Canada Quotes - Page 2

I want history to jump on Canada's spine with sharp skates.

Is heaven more beautiful than the country of the muskox in summer when sometimes the mist blows over the lakes and sometimes the water is blue and the loons cry very often?

Much will have to change in Canada if the country is to stay the same.

Abraham Rotstein

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.

Canada is a live country - live but not like the States kicking.

There was a small boy of Quebec Who was buried in snow to the neck: When they said 'Are you friz?' He replied 'Yes I is - But we don't call this cold in Quebec!'

Rudyard Kipling

The mighty voice of Canada will ever call to me.

Arthur Conan Doyle

Saskatchewan is much like Texas - except it's more friendly to the United States.

Adlai Stevenson

If the national mental illness of the United States is megalomania that of Canada is paranoid schizophrenia.

Margaret Atwood

Canada is not a country for the cold of heart or the cold of feet.

Pierre Elliott Trudeau

We sing about the North but live as far south as possible.

Canada has no cultural unity no linguistic unity no religious unity no economic unity no geographic unity. All it has is unity.

Kenneth Boulding

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.

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

The first time I ever felt the necessity or inevitableness of verse was in the desire to reproduce the peculiar quality of feeling which is induced by the flat spaces and wide horizons of the virgin prairie of western Canada.

Quebec is the original heart the hardest and deepest kernel the core of first time. All round nine other provinces form the flesh of this still-bitter fruit called Canada.

Ottawa - a sub-arctic lumber-village converted by royal mandate into a political cockpit.

Americans like to make money: Canadians like to audit it. I know no country where accountants have a higher social and moral status.

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.

Canada's national bird is the grouse.

Separatism is a very healthy movement within culture. It's a disastrous movement within politics and economics.

An arena large as Europe Silent waiting the contest

There has never been a war of Canadian origin nor for a Canadian cause.

William Arthur Deacon

Canada is a collection often provinces with strong governments loosely connected by fear.

Canada is a good country to be from. It has a gentler slower pace - it lends perspective.

Paul Anka

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.

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.

Never hear anything bad about Canada that's one thing - in fact I guess it's the only thing.

Canada is a society rather than a nation.

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

Canada reminds me of vichyssoise - it's cold half-French and difficult to stir.

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.

Americans assume Canada to be bestowed as a right and accept this bounty as they do air without thought or appreciation.

Americans are benevolently ignorant about Canada while Canadians are malevolently well informed about the United States.

J. Bartlet Brebner

Canada is like an old cow. The West feeds it. Ontario and Quebec milk it. And you can well imagine what it's doing in the Maritimes.

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.

Canada is so square even the female impersonators are women.

Anonymous

No one is the worse for knowing two languages.

One of the cool chaste countries - Canada or Sweden.

That long (Canadian) frontier from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean guarded only by neighbourly respect and honourable obligations as an example to every country and a pattern for the future of the world.

Winston Churchill

To me it's very obvious there are huge cultural differences between Americans and Canadians. But a lot of what we are is American.

David Cronenberg

You've never seen this country It's not the way you thought it was Look again.

Al Purdy

The whole history of the Canadian north can be divided into two periods - before and after the aeroplane.

Hugh Keenleyside

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

Stephen Leacock

The father of confederation is deadlock.

If you want to go foraging into the wilds of Canada without proper gear, you deserve what you get, even if that happens to include being attacked by an undead moose.

The zombies were like Canadians, in that they looked enough like real people at first, to fool you.

For more than a century-and-a-half, Europeans had been killing North American Indians with firewater… Now, in the first decades of the nineteenth century, Canada’s pioneer settlers were killing themselves with their own medicine. About Canada. Toronto: Civil Sector Press, November, 2012. Alcohol, North American Indians, Settlers, Canada

How is it that everyone on this train has so much alcohol?""We always head to Canada at the beginning of the season," she says taking her seat again. "Their laws are much more civilized. Cheers.

I was always moved when mean people were suddenly nice to me. It was a weakness that would lead me into some bad relationships later in life.

Heather O'Neill

What are these guys?" He whispered"Canadians," Percy said. Frank leaned away from him. "Excuse me?""Uh, no offense," Percy said. "That's what Annabeth called them when I fought them before. She said they live in the north, in Canada.""Yeah, well," Frank grumbled, "we're in Canada. I'm Canadian. But I've never seen those things before.

Deep silence fell about the little camp, planted there so audaciously in the jaws of the wilderness. The lake gleamed like a sheet of black glass beneath the stars. The cold air pricked. In the draughts of night that poured their silent tide from the depths of the forest, with messages from distant ridges and from lakes just beginning to freeze, there lay already the faint, bleak odors of coming winter.("The Wendigo")

Algernon Blackwood

To survive the Canadian winter, one needs a body of brass, eyes of glass, and blood made of brandy.

Louis Armand de Lom d'Arce Lahontan

Real Canada is where people wear sweaters for survival, not style.

Mark Leiren-Young

Canada is a free country, after all.

In Canada, when we speak of water, we're speaking of ourselves. Canadians are known to be unextravagant, and one explanation of this might be that we know that wasted water means a diminished collective soul; polluted waters mean a sickened soul. Water is the basis of our self-identity, and when we dream of canoes and thunderstorms and streams and even snowballs, we're dreaming about our innermost selves.

Douglas Coupland

When the north wind blew across the tar ponds, voices were carried away.

Jonathan Campbell

Wendy’s house, unlike many in Cape Breton, had three floors, along with a basement and attic. Aside from Wendy’s bedroom, there was a laundry room. The dirty water in the sink would rush from the washer hose, bubbling up, threatening to overflow, but it never did. Next-door was a motel with a neon sign that read in turquoise and pink, “We have the best rates in town!”, but the ‘E’ in ‘rates’ kept flickering on and off day and night so that every few seconds it would switch to, “We have the best rats in town!

I've been all over the place in all kinds of living situations. Due to the fact that my mind is my own worst enemy. In a way I am perpetually and permanently in a state of rehabilitation m in an attempt to rehabilitate from the shock of being born.Some people are too sensitive to withstand that.

Heather O'Neill

Canadian official multiculturalism has developed through the 1970s and '80s, and has become in the '90s a major part of Canadian political discourse in Canada rather than in the United States, which is also a multi-ethnic country, may be due to the lack of an assimilationist discourse so pervasive in the U.S. The melting pot thesis has not been popular in Canada, where the notion of a social and cultural mosaic has had a greater influence among liberal critics. This mosaic approach has not been compensated with an integrative politics of antiracism or of class struggle which is sensitive to the racialization involved in Canadian class formation. The organized labour movement in Canada has repeatedly displayed anti-immigrant sentiments. For any inspiration for an antiracist theorization and practice of class struggle Canadians have looked to the United States or the Caribbean.

Himani Bannerji

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