~ Canada and Canadians Quotes ~

[MysteRy]

[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

[MysteRy]

[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

[MysteRy]

[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

[MysteRy]

[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

[MysteRy]

[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

[MysteRy]

[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

[MysteRy]

[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

[MysteRy]

[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

[MysteRy]

[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

[MysteRy]

[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

[MysteRy]

[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

[MysteRy]

[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

[MysteRy]

[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

[MysteRy]

[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

[MysteRy]

[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