Canada Quotes

I suppose the half-breeds in Manitoba in 1870 did not fight for two hundred forty acres of land but it is to be understood there were two societies who treated together. One was small but in its smallness it had its rights. The other was great but in its greatness it had no greater rights than the rights of the small because the right is the same for everyone.

~ Louis Riel

Canada's national bird is the grouse.

~ Stuart Keate

Separatism is a very healthy movement within culture. It's a disastrous movement within politics and economics.

~ Northrop Frye

There has never been a war of Canadian origin nor for a Canadian cause.

~ William Arthur Deacon

Canada is a collection often provinces with strong governments loosely connected by fear.

~ Dave Broadfoot

Canada is a good country to be from. It has a gentler slower pace - it lends perspective.

~ Paul Anka

My generation of Canadians grew up believing that if we were very good or very smart or both we would some day graduate from Canada.

~ Robert Fulford

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.

~ Northrop Frye

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

~ Walter Stewart

Canada is a society rather than a nation.

~ Kildare Dobbs

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.

~ Pierre Elliott Trudeau

Canada reminds me of vichyssoise - it's cold half-French and difficult to stir.

~ Stuart Keate

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.

~ Northrop Frye

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

~ Dean Acheson

Americans are benevolently ignorant about Canada while Canadians are malevolently well informed about the United States.

~ J. Bartlet Brebner

'Rich by nature poor by policy' might be written over Canada's door.

~ Goldwin Smith

Canadian politics in British Columbia is an adventure on the Prairies a cause in Ontario a business in Quebec a religion in the Maritimes a disease.

~ Paul St. Pierre

(Canada) - the most parochial nationette on earth ... I have been living in this sanctimonious icebox ... painting portraits of the opulent Methodists of Toronto. Methodism and money in this city have produced a sort of hell of dullness.

~ Wyndham Lewis

When I stand on a street in a Canadian city and look across the street it couldn't be anywhere but Canada but how can I prove it?

~ Margaret Mead

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

~ A. H. Mcintosh

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

~ R. Pocock

I want history to jump on Canada's spine with sharp skates.

~ Leonard Cohen

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?

~ Saltatha Inuit

Much will have to change in Canada if the country is to stay the same.

~ Abraham Rotstein

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.

~ Hugh Maclennan

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

~ Rupert Brooke

The mighty voice of Canada will ever call to me.

~ Arthur Conan Doyle

Saskatchewan is much like Texas - except it's more friendly to the United States.

~ Adlai Stevenson

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

~ Margaret Atwood

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

~ Pierre Elliott Trudeau

We sing about the North but live as far south as possible.

~ J. B. Mcgeachy

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

~ Kenneth Boulding

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.

~ Henri Bourassa

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.

~ Wilfrid Laurier

My father spoke French with a Bank of Montreal accent.

~ Hartland De Montarville Molson

If a player continues transgressing the rules his side shall lose him.

~ Anonymous

That one never asks a question unless he knows the answer is basic to parliamentary questioning.

~ John G. Diefenbaker

Love Canada or give it back.

~ Indian Saying In Saskatchewan

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

~ Robert Thompson

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 vastness and expansive views.

~ A. Brooker Klugh