Canadians Quotes - Page 2

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

Americans assume Canada to be bestowed as a right and accept this bounty as they do air without thought or appreciation.

Canadian nationalism was systematically encouraged and exploited by American capital. Canada moved from colony to nation to colony.

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.

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

Canada is a society rather than a nation.

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.

Canada has no cultural unity no linguistic unity no religious unity no economic unity no geographic unity. All it has is unity.

Newfoundland is a great English ship moored near the Banks during the fishing season for the convenience of the English fishermen.

Canada is a live country - live but not like the States kicking.

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

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.

Ottawa - a sub-arctic lumber-village converted by royal mandate into a political cockpit.

The twentieth century belongs to Canada.

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

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.

Love Canada or give it back.

If the national mental illness of the United States is megalomania that of Canada is paranoid schizophrenia.

Canada is not a country for the cold of heart or the cold of feet.

The land too poor for any other crop is best for raising men.

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.

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

Not necessarily conscription but conscription if necessary.

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.

Never hear anything bad about Canada that's one thing - in fact I guess it's the only thing.

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

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

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

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

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.

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!'

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

The Lord said 'let there be wheat' and Saskatchewan was born.

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.

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.

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?

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.

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

The Americans are our best friends - whether we like it or not.

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.

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

The whole history of the Canadian north can be divided into two periods - before and after the aeroplane.

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

You've never seen this country It's not the way you thought it was Look again.

One of the cool chaste countries - Canada or Sweden.

Americans like to make money: Canadians like to audit it. I know no country where accountants have a higher social and moral status.

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.

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.