Canada famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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What part of Canada are you from, honey?" "THE LEFT PART," said Jay.
-- Adam Rex -
I love Toronto. I love it. I love Toronto. I love Canada. I can't wait to get back. Can't wait to have some Timbits.
-- Aisha Tyler -
I'm going to tell you the story about the geese which fly 5,000 miles from Canada to France.
-- Alex Ferguson -
Sometimes we face resistance in Alberta and Canada because we already have other power sources, but this is a competitive alternative.
-- Alison Thompson -
Canada is the greatest nation in this country.
-- Allan A. Lamport -
I enjoy a special collegiality among other writers in the thriller community. They call me Canadas scariest writer, and I love that.
-- Andrew Pyper -
Actually, in this instance we do have probably a better tracking system than was the instance in Canada. Because this is a dairy cow, they're all individually tagged.
-- Ann Veneman -
Without Montreal, Canada would be hopeless.
-- Anthony Bourdain -
Well, I've just gotten accustomed to just being in Canada for five and a half months a year.
-- Anthony Michael Hall -
The mighty voice of Canada will ever call to me.
-- Arthur Conan Doyle -
I think of Canada, first and foremost, in terms of space. The amount of space available is breathtaking.
-- Ayaan Hirsi Ali -
Canada is like several puzzles that we are all working on at the same time. Everyone has a part to add, but no one has seen the whole picture yet.
-- B. W. Powe -
Here I find a puzzle of great beauty: Canada works well in practice, but just doesn't work out in theory.
-- B. W. Powe -
Here in Canada, in the Western world, we are inside the walls. Outside the walls are the barbarians.
-- Barbara Amiel -
The Czech Republic stood with the U.S., Canada and a handful of other countries against the prevailing international current, but history has shown us time and again that what is right is not what is popular.
-- Benjamin Netanyahu -
Canada's Far North is where I knew I had to go.
-- Bern Will Brown -
The nice thing about being detained in Canada is it's like being in a Days Inn; it's very clean and very nice.
-- Bill Ayers -
We came off the road of the last tour very inspired to just keep playing, so we went to Canada.
-- Billy Sherwood -
It is not really our country so much is the problem, it's sort of the parasitic relationship that Canada, and France, and other countries have towards us.
-- Bob Corker -
My mother is Ukrainian. She immigrated to the U.S. from Canada as a child.
-- Bob Schaffer -
I saw a notice that said "Drink Canada Dry" and I've just started.
-- Brendan Behan -
The Supreme Court of Canada has given prisoners the "right" to vote. Is it not time that non-jailed citizens were given reciprocity with a "right" that prisoners have; namely the freedom to bypass the public system when it fails to provide reasonable access?
-- Brian Day -
Trudeau's contribution was not to build Canada but to destroy it, and I had to come in and save it.
-- Brian Mulroney -
For example, the Prime Minister earlier this year talked about the importance of the Arctic to our future. He's right. A hundred years from now, the strength of Canada is going to be coming from our resources in the Arctic.
-- Brian Mulroney -
I can see now a vision emerging how Canada is going to profit in the future from our Arctic resources without destroying the environment on which it is all based.
-- Brian Mulroney -
I get to go to overseas places, like Canada.
-- Britney Spears -
Canada entered World War I as a colony and came out a nation...
-- Bruce Hutchison -
The North American intellectual tradition began, I maintain, in the encounter of British Romanticism with assertive, pragmatic North American English - the Protestant plain style in both the U.S. and Canada, with its no-nonsense Scottish immigrants.
-- Camille Paglia -
I realized that performing was what I wanted to do when I did my first professional gig as a dancer with my company Synergy in Canada. I was overwhelmed with how it felt to perform in front of an audience.
-- Catherine Mary Stewart -
Canada has great natural resources, and its people have the spirit and ability to develop them.
-- Charles E. Wilson -
God bless America. But God, please help Canada.
-- Christopher Titus -
For 20 years I've had the privilege of representing Canada around the globe... first on the bike and then on my blades. The experiences have shaped me into who I am today.
-- Clara Hughes -
Gorgeous day here in Chicago. Sure is better than Canada.
-- CM Punk -
I used to do tech support for MSN in Canada.
-- Cory Monteith -
I grew up on the edge of a national park in Canada - timberwolves, creeks, snow drifts.
-- Dan Aykroyd -
Lightfoot's voice is such a part of the fabric of Canada, I know it almost as well as I know my own voice.
-- David Foster -
Come on Canada, it's time to kick our bad habits and get into shape!
-- David Suzuki -
Americans assume Canada to be bestowed as a right and accept this bounty, as they do air, without thought or appreciation.
-- Dean Acheson -
When I was in Canada, I had a lot of time to think.
-- Doug Sahm -
It's never felt more Canadian to be Canadian than it does now.
-- Douglas Coupland -
I want to get rid of the Indian problem. [...] Our objective is to continue until there is not a single Indian in Canada that has not been absorbed into the body politic and there is no Indian Question and no Indian Department.
-- Duncan Campbell Scott -
I was bitten by a brown recluse spider. It got me as I was coming out of the shower. I'd never seen that kind of spider before, I'm from Canada and we don't get those types up there.
-- Elisha -
I grew up working in Canada so everything was low budget.
-- Ellen Page -
There's no big budget Canadian movie. Whatever movies are big budget in Canada come from the States. Or also have States financing. Everything's pretty small.
-- Ellen Page -
It is wonderful to feel the grandness of Canada in the raw, not because she is Canada but because she's something sublime that you were born into, some great rugged power that you are a part of.
-- Emily Carr -
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 -
It is wonderful to feel the grandness of Canada in the raw.
-- Emily Carr -
The unfortunate thing is, for the contents of the building I could not get any insurance anywhere in Canada.
-- Ernst Zundel -
Canada kills any conversation quick, I learned long ago. It's a little trick of mine.
-- Esi Edugyan -
After all, we fought the Yanks in 1812 and kicked them the hell out of our country - but not with blanks.
-- Farley Mowat -
Stephen Harper is probably the most dangerous human being ever elevated to power in Canada.
-- Farley Mowat -
Cournoyer has it on that wing. Here's a shot - Henderson made a wild stab for it and fell. Here's another shot! Right in front - THEY SCORE!!! Henderson has scored for Canada!
-- Foster Hewitt -
My great hope would be that Quebec would realize itself fully as a distinct part of Canada, and stay Canadian, bringing to Canada a part of its richness.
-- Gabrielle Roy -
I want my own country, not against Canada but for Quebec.
-- Gilles Duceppe -
Rich by nature, poor by policy' might be written over Canada's door.
-- Goldwin Smith -
Canada is said to have got its name from the two Spanish words aca and nada, signifying 'there is nothing here.'
-- Goldwin Smith -
To represent the best of Canada is such an honour, it's chilling. There is so much excitement.
-- Hayley Wickenheiser -
Jews have always controlled the business... The motion picture influence of the United States and Canada...is exclusively under the control, moral and financial, of the Jewish manipulators of the public mind.
-- Henry Ford -
South Africa is the most beautiful country I have been to. Canada is also hugely underrated.
-- Honor Blackman -
I'm from Canada, so Thanksgiving to me is just Thursday with more food. And I'm thankful for that.
-- Howie Mandel -
They must be doing something right up there in Canada.
-- Hugh Hefner -
Canadians look down on the United States and consider it Hell. They are right to do so. Canada is to the United States what, in Dante's scheme, Limbo is to Hell
-- Irving Layton -
We emigrated to South Africa and later to Canada so I went to school in several places.
-- J. Philippe Rushton -
Blacks in the Caribbean, Britain, Canada and sub-Saharan Africa as well as in the United States have low IQ scores relative to whites.
-- J. Philippe Rushton -
I always thought of this as God's country.
-- Jack Granatstein -
Canada is a great country, one of the hopes of the world.
-- Jack Layton -
Canada has given us John Candy and Martin Short and Bill Shatner and Lord knows how many other wonderful performers.
-- Jamie Farr -
the personality of St. John's, Newfoundland, hits you like a smack in the face with a dried cod, enthusiastically administered by its citizenry.
-- Jan Morris -
When I'm in Canada, I feel this is what the world should be like.
-- Jane Fonda -
I love Canada. I am from Canada. I will bash the Canadian government but never Canada.
-- Jason Priestley -
I'm from Canada and my wife is from St. Albans, so I feel a great kinship with the Brits.
-- Jason Priestley -
If it were up to me, every job would be somewhere in Canada.
-- Jay Baruchel -
Canada's north is going to change a lot in the new few years. We have every resource imaginable up north.
-- Jean Charest -
From that moment on, there will be an irreversible process to separate Quebec from Canada.
-- Jean Charest -
Obviously, I would have been happier if Canada had not been conquered in the past by the English, if this part of North America had remained French, but you can't rewrite history.
-- Jean Chretien -
If military action in Iraq is launched without a new U.N. resolution, Canada will not participate.
-- Jean Chretien -
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 -
Nothing can prepare you for the yawning chasm of time that passes in Canada before the healthcare system actually does any healthcare.
-- Jeremy Clarkson -
To work on the actual location I think is great. This thing of going to Canada and pretending you're in New York, it's terrible.
-- Jessica Lange -
At 1970 rates of production, Canada's reserves represent 923 years supply for oil and 392 years for gas
-- Joe Greene -
When you think of hockey, when you think of Canada, you think of Wayne Gretzky.
-- Joe Sakic -
I'm kinda disapointed that Canada isn't like the South Park movie said it was.
-- Joel Madden -
Let us be French, let us be English, but most importantly let us be Canadian!
-- John A. Macdonald -
Canada doesn’t stand behind Israel; we stand shoulder-to-shoulder with it.
-- John Baird -
You can't stand up for Canada with a banana for a backbone.
-- John Diefenbaker -
In Pierre Trudeau, Canada has finally produced a Prime Minister worthy of assassination.
-- John Diefenbaker -
There can be no dedication to Canada's future without a knowledge of its past.
-- John Diefenbaker -
Canada could have enjoyed: English government, French culture, and American know-how. Instead it ended up with: English know-how, French government, and American culture.
-- John Robert Colombo -
I'm not going to play politics on the floor of the House of Commons.
-- John Turner -
I don't think Obama's a socialist or evil, I just think he's wrong and I disagree with him, he's a leftist, that's what they are in France and in Great Britain and in Canada.
-- Jonathan Krohn -
Whenever Canada moves to protect its own industries and people, it is subjected to violent attacks in the U.S. Congress and to threats of economic retaliation.
-- Judy LaMarsh -
I suppose, as a politician, I should be content, for the Canada Pension Plan certainly put my name in Canada's history books, and in italics.
-- Judy LaMarsh -
The opportunities to become an astronaut in Canada were far and few.
-- Julie Payette -
Even if I had nothing to do with the Canada Council, I'd be praying for it.
-- Karen Kain -
I must have been sound asleep if i missed all that shouting-Simon What shouting?-Derek you mean that Chole just told you she followed a ghost onto a roof, and you didnt blast her all the way to Canada?-Simon He's a little off this morning-Chole More than a little i'll say.-Simon
-- Kelley Armstrong
