Don't tell me you're not beautiful. You're the kind of beautiful the blind would see if we could figure out some way to give them three seconds of sight.

~ Shane L. Koyczan

Shane L. Koyczan Canadian Poetry Stop Signs

All children should be taught to unconditionally accept, approve, admire, appreciate, forgive, trust, and ultimately, love their own person.

~ Asa Don Brown

Asa Don Brown Acceptance Admiration American Canadian Counseling Encouraging And Empowering Girls Females Forgiveness Human Rights Love Psychology Therapy Trusting Women

Americans like to make money, Canadians like to audit it. I know no other country where accountants have a higher social and moral status.

~ Northrop Frye

Northrop Frye Accountant American Canadian Money

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 are about fifty who’d try to spoil it. We have to guard our good ideas, our happy thoughts, and fight for them. Because if we let those others snuff them out, well, we didn’t after all deserve them.

~ J.m. Lavallee

J.m. Lavallee Canada Canadian Canadian Literature Children Family Family Relationships Fiction Historical Fiction History Kid Lit Middle Grade

A rural Venus, Selah rises from thegold foliage of the Sixhiboux River, sweepspetals of water from her skin. At once,clouds begin to sob for such beauty.Clothing drops like leaves.No one makes poetry,my Mme.Butterfly, my Carmen, in Whylah,”I whisper. She smiles: “We’ll shape it withour souls.”Desire illuminates the dark manuscriptof our skin with beetles and butterflies.After the lightning and rain has ceased,after the lightning and rain of lovemakinghas ceased, Selah will dive again into thesunflower-open river.

~ George Elliott Clarke

George Elliott Clarke Canada Canadian Canadian Literature George Elliott Clarke Literature Poc Poem Poetry Whylah Falls Woc

In a time like this, let us trust in God even more. To trust when life is easy is no trust.

~ Joy Kogawa

Joy Kogawa Canada Canadian Faith God Japan Japanese Trust

We are only allowed to livedue to some colossal misunderstanding.

~ Jeramy Dodds

Jeramy Dodds Canadian Life Poem Poetry

The moon twangs its silver strings;The river swoons into town;The wind beds down in the pines,Covers itself with stars.

~ George Elliott Clarke

George Elliott Clarke African Canadian Canada Canadian Canadian Literature George Elliott Clarke Lullaby Moon Poc Poem Poetry River Stars Whylah Falls

In school, I hated poetry - those skinny,Malnourished poems that professors love;The bad grammar and dirty words that catchIn the mouth like fishhooks, tear holes in speech.Pablo, your words are rain I run through,Grass I sleep in.

~ George Elliott Clarke

George Elliott Clarke Africadia African Canadian Canada Canadian Canadian Literature George Elliott Clarke Poem Poetry Wyhlah Falls

We build this country ourselves every day and we have to be, in the most positive sense, totally unreal.

~ J.c. Villamere

J.c. Villamere Canada Inspirational Canadastrong Canadian Canadian Literature Cultural Differences Cultural Identity Culture Pop Culture

The lonely, wistful revisionism of memories is as gratingly repetitive as snow and ice in Canada. I avoid them both at all costs - memories and Canada.

~ Brian D'ambrosio

Brian D'ambrosio Brian D Ambrosio Canadian Canadian Cold Canadian Humor Cold Weather Humorous Quotes About Canada Memories Memories Dreams Reflections

Strange, how in all those apocalyptic movies, when their society breaks down into lawlessness and anarchy, Canada is always the haven of safety, the place people want to escape to.

~ Jenifer Mohammed

Jenifer Mohammed Canada Canadian Human Nature Humor Musings

We know so little about what goes on in another person’s head.

~ Élise Turcotte

Élise Turcotte Canadian Communication People

The hardest part of being a Canadian kid is having to color in Nunavut with a crayon in school, hell on earth.

~ Rebecca Mcnutt

Rebecca Mcnutt Art Canada Canadian Childhood Class Coloring Colour Crayola Crayon Drawing Education Funny Geography Growing Up Hell On Earth Land Map Nunavut Rainbow School Weird

Heaven is freakin' not ready for me! - seven-time cancer survivor Dionne Warner in Never Leave Your Wingman

~ Deana J. Driver

Deana J. Driver Canadian Cancer Cancer Survivors Hope Inspirational Love Story Non Fiction

Bill C-9 was supposed to be a budget bill, but it came with innumerable measures that had little or nothing to do with the nation's finances. It was, as critics put it, the advance of the Harper agenda by stealth, yet another abuse of the democratic process. The bill was a behemoth. It was 904 pages, with 23 separate sections and 2,208 individual clauses....As a Reform MP, [Stephen Harper] .... said of one piece of legislation that 'the subject matter of the bill is so diverse that a single vote on the content would put members in conflict with their own principles.' The bill he referred to was 21 page long -- or 883 pages shorter than the one he was now putting before Parliament.

~ Lawrence Martin

Lawrence Martin Canada Canadian Canadian Government Canadian Politics Democracy Governance Legislation Stephen Harper

Ernst was still in the Eastern Zone, about ninety kilometres from Berlin, when the truck emerged so inexplicably out of nowhere that it seemed to have been created by the rain itself.

~ Mordecai Richler

Mordecai Richler 3Rd Book Acidic American Canadian Europe Mccarthy Era North America Opening Sentences Paris Red Scare Satire Scathing

Let us build for the tomorrow, build a nation strong and free; and the Lord who dwells above us, He will bless our destiny.

~ P. J. Peters

P. J. Peters Canada Canadian Inspirational Patriotism Religious

Imagination must be allowed to run free in our subconscious mind and when ready, it reveals its ideals to us in our conscious state.

~ Lee Bice-Matheson

Lee Bice-Matheson Authors Canadian Ghosts Imagination Quotes J R Matheson Lee Bice Matheson Paige Maddison Series Supernatural

In Canada, when we speak of water, we're speaking of ourselves. Canadians are known to be unextravagant, and one explanation of this might be that we know that wasted water means a diminished collective soul; polluted waters mean a sickened soul. Water is the basis of our self-identity, and when we dream of canoes and thunderstorms and streams and even snowballs, we're dreaming about our innermost selves.

~ Douglas Coupland

Douglas Coupland Canada Canadian Water

Real Canada is where people wear sweaters for survival, not style.

~ Mark Leiren-Young

Mark Leiren-Young Canada Canadian Canadian Winter Cariboo Freezing Winter

As long as I live, I will always remember those wee children standing at the railing on that ship. - John Hanlon, the sailor

~ Deana J. Driver

Deana J. Driver Canadian Children S Books Heroes Inspirational Non Fiction Non Fiction Books Inspirational

The zombies were like Canadians, in that they looked enough like real people at first, to fool you.

~ Kelly Link

Kelly Link Canada Canadian Canadians Zombies