CANADA QUOTES III

quotations about Canada

I've always felt, and I don't like to say this because I sound like an ex-patriot, I always feel quite a bit more comfortable sometimes in Canada. For a variety of reasons. I just think it's a politer place. Kind of. You don't have quite the population to deal with but you don't immediately get into skirmishes with everybody. If you had any passport, any terrorist would let the Canadians off the plane.

TIM ALLEN

interview, "What's So Funny?", Jun. 10, 2010


We would drive to Canada, where it would probably be legal for us to get married--it was Canada where they let people do whatever they wanted because it was too cold to bother stopping them.

W. BRUCE CAMERON

Emory's Gift


Strange, how in all those apocalyptic movies, when their society breaks down into lawlessness and anarchy, Canada is always the haven of safety, the place people want to escape to.

JENIFER MOHAMMED

Resurrecting Cybele


Other nations merely change governments as a lady changes dancing partners: Canada contrives to fall in a dead faint every time the music stops.

GORDON DONALDSON

The Prime Ministers of Canada


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.

ROBERTSON DAVIES

The Enthusiasms of Robertson Davies


Canadians are Americans with no Disneyland.

MARGARET MAHY

The Changeover


The Canadian Prime Minister said Canada would lend the U.S. its full military support. You know what that means: both tanks.

JAY LENO

The Tonight Show


O Canada I have not forgotten you,
as I kneel in my canoe, beholding this vision of a bookcase.
You are the paddle, the snowshoe, the cabin in the pines.
You are the moose in the clearing and the moosehead on the wall.
You are the rapids, the propeller, the kerosene lamp.
You are the dust that coats the roadside berries.
But not only that, you are the two boys with pails walking along that road.

BILLY COLLINS

Sailing Alone Around the Room: New and Selected Poems


We shall form to the American union a barrier against the dangerous extension of the British Province of Canada.

THOMAS JEFFERSON

letter to George Rogers Clark, December 25, 1780


When Canada's having its way with you, you know something's gone horribly wrong.

MICHAEL BALLABAN

"Watch These Russian Missiles Completely Tear Through a Derelict Wreck", Foxtrot Alpha, February 17, 2014


Canada regards herself as responsible to all mankind for the peculiar ecological balance that now exists so precariously in the water, ice and land areas of the Arctic archipelago. We do not doubt for a moment that the rest of the world would find us at fault, and hold us liable, should we fail to ensure adequate protection of that environment from pollution or artificial deterioration.

PIERRE TRUDEAU

House of Commons debate, October 24, 1969