243 quotes found
“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 va...”
“Canada's climate is nine months winter and three months late in the fall.”
“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...”
“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 lear...”
“To be Canadian is to live in relative calm and with great dignity.”
“John Kenneth Galbraith and Marshall McLuhan are the two greatest modern Canadians that the U.S. has produced.”
“Canadians have been accustomed to define themselves by saying what they are not.”
“I know that through the grace of God I am the founder of Manitoba.”
“Actually when it comes to knocking the Canadian cultural scene nobody outdoes Canadians myself included. We are veritable masters of self-deprecation.”
“Canadians are generally indistinguishable from Americans and the surest way of telling the two apart is to make the observation to a Canadian.”
“A Torontonian is a man who leaves culture to his wife.”
“Toronto has no social classes - only the Masseys and the masses.”
“TheSc ots are the backbone of Canada. They are all right in their three vital parts - head heart and haggis.”
“Listen your Lordship I'm a respecter of institutions. Even in Paris I remained a Canadian. I puffed hashish but I didn't inhale.”
“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 oppres...”
“In the United States I have always believed that there was a big difference between Conservative and stupid. Boy is it getting harder to prove that one by the minute.”
“Alecto, have you noticed how downhill this little island is becoming?” Mandy questioned sadly. “All these organic food stores and yoga studios and cellular phone towers… Cape Breton was one of the ...”
“You know, Dorothy, you can’t let people bring you down so easily or you’ll have your nose in the dirt for the rest of your life. From what I make of it, for every person with a good thought, there ...”
“Everything has a past, a voice, existed at some point, even things as small and seemingly meaningless as a house in a huge suburb. It’s a house like every other house… but at some point a family li...”
“Mandy smiled cheerfully at an overweight kid in a gold sweater and pink skirt who was chasing her little brother around along the boardwalk. When she was that age, on sunny days she’d be out on the...”
