Canada Quotes - Page 10

• My teacher sent me all over the world to talk about meditation - Europe, all over America, Canada. I would drive thousands of miles, travel, all at my own expense, to do this.

  Frederick Lenz

  Teacher, America, Europe

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• Canada is a live country - live, but not, like the States, kicking.

  Rupert Brooke

  Country, Kicking, States

  Rupert Brooke (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Rupert Brooke (Illustrated)”, p.142, Delphi Classics

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• The mighty voice of Canada will ever call to me.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Voice

  Arthur Conan Doyle (2013). “The Poetry of Arthur Conan Doyle”, p.58, eBookIt.com

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• In Canada we have enough to do keeping up with two spoken languages ... so we just go right ahead and use English for literature, Scotch for sermons, and American for conversation.

  Stephen Leacock

  Two, Scotch, Use

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• After a six-year battle, the Senate will vote next week to begin construction on the Keystone XL pipeline, which is an oil pipeline that runs from Canada to the Gulf Coast. They're hoping the pipeline will provide enough oil to cover Kim Kardashian's next photo shoot.

  Jimmy Fallon

  Running, Next Week, Years

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• The pipeline would run from Canada to the Gulf Coast. It'll be the biggest underground structure leading into the U.S. Then people in Mexico said, 'Eh . . . second biggest.'

  Jimmy Fallon

  Running, People, Mexico

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• We now know that unity, the cornerstone of Canada's greatness and prosperity, is above all a matter of emotion and reason for every citizen.

  Kim Campbell

  Greatness, Unity, Citizens

  Address at Progressive Conservative Brunch in Montreal, Quebec, www.canadahistory.com. August 22, 1993.

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• New standards for safety are now in place and Canada has helped provide tools and techniques that were needed. Technologies like these are innovative and represent great achievements for us.

  Marc Garneau

  Technology, Safety, Achievement

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• the personality of St. John's, Newfoundland, hits you like a smack in the face with a dried cod, enthusiastically administered by its citizenry.

  Jan Morris

  Personality, Faces, Smack

  Jan Morris (2011). “A Writer's World”, p.525, Faber & Faber

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• Rich by nature, poor by policy' might be written over Canada's door.

  Goldwin Smith

  Doors, Might, Rich

  Goldwin Smith (1892). “Canada and the Canadian Question ...”

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• In the course of waging that war, the people of Canada had shown that it was possible for them to maintain nearly a million men in uniform and at the same time expand all the facilities for production within Canada at an unprecedented speed, including building industries which had never existed in Canada before... and by and large the cost of production in Canada compared favourable with the cost of production anywhere else among the Allies... All of this was accomplished without any foreign investment, without and foreign loans... We were quite capable of self-development.

  Tim Buck

  War, Men, Self

  "Tim Buck: A Conscience for Canada". Book by Oscar Ryan, 1975.

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• Canada's ruling circles seek to ally themselves more closely with American imperialism without giving up the economic advantages of membership in the British Empire.

  Tim Buck

  Giving Up, Circles, Allies

  "Tim Buck A Conscience for Canada". Book by Oscar Ryan, 1957.

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• It is easier to start taxes than to stop them. A tax an inch long can easily become a yard long. That has been the history of the income tax. Would not the sales tax be likely to have a similar history [in the U.S.]? ... Canadian newspapers report that an increase in the sales tax threatens to drive the Mackenzie King administration out of office. Canada began with a sales tax of 2%.... Starting this month the tax is 6%. The burden, in other words, has already been increased 200% ... What the U.S. needs is not new taxes, is not more taxes, but fewer and lower taxes.

  B. C. Forbes

  Kings, Long, Office

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• For two years now, my office has had the honour and the privilege of sponsoring seminars on the functioning of government in this country for Eastern Europeans. These seminars and exchanges have brought together representatives from such nations as Bulgaria, Hungary, the Czech and Slovak Republic, Roumania, Poland, Russia, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia and the Ukraine, all of them anxious to learn what makes a society as diverse as Canada work and how our institutions make it governable.

  John Allen Fraser

  Country, Government, Ukraine

  "The House of Commons at Work". Book by John Fraser, 1993.

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• I was fortunate in that I attended university in Canada in the early 1970s when you could take a true liberal arts degree with no programmes, majors or minors.

  O.R. Melling

  Art, Degrees, Minors

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• Michael Cera was born in Canada in 1988 at the tender age of zero.

  Michael Cera

  Zero, Age, Born

  "What Will Become of Us If Michael Cera Is the Next Elvis?" by Michael Howard, www.esquire.com. August 13, 2014.

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• Driving through much of the southern part of the U.S. reminds me of where I grew up in Canada. The trees, homes, sense of community... I love the South.

  Laurie Holden

  Home, Community, Tree

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I grew up as a fairly poor kid in, you know, Toronto, Canada. I don't think I owned any new clothes until I was, like, 15 or something. They were all second-hand and forged from paper.

  Paulo Costanzo

  Kids, Thinking, Hands

  "Royal Pains Q&A: Paulo Costanzo". The Morning Call Interview, www.mcall.com. May 20, 2009.

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• I spent my childhood in Newfoundland and then my junior high and high school years in Alberta, Canada.

  Sara Canning

  School, Years, Childhood

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• From 'Embracing the Wide Sky', I went to the States, to Canada and to different parts of Europe as well. I gave interviews in several languages.

  Daniel Tammet

  Europe, Sky, Different

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• The Canadian Prime Minister said Canada would lend the U.S. its full military support. You know what that means: Both tanks.

  Jay Leno

  Military, Mean, Support You

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• 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

  Country, Giving Up, Thinking

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• I think that Vancouver as well as Canada needs a boot camp for young entrepreneurs. We have already seen tens if not hundreds of people put their names forward to be involved in the program, and we just think this is an amazing way to accelerate what theyre doing.

  Ryan Holmes

  Thinking, Young Entrepreneurs, Names

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• I didn't like dancing in Canada. The managers of the clubs treated me as less than a cow. And Canadians don't tip so you have to ask for more base pay.

  Chasey Lain

  Dancing, Clubs, Pay

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Remember back then we thought about al Qaeda in Afghanistan and Pakistan and a few other places? well, we've seen al Qaeda metastasize. It is now a global scourge. And you have the ascendancy of ISIL. The combination of those two groups -- their appeal to the lone wolfs and we see them acting in Belgium and in France and in Canada and the United States so the threat factors and the nature of the threats are far more complicated and far more serious today than on September 12, 2001.

  Tom Ridge

  Nature, Two, Acting

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