Canada Quotes - Page 34

• It’s one thing to run across Canada, but now, people are really going to know what cancer is.

  Terry Fox

  Running, Cancer, People

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• Fancy cutting down all those beautiful trees...to make pulp for those bloody newspapers, and calling it civilisation. - Winston Churchill, remarking to his son during a visit to Canada in 1929

  John Vaillant

  Beautiful, Son, Cutting

  John Vaillant (2015). “The Golden Spruce: A True Story of Myth, Madness and Greed”, p.25, Random House

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• We usually recognize a beginning. Endings are more difficult to detect. Most often, they are realized only after reflection. Silence. We are seldom conscious when silence begins—it is only afterward that we realize what we have been a part of. In the night journeys of Canada geese, it is the silence that propels them. Thomas Merton writes, “Silence is the strength of our interior life.… If we fill our lives with silence, then we will live in hope.

  Terry Tempest Williams

  Writing, Reflection, Night

  Terry Tempest Williams (2015). “Refuge: An Unnatural History of Family and Place”, p.193, Vintage

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• In any democracy, there is always a tug-of-war between policies to achieve equality and policies to promote excellence. I am certain that Canada can achieve both equality and excellence.

  John Turner

  War, Excellence, Democracy

  John Turner's speech at Liberal Party Leadership convention at Ottawa Civic Centre in Ontario, April 5, 1968.

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• Canada was my whole world and my whole reality, and now I meet people who've never been there, and it's like, 'You've never been to my whole world?'

  Carly Rae Jepsen

  Reality, People, World

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• Sources also confirm that there is no one left in Canada who can remember when hockey was a simple game, played for fun.

  Roy MacGregor

  Fun, Hockey, Simple

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• Paul Martin talks eloquently about defending national sovereignty but the reality hasn't matched the rhetoric. When it comes to the United States, Mr. Martin says he calls them as he sees them, but when it comes to American passage through Canada, he doesn't actually see anything.

  Stephen Harper

  Reality, United States, Rhetoric

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• I went to military college in Canada and graduated as an officer in the Navy but also as an engineer.

  Marc Garneau

  Inspirational, Funny, Graduation

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• God bless America. But God, please help Canada.

  Christopher Titus

  Philosophy, Philosophical, America

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• I had spindly little ankles, and growing up in Canada, I couldn't skate. I was no good at any sports so was very much a pariah through those adolescent years.

  Neil Peart

  Sports, Growing Up, Years

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• Some countries you love. Some countries you hate. Canada is a country you worry about.

  Robertson Davies

  Country, Hate, Worry

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• Only in Canada could somebody with a voice like mine win 'Vocalist of the Year'.

  Leonard Cohen

  Winning, Years, Voice

  Leonard Cohen's Juno Award Acceptance Speech for 'Best Male Vocalist' in Canada, 1992.

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• Canada is a Northern European welfare state in the worst sense of the term, and very proud of it.

  Stephen Harper

  Proud, Welfare, States

  Speech to the Council for National Policy, June 1997.

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• For example, the Prime Minister earlier this year talked about the importance of the Arctic to our future. He's right. A hundred years from now, the strength of Canada is going to be coming from our resources in the Arctic.

  Brian Mulroney

  Years, Example, Prime

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• Canada's most important -- that is to say consequential -- modern voice.

  Robin Blaser

  Voice, Important, Modern

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• I'm a good Canadian girl. I miss all that good stuff. I miss tobogganing and I miss snowboarding, but I've also learned to surf and I've become a water baby which I used to be relatively terrified of the water and I kayak all the time now and I'm able to run year round on the beach which you can't obviously do in Canada.

  Evangeline Lilly

  Girl, Running, Baby

  Interview with Todd Gilchrist, www.ign.com. August 30, 2006.

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• Americans assume Canada to be bestowed as a right and accept this bounty, as they do air, without thought or appreciation.

  Dean Acheson

  Appreciation, Air, Assuming

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• I had no idea Canada could be so much fun.

  Bruce Willis

  Fun, Ideas, No Idea

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• 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.

  Douglas Coupland

  Dream, Mean, Self

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• I realized that performing was what I wanted to do when I did my first professional gig as a dancer with my company Synergy in Canada. I was overwhelmed with how it felt to perform in front of an audience.

  Catherine Mary Stewart

  Dancer, Gigs, Firsts

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• I get recognized for 'Reaper' in the U.K. I was in Costa Rica and got recognized for 'Heroes.' In Canada, it's 'Rookie Blue.' People also think that I'm in the 'Twilight' series because of Kristen Stewart.

  Missy Peregrym

  Hero, Twilight, Thinking

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• Native people - about two-thirds of the uranium in the United States is on indigenous lands. On a worldwide scale, about 70 percent of the uranium is either in Aboriginal lands in Australia or up in the Subarctic of Canada, where native people are still fighting uranium mining.

  Winona LaDuke

  Fighting, Australia, Land

  "Native American Activist Winona LaDuke on Use of 'Geronimo' as Code for Osama bin Laden: 'The Continuation of the Wars Against Indigenous People'". "Democracy Now!" with Amy Goodman and Juan Gonzalez, www.democracynow.org. May 6, 2011.

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• I never wanted to be an actor as a kid. I wanted to play hockey, like every other kid in Canada. I had a pretty good shot at it until I was 15 and badly injured myself.

  Matt Frewer

  Kids, Hockey, Play

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• First, to begin with, Mexico is North American; the one that is using wrong the term is United States. United States is not North America. North America is Mexico, United States, and Canada.

  Vicente Fox

  America, United States, Mexico

  "Interview With Mexican President Vicente Fox". Interview with Peter Jennings, abcnews.go.com.

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• I started life washing cars in Canada before moving on to selling life insurance and vacuum cleaners. Later, I went through a programme by Dr. Norman Vincent Peale, which literally changed my life. It was the turning point.

  Shiv Khera

  Moving, Car, Vacuums

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