Canada Quotes - Page 5

• I eventually want to come back to Canada, to disappear, have nobody know me, and just be a writer and do what I want to do.

  Evangeline Lilly

  Want, Disappear, Nobody Knows

  Source: www.justjared.com

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• I would say a must-do in Canada would be to go skiing at Whistler in Vancouver. You could take a chair lift for like a half hour to the top of this mountain and you ski down, it takes like so long to get to the bottom. You go past the clouds. It's absolutely incredible.

  Sebastian Bach

  Past, Clouds, Long

  "Ex-Skid Row Frontman Sebastian Bach on What's Cool in Canada". Interview with Avinash Ramsadeen, www.foxnews.com. October 12, 2011.

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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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• I do not consider divorce an evil by any means. It is just as much a refuge for women married to brutal men as Canada was to the slaves of brutal masters.

  Susan B. Anthony

  Mean, Divorce, Men

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• Stephen Harper is probably the most dangerous human being ever elevated to power in Canada.

  Farley Mowat

  Power, Government, Political

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• Gorgeous day here in Chicago. Sure is better than Canada.

  CM Punk

  Wwe, Chicago, Gorgeous

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• To keep up with the demands of the growing manufacturing sector, our Government is pleased to invest in the establishment of the Saskatchewan Manufacturing Centre of Excellence. Training skilled workers and increasing productivity and innovation are essential to the continued growth and prosperity of Saskatchewan, and Western Canada.

  Michelle Rempel

  Government, Innovation, Growth

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• The men resent a woman getting any honour in what they consider is essentially their field. Men painters mostly despise women painters. So I have decided to stop squirming, to throw any honour in with Canada and women.

  Emily Carr

  Men, Fields, He Man

  Emily Carr (2009). “Hundreds and Thousands: The Journals of Emily Carr”, p.383, D & M Publishers

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• We are not imperialists. We don't even try to take over Canada. It would be easy, although it might take a rear guard action to guard Anne Murray.

  Evan Sayet

  Trying, Would Be, Might

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• Canada's a huge country, so to be able to unite the country through communication satellite technology or to be able to observe it through remote sensing technology from space is a natural fit for a country like Canada.

  Marc Garneau

  Country, Communication, Technology

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• I hear Canada is still free though. They ain't got slaver camps and ships.

  Tara Brown

  Ships, Camps, Stills

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• The Liberal Party of Canada, heading into an election, at the last minute they always stand up and they say: We know there's people out there that want to vote NDP and God love you. But if you vote for them you're throwing your vote away.

  Rick Mercer

  Party, Love You, People

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

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• Canada can be tough for urban music.

  Melanie Fiona

  Urban Music, Urban, Tough

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• I grew up in kind of the last generation of Canadians who thought things that were happening in Britain were more important, almost, than what was happening in Canada. And my mother was fervently of that opinion.

  Robert MacNeil

  Mother, Glowing, Important

  "Journalist Robert MacNeil: 'Looking For My Country'". Interview With Judy Woodruff, www.cnn.com. May 16, 2003.

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• In academic life, false ideas are merely false and useless ones can be fun to play with. In political life, false ideas can ruin the lives of millions and useless ones can waste precious resources. An intellectual's responsibility for his ideas is to follow their consequences wherever they may lead. A politician's responsibility is to master those consequences and prevent them from doing harm. Michael Ignatieff, a former professor at Harvard and contributing writer for the magazine, is a member of Canada's Parliament and deputy leader of the Liberal Party.

  Michael Ignatieff

  Fun, War, Party

  "Getting Iraq Wrong". www.nytimes.com. August 5, 2007.

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• In the world outside this glass room, songbirds are feeding and resting in the trees. Some will take off tonight and not land until they reach Venezuela. Sandpipers, plovers, and broad-winged hawks have already left for Patagonia and Panama. Bats are headed for caves in Kentucky and Tennessee. Out in the Atlantic, humpback whales pass by on their way to the Caribbean. Even now, Canada geese are honking toward us from Quebec. It is a good day for the beginnings of journeys.Every time I look at you, I think, Now I cannot die.

  Sandra Steingraber

  Good Day, Thinking, Journey

  Sandra Steingraber (2012). “Having Faith: An Ecologist's Journey to Motherhood”, p.7, Da Capo Press

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• The single greatest moment of my life happened in Toronto, Canada!

  Randy Orton

  Wwe, Toronto, Moments

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• Hip-hop was super-exotic to us in Canada.

  Nelly

  Hip Hop, Exotic, Hips

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• Coming from Canada, being a writer and Jewish as well, I have impeccable paranoia credentials.

  Mordecai

  Paranoia, Credentials, Wells

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• Its been nearly 1.5 years since the last PLUS 8 record, but it seemed fitting that this record in particular, made by a skinny white kid from Canada, became part of the labels collection and history.

  Richie Hawtin

  Kids, Years, White

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• Representing Canada as a hockey player is always a tremendous honor, which also comes with a lot of responsibility. Being able to compete and win a gold medal on our home soil made it a once in a lifetime experience. Capping off the best ever performance by not only the Canadian athletes, but also Vancouver and all Canadians, made for an amazing Olympic experience.

  Scott Niedermayer

  Responsibility, Home, Athlete

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• To define [Canada] or its literature seems like putting a finger on Zeno's arrow: no sooner do you think you have done it than it has moved on.

  M. G. Vassanji

  Thinking, Arrows, Moved On

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• Research and technology parks are an important part of the innovation infrastructure in Canada. Our Government's investment will increase the foreign profile of western Canadian companies, create new jobs, and stimulate economic growth.

  Michelle Rempel

  Jobs, Technology, Government

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