Canadians Quotes

Americans are benevolently ignorant about Canada while Canadians are malevolently well informed about the United States.

He wants to be different from everyone else and daydreams of winning the global race Parents unmarried and living abroad relatives keen to bag the estate schizophrenia not excluded will he learn to grow up before it's too late?

We French-Canadians belong to one country Canada: Canada is for us the whole world: but the English-Canadians have two countries one here and one across the sea.

The father of confederation is deadlock.

Canada was settled in the main by people with a lower middle-class outlook and a respect rather than an affectionate familiarity for the things of the mind.

Listen your Lordship I'm a respecter of institutions. Even in Paris I remained a Canadian. I puffed hashish but I didn't inhale.

Saskatchewan is much like Texas - except it's more friendly to the United States.

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.

You've never seen this country It's not the way you thought it was Look again.

What are these guys?" He whispered"Canadians," Percy said. Frank leaned away from him. "Excuse me?""Uh, no offense," Percy said. "That's what Annabeth called them when I fought them before. She said they live in the north, in Canada.""Yeah, well," Frank grumbled, "we're in Canada. I'm Canadian. But I've never seen those things before.

Canada is not so much a country as a clothesline nearly 4 000 miles long. St John's in Newfoundland is closer to Milan Italy than to Vancouver.

You can be a French Canadian or an English Canadian but not a Canadian. We know how to live without an identity and this is one of our marvellous resources.

It 's the time of year when Canadians mate.

Canadians are generally indistinguishable from Americans and the surest way of telling the two apart is to make the observation to a Canadian.

We shall be Canadians first foremost and always and our policies will be decided in Canada and not dictated by any other country.

Ours is a sovereign nation Bows to no foreign will But whenever they cough in Washington They spit on Parliament Hill.

Living next to the United States is in some ways like sleeping with an elephant. No matter how friendly and even-tempered is the beast one is affected by every twitch and grunt.

I want history to jump on Canada's spine with sharp skates.

The land too poor for any other crop is best for raising men.

Not necessarily conscription but conscription if necessary.

Americans assume Canada to be bestowed as a right and accept this bounty as they do air without thought or appreciation.

It may interest for you to know that most Canadians in 2036 are some of the most efficient, ruthless and dangerous people I know. God help Quebec.

A Torontonian is a man who leaves culture to his wife.

The Americans are our best friends - whether we like it or not.

If the national mental illness of the United States is megalomania that of Canada is paranoid schizophrenia.