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Famous Canada and Canadians quotes by popular authors such as Northrop Frye, Goldwin Smith, Hugh MacLennan, Stephen Leacock, Louis Riel and others.
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[highlight-text]Old Tomorrow.
Sir John A. Macdonald
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[highlight-text]Love Canada or give it back.
Indian Saying
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[highlight-text]Canada's national bird is the grouse.
Stuart Keate
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[highlight-text]The father of confederation is deadlock.
Goldwin Smith
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[highlight-text]The twentieth century belongs to Canada.
Wilfrid Laurier
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[highlight-text]Canada is a society rather than a nation.
Kildare Dobbs
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[highlight-text]No one is the worse for knowing two languages.
Oliver Mowat
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[highlight-text]Let us be French as the Americans are English.
Henri Bourassa
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[highlight-text]The mighty voice of Canada will ever call to me.
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
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[highlight-text]An arena large as Europe Silent waiting the contest
F. R. Scott
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[highlight-text]I get to go to lots of overseas places like Canada.
Britney Spears
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[highlight-text]One of the cool chaste countries - Canada or Sweden.
John Updike
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[highlight-text]My father spoke French with a Bank of Montreal accent.
Hartland de Montarville Molson
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[highlight-text]A Torontonian is a man who leaves culture to his wife.
Brendan Behan
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[highlight-text]We sing about the North but live as far south as possible.
J. B. McGeachy
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[highlight-text]I want history to jump on Canada's spine with sharp skates.
Leonard Cohen
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[highlight-text]Belongs anywhere even the Rocky Mountains are still moving.
George Bowering
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[highlight-text]Not necessarily conscription but conscription if necessary.
William Lyon Mackenzie King
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[highlight-text]Canada is so square even the female impersonators are women.
Anonymous
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[highlight-text]The Lord said 'let there be wheat' and Saskatchewan was born.
Stephen Leacock
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[highlight-text]The land too poor for any other crop is best for raising men.
R. Pocock
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[highlight-text]The habitant is the true Canadian for he has no other country.
Ramsay Traquair
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[highlight-text]The Americans are our best friends - whether we like it or not.
Robert Thompson
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[highlight-text]Canada is a live country - live but not like the States kicking.
Rupert Brooke
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[highlight-text]Toronto has no social classes - only the Masseys and the masses.
B. K. Sandwell
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[highlight-text]Canada is not a country for the cold of heart or the cold of feet.
Pierre Elliott Trudeau
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[highlight-text]To be Canadian is to live in relative calm and with great dignity.
William Davis
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[highlight-text]I know that through the grace of God I am the founder of Manitoba.
Louis Riel
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[highlight-text]Historically a Canadian is an American who rejects the Revolution.
Northrop Frye nobody
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[highlight-text]'Rich by nature poor by policy' might be written over Canada's door.
Goldwin Smith
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[highlight-text]Ottawa is a city where nobody lives though some of us may die there.
Michael Macklem
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[highlight-text]Much will have to change in Canada if the country is to stay the same.
Abraham Rotstein
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[highlight-text]If a player continues transgressing the rules his side shall lose him.
Anonymous
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[highlight-text]The Ottawa river flows out of Protestant Ontario into Catholic Quebec.
Hugh MacLennan
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[highlight-text]There has never been a war of Canadian origin nor for a Canadian cause.
William Arthur Deacon
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[highlight-text]Canada's climate is nine months winter and three months late in the fall.
Evan Esar
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[highlight-text]The story of Canada is that if one meeting fails you have another meeting.
Robert Rae
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[highlight-text]You've never seen this country It's not the way you thought it was Look again.
Al Purdy
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[highlight-text]Canada reminds me of vichyssoise - it's cold half-French and difficult to stir.
Stuart Keate
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[highlight-text]Canadians have been accustomed to define themselves by saying what they are not.
William Kilbourn
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[highlight-text]Saskatchewan is much like Texas - except it's more friendly to the United States.
Adlai E. Stevenson
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[highlight-text]The Canadian spirit is cautious observant and critical where the American is assertive.
V. S. Pritchett
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[highlight-text]Ottawa - a sub-arctic lumber-village converted by royal mandate into a political cockpit.
Goldwin Smith
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[highlight-text]Canada is a collection often provinces with strong governments loosely connected by fear.
Dave Broadfoot
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[highlight-text]Canada is a good country to be from. It has a gentler slower pace - it lends perspective.
Paul Anka
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[highlight-text]Never hear anything bad about Canada that's one thing - in fact I guess it's the only thing.
Walter Stewart
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[highlight-text]Whenever the Germans found the Canadian Corps coming into the line they prepared for the worst.
David Lloyd George
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[highlight-text]That one never asks a question unless he knows the answer is basic to parliamentary questioning.
John G. Diefenbaker
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[highlight-text]The whole history of the Canadian north can be divided into two periods - before and after the aeroplane.
Hugh Keenleyside
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[highlight-text]Confederation is only yet in the gristle and it will require five years more before it hardens into bone.
Sir John A. Macdonald
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[highlight-text]If the national mental illness of the United States is megalomania that of Canada is paranoid schizophrenia.
Margaret Atwood
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[highlight-text]The Scots are the backbone of Canada. They are all right in their three vital parts - head heart and haggis.
Sir William Osier
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[highlight-text]John Kenneth Galbraith and Marshall McLuhan are the two greatest modern Canadians that the U.S. has produced.
Anthony Burgess
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[highlight-text]Separatism is a very healthy movement within culture. It's a disastrous movement within politics and economics.
Northrop Frye
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[highlight-text]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
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[highlight-text]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
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[highlight-text]Ours is a sovereign nation Bows to no foreign will But whenever they cough in Washington They spit on Parliament Hill.
Joe Wallace
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[highlight-text]Americans assume Canada to be bestowed as a right and accept this bounty as they do air without thought or appreciation.
Dean Acheson
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[highlight-text]Americans are benevolently ignorant about Canada while Canadians are malevolently well informed about the United States.
J. Bartlet Brebner
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[highlight-text]The Canadian dialect of English . . . seems roughly to be the result of applying British syntax to an American vocabulary.
Lister Sinclair
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[highlight-text]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.
Herman Kahn
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[highlight-text]Canada has no cultural unity no linguistic unity no religious unity no economic unity no geographic unity. All it has is unity.
Kenneth Boulding
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[highlight-text]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
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[highlight-text]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?
Margaret Mead
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[highlight-text]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
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[highlight-text]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
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[highlight-text]Newfoundland is a great English ship moored near the Banks during the fishing season for the convenience of the English fishermen.
A. H. Mcintosh
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[highlight-text]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.
H. T. Miller
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[highlight-text]Canadian nationalism was systematically encouraged and exploited by American capital. Canada moved from colony to nation to colony.
Harold A. Innis
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[highlight-text]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.
Tommy Douglas
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[highlight-text]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
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[highlight-text]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
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[highlight-text]Canadians are generally indistinguishable from Americans and the surest way of telling the two apart is to make the observation to a Canadian.
Richard Staines
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[highlight-text]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
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[highlight-text]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
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[highlight-text]Actually when it comes to knocking the Canadian cultural scene nobody outdoes Canadians myself included. We are veritable masters of self-deprecation.
Mordecai Richler
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[highlight-text]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
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[highlight-text]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
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[highlight-text]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.
William Seward
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[highlight-text]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
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[highlight-text]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
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[highlight-text]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
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[highlight-text]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
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[highlight-text]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.
Anne Hubert
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[highlight-text]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?
Saltatha Inuit
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[highlight-text]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
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[highlight-text]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
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[highlight-text]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
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[highlight-text]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
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[highlight-text]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
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[highlight-text]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
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[highlight-text]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
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[highlight-text]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
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[highlight-text]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
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[highlight-text]The Canadian is often a baffled man because he feels different from his British kindred and his American neighbours sharply refused to be lumped together with either of them yet cannot make plain his difference.
J. B. Priestley
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[highlight-text]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
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[highlight-text]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.
John Kenneth Galbraith
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[highlight-text]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
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[highlight-text]Scenery here in Canada is by the mile whereas in England it is by the foot. In England there is a great wealth of 'pretty bits'. In Canada there is a great lack of them. But there are grandeur vastness and expansive views.
A. Brooker Klugh
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[highlight-text]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.
T. E. Hulme
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[highlight-text]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
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[highlight-text](Canada) - the most parochial nationette on earth ... I have been living in this sanctimonious icebox ... painting portraits of the opulent Methodists of Toronto. Methodism and money in this city have produced a sort of hell of dullness.
Wyndham Lewis
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[highlight-text]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
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[highlight-text]One man out of every five who lands on our shores is a foreigner- i.e. non-Anglo-Saxon. He comes here with a foreign tongue foreign ideals foreign religion with centuries of ignorance and oppression behind him often bringing with him problems that the best statesmen of Europe have failed to solve.
W. D. Reid
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[highlight-text]I like the American-Canadian border, 'cause if you're walking on the border with a friend, and you push your friend into Canada, he can't push you back right away, 'cause first he has to go through customs. 'What brings you to Canada?':[Points to the side] 'That asshole.' 'When are you leaving?' 'As soon as I regain my equilibrium!'
Mitch Hedberg
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[highlight-text]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