243 quotes found
“To me it's very obvious there are huge cultural differences between Americans and Canadians. But a lot of what we are is American.”
“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.”
“When the white man came we had the land and they had the bibles. Now they have the land and we have the bibles.”
“We shall be Canadians first foremost and always and our policies will be decided in Canada and not dictated by any other country.”
“You've never seen this country It's not the way you thought it was Look again.”
“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.”
“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 twentieth century belongs to Canada.”
“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...”
“The Canadian dialect of English . . . seems roughly to be the result of applying British syntax to an American vocabulary.”
“The Lord said 'let there be wheat' and Saskatchewan was born.”
“The habitant is the true Canadian for he has no other country.”
“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.”
“The father of confederation is deadlock.”
“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.”
“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 virg...”
“Ottawa is a city where nobody lives though some of us may die there.”
“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.”
“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.”
