Canadians Quotes

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

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

~ Evan Esar

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

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

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

~ William Davis

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

~ Anthony Burgess

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

~ William Kilbourn

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

~ Louis Riel

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

~ Mordecai Richler

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

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

~ Brendan Behan

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

~ B. K. Sandwell

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

~ William Osier

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

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

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

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

~ V. S. Pritchett

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

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

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