Canada Quotes
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In 1628 came the first English attack on Canada.
Harry Johnston
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If you have never taken the train across Canada, you really should put it on your life list... Meanwhile, I get to sit back and watch for moose from the dome car as we roll through the lake-dotted vastness of the boreal forest.
Elizabeth May
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I found Viola Desmond was the first woman whose case was taken up in the courts, and it wasn't that she tried to sue them for throwing her out of the theatre; it was that they took the law and used it to arrest her. That was really shocking to me. We had no laws in Canada actually requiring segregation, like they did in the United States. But here we had people using the law - the amusements tax act - to enforce segregation, and our courts allowed them to do that.
Constance Backhouse
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The twentieth century belongs to Canada.
Wilfrid Laurier
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Canada is our country. It belongs to us and we belong to it. Let us join together, in our time, and make history once again.
Paul Martin
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The trend now is to shoot in Canada because it's cheaper, and they don't care what the location is.
Steve Buscemi
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I lump Canada and the States together. I like good old North American boys.
Tricia Helfer
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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
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Canada and the United States have reached the point where we no longer think of each other as foreign countries. We think of each other as friends, as peaceful and cooperative neighbors on a spacious and fruitful continent.
Harry S Truman
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But I tell you I was very proud of them, because they took it with such great class. Both of them. They said, 'We are not judges, we've done our best.' And it was a fabulous performance, and I am told that in Canada they had a strong reaction, and even in the United States.
Jean Chretien
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For our immediate family and relatives, Canada was a land of opportunity.
Sidney Altman
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Canada Day comes and goes modestly every year. Sure, there are retail sales promotions and a long weekend. But there isn't bluster or commodity in Canadian celebration. Canada isn't big on bunting. Or jet flyovers, fireworks, marching bands or military pomp.
Rick Moranis
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Canada remains alienated from its allies, shut out of the reconstruction process to some degree, unable to influence events. There is no upside to the position Canada took.
Stephen Harper
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I'm so proud to be Canadian. I've been to 58 countries, and they're wonderful countries, but Canada is the best.
Paul Henderson
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Michael Cera was born in Canada in 1988 at the tender age of zero.
Michael Cera
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I'll acknowledge that I'm from Canada but I don't think I'll acknowledge that I'm Canadian.
Nicholas Thorburn
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I like Canada. The fans here are great. It's always good to come up here with some good energy.
Bobby Lashley
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What notion did you have of Canada when you came?" Mistry smile delicately, the face behind the trimmed beard and glasses like that of a student. "I thought it would complete me.
Noah Richler
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The mighty voice of Canada will ever call to me.
Arthur Conan Doyle
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It's not like us to give them five in the first. We usually have very good games against Canada, so it's a tough one to lose. We've never actually been down 5-0 before, so it was a new thing for us.
Jamie Johnson
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There's no show business in Canada, so everybody just did stand-up and we all thought, "Oh, we'll just keep doing stand-up." And then I'm like, "There's more work in the States."
Norm MacDonald
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Canada is a place of infinite promise. We like the people, and if one ever had to emigrate, this would be the destination, not the U.S.A. The hills, lakes and forests make it a place of peace and repose of the mind, such as one never finds in the U.S.A.
John Maynard Keynes
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Growing up in Vancouver, it's not like growing up in Middle America or the middle of Canada. It's a very movie town.
Evan Goldberg
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Canada kills any conversation quick, I learned long ago. It's a little trick of mine.
Esi Edugyan