Canada Quotes - Page 16

• At that time a lot of young men didn't want to go to the war and kill. This guy that I fell in love with was one of those so he escaped to Canada and I followed him.

  Ann Wilson

  Love, War, Men

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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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• 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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• We absolutely believed in Heaven and Hell, Purgatory, and even Limbo. I mean, they were actually closer to us than Australia or Canada, that they were real places.

  John McGahern

  Real, Mean, Australia

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• There was a time there in the mid '80s to the '90s there that we played six finals, three Canada Cups, we were playing hockey almost 10 months a year for a long time there.

  Mark Messier

  Sports, Hockey, Years

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• Canada has sent an army of 1,000 soldiers to occupy the Muslim country of Afghanistan (and ships to the Persian Gulf).

  George Galloway

  Country, Army, Soldier

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• At 1970 rates of production, Canada's reserves represent 923 years supply for oil and 392 years for gas

  Joe Greene

  Years, Oil, Rate

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• You guys are evil. Canada's the best country in the world. We go to the doctor and we don't need to worry about paying him, but here, your whole life, you're broke because of medical bills. My bodyguard's baby was premature, and now he has to pay for it. In Canada, if your baby's premature, he stays in the hospital as long as he needs to, and then you go home.

  Justin Bieber

  Country, Baby, Home

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

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• Montreal, this wonderful town… Pearl of Canada, Pearl of the world.

  Mikhail Gorbachev

  World, Pearls, Towns

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• But you know, there's always a danger nowadays that films are gonna be brought up to Canada for budget reasons. And that's something that really concerns me.

  Philip Kaufman

  Film, Reason, Danger

  Interview with Spence D., www.ign.com. February 27, 2004.

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• Canada had the good health-care system and educational system. It was a privilege for me to grow up there.

  Melanie Fiona

  Growing Up, Educational, Care

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• One of the cool, chaste countries - Canada or Sweden.

  John Updike

  Country, Sweden, Chaste

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• I made a commitment... both to myself and to some supporters to carefully consider a run for the Liberal leadership for the Liberal Party of Canada.

  Dalton McGuinty

  Running, Party, Commitment

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• After being in captivity for so long, I can't begin to describe how wonderful it feels to be home in Canada.

  Amanda Lindhout

  Home, Long, Captivity

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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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• Hope and optimism have defined my political career, and I continue to be hopeful and optimistic about Canada. Young people have been a great source of inspiration for me.

  Jack Layton

  Inspiration, Optimistic, Careers

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• There are great challenges before you, from the overwhelming nature of climate change to the unfairness of an economy that excludes so many from our collective wealth, and the changes necessary to build a more inclusive and generous Canada. I believe in you.

  Jack Layton

  Believe, Challenges, Climate

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• Things are pretty good in Canada. We weathered the recession fairly well. And, of course, were up here up living here, we're watching American news and we're constantly saying, wow, it's not as bad as it is in the United States.

  Rick Mercer

  United States, News, Wow

  "Rick Mercer, Hot On The Canadian Campaign Trail". "Weekend Edition" with Scott Simon, www.npr.org. April 23, 2011.

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• 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

  Growing Up, Opposites, Political

  "'Canadian Jon Stewart' Explains Thanksgiving". Interview with Scott Simon, www.npr.org. October 9, 2010.

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• Stephen Harper, who's the prime minister of Canada, he is saying that this - we have to give him a majority government, otherwise there will be a Separatist coalition. And he says it every minute.

  Rick Mercer

  Government, Giving, Majority

  "Rick Mercer, Hot On The Canadian Campaign Trail". "Weekend Edition Saturday" with Scott Simon, www.npr.org. April 23, 2011.

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• Susan Boggs, a black runaway interviewed in Canada in 1863, said of the religious slave masters: 'Why the man that baptized me had a colored woman tied up in his yard to whip when he got home that very Sunday and her mother . . . was in church hearing him preach. He preached, You must obey your masters and be good servants.- That is the greater part of the sermon, when they preach to the colored folks. . . .'

  Gerry Spence

  Mother, Religious, Home

  Gerry Spence (1999). “Give Me Liberty: Freeing Ourselves in the Twenty-First Century”, p.170, St. Martin's Press

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• The defeat of the Americans in Canada and the advantages gained by the British arms in the Jerseys, and indeed for some months in every other quarter, gave to the royal cause an air of triumph.

  Mercy Otis Warren

  Air, Triumph, Arms

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• Everything has to be understood in opposition to something else. For some dang reason, the ego prefers to make one side better than the other, so we choose. And we decide males are better than females, America is better than Canada, Democrats are better than Republicans. And for most people, once this decision is made, it is amazing the amount of blindness they become capable of. They really don't see what's right in front of them. Once you see this, it's an amazing breakthrough, and that is the starting place for moving away from dualistic thinking.

  Richard Rohr

  Moving, Thinking, America

  Source: ryanthomasneace.com

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• Here I am: a Russian-speaking Jew living in Canada, and you, an Indian ex-patriot living in San Francisco. All of a sudden we commune in this moment about a much older Russian political dissident.That's the human part of being human: feeling those moments.

  David Bezmozgis

  San Francisco, Here I Am, Political

  The Believer interview, logger.believermag.com. September 23, 2014.

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• Our country has shown a lack of will to resist its own disintegration .. . Canada is practically the only country left in the world which is a pure colony; colonial in psychology as well as in mercantile economics.

  Northrop Frye

  Country, Psychology, World

  Northrop Frye (2014). “The Northrop Frye Quote Book”, p.63, Dundurn

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