Quotes by Canadian Authors - Page 9

You build on cost and you borrow on value.
Paul Reichmann
In all modern depressions recessions or growth-correction as variously they are called we never miss the goods that are not produced. We miss only the opportunities for the labour - for the jobs - that are not provided.
J. K. Galbraith
Net - the biggest word in the language of business.
Herbert Casson
In a hierarchy every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence.
Laurence J. Peter
In economics the majority is always wrong.
J. K. Galbraith
People of privilege will always risk their complete destruction rather than surrender any material part of their advantage.
J. K. Galbraith
Of course Canadians are different. There is no malice in us. We are the family doctor whom no one has called in for consultation. We are the children of the midday who see all in the clear shallow light.
Charles Ritchie
There can be no return to prosperity while the government (of Ontario) believes that taking money from the people who have earned it and giving it away to the people who haven't in exchange for their votes and regardless of merit is the essence of fairness.
Conrad Black
Let us be French as the Americans are English.
Henri Bourassa
You can be a French Canadian or an English Canadian but not a Canadian. We know how to live without an identity and this is one of our marvellous resources.
Marshall McLuhan
The story of Canada is that if one meeting fails you have another meeting.
Robert Rae
In Canada we have enough to do keeping up with two spoken languages ... so we just go right ahead and use English for literature Scotch for sermons and American for conversation.
Stephen Leacock
Not necessarily conscription but conscription if necessary.
William Lyon Mackenzie King
Canadian nationalism was systematically encouraged and exploited by American capital. Canada moved from colony to nation to colony.
Harold A. Innis
I was brought up in southwestern Ontario where we were taught that Canadian patriotism should not withstand anything more than a five-dollar-a-month wage differential. Anything more than that and you went to Detroit.
J. K. Galbraith
Confederation is only yet in the gristle and it will require five years more before it hardens into bone.
John A. Macdonald
When the white man came we had the land and they had the bibles. Now they have the land and we have the bibles.
Chief Dan George
I think a stalwart peasant in a sheepskin coat born on the soil whose forefathers have been farmers for ten generations with a stout wife and a half-dozen chickens is good quality.
Clifford Sifton
belongs anywhere even the Rocky Mountains are still moving.
George Bowering
If we can find out why the idea rather than the nation of Canada can win a growing loyalty rather than commanding it then it seems to me we shall have come very near to trapping the elusive creature the Canadian Identity.
George Woodcock
The Ottawa river flows out of Protestant Ontario into Catholic Quebec.
Hugh MacLennan
The trouble with this whole country is that it's divided up into little puddles with big fish in each one of them.
Hugh MacLennan
If ever Confederation fails it will not be because Quebec - the political voice of French Canada - has separated from it. It will be because the way to keep Quebec in it has not been found.
Jean Lesage
We shall be Canadians first foremost and always and our policies will be decided in Canada and not dictated by any other country.
John G. Diefenbaker
The situation is one something like living with your wife. Sometimes it is difficult and even irritating to live with her but it is always impossible to live without her.
Lester Pearson
The Canadian dialect of English . . . seems roughly to be the result of applying British syntax to an American vocabulary.
Lister Sinclair
Ottawa is a city where nobody lives though some of us may die there.
Michael Macklem
Canada was settled in the main by people with a lower middle-class outlook and a respect rather than an affectionate familiarity for the things of the mind.
Robertson Davies
We often say that we fear no invasion from the south but the armies of the south have already crossed the border - American enterprise American capital is taking rapid possession of our mines and our water power our oil areas and our timber limits.
Sara Jeannette Duncan
Beneath their work the moral core of Canadian nationhood is found in the fact that Canada is a monarchy and in the nature of monarchial allegiance. As America is united at bottom by the covenant Canada is united at the top by allegiance. Because Canada is a nation founded on allegiance and not on compact there is no pressure for uniformity there is no Canadian way of life. Any one French Irish Ukrainian or Eskimo can be a subject of the Queen and a citizen of Canada without in any way changing or ceasing to be himself.
W. L. Morton
The twentieth century belongs to Canada.
Wilfrid Laurier
The immigrant who comes to Canada really sees the country much more as a whole. He doesn't know the nuances which are so important and so dearly beloved by the Torontonian or the Montrealer.
Brian Moore
Toronto has no social classes - only the Masseys and the masses.
B. K. Sandwell
He wants to be different from everyone else and daydreams of winning the global race Parents unmarried and living abroad relatives keen to bag the estate schizophrenia not excluded will he learn to grow up before it's too late?
Earle Birney
My father spoke French with a Bank of Montreal accent.
Hartland de Montarville Molson
That one never asks a question unless he knows the answer is basic to parliamentary questioning.
John G. Diefenbaker
I know that through the grace of God I am the founder of Manitoba.
Louis Riel
Canadians have been accustomed to define themselves by saying what they are not.
William Kilbourn
Actually when it comes to knocking the Canadian cultural scene nobody outdoes Canadians myself included. We are veritable masters of self-deprecation.
Mordecai Richler
Listen your Lordship I'm a respecter of institutions. Even in Paris I remained a Canadian. I puffed hashish but I didn't inhale.
Mordecai Richler
If the national mental illness of the United States is megalomania that of Canada is paranoid schizophrenia.
Margaret Atwood
I want history to jump on Canada's spine with sharp skates.
Leonard Cohen
Much will have to change in Canada if the country is to stay the same.
Abraham Rotstein
So long as the majority of Canadians have two countries one here and one in Europe national unity will remain a myth and a constant source of internecine quarrels.
Henri Bourassa
The Greeks who knew everything understood that without the orgy there is no middle ground between bedlam and Toronto ... we need the healing grace of the orgy in this country.
Hugh MacLennan
Canadian politics in British Columbia is an adventure on the Prairies a cause in Ontario a business in Quebec a religion in the Maritimes a disease.
Paul St. Pierre
Canada is not a country for the cold of heart or the cold of feet.
Pierre Elliott Trudeau
Old Tomorrow.
Sir John A. Macdonald
We French-Canadians belong to one country Canada: Canada is for us the whole world: but the English-Canadians have two countries one here and one across the sea.
Wilfrid Laurier
Canada is a collection often provinces with strong governments loosely connected by fear.
Dave Broadfoot
An arena large as Europe Silent waiting the contest
F. R. Scott
I suppose the half-breeds in Manitoba in 1870 did not fight for two hundred forty acres of land but it is to be understood there were two societies who treated together. One was small but in its smallness it had its rights. The other was great but in its greatness it had no greater rights than the rights of the small because the right is the same for everyone.
Louis Riel
Americans like to make money: Canadians like to audit it. I know no country where accountants have a higher social and moral status.
Northrop Frye
Separatism is a very healthy movement within culture. It's a disastrous movement within politics and economics.
Northrop Frye
We are being swallowed up by the popular culture of the United States but then the Americans are being swallowed up by it too. It's just as much a threat to American culture as it is to ours.
Northrop Frye
Our country has shown a lack of will to resist its own disintegration .. . Canada is practically the only country left in the world which is a pure colony colonial in psychology as well as in mercantile economics.
Northrop Frye
Canada is a good country to be from. It has a gentler slower pace - it lends perspective.
Paul Anka
Living next to the United States is in some ways like sleeping with an elephant. No matter how friendly and even-tempered is the beast one is affected by every twitch and grunt.
Pierre Elliott Trudeau
My generation of Canadians grew up believing that if we were very good or very smart or both we would some day graduate from Canada.
Robert Fulford
Canada's national bird is the grouse.
Stuart Keate