Canada Quote by Douglas Coupland Download Open image “There are few, if any, Canadian men that have never spelled their name in a snow bank.” — Douglas Coupland ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.3 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Canada Canada being great Canada funny Ifs Men Names Snow
Not until I came to Canada did I realize that snow was a four-letter word. — Alberto Manguel Copy Share Image
Only people like "Ed" and "Bob" have enough time to write their names in the snow. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Canadians are the people who learned to live without the bold accents of the natural ego-trippers of other lands. — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
There was a young man of Quebec Who was frozen in snow to his neck, When asked, 'Are you Friz?' He replied, 'Yes I… — Rudyard Kipling Copy Share Image
The likelihood is that any English-speaking skier has more words for different types of snow than any inhabitant of Alaska or Greenland. — Larry Trask Copy Share Image
I am always slightly mystified by the whole 'Snow White' story. What are the chances of coming across that many diminutive men living in… — Sandi Toksvig Copy Share Image
“Even Winnipeggers who depart for Toronto, Calgary or Vancouver never assimilate or fully lose their regional identity. They remain stuck on their birthplace, in… — Bartley Kives Copy Share Image
A Canadian is someone who keeps asking the question, 'What is a Canadian? — Irving Layton Copy Share Image
A large part of Canada heads for Florida, California, and Hawaii in the winter to get away from the snow. — Margaret MacMillan Copy Share Image
In Montreal, where I taught in 1970, I met many people. The only ones who said to me they were Canadians, were Jews. All… — Zygmunt Bauman Copy Share Image
And in your new lives you'll have to live entirely for that one sensation-that of imminent truth. And you're going to have to holler… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
A man in a bookstore buys a book on loneliness and every woman in the store hits on him. A woman buys a book… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
Do you remember how you felt at seventeen? I do and I don't (...) Imagine you came from outer space and someone showed you… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
“But Dag, for all of his efforts, might as well have been talking to a cat. Our parents’ generation seems neither able nor interested… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
Negative? Moi? I think realistic might be a better word. You mean to tell me we can drive all the way here from L.A. and see maybe ten thousand square miles of shopping malls, and you don't have maybe just the weentsiest inkling that something, somewhere has gone very very cuckoo? — Douglas Coupland Copy Share
It was pivotal in making you but you don't remember it. Or do you? Do we understand the events that make us who we… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
Your ability to rationalize your own bad deeds makes you believe that the whole world is as amoral as you are. — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
“I like to go beach-combing, and I like to find interestingly shaped rocks. When I really get into the groove I start finding beautiful… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
“You know, Dag and Claire smile a lot, as do many people I know. But I always wondered if there is something either mechanical or malignant to their smiles, for the way they keep their outer lips propped up seems a bit, not false, but protective. A minor realization hits me as I sit with the two of them. It… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share
Brain research tells us that only twenty percent of human beings have a sense of irony, which means that eighty percent of the world… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
You, of Canada, are building a magnificent record of achievement. My country rejoices in it. — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
“In American terms, the accomplishment of Genghis Khan might be understood if the United States, instead of being created by a group of educated merchants or wealthy planters, had been founded by one of its illiterate slaves, who, by the sheer force of personality, charisma, and determination, liberated America from foreign rule, united the people, created an alphabet, wrote the… — Jack Weatherford Copy Share
Plant flowers in others' gardens and your life becomes a bouquet! Submitted by Lisa Letto, Coordinator, Nutrition Resource and Volunteer Centre, College of Pharmacy… — Rabindranath Tagore Copy Share Image
Our country has shown a lack of will to resist its own disintegration .. . Canada is practically the only country left in the… — Northrop Frye Copy Share Image
“Not very long ago I was driving with my husband on the back roads of Grey County, which is to the north and east of Huron County. We passed a country store standing empty at a crossroads. It had old-fashioned store windows, with long narrow panes. Out in front there was a stand for gas pumps which weren't there anymore.… — Alice Munro Copy Share
Purchasing items made in the U.S. for our stores here or Canadian goods for our stores in Canada makes good business sense because it… — Doug McMillon Copy Share Image
One of the things that I miss about Canada is that even the strangers, you have an immediate rapport, there's just an understanding that… — Evangeline Lilly Copy Share Image
I've never been invited to do an exhibition or do a talk in England, except once, about 10 years ago. I've given talks all… — Brian Wildsmith Copy Share Image
“To be honest, it's a real relief to go to Canada where I can be among my relatives. Just the kind of break I… — Ken Puddicombe Copy Share Image
When I left Canada for Bayern, people said, 'You'll never make it. You'll be back in a year.' I stopped going to school because… — Owen Hargreaves Copy Share Image
LEGO has announced that they are shutting down their U.S. factory and moving it to Canada. LEGO employees say it's their fault because they… — Conan O'Brien Copy Share Image