Canada Quotes - Page 2

• The beaver, which has come to represent Canada as the eagle does the United States and the lion Britain, is a flat-tailed, slow-witted, toothy rodent known to bite off it's own testicles or to stand under its own falling trees.

  June Callwood

  Humorous, Fall, Eagles

  June Callwood (1981). “Portrait of Canada”, Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• I always thought of this as God's country.

  Jack Granatstein

  Country, Canada Funny, Canada Day

  10 Copy quote

• Living next to you is in some ways like sleeping with an elephant. No matter how friendly and even-tempered is the beast, if I can call it that, one is affected by every twitch and grunt.

  Pierre Trudeau

  Sleep, Elephants, Friendly

  Pierre Trudeau's address to the Press Club in Washington, D.C., March 25, 1969.

  9 Copy quote

  Show source

• Canada will be a strong country when Canadians of all provinces feel at home in all parts of the country, and when they feel that all Canada belongs to them.

  Pierre Trudeau

  Country, Strong, Home

  39 Copy quote

• Canada is the greatest nation in this country.

  Allan A. Lamport

  Country, Nations, Canada Funny

  12 Copy quote

• Our hopes are high. Our faith in the people is great. Our courage is strong. And our dreams for this beautiful country will never die.

  Pierre Trudeau

  Beautiful, Dream, Country

  Pierre Trudeau's farewell speech to the Liberal Party, June 14, 1984.

  129 Copy quote

  Show source

• Canada's climate is nine months winter and three months late in the fall.

  Evan Esar

  Fall, Winter, Climate

  10 Copy quote

• We peer so suspiciously at each other that we cannot see that we Canadians are standing on the mountaintop of human wealth, freedom and privilege.

  Pierre Trudeau

  Peers, Privilege, Wealth

  "It's great up north" by Henry Porter, www.theguardian.com. November 20, 2005.

  9 Copy quote

  Show source

• The US is our trading partner, our neighbour, our ally and our friend... and sometimes we'd like to give them such a smack!

  Rick Mercer

  Giving, Allies, Sometimes

  8 Copy quote

• The great themes of Canadian history are as follows: Keeping the Americans out, keeping the French in, and trying to get the Natives to somehow disappear.

  Will Ferguson

  Humorous, Trying, Disappear

  9 Copy quote

• If you don't think that your country should come before yourself, you can better serve your country by livin' someplace else.

  Stompin' Tom Connors

  Country, Thinking, Should

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

  14 Copy quote

  Show source

• We of the United States of America consider ourselves blessed. We have much to give thanks for. But the gift of providence that we really cherish is that we were given as our neighbors on this great, wonderful continent, the people and the nation of Canada.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Blessed, People, Giving

  "Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1967".

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• One other thing: at the meeting in Canada, [there was] the coup in Fiji. This comes to an important part of the Commonwealth: the role of the Queen [Elizabeth II]. I had absolutely just enormous respect for her as leader of the Commonwealth. You could talk to her about any of the fifty-one countries of the Commonwealth and you could have an intelligent conversation with her about the economics, the politics. She really immersed herself in the Commonwealth.

  Bob Hawke

  Country, Queens, Intelligent

  Source: www.commonwealthoralhistories.org

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• The Canadian government continues to say they will not help us if we go to war with Iraq. However, the prime minister of Canada said he'd like to help, but he's pretty sure that last time he checked, Canada had no army.

  Conan O'Brien

  War, Army, Government

  8 Copy quote

• I just think you Westerners should take over this country if you are so smart.

  Pierre Trudeau

  Country, Smart, Thinking

  25 Copy quote

• We have it all. We have great diversity of people, we have a wonderful land, and we have great possibilities. So all those things combined there's nowhere else I'd rather be.

  Bob Rae

  Land, People, Diversity

  10 Copy quote

• When I was crossing the border into Canada, they asked if I had any firearms with me. I said, 'Well, what do you need?'

  Steven Wright

  Funny, Humorous, Borders

  8 Copy quote

• Under this flag may our youth find new inspiration for loyalty to Canada; for a patriotism based not on any mean or narrow nationalism, but on the deep and equal pride that all Canadians will feel for every part of this good land.

  Lester B. Pearson

  Loyalty, Inspiration, Mean

  Lester B. Pearson (1970). “Words and Occasions: An Anthology of Speeches and Articles Selected from His Papers”, p.245, Harvard University Press

  75 Copy quote

  Show source

• I am so excited about Canadians ruling the world.

  John Diefenbaker

  Ruling The World, Excited, World

  24 Copy quote

• Canada is a country whose main exports are hockey players and cold fronts. Our main imports are baseball players and acid rain.

  Pierre Trudeau

  Baseball, Country, Humorous

  53 Copy quote

• It's past time the feds scrapped the Canada Health Act.

  Stephen Harper

  Past, Feds

  27 Copy quote

• Researchers in Canada say they have discovered the part of the brain that is used to make decisions, and this is weird: If you're married, it's actually located in your wife's brain.

  Jimmy Fallon

  Marriage, Wife, Decision

  5 Copy quote

• Canada is the linchpin of the English-speakin g world

  Winston Churchill

  World, Canada Funny, Canada Being Great

  12 Copy quote

• Many Canadian nationalists harbour the bizarre fear that should we ever reject royalty, we would instantly mutate into Americans, as though the Canadian sense of self is so frail and delicate a bud, that the only thing stopping it from being swallowed whole by the US is an English lady in a funny hat.

  Will Ferguson

  Humorous, Self, Stopping

  7 Copy quote

• I've been to Canada, and I've always gotten the impression that I could take the country over in about two days.

  Jon Stewart

  Funny, Hilarious, Country

  "Vancouver Hockey Riot: Blame Canada!". ew.com. June 16, 2011.

  12 Copy quote

  Show source