Canada Quotes - Page 5

• 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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• Much will have to change in Canada if the country is to stay the same.

  Abraham Rotstein

  Country, Ifs

  Abraham Rotstein (1973). “The precarious homestead: essays on economics, technology and nationalism”

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• We are very grateful for what the Ontario provincial government is doing, and for cooperation from provincial and local police forces all across Canada.

  Paul Cellucci

  Grateful, Government, Police

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• If we are true to Canada, if we do not desire to become part and parcel of these people, we cannot overlook this the greatest revolution of our times. Let us remember this, that when the three cries among our next neighbours are money, taxation, blood, it is time for us to provide for our own security.

  Thomas D'Arcy McGee

  Blood, People, Desire

  Legislative Assembly, February 9, 1865.

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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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• I've been to Canada, and they love - oh my God, they love their stand-up comedy in Canada. I've been overseas to do shows for the troops all over the Middle East, and I actually went to China recently and did shows, not for the troops, but just for local Chinese people, and Americans that have moved there, and things like that. It was fantastic. They got it. They're way smarter than we give them credit for.

  Brad Williams

  People, Giving, Chinese

  "Interview with comedian Brad Williams". Interview with Michelle Tompkins, thecelebritycafe.com. September 1, 2016.

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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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• 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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• Last time I was in Canada Celine Dion had just given birth to identical twins. Which is quite an achievement given her age and face.

  Jeff Ross

  Achievement, Age, Lasts

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• In government procurement, for example, the opportunity German firms have in the United States is 10 times larger than in Canada.

  Michael Froman

  Opportunity, Government, United States

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• Despite that sort of reputation that Canada has of being a boring place, we really have produced really interesting politicians.

  Terry Mosher

  Interesting, Reputation, Boring

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• I just did 101 shows in 86 different cities in America and Europe and Canada, and I'm not lying or exaggerating when I say, at the vast majority of shows, they loved it. There were encores, there were standing ovations.

  David Cross

  Lying, America, Europe

  "David Cross on why his comedy tour pissed off people right and left". Interview with Sean O'Neal, www.avclub.com. August 18, 2016.

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• The people of Canada do not wish as a result of mass immigration to make a fundamental alteration in the character of our population. Large scale immigration from the Orient would change the fundamental composition of the Canadian population.

  William Lyon Mackenzie King

  Character, People, Wish

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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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• 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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• 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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• In Canada... we should be there for the nurses, cause they are always there for us.

  Rick Mercer

  Nurse, Causes, Should

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• Canada is great! I love Canada. A lot of great things in Canada. I would do anything for love. But I want to live in America.

  Nick Viall

  America, Want, Great Things

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• 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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• 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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• Even if I had nothing to do with the Canada Council, I'd be praying for it.

  Karen Kain

  Praying, Council, Ifs

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• I'm hoping that I'll be able to find a distributor to come into Canada with it, because I think it is a wild and crazy romp that really tells things like it is.

  Burt Ward

  Crazy, Thinking, Able

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• He's got a rematch clause in his contract but I'm not sure if he's going to want to exercise that rematch but if he does, I'd happily oblige. I'll go over to Canada and give him another whooping.

  Carl Froch

  Motivation, Exercise, Giving

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• Come on Canada, it's time to kick our bad habits and get into shape!

  David Suzuki

  Shapes, Habit, Kicks

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