550 Quotes About Canada

To survive the Canadian winter, one needs a body of brass, eyes of glass, and blood made of brandy.

Papa suffered from snowbilitis, a common malady above the fiftieth parallel, what with the north pressing down on you and winter somehow or other needing to be tamed.

Real Canada is where people wear sweaters for survival, not style.

When the north wind blew across the tar ponds, voices were carried away.

Tax is not a four-letter word; rather, it's the price we pay for the country we want.

I'm an old-fashioned guy. I believe in the Enlightenment, and reason, and logic, and you know, facts.

The global Indigenous cause reached a major milestone in 2007 when the UN General Assembly passed the Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. Only four members of the assembly voted in opposition, all of them Anglo settler-states - the United States, Canada, New Zealand, and Australia.

Need we go into details about what I said to Judy? I am no poet, and I suppose what I said was very much what everybody always says, and although I remember her as speaking golden words, I cannot recall precisely anything she said. If love is to be watched and listened to without embarrassment, it must be transmuted into art, and I don't know how to do that, and it is not what I have come to Zurich to learn.

In Canada, when we speak of water, we're speaking of ourselves. Canadians are known to be unextravagant, and one explanation of this might be that we know that wasted water means a diminished collective soul; polluted waters mean a sickened soul. Water is the basis of our self-identity, and when we dream of canoes and thunderstorms and streams and even snowballs, we're dreaming about our innermost selves.