Quote by Vincent Massey Download Open image “What we do should have a Canadian character. Nobody looks his best in somebody else's clothes.” — Vincent Massey ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.0 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare
Oh, I think Canadians look like all sorts of people. That's the beauty of Canada. — Jagmeet Singh Copy Share Image
“He's a Canadian. I've not much more to say about him." "Isn't he a tall, fit, strapping fellow? A handsome guy, a good-looker with… — Fred Vargas Copy Share Image
I think there's a certain objectivity that comes from being Canadian. You're partly British and partly American; you have a good bird's-eye view of… — Eric McCormack Copy Share Image
There is no such thing as a model or ideal Canadian. What could be more absurd than the concept of an "all Canadian" boy… — Pierre Trudeau Copy Share Image
Many Canadian nationalists harbour the bizarre fear that should we ever reject royalty, we would instantly mutate into Americans, as though the Canadian sense… — Will Ferguson Copy Share Image
The thing about Canada is, you're not really considered a Canadian actor unless you do something with the CBC. — Lexa Doig 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
There's a kind of integrity to being an observer of a culture. I think Canadians have that privilege innately. We are, like, the observers… — Luke Macfarlane Copy Share Image
The thing about Canadian women is that they seem less likely to bring up that they're Canadian. You here less about Canadian actresses than… — Dustin Milligan Copy Share Image
“There are even more galvanizing aspects to the Canadian psyche than mere reticence. There is the collective fear, at least when I was growing… — David Rakoff Copy Share Image
A person that wants to come to our country must share our Canadian values. — Maxime Bernier Copy Share Image
What could be a more Canadian way to indulge in the national preoccupation with perceptions - honest, hilarious, huffy or high-minded - of this… — Norman Angell Copy Share Image
In fact, in the far North one sees the northern lights facing south! — Vincent Massey Copy Share Image
It is the University's function to turn out well-balanced persons with an understanding of themselves and of their place in life. — Vincent Massey Copy Share Image
We are not born of the passions of war or of the fervours of revolution. And we grew quietly into the realization that, set… — Vincent Massey Copy Share Image
Old wives' tales are not enough in a day when old wives and old men, too, are constantly moving away from their labours. — Vincent Massey Copy Share Image
Canada is not a melting-pot. Canada is an association of peoples who have, and cherish, great differences but who work together because they can… — Vincent Massey Copy Share Image
The great menace of civilization in the present is that we offer an education with too little regard for the roots. — Vincent Massey Copy Share Image
It would be foolish and wrong to ignore the fact that all our universities today tread a very dangerous path. Increasingly, they are accepting… — Vincent Massey Copy Share Image
We can best serve the cause of Canadian unity and understanding by living first in and through and then beyond our own immediate traditions. — Vincent Massey Copy Share Image
Technology has been defined, perhaps a little ungenerously, as "a long Greek name for a bag of tools". — Vincent Massey Copy Share Image
How great a quality is horse sense! Someone has defined it as that something which keeps horses from betting on men! — Vincent Massey Copy Share Image
In opening and conquering a country great and wild and rich - a country indeed not yet fully known or conquered - we have… — Vincent Massey Copy Share Image
The age which we live in is not suited to idle complacency or to pleasant dreams of past greatness. — Vincent Massey Copy Share Image