Canadians Quotes

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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 a country for the cold of heart or the cold of feet.

Canada's climate is nine months winter and three months late in the fall.

That one never asks a question unless he knows the answer is basic to parliamentary questioning.

The twentieth century belongs to Canada.

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

You know you've reached a new plateau of group mediocrity when even a Canadian is alarmed by your lack of individuality.

The mighty voice of Canada will ever call to me.

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

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

Let us be French as the Americans are English.

John Kenneth Galbraith and Marshall McLuhan are the two greatest modern Canadians that the U.S. has produced.

She and Marie were Montreal girls, not trained to accompany heroes, or to hold out for dreams, but just to be patient.

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

The Canadian dialect of English . . . seems roughly to be the result of applying British syntax to an American vocabulary.

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

The father of confederation is deadlock.

To be Canadian is to live in relative calm and with great dignity.

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

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!'

When I stand on a street in a Canadian city and look across the street it couldn't be anywhere but Canada but how can I prove it?

I know that through the grace of God I am the founder of Manitoba.

Actually when it comes to knocking the Canadian cultural scene nobody outdoes Canadians myself included. We are veritable masters of self-deprecation.

Canadians are generally indistinguishable from Americans and the surest way of telling the two apart is to make the observation to a Canadian.

Canadians have been accustomed to define themselves by saying what they are not.

A Torontonian is a man who leaves culture to his wife.

Toronto has no social classes - only the Masseys and the masses.

TheSc ots are the backbone of Canada. They are all right in their three vital parts - head heart and haggis.

Listen your Lordship I'm a respecter of institutions. Even in Paris I remained a Canadian. I puffed hashish but I didn't inhale.

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.

We shall be Canadians first foremost and always and our policies will be decided in Canada and not dictated by any other country.

The Canadian spirit is cautious observant and critical where the American is assertive.

Ours is a sovereign nation Bows to no foreign will But whenever they cough in Washington They spit on Parliament Hill.

Whenever the Germans found the Canadian Corps coming into the line they prepared for the worst.

Not necessarily conscription but conscription if necessary.

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.

You are a big country now but you still tend to feel small and fragile. If the United States gets a cold you get pneumonia.

Confederation is only yet in the gristle and it will require five years more before it hardens into bone.

belongs anywhere even the Rocky Mountains are still moving.

Historically a Canadian is an American who rejects the Revolution.

The trouble with this whole country is that it's divided up into little puddles with big fish in each one of them.

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.

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.

Ottawa is a city where nobody lives though some of us may die there.

Give us men to match our mountains Give us men to match our plains: Men with empires in their purpose And new eras in their brains.

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.

The habitant is the true Canadian for he has no other country.

I know that Nature designs that this whole continent not merely these thirty-six states shall be sooner or later within the magic circle of the American union.

The Ottawa river flows out of Protestant Ontario into Catholic Quebec.

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.