Canadians Quotes

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.

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?

Beneath their work the moral core of Canadian nationhood is found in the fact that Canada is a monarchy and in the nature of monarchial allegiance. As America is united at bottom by the covenant Canada is united at the top by allegiance. Because Canada is a nation founded on allegiance and not on compact there is no pressure for uniformity there is no Canadian way of life. Any one French Irish Ukrainian or Eskimo can be a subject of the Queen and a citizen of Canada without in any way changing or ceasing to be himself.

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.

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.

It may interest for you to know that most Canadians in 2036 are some of the most efficient, ruthless and dangerous people I know. God help Quebec.

No one is the worse for knowing two languages.

Nonsense. Everyone knows Canadians are a peaceful people.” He was laughing now.“Tell that to the White House circa 1812,” I told him.“Oh? Why?”“Because that’s the year the peace-loving Canadians burned it to the ground.”Dominick grabbed an empty bottle and jumped onto his chair. The room got silent in an instant as everyone paused to look at him. “Cheers to 1812.” He lifted his empty bottle.The whole room whooped and raised their full glasses, howling in unison.I could barely hear over the sound of my own laughter.

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.

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

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

The mighty voice of Canada will ever call to me.

belongs anywhere even the Rocky Mountains are still moving.

Old Tomorrow.

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.

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.

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

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.

My father spoke French with a Bank of Montreal accent.

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.

An arena large as Europe Silent waiting the contest

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

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

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

The father of confederation is deadlock.

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

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

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

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

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

When the white man came we had the land and they had the bibles. Now they have the land and we have the bibles.

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

Canada's national bird is the grouse.

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

If a player continues transgressing the rules his side shall lose him.

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.

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

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

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

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?

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) - 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.

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

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.

Historically a Canadian is an American who rejects the Revolution.

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

Let us be French as the Americans are English.

Canada is so square even the female impersonators are women.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

It 's the time of year when Canadians mate.

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

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.

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.