Life”, p.46, University of Toronto Press

topic: Wheat, Lord, Said, Saskatchewan

There was this mountain village in Russia where my music was getting in on some German radio station. I remember this because music used to get up to Saskatchewan from Texas. Late at night after the local station closed down.

- Joni Mitchell

topic: Night, Russia, Texas, Saskatchewan

Provincial governments in Canada have terminated the positions of marriage commissioners who have, for personal religious convictions, not performed same sex marriages. It has happened in Saskatchewan.

- Stockwell Day

topic: Religious, Sex, Government, Commissioners, Saskatchewan

Listen to it, and you are hearing the mighty currents of the air rushing down the latitudes of the earth, currents from the Mackenzie and the Athabasca and the Saskatchewan, and from the prairies and the white Tundra. It is a homeless wind, forever on the move.

- Hal Borland

topic: Moving, Rushing, White, Latitude, Prairie

On every album I've put out, I've put diverse Canadian songs on it. They're not provincial album; my albums are national albums. There'll be a song about Saskatchewan and Vancouver and Nova Scotia on there.

- Stompin' Tom Connors

topic: Song, Vancouver, Albums, Novas, Nova Scotia

I am sure that hon. members will realize that I am not drawing on my imagination when I state that last fall there were children going to school in Saskatchewan with only sacking wrapped around their feet. We have gone into homes and found mothers and children lying on piles of bedding in the corner; they did not have the proper bedding equipment or the proper clothing to meet the rigours of a very cold winter.

- Tommy Douglas

topic: Mother, Children, Lying, Sacking, Rigour

To keep up with the demands of the growing manufacturing sector, our Government is pleased to invest in the establishment of the Saskatchewan Manufacturing Centre of Excellence. Training skilled workers and increasing productivity and innovation are essential to the continued growth and prosperity of Saskatchewan, and Western Canada.

- Michelle Rempel

topic: Government, Innovation, Growth, Western Canada, Continued Growth

Plant flowers in others' gardens and your life becomes a bouquet! Submitted by Lisa Letto, Coordinator, Nutrition Resource and Volunteer Centre, College of Pharmacy and Nutrition, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatchewan, Canada I slept and I dreamed that life is all joy, I woke and I saw that life is all service. I served and I saw that service is joy.

- Rabindranath Tagore

topic: Flower, College, Garden, Pharmacy, Coordinator

It was so dry in Saskatchewan during the Depression that the trees were chasing the dogs.

- John Robert Colombo

topic: Dog, Tree, Dry, Saskatchewan

Uranium mining in northern Canada has left over 120 million tons of radioactive waste. This amount represents enough material to cover the Trans-Canada Highway two meters deep across the country. Present production of uranium waste from Saskatchewan alone occurs at the rate of over 1 million tons annually. Since 1975, hospitalization for cancer, birth defects and circulatory illnesses in that area have increased dramatically - between 123 and 600 percent in that region.

- Winona LaDuke

topic: Uranium, Uranium Mining, Radioactive Waste, Birth Defects, Saskatchewan