Canada Quotes - Page 4

• The way racism works in Canada, it's very subtle. You may feel you're a victim of racism or have experienced racism, but you can't necessarily prove it - unless you get a [white] friend to go check out that rental, go check out that job, whatever. Unless you're willing to really dig to prove you're a victim of racism, it might be difficult to do that. And so what you're dealing with then is feeling, it's emotion.

  George Elliott Clarke

  Jobs, White, Racism

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• There are also a number of humans living up there (Canada), and in many ways they have a lifestyle quite similar to ours, including such traditional American activities as driving Japanese cars.

  Dave Barry

  Funny, Humorous, Numbers

  Dave Barry (2010). “Dave Barry's Only Travel Guide You'll Ever Need”, p.100, Ballantine Books

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• Pierre Trudeau was too much of a professional politician to be described as a good man, nor, it can be argued despite much pubilicity to the contrary, was he a particularly clever or even wise one. But he was a great man, perhaps the gratest Canada has produced in this century.

  Peter Brimelow

  Wise, Clever, Men

  Peter Brimelow (1988). “The patriot game: Canada and the Canadian question revisited”, Key Porter Books, [1988]

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• Quebec from the boat looked like the ramparts where Hamlet's ghost might have walked.

  Charlie Chaplin

  Funny, Humorous, Might

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• Canada, as you know, is a major important nation boasting a sophisticated, cosmopolitan culture that was tragically destroyed last week by beavers.

  Dave Barry

  Funny, Humorous, Important

  Dave Barry (2010). “Dave Barry Talks Back”, p.47, Crown Archetype

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• I want history to jump on Canada's spine with sharp skates.

  Leonard Cohen

  Travel, Home, Want

  Leonard Cohen (2011). “Beautiful Losers”, p.233, Vintage

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• There is a Canadian culture that is in some ways unique to Canada, but I don't think Canadian culture coincides neatly with borders.

  Stephen Harper

  Unique, Thinking, Borders

  Newsmagazine Report, January 07, 2002.

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• Canada is either an idea or it does not exist. It is either an intellectual undertaking or it is little more than a resource-rich vacuum lying in the buffer zone just north of a great empire.

  John Ralston Saul

  Lying, Ideas, Intellectual

  "Reflections of a Siamese Twin". Book by John Ralston Saul, 1997.

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• I fear that I have not got much to say about Canada, not having seen much; what I got by going to Canada was a cold.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Sarcastic, Cold

  1866 A Yankee in Canada.

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

  Mordecai Richler

  Umpires, Giving, Damn

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• In Canada, we have so much land, so much space, and so few people.

  Philippe Falardeau

  Land, Space, People

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• Everybody in Canada seemed to listen to what they enjoyed, and nobody could tell them what to like, or what was the popular, or what was the In thing. Even today, it is very hard to brainwash a Canadian.

  Duke Ellington

  Today, Brainwash, Enjoyed

  Duke Ellington (1973). “Music is my mistress”, Doubleday Books

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• Let's not forget, there are three languages in Canada - English, French, and there's the language of jobs.

  Kevin O'Leary

  Jobs, Three, Language

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• Not until I came to Canada did I realize that snow was a four-letter word.

  Alberto Manguel

  Funny, Humor, Snow

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• If you know all 4 seasons: almost winter, winter, still winter and
  road construction, you may live in Canada

  Jeff Foxworthy

  Winter, May, Construction

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• Licences to have babies incidentally is something that I got in trouble for some years ago for suggesting even in Canada that this might be necessary at some point, at least some restriction on the right to have a child.

  Maurice Strong

  Baby, Children, Years

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• Canada is a broad land - broad in mind, broad in spirit, and broad in physical expanse.

  Harry S. Truman

  Land, Presidential, Mind

  United States. President (1945-1953 : Truman), Harry S. Truman (1963). “Harry S. Truman: Containing the Public Messages, Speeches, and Statements of the President, 1945-53”

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• For those who aspire to live in a high cost, high tax, big government place, our nation and the world offers plenty of options. Vermont, Canada and Venezuela all offer you the opportunity to live in the socialist, big government paradise you long for.

  Marco Rubio

  Opportunity, Government, Long

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• Quebec's distinct character makes Canada an even better country, and vice versa: being in Canada makes Quebec a better place too.

  Philippe Couillard

  Country, Character, Vices

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• I'm also alternative because of Canada - there's something romantic about being Canadian. We're a relatively unpopulated, somewhat civilized, and clean and resourceful country. I always push the fact that I'm Canadian.

  K. D. Lang

  Country, Alternatives, Facts

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• I eventually want to come back to Canada, to disappear, have nobody know me, and just be a writer and do what I want to do.

  Evangeline Lilly

  Want, Disappear, Nobody Knows

  Source: www.justjared.com

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• In Canada you can still settle things with your fists. If there's a fight in a bar, no one goes to jail.

  Jeremy Hotz

  Fighting, Jail, Bars

  "Five Minutes With Jeremy Hotz". Interview with Rick Chand, deadspin.com. May 2, 2007.

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• I think of Canada, first and foremost, in terms of space. The amount of space available is breathtaking.

  Ayaan Hirsi Ali

  Thinking, Space, Firsts

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• In case you haven't noticed, a large wall is being built around the American people to ensure that they remain prisoner to the drug industry. It's easy to understand why drug makers want to force Americans to buy their products in the United States. Ours is the only industrialized country that doesn't negotiate the prices the drug companies may charge. As a result, a 90-day supply of Fosamax sells for $105 in Canada but $210 here.

  Froma Harrop

  Country, Wall, People

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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

  Travel, Taken, Lakes

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