Canadian Sayings And Quotes

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“The Canadian is not an American – at least, not entirely, not yet.”
– Alistair Horne

“It’s going to be a great country when they finish unpacking it.”
– Andrew H. Malcolm

“The crisis of Canada today is the combination of economic problems facing us and the increasing impotency of governments that lack either the will or the resources to do much about it. The tragedy of Canada today is that just when we need a country that’s pulling together in common cause, we have one that keeps finding new ways to pull itself apart.”
– Angus Reid

“A Canadian is sort of like an American, but without the gun.”
– Anonymous

“God Bless America, but God help Canada to put up with them!”
– Anonymous

“Keep Canada beautiful. Swallow your beer cans.”
– Anonymous

“I am deeply moved by the warmth and courage of the Canadian people which I felt so strongly during my recent visit to your country. Your support of the struggle against apartheid restored me in my journey home and reassured me that many just people around the world are with us.”
– Archbishop Desmond Tutu

“Canada has never been a melting-pot; more like a tossed salad.”
– Arnold Edinborough

“In a world darkened by ethnic conflicts that tear nations apart, Canada stands as a model of how people of different cultures can live and work together in peace, prosperity, and mutual respect.”
– Bill Clinton

“If the general attitude of Canadians toward their mighty neighbor to the south could be distilled into a single phrase, that phrase would probably be “Oh, shut up.” The Americans talked too much, mainly about themselves. Their torrid love affair with their own history and legend exceeded – painfully – the quasi-British Canadian idea of modesty and self-restraint . . . They were forever busting their buttons in spasms of insufferable yahoo pride or all too publicly agonizing over their crises.”
– Bruce McCall

“When you talk about the sun, you will see her beams.”
– Canadian Saying

“For many years Canada has held an obscure place among the countries of the globe. Our borders have been pictured as the abode of perpetual snows, and our people as indifferent, easy-going, indolent. But change is taking place.”
– Charles R. Tuttle

“Canadians, like their historians, have spent too much time remembering conflicts, crises, and failures. They forgot the great, quiet continuity of life in a vast and generous land. A cautious people learns from its past; a sensible people can face its future. Canadians, on the whole, are both.”
– Desmond Morton

“It is wonderful to feel the grandness of Canada in the raw.”
– Emily Carr

“After all, we fought the Yanks in 1812 and kicked them the hell out of our country – but not with blanks.”
– Farley Mowat

“In only a century and a quarter since Confederation, Canadians have shaped out of the North American wilderness one of the most privileged societies on the face of the earth. Ranking among the seven most prosperous nations in the world, Canada is rich not only in the abundance of our resources and the magnificence of our land, but also in the diversity and the character of our people. We have long been known as one of the most tolerant, progressive, innovative, caring and peaceful societies in existence.”
– George Radwanski and Julia Luttrell

“Canadians do not like heroes, and so they do not have them.”
– George Woodcock

“Canadians have been so busy explaining to the Americans that we aren’t British, and to the British that we aren’t Americans that we haven’t had time to become Canadians.”
– Helen Gordon McPherson

“The Canadians of those days, at least, possessed a roving spirit of adventure which carried them further, in exposure to hardship and danger, than ever the New England colonist went, and led them, though not to clear and colonize the wilderness, yet to range over it as coureurs de bois, or runners of the woods, or, as Hontan prefers to call them, coureurs de risques, runners of risks.”
– Henry David Thoreau

“Americans are benevolently ignorant about Canada, while Canadians are malevolently well informed about the United States.”
– J. Bartlet Brebner

“I always thought of this as God’s country.”
– Jack Granatstein

“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 Granetstein

“I am rather inclined to believe that this is the land God gave to Cain.”
– Jacques Cartier

“The reigning Miss Canada has been arrested for punching out another woman in a bar fight . . . Quite frankly, I think it’s refreshing to finally find one beauty pageant winner who is against world peace.”
– Jay Leno

“I am a Canadian, free to speak without fear, free to worship in my own way, free to stand for what I think right, free to oppose what I believe wrong, or free to choose those who shall govern my country. This heritage of freedom I pledge to uphold for myself and all mankind.”
– John Diefenbaker

“I am so excited about Canadians ruling the world.”
– John Diefenbaker

“Canada is a place of infinite promise. We like the people, and if one ever had to emigrate, this would be the destination, not the U.S.A. The hills, lakes and forests make it a place of peace and repose of the mind, such as one never finds in the U.S.A.”
– John Maynard Keynes

“The beaver, which has come to represent Canada as the eagle does the United States and the lion Britain, is a flat-tailed, slow-witted, toothy rodent known to bite off its own testicles or to stand under its own falling trees.”
– June Callwood

“As we enter our centennial year we are still a young nation, very much in the formative stages. Our national condition is still flexible enough that we can make almost anything we wish of our nation. No other country is in a better position than Canada to go ahead with the evolution of a national purpose devoted to all that is good and noble and excellent in the human spirit.”
– Lester B. Pearson

“Canada is the only country in the world that knows how to live without an identity.”
– Marshall McLuhan

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