Canada Quotes
Quotes about Canada
20 quotes
- “Let us build for the tomorrow, build a nation strong and free; and the Lord who dwells above us, He will bless our desti...” — P. J. Peters
- “You are a big country now but you still tend to feel small and fragile. If the United States gets a cold you get pneumon...” — Herman Kahn
- “The Canadian dialect of English . . . seems roughly to be the result of applying British syntax to an American vocabular...” — Lister Sinclair
- “In the U.S. and Canada, 50% of the young leadership of all the organizations like AIPAC and Hillel are Birthright alumni...” — Charles Bronfman
- “Americans are benevolently ignorant about Canada while Canadians are malevolently well informed about the United States.” — J. Bartlet Brebner
- “Ours is a sovereign nation Bows to no foreign will But whenever they cough in Washington They spit on Parliament Hill.” — Joe Wallace
- “The trouble with this whole country is that it's divided up into little puddles with big fish in each one of them.” — Hugh Maclennan
- “When the white man came we had the land and they had the bibles. Now they have the land and we have the bibles.” — Chief Dan George
- “In a time like this, let us trust in God even more. To trust when life is easy is no trust.” — Joy Kogawa
- “We don't come to Canada for our health. We can think of other ways of enjoying ourselves.” — Prince Philip
- “Canada is a collection often provinces with strong governments loosely connected by fear.” — Dave Broadfoot
- “Ottawa - a sub-arctic lumber-village converted by royal mandate into a political cockpit.” — Goldwin Smith
- “Canada is a good country to be from. It has a gentler slower pace - it lends perspective.” — Paul Anka
- “Tax is not a four-letter word; rather, it's the price we pay for the country we want.” — Alex Himelfarb
- “To fit the individual to live and to function in the institutional life of his day.” — Max Braithwaite
- “Canadians have been accustomed to define themselves by saying what they are not.” — William Kilbourn
- “Canada reminds me of vichyssoise - it's cold half-French and difficult to stir.” — Stuart Keate
- “You've never seen this country It's not the way you thought it was Look again.” — Al Purdy
- “The story of Canada is that if one meeting fails you have another meeting.” — Robert Rae
- “There has never been a war of Canadian origin nor for a Canadian cause.” — William Arthur Deacon