~ Canada and Canadians Quotes ~

[MysteRy]

[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

[MysteRy]

[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

[MysteRy]

[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

[MysteRy]

[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

[MysteRy]

[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

[MysteRy]

[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

[MysteRy]

[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

[MysteRy]

[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

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]Canadian nationalism was systematically encouraged and exploited by American capital. Canada moved from colony to nation to colony.

Harold A. Innis

[MysteRy]

[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

[MysteRy]

[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

[MysteRy]

[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

[MysteRy]

[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

[MysteRy]

[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

[MysteRy]

[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