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Canada's climate is nine months winter and three months late in the fall.

~ Evan Esar

Evan Esar Canada Canadians

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 his difference.

~ J. B. Priestley

J. B. Priestley Canada Canadians

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 learn to grow up before it's too late?

~ Earle Birney

Earle Birney Canada Canadians

To be Canadian is to live in relative calm and with great dignity.

~ William Davis

William Davis Canada Canadians

John Kenneth Galbraith and Marshall McLuhan are the two greatest modern Canadians that the U.S. has produced.

~ Anthony Burgess

Anthony Burgess Canada Canadians

Canadians have been accustomed to define themselves by saying what they are not.

~ William Kilbourn

William Kilbourn Canada Canadians

I know that through the grace of God I am the founder of Manitoba.

~ Louis Riel

Louis Riel Canada Canadians

Actually when it comes to knocking the Canadian cultural scene nobody outdoes Canadians myself included. We are veritable masters of self-deprecation.

~ Mordecai Richler

Mordecai Richler Canada Canadians

Canadians are generally indistinguishable from Americans and the surest way of telling the two apart is to make the observation to a Canadian.

~ Richard Staines

Richard Staines Canada Canadians

A Torontonian is a man who leaves culture to his wife.

~ Brendan Behan

Brendan Behan Canada Canadians

Toronto has no social classes - only the Masseys and the masses.

~ B. K. Sandwell

B. K. Sandwell Canada Canadians

TheSc ots are the backbone of Canada. They are all right in their three vital parts - head heart and haggis.

~ William Osier

William Osier Canada Canadians

Listen your Lordship I'm a respecter of institutions. Even in Paris I remained a Canadian. I puffed hashish but I didn't inhale.

~ Mordecai Richler

Mordecai Richler Canada Canadians

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 oppression behind him often bringing with him problems that the best statesmen of Europe have failed to solve.

~ W. D. Reid

W. D. Reid Canada Canadians

I think a stalwart peasant in a sheepskin coat born on the soil whose forefathers have been farmers for ten generations with a stout wife and a half-dozen chickens is good quality.

~ Clifford Sifton

Clifford Sifton Canada Canadians

The Canadian spirit is cautious observant and critical where the American is assertive.

~ V. S. Pritchett

V. S. Pritchett Canada Canadians

If we can find out why the idea rather than the nation of Canada can win a growing loyalty rather than commanding it then it seems to me we shall have come very near to trapping the elusive creature the Canadian Identity.

~ George Woodcock

George Woodcock Canada Canadians

Beneath their work the moral core of Canadian nationhood is found in the fact that Canada is a monarchy and in the nature of monarchial allegiance. As America is united at bottom by the covenant Canada is united at the top by allegiance. Because Canada is a nation founded on allegiance and not on compact there is no pressure for uniformity there is no Canadian way of life. Any one French Irish Ukrainian or Eskimo can be a subject of the Queen and a citizen of Canada without in any way changing or ceasing to be himself.

~ W. L. Morton

W. L. Morton Canada Canadians

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.

~ Jean Lesage

Jean Lesage Canada Canadians

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

Chief Dan George Canada Canadians

We shall be Canadians first foremost and always and our policies will be decided in Canada and not dictated by any other country.

~ John G. Diefenbaker

John G. Diefenbaker Canada Canadians

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.

~ Lester Pearson

Lester Pearson Canada Canadians

The Ottawa river flows out of Protestant Ontario into Catholic Quebec.

~ Hugh Maclennan

Hugh Maclennan Canada Canadians

The twentieth century belongs to Canada.

~ Wilfrid Laurier

Wilfrid Laurier Canada Canadians

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 our water power our oil areas and our timber limits.

~ Sara Jeannette Duncan

Sara Jeannette Duncan Canada Canadians

The Canadian dialect of English . . . seems roughly to be the result of applying British syntax to an American vocabulary.

~ Lister Sinclair

Lister Sinclair Canada Canadians

The habitant is the true Canadian for he has no other country.

~ Ramsay Traquair

Ramsay Traquair Canada Canadians

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.

~ Brian Moore

Brian Moore Canada Canadians

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.

~ H. T. Miller

H. T. Miller Canada Canadians

Ottawa is a city where nobody lives though some of us may die there.

~ Michael Macklem

Michael Macklem Canada Canadians

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.

~ Robertson Davies

Robertson Davies Canada Canadians

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

Hugh Maclennan Canada Canadians

Historically a Canadian is an American who rejects the Revolution.

~ Northrop Frye Nobody

Northrop Frye Nobody Canada Canadians

belongs anywhere even the Rocky Mountains are still moving.

~ George Bowering

George Bowering Canada Canadians

Let us be French as the Americans are English.

~ Henri Bourassa

Henri Bourassa Canada Canadians

Confederation is only yet in the gristle and it will require five years more before it hardens into bone.

~ John A. Macdonald

John A. Macdonald Canada Canadians

You are a big country now but you still tend to feel small and fragile. If the United States gets a cold you get pneumonia.

~ Herman Kahn

Herman Kahn Canada Canadians

I was brought up in southwestern Ontario where we were taught that Canadian patriotism should not withstand anything more than a five-dollar-a-month wage differential. Anything more than that and you went to Detroit.

~ J. K. Galbraith

J. K. Galbraith Canada Canadians

You can be a French Canadian or an English Canadian but not a Canadian. We know how to live without an identity and this is one of our marvellous resources.

~ Marshall Mcluhan

Marshall Mcluhan Canada Canadians

Not necessarily conscription but conscription if necessary.

~ William Lyon Mackenzie King

William Lyon Mackenzie King Canada Canadians
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