Canada Quotes
631 Canada quotes by 413 unique authors
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I, for one, will be convinced that the Canada we know and love will be gone forever. But, then, Thucydides wrote that Themistocles' greatness lay…
— Pierre Trudeau
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My parents migrated to Canada in 1876, and I decided to go with them.
— Stephen Leacock
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I have nothing against Canada. I think that Canadians might know the secret to all existence, but to us it just comes off as timid…
— Sloane Crosley
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In 1983, NASA invited Canada to fly three payload specialists, in part because we had contributed the robotic arm that is used on the shuttle.
— Marc Garneau
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I love being Canadian. I think growing up in Canada gives you a world perspective that I certainly enjoy.
— Ryan Gosling
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I'm obsessed with the countryside: woods, forests, fields, lakes, mountains. I'm really into folk music and folklore. But more so I'm into electronic music. I'm…
— Ellie Goulding
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In America there's lot of cool cities, but in Canada there's, like, well, Vancouver, Toronto and Halifax may be cool, but they're so expensive. Montreal…
— Grimes
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Canada is not really a place where you are encouraged to have large spiritual adventures.
— Robertson Davies
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I see Canada as a country torn between a very northern, rather extraordinary, mystical spirit which it fears and its desire to present itself to…
— Robertson Davies
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Canada is founded upon principles that recognize the supremacy of God and the rule of law.
— Stockwell Day
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Canada evolved within the British Empire: it inherited the Parliamentary system, the Cabinet system and all the other features of the British constitutional system which…
— Stockwell Day
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Provincial governments in Canada have terminated the positions of marriage commissioners who have, for personal religious convictions, not performed same sex marriages. It has happened…
— Stockwell Day
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Canada is like an old cow. The West feeds it. Ontario and Quebec milk it. And you can well imagine what it's doing in the…
— Tommy Douglas
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I don't have any respect at all for the scum-bags who went to Canada to avoid the draft or to avoid doing their fair share.
— R. Lee Ermey
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I'm going to tell you the story about the geese which fly 5,000 miles from Canada to France. They fly in V-formation but the second…
— Alex Ferguson
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When I went into 'Fiddler,' I wondered about the response I'd get - the backlash because I'm openly gay. There was none. I toured Canada…
— Harvey Fierstein
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I think in Atlantic Canada, because of what happened in the decades following Confederation, there is a culture of defeat that we have to overcome.
— Stephen Harper
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Make no mistake. Canada is not a bilingual country. In fact it is less bilingual today than it has ever been.
— Stephen Harper
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There is a Canadian culture that is in some ways unique to Canada, but I don't think Canadian culture coincides neatly with borders.
— Stephen Harper
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The world is now unipolar and contains o-nly o-ne superpower. Canada shares a continent with that superpower.
— Stephen Harper
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Canada remains alienated from its allies, shut out of the reconstruction process to some degree, unable to influence events. There is no upside to the…
— Stephen Harper
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Canadians know that the promise of a recession didn't happen because of anything we did here. If you look at all the causes of the…
— Stephen Harper
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Whether Canada ends up as o-ne national government or two national governments or several national governments, or some other kind of arrangement is, quite frankly,…
— Stephen Harper
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Canada is in budgetary deficit now only because of the recession, only because of stimulus measures, and we will come out of it. We will…
— Stephen Harper
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Look, I think the worst case scenario is obvious. I think first of all it doesn't work for very long. It's an unstable government that…
— Stephen Harper
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