Canada Quotes

• I can't live for more than four years outside of Canada. I'm Canadian, so ultimately that is my reference point.

  

  Yann Martel
  • Live
  • Years
  • Canada

• We are all discovering together, of course, just how huge this disaster is, ... It is touching a lot more people than we thought on Saturday, so I think Canada has been pretty fast off the mark.

  

  Pierre Pettigrew
  • People
  • Disaster
  • Discovering

• Canada urges both sides to use this momentum to reinvigorate peace talks, and to pursue the goals set out in the Road Map for Peace.

  

  Pierre Pettigrew
  • Goals
  • Canada
  • Reinvigorated

• When I think about what makes Canada great, fresh water is right at the top of the list. We have over two million lakes in this country and more than enough people who are willing to mess with them. My Canada includes weird scientists who are devoted to keeping our water clean. When we stand up and we sing O Canada, we pledge to stand on guard for thee. If that doesn't include our water, we might as well sit down and give up.

  

  Rick Mercer
  • People
  • Water
  • Enough

• I think teenagers in the States grow up too fast. In Canada, kids are exposed to different things. Like school is very different; it's not nearly as social. Canadian teenagers see it as a much more serious place.

  

  Neve Campbell
  • Up
  • Different
  • School

• If words cannot console this loss, they also cannot fully express the pride that all Canadians have felt on the exemplary way (Canadian forces) have carried out their duty, ... There are so many questions. ... How has this happened? I want to assure the families and the people of Canada that these questions will be answered.

  

  Jean Chretien
  • Words
  • Questions
  • Loss

• It's hard to be super full of yourself in Canada. If there was a motto of Canada, it would be, "Who do you think you are, eh?"

  

  Mike Myers
  • Thinking
  • Yourself
  • Hard

• White people are so unappreciative, they don't even acknowledge and understand what it means to be white in Canada, and all the layers of privilege that come with that. So they're shocked when somebody says, 'What just happened is racist,' and they said, 'Oh no, couldn't possibly be.' They see racism as people with KKK gowns and pointy hoods with eyes cut out. And we had those too.

  

  Constance Backhouse
  • People
  • Racism
  • White

• He seemed to have the whole package. Canada must be proud of him.

  

  Kirk Pengilly INXS
  • Proud
  • Canada

• When I went into Fiddler, I wondered about the response I'd get - the backlash because I'm openly gay. There was none. I toured Canada and America, and not one single review suggested that I played the role gay or that I seemed anything but Tevye.

  

  Harvey Fierstein
  • America
  • Gay
  • Fiddler

• The Scots are the backbone of Canada. They are all right in their three vital parts - head, heart and haggis.

  

  William Osler
  • Heart
  • Three
  • Backbone

• I am a believer in women, in their ability to do things and in their influence and power. Women set the standards for the world, and it is for us, women in Canada, to set the standards high.

  

  Nellie McClung
  • Influence
  • Standards
  • Believer

• Canada is like several puzzles that we are all working on at the same time. Everyone has a part to add, but no one has seen the whole picture yet.

  

  B. W. Powe
  • Time
  • Picture
  • Add

• In the face of so much devastation, Canada is continuing to work closely with local authorities and international agencies to see what more Canada can do to assist as part of a broader international effort.

  

  Pierre Pettigrew
  • Devastation
  • Agencies
  • International Effort

• England would be better off without Canada; it keeps her in a prepared state for war at a great expense and constant irritation.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • State
  • Expense
  • Irritation

• When I was a kid a growing up in Ontario, Canada, Lake Erie was so polluted, I never thought it would ever, EVER be turned around where they could start cleaning it out in my lifetime!

  

  Rick Danko
  • Growing
  • Lifetime
  • Canada

• In Canada, nobody is ever overthrown because nobody gives a damn.

  

  Mordecai Richler
  • Giving
  • Nobody
  • Damn

• When you're up in Maine, there is Canada, I mean it's looking right at you; it's a different viewpoint.

  

  Barbara Mikulski
  • Up
  • Different
  • Viewpoint

• In Canada you grow up - we're next to the United States. We're watching whatever you're watching. We're following your news. It's obvious that we are inundated with American cultural information and political information. Whereas the opposite is not true.

  

  Rick Mercer
  • Political
  • Information
  • Grows

• America and Canada are the best friends. We've always been the best friends.

  

  Rick Mercer
  • Friends
  • America
  • Canada

• The Canadian government continues to say they will not help us if we go to war with Iraq. However, the prime minister of Canada said he'd like to help, but he's pretty sure that last time he checked, Canada had no army.

  

  Conan O'Brien
  • Time
  • War
  • Help

• When I started in Canada, I just did stand-up.

  

  Norm MacDonald
  • Canada
  • Standup

• There can be no dedication to Canada's future without a knowledge of its past.

  

  John G. Diefenbaker
  • Past
  • Dedication
  • Canada

• It's so Canada. On some level, you laugh, but on another level, it's just depressing. We pride ourselves: We're not like the bad old U.S. where they had segregation, whites-only washrooms and hotels. We think we were the capital of the Underground Railroad, we were the place to where the slaves escaped, we were a much better country. But in fact, some of the black people in Canada at the time said, 'It's actually much easier in the United States because you know which hotels, restaurants, theatres won't let you in because the signs are there. In Canada, you never know.'

  

  Constance Backhouse
  • Pride
  • Ourselves
  • Segregation

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