Quotes About Canada

Stop thinking about living in the north and in isolated communities as an unfortunate accident or a punishment or a failure; stop thinking about it in southern urban terms. Start thinking about it as a purpose in and of itself, a necessary and happy purpose covering two-thirds of Canada, with its own reality.

The government and its representatives repeatedly constructed Canada by using the language and meaning of Aboriginal peoples – the language of long-term commitments in the most complete sense. As the strength of indigenous peoples returns, the courts are holding our governments to the language they used in order to gain power. That is good for all of us, and

And now, at last, the Supreme Court has made it perfectly clear that the Manitoba Métis had been cheated out of their land by the Government of Canada. That is, by you and me. That the Government of Canada betrayed the Honour of the Crown. And we are the Crown. You and I.

For our immediate family and relatives, Canada was a land of opportunity.

I came from Canada when I was about 10 years old, and our family settled in Cleveland, Ohio.

People ask 'How do you get so eh-ish?' I don't know if it's just because so much of my family still lives in Canada and I finished studies up there.

I grew up in a sailing family. My dad lived for sailing, and when we moved to Canada when I was a child, he really wanted us to learn.

Canada, by others in the global family, is, for some reason, taken seriously. They have about 30 million people. They have some natural resources.

Both my parents are Scottish, and although I grew up in Canada after moving over, all of my family are proud to be Scots.

I'm world-famous ... all over Canada.

I fear that I have not got much to say about Canada, not having seen much; what I got by going to Canada was a cold.

That was the fear that there would be no identity anymore, for Canada. It was foolish, because there are so many examples of separatism, and nothing has disintegrated, unless they went to war.

Possibly the symbol for America is the Frontier† The corresponding symbol for England is the Island† The central symbol for Canada†is undoubtedly Survival, la Survivance.

My parents were both from Scotland, but had been resident in Lower Canada some time before their marriage, which took place in Montreal and in that city I spent most of my life.

Cajun is country food by farmers and fisherman that arrived in Louisiana from Acadiana, Canada.

Canada does not just 'go along' in order to 'get along.' We will 'go along,' only if we 'go' in a direction that advances Canada's values: freedom, democracy, human rights and the rule of law.

When they said Canada, I thought it was up in the mountains somewhere.

The word "canola" is a bastardization of "Canada oil," made from a variety of rapeseed developed in Canada specifically designed to produce oil from these low–erucic acid varieties.)

The surreal part was, the surf at Newcastle Beach was cranking, so here I was, on a pristine afternoon, getting sunburnt as hell, the day after I'd been snowboarding in a tiny inland town in Canada.

When we eat wheat from Canada," remarked Hitler one evening during the war, "we don't think about the despoiled Indians.

I've been to Canada, and I've always gotten the impression that I could take the country over in about two days.

That's the first time he had started from the front row in a Grand Prix, having done so in Canada earlier this year.

When I was crossing the border into Canada, they asked if I had any firearms with me. I said, 'Well, what do you need?'

Hysterically funny, amazingly talented people. That's what I think of when I think of Canada. That, and cold beer. And mountains.