243 quotes found
“The land too poor for any other crop is best for raising men.”
“I want history to jump on Canada's spine with sharp skates.”
“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?”
“Much will have to change in Canada if the country is to stay the same.”
“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.”
“Canada is a live country - live but not like the States kicking.”
“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!'”
“The mighty voice of Canada will ever call to me.”
“Saskatchewan is much like Texas - except it's more friendly to the United States.”
“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.”
“We sing about the North but live as far south as possible.”
“Canada has no cultural unity no linguistic unity no religious unity no economic unity no geographic unity. All it has is unity.”
“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.”
“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.”
“My father spoke French with a Bank of Montreal accent.”
“If a player continues transgressing the rules his side shall lose him.”
“That one never asks a question unless he knows the answer is basic to parliamentary questioning.”
“Love Canada or give it back.”
“The Americans are our best friends - whether we like it or not.”
