Canada Quotes - Page 23

• Me being biracial, me being from Canada but having success in the States, I have all these moments in my life where I'm jumping roof to roof. Black to white. Singing and rapping.

  Drake

  Rap, Jumping, White

  "Drake: I Remain Calm (2010 Cover Story)". Interview with Damien Scott, www.complex.com. February, 2010.

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• There are a lot of slutty girls in Canada. Eleven-year-old sluts.

  Michael Cera

  Girl, Years, Eleven

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Only thing worse than a Frenchman is a Frenchman who lives in Canada

  Ted Nugent

  Frenchmen

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• Our government is committed to investing in world-class research networks such as GlycoNet, which will develop new drugs and vaccines to fight diseases that affect millions of Canadians. These investments will improve our quality of life and contribute to the creation of a stronger, more innovative economy and a more prosperous Canada.

  Rona Ambrose

  Fighting, Class, Vaccines

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• The first time I ever felt the necessity or inevitableness of verse, was in the desire to reproduce the peculiar quality of feeling which is induced by the flat spaces and wide horizons of the virgin prairie of western Canada.

  T. E. Hulme

  Space, Feelings, Desire

  T. E. Hulme, Patrick McGuinness (2003). “Selected Writings”, p.64, Psychology Press

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

  John Updike

  Country, Sweden, Chaste

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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 winds that blow through the wide sky in these mounts, the winds that sweep from Canada to Mexico, from the Pacific to the Atlantic - have always blown on free men.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Freedom, 4th Of July, Patriotic

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• Canada regards herself as responsible to all mankind for the peculiar ecological balance that now exists so precariously in the water, ice and land areas of the Arctic archipelago. We do not doubt for a moment that the rest of the world would find us at fault, and hold us liable, should we fail to ensure adequate protection of that environment from pollution or artificial deterioration.

  Pierre Trudeau

  Ice, Land, Water

  Pierre Trudeau during House of Commons Debate, October 24, 1969.

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• Well, I am trying to put Quebec in its place - and the place of Quebec is in Canada, nowhere else.

  Pierre Trudeau

  Trying, Quebec, Wells

  Pierre Trudeau's speech on the Quebec separatist movement (June 25, 1968); later quoted in "Pierre Elliott Trudeau Memoirs" (Disk 2, 24:05), January 27, 2009.

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• I, for one, will be convinced that the Canada we know and love will be gone forever. But, then, Thucydides wrote that Themistocles' greatness lay in the fact that he realized Athens was not immortal. I think we have to realize that Canada is not immortal; but, if it is going to go, let it go with a bang rather than a whimper.

  Pierre Trudeau

  Greatness, Thinking, Forever

  Pierre Trudeau's speech before the Canadian Senate in opposition to the Meech Lake Accord, March 30, 1988.

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• My parents migrated to Canada in 1876, and I decided to go with them.

  Stephen Leacock

  Parent, Decided

  Stephen Leacock (2014). “Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town”, p.4, The Floating Press

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• I have nothing against Canada. I think that Canadians might know the secret to all existence, but to us it just comes off as timid and kind and too nice, and it strikes us as lacking edge. Unless you are hijacking someone and going on a reality show with your eight kids and wearing a velour pink pantsuit, then you have no edge to us.

  Sloane Crosley

  Nice, Kids, Reality

  "Sloane Crosley Adjusts to the Writerly Life". Interview with Shane Ferro, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 22, 2011.

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• The Arts Council of England, in a 1998 report on 11 countries, found that Germany spent $85 per capita on the arts. The United States spent a shocking $6. And Canada, in its stubborn balance, spent $46... It's the Canadian way to be halfway between the Old and New worlds.

  Michael Audain

  Country, Art, Museums

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• It's tricky to be such an independent person, from Canada. It doesn't matter how incredible your work is, if you're an unknown person and you're from Toronto, people's eyes glaze over immediately as soon as you introduce yourself.

  Shary Boyle

  Independent, Eye, People

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• Canada does not just 'go along' in order to 'get along.' We will 'go along,' only if we 'go' in a direction that advances Canada’s values: freedom, democracy, human rights and the rule of law.

  John Baird

  Rights, Order, Law

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• Canada doesn’t stand behind Israel; we stand shoulder-to-shoulder with it.

  John Baird

  Israel, Shoulders, Behinds

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• Don't stop. Keep right on going. Hitch up your trailer and go to Canada or down to Old Mexico. Head for Europe if you can afford it, or go to Mardi Gras. Go someplace you've heard about, where you can fish or hunt or collect rocks or just look up at the sky. Find out what's at the end of some country road. Go see what's over the next hill, and the one after that, and the one after that.

  Wally Byam

  Country, Europe, Sky

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• Our objective is to begin a national conversation to better support individuals and families living with ASD in Canada. The Summit will review the recent National Needs Assessment Survey and provide leaders with a better understanding of ASD surveillance across the country. We are pleased that Minister Bergen will be part of this important discussion.

  Cynthia Carroll

  Country, Assessment, Support

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• Canada is so far away it hardly exists.

  Jorge Luis Borges

  Far Away

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• The US, for historical reasons, mistrusts the concept of a welfare state, and this mistrust shows itself nakedly under present US government, which commits uncounted billions of the national wealth to what it calls defence, and is close-fisted in giving money to plans which would ameliorate the grinding poverty of a great part of its people. Quite simply, in Canada you could not get away with that.

  Robertson Davies

  Giving Money, Government, People

  Robertson Davies (1997). “The Merry Heart: Reflections on Reading, Writing, and the World of Books”, Viking Press

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• The truth is that art does not teach; it makes you feel, and any teaching that may arise from the feeling is an extra, and must not be stressed too much. In the modern world, and in Canada as much as anywhere, we are obsessed with the notion that to think is the highest achievement of mankind, but we neglect the fact that thought untouched by feeling is thin, delusive, treacherous stuff.

  Robertson Davies

  Art, Teaching, Thinking

  Robertson Davies (1993). “Fortune, My Foe and Eros at Breakfast”, p.8, Dundurn

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• Canada, having few indigenous prejudices, has been compelled to import them from elsewhere, duty-free, and it is the rare Canadian who is not shaken, at some time in the year, by "old, unhappy, far-off things / And battles long ago", like Wordsworth's solitary reaper. We are a nation of immigrants, and not happy in our minds.

  Robertson Davies

  Long Ago, Years, Mind

  "The Diary of Samuel Marchbanks". Book by Robertson Davies, 1947.

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• My object, having a surplus to deal with, is to consider how I can deal with it to the greatest advantage to the consumer - how, without inflicting any injury on Canada, I can secure the most substantial benefit to this country, to the manufacturing, to the commercial, and to the agricultural interests. The real way in which we can benefit the working and manufacturing classes is, unquestionably, by removing the burden that presses on the springs of manufactures and commerce.

  Robert Peel

  Country, Spring, Real

  Speech in the House of Commons, March 11, 1842.

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• Nothing can prepare you for the yawning chasm of time that passes in Canada before the healthcare system actually does any healthcare.

  Jeremy Clarkson

  Yawning, Doe, Healthcare

  Jeremy Clarkson (2010). “How Hard Can It Be?: The World According to Clarkson”, p.215, Penguin UK

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