Canada Quotes - Page 28

• England would be better off without Canada; it keeps her in a prepared state for war at a great expense and constant irritation.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  War, Irritation, Would Be

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• This idea [standardized time zones] was first advanced and fought for by Sandford Fleming of Canada and Charles F. Dowd of the United States. I mention them chiefly because like so many benefactors of mankind they have been rewarded by total obscurity.

  Isaac Asimov

  Time Zones, Ideas, United States

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• I always felt like I had to leave Canada, which I think is a common perspective - feeling as if you have to leave because otherwise you'll be too soft, and that objective reality exists in America. And I'm starting to feel like that doesn't have to be the case.

  Emily Haines

  Reality, Thinking, America

  "Taking Measurements: An Interview with Metric". Interview With Devon Powers, www.popmatters.com. October 12, 2004.

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• That is the way successful countries, and Canada has been one of the most successful countries over the past quarter century, they operate. That when you win, you win within limits, when you lose, you accept the outcome.

  David Frum

  Country, Successful, Winning

  Source: www.cbc.ca

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• I always feel very connected to Canada. My reference for everything is my Canadian background, my life in Canada. Particularly on this issue of refugee immigration: I couldn't be prouder of Canada.

  Michael J. Fox

  Issues, Immigration, Backgrounds

  Source: www.cbc.ca

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• The Conservatives hold rural places because they keep bombarding rural Canada with, "Liberals are a bunch of urban, metropolitan snobs who don't care about you and want to leave you dead by the roadside." We've simply got to go out and say, "they're lying to you about us. We actually care about you more than the other guys, and we're not going to pander to your prejudices - we're going to give hope to your kids."

  Michael Ignatieff

  Lying, Kids, Giving

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• Liberals don't want any part of Canada left behind. I used to give speeches on and on and on about the fact that we don't want to have a country where you think, "my kids have got to move to the city if they're going to have any kind of future." We've been saying that, and we've not got through.

  Michael Ignatieff

  Country, Moving, Kids

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• One of the biggest divides in Canada - I said it in 2006, and I said it right through my political career - is urban-rural. Lots of parts of this country feel entirely left behind. And they're mobilized by, you know, the gun control issue.

  Michael Ignatieff

  Country, Gun, Careers

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• Before World War II in Canada, you were nobody until you went to England. Then, after that it was you're nobody until you went to the States.

  Jay Baruchel

  War, World, England

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• In Canada, the U.S. and most of Europe it may be easy to take political stands, this is something for which you can be forced to pay with your life, or your freedom, in many other parts of the world, from Iran to Russia to Pakistan to China.

  Adam Hochschild

  Russia, Iran, Europe

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• Compared with how we've ducked it in the United States, Canada should be really proud of how you have welcomed a significant number of refugees - far more, in fact, than we Americans have, even though our population is vastly larger.

  Adam Hochschild

  Numbers, United States, Population

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• We need to give the private sector many more powerful incentives to do research and development, to bring ideas and new discoveries to market in Canada, and commercialize them here, and stay here through successive stages of growth. But they can only do it with better government policies that give them more powerful incentive.

  Chris Alexander

  Powerful, Government, Discovery

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• Though the words Canada East on the map stretch over many rivers and lakes and unexplored wildernesses, the actual Canada, which might be the colored portion of the map, is but a little clearing on the banks of the river, which one of those syllables would more than cover.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Rivers, Lakes, Might

  Henry David Thoreau (2016). “A Yankee in Canada”, p.32, Graphic Arts Books

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• I think it is right for Canadians to be asked to show their faces when they're taking the oath. On revocation of citizenship, we do not let people who have criminal records, including convictions for terrorism, become either permanent residents or citizens. I think there is a limit beyond which someone has really cashed in their chips in terms of their allegiance to Canada.

  Chris Alexander

  Thinking, People, Criminals

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• The play of Hillary Clinton is to do exactly what she did with Whitewater, with the conspiracy theories about Vince Foster's suicide, with the conspiracy theory that Clinton Foundation donations somehow went to the Russians to open a Nickel mine in Canada, this is all nonsense. This stuff has been going on for 30 years.

  Thomas Roberts

  Suicide, Years, Play

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

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• I think if Donald Trump won, I would move to Canada.

  Bill Goldberg

  Moving, Thinking, Trump

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• The US and Canada are now increasingly isolated in the hemisphere, and sooner or later, I think we're going to find that the US and Canada are simply excluded from hemispheric affairs. That's a sharp reversal of what was the case not long ago.

  Noam Chomsky

  Thinking, Long Ago, Hemisphere

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• [sam] Kinison, when he started out, he'd come to Canada when I was first starting, and he'd always [bomb].

  Norm MacDonald

  Bombs, Firsts, Starting

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• There's no show business in Canada, so everybody just did stand-up and we all thought, "Oh, we'll just keep doing stand-up." And then I'm like, "There's more work in the States."

  Norm MacDonald

  States, Shows, Show Business

  Interview with Steve Heisler, tv.avclub.com. April 12, 2011.

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• Thank God for Canada! In the context of this narrative [in Underground] and beyond, Canada was certainly an additional option for the many traveling the treacherous terrain of the Underground Railroad in pursuit of what was perceived as "freedom."

  Aisha Hinds

  Thank God, Railroads, Narrative

  Source: www.theaquarian.com

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• When I started in Canada, I just did stand-up.

  Norm MacDonald

  Interview with Steve Heisler, tv.avclub.com. April 12, 2011.

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• The frontiers are not east or west, north or south; but wherever a man fronts a fact, though that fact be a neighbor, there is anunsettled wilderness between him and Canada, between him and the setting sun, or, farther still, between him and it. Let him build himself a log house with the bark on where he is, fronting IT, and wage there an Old French war for seven or seventy years, with Indians and Rangers, or whatever else may come between him and the reality, and save his scalp if he can.

  Henry David Thoreau

  War, Reality, Men

  Henry David Thoreau (2014). “A Week On The Concord And Merrimack Rivers (Annotated Edition)”, p.257, Jazzybee Verlag

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• I wished only to be set down in Canada, and take one honest walk there as I might in Concord woods of an afternoon.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Afternoon, Might, Woods

  Henry David Thoreau (2016). “A Yankee in Canada”, p.12, Graphic Arts Books

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• I didn't understand anything about fashion until I moved to Canada when I was 9. That's when I learned English and was exposed to fashion magazines like Harper’s Bazaar and Vogue.

  Jason Wu

  Fashion, Magazines, Exposed

  Interview with Stephanie Seymour Brant, www.interviewmagazine.com. June 17, 2013.

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• I was very preppy in my childhood. I also went through an anti-clothing moment where I just wanted to wear sweats because I'd just moved to Canada. My mom was always trying to get me into proper clothes, but I never wanted to wear them, and now that's all I wear.

  Jason Wu

  Mom, Always Trying, Clothes

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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