Canada Quote by Sarah Vowell

“For these lands, and, I say, especially the northern parts of America, suffered so terribly from the full force of the last days of…

— William Morris

“a land even more remote, America, which is farther than death.”

— Halldór Laxness

“darkness falls upon Humanity and faces become terrible things that wanted more than there was. all our days are marked with unexpected affronts -…

— Charles Bukowski

“But we little know until tried how much of the uncontrollable there is in us, urging across glaciers and torrents, and up dangerous heights,…

— Donald Barthelme

“Savages are dangerous neighbours and unprofitable customers, and if they remain as degraded denizens of our colonies, they become a burden upon the State.”

— Adam Hochschild

“Dangerous and indifferent ground: against its fixed mass the tragedies of people count for nothing although the signs of misadventure are everywhere. No past…

— Annie Proulx

“There is a savagery in all of us,”

— Jane Johnson

“I wanted to get away,' said she; 'everybody wants to plague and worry me about nothing. They'll be all right tomorrow. What's worrying them?'…

— Robertson Davies

“Savages were savages, but what could one expect of civilized men who plotted massacre?”

— Carol Ryrie Brink

“When dark creeps in and eats the light, Bury your fears on Sorry Night. For in the winter's blackest hours, Comes the feasting of…

— Simon Holt

“What greater sorrow than being forced to leave behind my native earth?”

— Euripides

The North understand it better - they have told us for twenty years that their object was to pen up slavery within its present…

— Robert Toombs