Quotes About Canada

Canada is so square even the female impersonators are women.

One of the cool, chaste countries - Canada or Sweden.

That long (Canadian) frontier from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean, guarded only by neighbourly respect and honourable obligations, as an example to every country and a pattern for the future of the world.

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

The father of confederation is deadlock.

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.

Quebec is the original heart, the hardest and deepest kernel, the core of first time. All round, nine other provinces form the flesh of this still-bitter fruit called Canada.

Canada's national bird is the grouse.

Canada is a collection often provinces with strong governments loosely connected by fear.

Canada is a good country to be from. It has a gentler, slower pace - it lends perspective.

Never hear anything bad about Canada, that's one thing - in fact, I guess it's the only thing.

Canada reminds me of vichyssoise - it's cold, half-French and difficult to stir.

Our country has shown a lack of will to resist its own disintegration .. . Canada is practically the only country left in the world which is a pure colony; colonial in psychology as well as in mercantile economics.

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

Sir John A. Macdonald

'Rich by nature, poor by policy' might be written over Canada's door.

Canadian politics in British Columbia is an adventure, on the Prairies a cause, in Ontario a business, in Quebec a religion, in the Maritimes a disease.

(Canada) - the most parochial nationette on earth ... I have been living in this sanctimonious icebox ... painting portraits of the opulent Methodists of Toronto. Methodism and money in this city have produced a sort of hell of dullness.

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

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

Canada is a live country - live, but not, like the States, kicking.

The mighty voice of Canada will ever call to me.

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

Canada has no cultural unity, no linguistic unity, no religious unity, no economic unity, no geographic unity. All it has is unity.