Canada Quotes - Page 15

• Definitely very proud, very honoured to be Canadian. To be able to represent your country in Canada and win a gold medal on home soil is an honour in itself. There is no doubt in my mind that we were prepared for whatever it was going to take. And I think that we battled hard and we had no doubt in our mind that if we went out there and played Canadian hockey that we would come out successful.

  Meghan Agosta-Marciano

  Country, Home, Successful

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• When you think of hockey, when you think of Canada, you think of Wayne Gretzky.

  Joe Sakic

  Hockey, Thinking, Nhl

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• I grew up trying to play for the Toronto Maple Leafs, not Team Canada. Didn't even know it existed.

  Adam Oates

  Team, Hockey, Nhl

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• The age of your children is a key factor in how quickly you are served in a restaurant. We once had a waiter in Canada who said, "Could I get you your check?" and we answered, "How about the menu first?"

  Erma Bombeck

  Baby, Children, Food

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• C-68 has little to do with gun control or crime control, but it is the first step necessary to begin the social re-engineering of Canada.

  Sharon Carstairs

  Gun, Engineering, Littles

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• Once the Fugitive Slave Act took effect, the Northern states were no longer safe for those who managed to escape from being enslaved. The second season of Underground does explore Canada's role in providing a welcoming place for the thousands who were in danger of being captured and returned to their owners, and those who escaped by way of rerouting beyond the American borders.

  Aisha Hinds

  Safe, Way, Doe

  Source: www.theaquarian.com

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• There was a hemispheric conference in Colombia. It couldn't reach a consensus, so there was no declaration that came out, [but] on the crucial issues, Canada and the US were totally isolated. The rest of the hemisphere voted one way, and the US and Canada rejected it. So there couldn't be a consensus.

  Noam Chomsky

  Issues, Hemisphere, Way

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• Here's a tip, Alyconeus. Next time you choose the biggest state for your home, don't set up base in the part that's only 10 miles wide. Welcome to Canada, idiot.

  Rick Riordan

  Home, Next, Welcome

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• Canada is a myth people made up to entertain children, like the Tooth Fairy. There’s no such place.

  Christopher Moore

  Children, People, Teeth

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• Dig deep into its communitarian ethos and it reads more like an America that might have been, an America fervently devoted to the quaint goals of working together and getting along. Of course, this America does exist. It's called Canada.

  Sarah Vowell

  Ethos, America, Goal

  Sarah Vowell (2008). “The Wordy Shipmates”, p.33, Penguin

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• He squeezed Steve's shoulder possessively. "Oh, Zero. He is not you, I must admit. He does not have your bravery, your nobility, your je ne sais quoi, and all he talks about is this magical place called 'Canada'.

  Anne Ursu

  Zero, Bravery, Doe

  Anne Ursu (2009). “The Immortal Fire”, p.398, Simon and Schuster

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• Before this war is over,' [Walter] said - or something said through his lips - 'every man and woman and child in Canada will feel it - you, Mary, will feel it - feel it to your heart's core. You will weep tears of blood over it. The Piper has come - and he will pipe until every corner of the world has heard his awful and irresistible music. It will be years before the dance of death is over - years, Mary. And in those years millions of hearts will break.

  Lucy Maud Montgomery

  Children, War, Heart

  Lucy Maud Montgomery (2015). “Rilla of Ingleside”, p.35, Booklassic

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• Canada is not the party. Its the apartment above the party.

  Craig Ferguson

  Funny, Party, Humor

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• In Canada pianos needed water. You opened up the back and left a full glass of water, and a month later the glass would be empty. Her father had told her about the dwarfs who drank only at pianos, never in bars.

  Michael Ondaatje

  Father, Glasses, Piano

  Michael Ondaatje (2011). “The English Patient”, p.67, A&C Black

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• Honey, you need to get laid. (Selena) Why don’t you speak a little louder, Lanie? I don’t think the guys in Canada were able to hear you. (Grace) Oh, I don’t know. They’re probably headed south even as we speak. (Waiter)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Thinking, Guy, Grace

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• How is it that everyone on this train has so much alcohol?" "We always head to Canada at the beginning of the season," she says taking her seat again. "Their laws are much more civilized. Cheers.

  Sara Gruen

  Cheer, Law, Alcohol

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• Japanese-owned cargo ship Tsimtsum, flying Panamanian flag, sank July 2nd, 1977, in Pacific, four days out of Manila. Am in lifeboat. Pi Patel my name. Have some food, some water, but Bengal tiger a serious problem. Please advise family in Winnepeg, Canada. Any help very much appreciated. Thank you.

  Yann Martel

  July, Names, Water

  Yann Martel (2015). “Life of Pi - CANCELED”, p.246, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• What part of Canada are you from, honey?" "THE LEFT PART," said Jay.

  Adam Rex

  Honey, Said, Left

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• To protest about bullfighting in Spain, the eating of dogs in South Korea, or the slaughter of baby seals in Canada, while continuing to eat eggs from hens who have spent their lives crammed into cages, or veal from calves who have been deprived of their mothers, their proper diet, and the freedom to lie down with their legs extended, is like denouncing apertheid in South Africa while asking your neighbors not to sell their houses to blacks.

  Peter Singer

  Mother, Dog, Baby

  "Animal Liberation: A New Ethics for Our Treatment of Animals". Book by Peter Singer, 1975.

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• We throw our parties; we abandon our families to live alone in Canada; we struggle to write books that do not change the world, despite our gifts and our unstinting efforts, our most extravagant hopes. We live our lives, do whatever we do, and then we sleep--it's as simple and ordinary as that. A few jump out of windows or drown themselves or take pills; more die by accident; and most of us, the vast majority, are slowly devoured by some disease or, if we're very fortunate, by time itself.

  Michael Cunningham

  Party, Struggle, Book

  Michael Cunningham (1998). “The Hours: A Novel”, p.225, Farrar, Straus, and Giroux

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• No cowboys for Canada. Canada got Mounties instead - Dudley Do-Right, not John Wayne. It's a mind-set of "Here I come to save the day" versus "Yippee-ki-yay, motherfucker.

  Sarah Vowell

  Cowboy, Mind, Yay

  Sarah Vowell (2003). “The Partly Cloudy Patriot”, p.149, Simon and Schuster

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• How could your cover be blown in Canada? Why even bother going dark there? How could you tell?

  Neal Stephenson

  Dark, Bother

  Neal Stephenson (2011). “Reamde”, p.653, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• Salmon farming-the placement of large metal or mesh net cages in the ocean to grow fish-was pioneered in Norway in the 1960s. Since then, the industry has expanded to Scotland, Ireland, Canada, the US, and Chile, but is dominated by the same multinational corporations. Wherever it is practiced, net-cage salmon farming is controversial and raises serious environmental concerns.

  David Suzuki

  Ocean, Scotland, Environmental

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• There really are two different schools of songwriting-American and Canadian. It's interesting. You guys have this history of guys like Paul Williams and Jimmy Webb, and they're different than Neil Young and Joni Mitchell and Leonard Cohen. All those weird voices come out of Canada. That's because it's so cold here we can hardly open our mouth. We get much less light in Canada. No wonder the writing's dark.

  Fred Eaglesmith

  Writing, School, Dark

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• Coal is a portable climate. It carries the heat of the tropics to Labrador and the polar circle; and it is the means of transporting itself whithersoever it is wanted. Watt and Stephenson whispered in the ear of mankind their secret, that a half-ounce of coal will draw two tons a mile, and coal carries coal, by rail and by boat, to make Canada as warm as Calcutta, and with its comfort brings its industrial power.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  War, Mean, Science

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2009). “The Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.622, Modern Library

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