Canada Quotes

God has made Canada one of those nations which cannot be conquered and cannot be destroyed, except by itself. (Norman Angell)
I used to go missing a lot... Miss Canada, Miss United Kingdom, Miss World. View quote
George Best
Canada is the essence of not being. Not English, not American, it is the mathematic of not being. And a subtle flavour - we're more like celery as a flavour. View quote
Mike Myers
Canada is the homeland of equality, justice and tolerance. View quote
Kim Campbell
Canadians look down on the United States and consider it Hell. They are right to do so. Canada is to the United States what, in Dante's scheme, Limbo is to Hell. View quote
Irving Layton
There is a continental culture. There is a Canadian culture that is in some ways unique to Canada, but I don't think Canadian culture coincides neatly with borders. View quote
Stephen Harper
My dream is for people around the world to look up and to see Canada like a little jewel sitting at the top of the continent. View quote
Tommy Douglas
We owe the Aboriginal peoples a debt that is four centuries old. It is their turn to become full partners in developing an even greater Canada. And the reconciliation required may be less a matter of legal texts than of attitudes of the heart. View quote
Romeo LeBlanc
Canada is the only country in the world that knows how to live without an identity. View quote
Marshall McLuhan
When I was crossing the border into Canada, they asked if I had any firearms with me. I said, "Well, what do you need?" View quote
Steven Wright
Canada appears content to become a second-tier socialistic country, boasting ever more loudly about its economy and social services to mask its second-rate status. (Stephen Harper)
You've got to remember that west of Winnipeg the ridings the Liberals hold are dominated by people who are either recent Asian immigrants or recent migrants from eastern Canada people who live in ghettoes and who are not integrated into western Canadian society. View quote
Stephen Harper
Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, and Canada are the horns, the head, the neck, the shins, and the hoof of the ox, and the United States are the ribs, the sirloin, the kidneys, and the rest of the body. View quote
William Cobbett
If Canada is to survive, it can only survive in mutual respect and in love for one another. View quote
Pierre Trudeau
Canada is either an idea or it does not exist. It is either an intellectual undertaking or it is little more than a resource-rich vacuum lying in the buffer zone just north of a great empire. View quote
John Ralston Saul
Flowers heal me. Tulips make me happy. I keep myself surrounded by them as soon as they start coming to the island from Canada, and after that when they come from the fields in La Connor, not far from where I live. View quote
Rebecca Wells
I love Canadians because I don't see very much racism in Canada. View quote
Patti LaBelle
There is no disputing the fact that American consumers pay 30 to 300 percent more for the same prescription drugs as our counterparts in Canada, Europe, and the rest of the world. View quote
Michael K. Simpson
Like Canada, we very much wanted the United Nations to be a relevant and effective body. But once those efforts failed, we no longer saw things from a multilateral perspective. For us, now, it is much more basic than that. It is about family. View quote
Paul Cellucci
Canada and the United States are also working at the World Trade Organization and in our own hemisphere with negotiations for a Trade Area of the Americas to try to help countries create a positive climate for investment and trade. View quote
Paul Cellucci
The trend now is to shoot in Canada because it's cheaper, and they don't care what the location is. (Steve Buscemi)
Only in Canada could somebody with a voice like mine win 'Vocalist of the Year'. View quote
Leonard Cohen
On the same day I was sworn in as Prime Minister of Canada, I announced the most sweeping reform ever undertaken in the structure of our federal government. View quote
Kim Campbell
In any democracy, there is always a tug-of-war between policies to achieve equality and policies to promote excellence. I am certain that Canada can achieve both equality and excellence. View quote
John Turner
I am grateful for the opportunities I have been given to participate in that work as a representative of my country, Canada, whose people have, I think, shown their devotion to peace. View quote
Lester B. Pearson