Rejects Quote by Northrop Frye Download Open image “Historically, a Canadian is an American who rejects the Revolution.” — Northrop Frye ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.3 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Rejects Revolution
There is a whole school of Canadian academics, media personalities, and politicians whose definition of a Canadian is a North American who fears or… — Preston Manning Copy Share Image
Canadians were the first anti-Americans, and the best. Canadian anti-Americanism, just as the country's French-English duality, has for two centuries been the central buttress of our national identity. — Jack Granatstein Copy Share
Canadians are like Americans, just less racist, violent, and ignorant. — Dov Davidoff Copy Share Image
I don't denounce being Canadian at any point, but I'm definitely proud to be an American. — Jason Bay Copy Share Image
A Canadian is someone who keeps asking the question, 'What is a Canadian? — Irving Layton Copy Share Image
Canadian is both harder and easier to explain. Nobody knows what it is even supposed to be, let far-out-alone what it actually is. — Judith Merril Copy Share Image
Canada has, at times, represented itself as a country in a valiant struggle against powerful and menacing agents that are indifferent to its special… — Miriam Toews Copy Share Image
If you want to know what being Canadian is, it's being part of the human race, allowing yourself to be vulnerable, which has been… — Gord Downie Copy Share Image
During World War I the Canadians were the shock troops. In many historical cases, Canadians have been very proficient at killing, and doing what… — Joseph Boyden Copy Share Image
“Americans are pushy, obnoxious, neurotic, crass - anything and everything - the full catastrophe as our friend Zorba might say. Canadians are none of… — Maria Semple Copy Share Image
When you go back and look at American history, it's not terribly different from Canadian history. If you weren't self-reliant on the prairie, you… — Alan Greenspan Copy Share Image
“Today, four to six million Canadians—about one-fifth of the population—claim a Tory ancestor. Many Canadians believe that their nation’s traditional devotion to law and… — Thomas B. Allen Copy Share Image
I soon realized that a student of English literature who does not know the Bible does not understand a good deal of what is… — Northrop Frye 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
“The only thing that words can do with any real precision or accuracy is hang together. Accuracy of description in language is not possible… — Northrop Frye Copy Share Image
The bedrock of doubt is the total nothingness of death. Death is a leveler, not because everybody dies, but because nobody understands what death… — Northrop Frye Copy Share Image
Physics is an organized body of knowledge about nature, and a student of it says that he is learning physics, not nature. Art, like… — Northrop Frye Copy Share Image
Literature as a whole is not an aggregate of exhibits with red and blue ribbons attached to them, like a cat-show, but the range… — Northrop Frye Copy Share Image
One doesn't bother to believe the credible: the credible is believed already, by definition. There's no adventure of the mind. — Northrop Frye Copy Share Image
Culture's essential service to a religion is to destroy intellectual idolatry, the recurrent tendency in religion to replace the object of its worship with… — Northrop Frye Copy Share Image
“Tendintele autoritate ale conservatorismului trebuie corectate prin mituri ale libertatii, in vreme ce un simt conservator al ordinii trebuie sa tempereze tendintele liberalismului spre… — Northrop Frye Copy Share Image
Literature is a human apocalypse, man's revelation to man, and criticism is not a body of adjudications, but the awareness of that revelation, the… — Northrop Frye Copy Share Image
“The particular myth that's been organizing this talk, and in a way the whole series, is the story of the Tower of Babel in… — Northrop Frye Copy Share Image
We must love animals in such a powerful way that we should reject to eat them! — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
Our nation was born in genocide when it embraced the doctrine that the original American, the Indian, was an inferior race. ... We are… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
What do you think it is to be normal?' Why in the world would you want to be?' she says. I don't know. I… — Patrick Jones Copy Share Image
I started with the belief that every person who came to the laboratory was free to accept or to reject the dictates of authority.… — Stanley Milgram Copy Share Image
I strongly reject any conceptual scheme that places our options on a line, and holds that the only alternative to a pair of extreme… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
The American people reject the idea of giving Washington a blank check to increase the debt limit. — Martha Roby Copy Share Image
If he's - the inference is that somehow he thinks slavery is a - is a noble institution I would - I would strongly… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
There is no salvation without accepting Joseph Smith. If Joseph Smith was verily a prophet, and if he told the truth...no man can reject… — Joseph Fielding Smith Copy Share Image
I reject the idea there are just two sides. I think that with the amount of ideas and thoughts there are, it's not even… — Jon Stewart Copy Share Image
The enlightened attention rejects nothing nor welcomes anything-like a mirror it responds equally to all. — Zhuangzi Copy Share Image
My life shall be free and broad and great, and I will not be the slave to the sense delights which chained my ancient… — Jack London Copy Share Image
It's one thing for a person to live his life as a vacuous shell without fully comprehending the extent of his transgressions, but I… — Tarek Saab Copy Share Image
