550 Quotes About Canada

North of the 49th parallel we value equality; south of it, they treasure freedom.

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.

Vive Le Québec Libre.

Not that there wasn't still plenty of subduing to do here in North America. "Even within our own limits, the savage still lights his death fires, to appease the wrath of an idol," he points out. What's worse, to the "north, there is an immense region of palpable darkness." (Hi, Canada!)

Why is America the last best hope of Earth? What if it's Liechtenstein? Or, worse, Canada?

Un chant triste, sorte de cri au coeur. Comparable au blues. La langue innue presque chantée, aux intonations lentes, celles qu'on fait durer par des respires. Le manque de voyelles rend la langue impénétrable, comme un rappel à la nature, la dureté, l'écorce et les panaches.

You’re not an artist, you’re not a scientist, you’re not an intellectual. All that’s left to you is politics.

Não havia qualquer dúvida que, se ele me tivesse batido diretamente na roda, eu teria sido projetado para debaixo do carro e atropelado. Poderia muito bem ter morrido. Tínhamos passado pelas mais terríveis condições rodoviárias do mundo e acabáramos por ter o nosso primeiro acidente numa estrada canadiana…

The north smells different from the city: clearer, thinner. You can see farther. A sawmill, a hill of sawdust, the teepee shape of a sawdust burner; the smokestacks of the copper smelters, the rocks around them bare of trees, burnt-looking, the heaps of blackened slag: I’ve forgotten about these things all winter, but here they are again, and when I see them I remember them, I know them, I greet them as if they are home.