Quotes About Canada

Canada is a balloon-puncturing country. You are not really allowed to be an icon unless you also make an idiot of yourself.

I haven't written too many political lyrics. Nor have I written any pro-Canada lyrics, any kind of jingoistic, nationalistic cant... That stuff doesn't interest me and I don't even know if I could write that if I tried because I don't really feel it.

If I ever move back to Canada, it'll be because I'm terminally ill.

I knew I had to write about Canada. I just could not find in literature any examples of the immigrant experience that I've had.

There are no benefactors in Canada because there is no incentive.

Canada is the only country in the West that hasn't given in to the rhetoric of fear. The dominant rhetoric is a line of inclusion.

I came to America from Canada because Canada is stultifyingly boring and incredibly hypocritical.

The country [Canada] is not entitled to nine [Supreme Court] judges giving their own views; the country is entitled to nine judges giving their views after listening to the views of their eight other colleagues.

The fugitives would either move on into Canada or integrate themselves in the Beacon Hill community." "Something else I never knew." "It was a maritime escape route. Many fugitives found freedom that way.

If every hypocrite in the United States were to break his leg to-day the country could be successfully invaded to-morrow by the warlike hypocrites of Canada.

In Canadian comedy, you'll almost never see guns. If you bring a gun into a scene, it's like, 'Whoa! Wow, how are we going to deal with that!' Guns in an American comedy are a given. Violence in America is used in a much more cavalier way.

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.

Really, who thinks of living in California as a Canadian kid? You just don't. Now when I go home to Canada to play a game, I am like, 'This weather here sucks.' I used to love it as a kid, but now it's like, 'Wow let's get back to California now.'

I wrestled Roddy quite a few times when he was first coming up in the business. I would go to Canada and wrestle up in that area, and you would be involved with him, too. Piper's a good guy.

Wrestlers from Japan and Canada are very tough.

I would have to say that Canada definitely produces the best wrestlers; I don't know why. I think Canada is a big wrestling country, and there are a lot of guys who are interested in wrestling in Canada.

I went to a wrestling school in Canada. That did not work out well, I think I was out there for like a week.

Bret Hart was a nobody from Canada, and Hogan was the greatest star in wrestling.

You have to remember that I was a bright but simple fellow from Canada who seldom, if ever, met another writer, and then only a so-called literary type that occasionally sold a story and meanwhile worked in an office for a living.

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

We came off the road of the last tour very inspired to just keep playing, so we went to Canada.

Canadian tours are big and difficult, because of the large spaces between cities.

Have you ever, on a cloudless night, looked down from a passing aircraft flying over Canada? Endless, glowing strings of cities, towns, and homesteads. Stretching on and on, one province to the next. With only the stars in the distance.

The movement across Canada to fight toxic chemicals is a women's movement. It's a concern about health; it's very intimate.