Quotes on Canada

Canada is a good country to be from. It has a gentler slower pace - it lends perspective.

Author: Paul Anka

Canada was built on dead beavers.

Author: Margaret Atwood

I have been told by a member of the board of one of Canada's most prominent literary magazines that a submission of mine once caused a great deal of controversy.

Author: John Barton

I think NASCAR's coming to Canada now so it'll take on a whole new relevance. Be afraid.

Author: Samantha Bee

I was totally unknown in the television and film industry in Canada.

Author: Samantha Bee

I used to go missing a lot... Miss Canada, Miss United Kingdom, Miss World.

Author: George Best

South Africa is the most beautiful country I have been to. Canada is also hugely underrated.

Author: Honor Blackman

The E.U. imports more agricultural goods from developing countries around the world than does the U.S., Canada and Japan, combined.

Author: John Bruton

The trend now is to shoot in Canada because it's cheaper, and they don't care what the location is.

Author: Steve Buscemi

I'd be prouder still to say I was Canada's 10th woman prime minister.

Author: Kim Campbell

I don't even know what street Canada is on.

Author: Al Capone

And so in my warnings, I was pointing to a number of incidents around the communion that could undermine our growing sense of communion - of becoming a global communion. So that's why I pointed to New Westminster in Canada, to incidents in the United States, and Sydney itself.

Author: George Carey

It is wonderful to feel the grandness of Canada in the raw.

Author: Emily Carr

My upbringing in Canada made me the person I am. I will always be proud to be a Canadian.

Author: Jim Carrey

Yet there is disappointment in Washington and in the United States that Canada is not supporting us fully.

Author: Paul Cellucci

We get more oil from Canada than any country.

Author: Paul Cellucci

We already get more energy from Canada than from any other foreign country.

Author: Paul Cellucci

There is $1.4 billion a day in trade that goes back and forth across the border. That means millions of jobs and livelihoods for families here in Canada and for families in the United States.

Author: Paul Cellucci

From that moment on, there will be an irreversible process to separate Quebec from Canada.

Author: Jean Charest

Australia and Canada were settled by adventurers, they had to break new ground. I think that is indelibly etched on our cultural spirit.

Author: Tom Cochrane

I see Canada as a country torn between a very northern, rather extraordinary, mystical spirit which it fears and its desire to present itself to the world as a Scotch banker.

Author: Robertson Davies

Canada is not really a place where you are encouraged to have large spiritual adventures.

Author: Robertson Davies

Canada has two emblems - the beaver and the maple.

Author: John Dawson

I've never seen anything like it since. Some of the Canada Cups came close, but by then a lot of European players came and played in our league so we were more familiar with them.

Author: Marcel Dionne

Canada is like an old cow. The West feeds it. Ontario and Quebec milk it. And you can well imagine what it's doing in the Maritimes.

Author: Tommy Douglas

I don't have any respect at all for the scum-bags who went to Canada to avoid the draft or to avoid doing their fair share.

Author: R. Ermey

Canada has given us John Candy and Martin Short and Bill Shatner and Lord knows how many other wonderful performers.

Author: Jamie Farr

New standards for safety are now in place and Canada has helped provide tools and techniques that were needed. Technologies like these are innovative and represent great achievements for us.

Author: Marc Garneau

In 1983, NASA invited Canada to fly three payload specialists, in part because we had contributed the robotic arm that is used on the shuttle.

Author: Marc Garneau

Canada has made a strong commitment as a partner in the International Space Station and, like the other partners, wishes to see the assembly of this unique orbiting laboratory continue.

Author: Marc Garneau

Canada and space are a natural fit.

Author: Marc Garneau

I went to military college in Canada and graduated as an officer in the Navy but also as an engineer.

Author: Marc Garneau

There is a Canadian culture that is in some ways unique to Canada, but I don't think Canadian culture coincides neatly with borders.

Author: Stephen Harper

The world is now unipolar and contains o-nly o-ne superpower. Canada shares a continent with that superpower.

Author: Stephen Harper

Canada remains alienated from its allies, shut out of the reconstruction process to some degree, unable to influence events. There is no upside to the position Canada took.

Author: Stephen Harper

I think in Atlantic Canada, because of what happened in the decades following Confederation, there is a culture of defeat that we have to overcome.

Author: Stephen Harper

I have a lot of friends and fans in Canada and as a matter of fact I met a fan from there that came down to my office. It was nice and we took pictures and had a nice talk.

Author: Larry Holmes

Well, pioneers always suffer. I don't care who is the first to embark upon things. For instance, settlers that settled the West, Western Canada and the U.S... they went though hell doing it, but it had to be done.

Author: Bobby Hull

There are no benefactors in Canada because there is no incentive.

Author: Lara John

In 1628 came the first English attack on Canada.

Author: Harry Johnston

Even if I had nothing to do with the Canada Council, I'd be praying for it.

Author: Karen Kain

But you know, there's always a danger nowadays that films are gonna be brought up to Canada for budget reasons. And that's something that really concerns me.

Author: Philip Kaufman

Nowadays they either want to move the film to Canada or in some cases they go to Prague or Romania or they want to keep 'em down in L.A.

Author: Philip Kaufman

My plan was to stay in Canada to make films.

Author: Ted Kotcheff

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.

Author: Irving Layton

I'm kinda disapointed that Canada isn't like the South Park movie said it was.

Author: Joel Madden

My personal political convictions are rooted in the populist political traditions of western Canada.

Author: Preston Manning

Canada is the only country founded on the relentless pursuit of the rodent.

Author: Preston Manning

When I started out in Canada, I did a lot of voice-overs and commercials.

Author: Andrea Martin

I really think Canada should get over to Iraq as quickly as possible.

Author: Paul Martin

Have you ever, on a cloudless night, looked down from a passing aircraft flying over Canada? Endless, glowing strings of cities, towns, and homesteads. Stretching on and on, one province to the next. With only the stars in the distance.

Author: Paul Martin

I'm just ah, actually developing a tv show for HBO, and I'm directing a film this summer, and actually I'm doing some live shows out in western Canada.

Author: Bruce McCulloch

We absolutely believed in Heaven and Hell, Purgatory, and even Limbo. I mean, they were actually closer to us than Australia or Canada, that they were real places.

Author: John McGahern

The joke newspaper, it says Canada abandons the monarchy.

Author: Mark McKinney

Canada is the only country in the world that knows how to live without an identity.

Author: Marshall McLuhan

The tide of immigration in Canada has not been as great as along our frontier. They have been able to allow the Indians to live as Indians, which we have not, and do not attempt to force upon them the customs which are distasteful to them.

Author: Nelson Miles

You accumulate political capital to spend it on noble causes for Canada. If you're afraid to spend your capital, you shouldn't be there.

Author: Brian Mulroney

Trudeau's contribution was not to build Canada but to destroy it, and I had to come in and save it.

Author: Brian Mulroney

In my opinion, Al Moritz may be the best poet of his generation in Canada.

Author: George Murray

Canada has always been a strong supporter of China's accession to the WTO... We look forward to playing a constructive role in helping complete China's accession.

Author: Pierre Pettigrew

In the late 1950s a major topic under discussion was whether Canada should acquire nuclear weapons.

Author: John Polanyi

Individual scientists like myself - and many more conspicuous - pointed to the dangers of radioactive fallout over Canada if we were to launch nuclear weapons to intercept incoming bombers.

Author: John Polanyi

In Canada, nobody is ever overthrown because nobody gives a damn.

Author: Mordecai Richler

There is a big cry in California to stop everyone from running to Canada.

Author: Wayne Rogers

We emigrated to South Africa and later to Canada so I went to school in several places.

Author: J. Rushton

Blacks in the Caribbean, Britain, Canada and sub-Saharan Africa as well as in the United States have low IQ scores relative to whites.

Author: J. Rushton

When you think of hockey, when you think of Canada, you think of Wayne Gretzky.

Author: Joe Sakic

We came off the road of the last tour very inspired to just keep playing, so we went to Canada.

Author: Billy Sherwood

We wish nothing more, but we will accept nothing less. Masters in our own house we must be, but our house is the whole of Canada.

Author: Pierre Trudeau

Actually, in this instance we do have probably a better tracking system than was the instance in Canada. Because this is a dairy cow, they're all individually tagged.

Author: Ann Veneman

I think it's a little early to tell what the economic impact will be. This year our cattle prices have been particularly high. The demand for beef has remained strong in this country, even though there was the single find in Canada earlier this year.

Author: Ann Veneman

You have to remember that I was a bright but simple fellow from Canada who seldom, if ever, met another writer, and then only a so-called literary type that occasionally sold a story and meanwhile worked in an office for a living.

Author: A. Vogt

I'm hoping that I'll be able to find a distributor to come into Canada with it, because I think it is a wild and crazy romp that really tells things like it is.

Author: Burt Ward

Canada is hockey.

Author: Mike Weir

Our expanding Canadian operations are concrete evidence of General Motors confidence in Canada.

Author: Charles Wilson

Scotland is the Canada of England!

Author: Rainn Wilson

The Yankees won the pennant, we went on to the World Series, 41 years after that in the city of Toronto. The great city of Toronto, and all the provinces in Canada, everybody reached out and they were excited because we won the first World Series ever, across the border.

Author: Dave Winfield

I am truly sorry that a fowl of Canada is no longer with us.

Author: Dave Winfield

When I was crossing the border into Canada, they asked if I had any firearms with me. I said, "Well, what do you need?"

Author: Steven Wright