Happy Canada Day Quotes - Page 2

• 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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• Canadians have an abiding interest in surprising those Americans who have historically made little effort to learn about their neighbour to the North.

  Peter Jennings

  Effort, Abiding, Littles

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• Canada is the linchpin of the English-speakin g world

  Winston Churchill

  World, Canada, Canada Funny

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• Before the Civil War, Canada was at the top of the underground railroad. If you made it into Canada, you were safe unless someone came and hauled you back. That was also true during the Vietnam War for draft resisters.

  Margaret Atwood

  War, Safe, Canada

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• I am so excited about Canadians ruling the world.

  John Diefenbaker

  Ruling The World, Canada, Excited

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• Hysterically funny, amazingly talented people. That's what I think of when I think of Canada. That, and cold beer. And mountains.

  Richard Patrick

  Beer, Thinking, People

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• I'm not going to play politics on the floor of the House of Commons.

  John Turner

  Play, House, Canada

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• Canadians are the people who learned to live without the bold accents of the natural ego-trippers of other lands.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Land, People, Ego

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• Many Canadian nationalists harbour the bizarre fear that should we ever reject royalty, we would instantly mutate into Americans, as though the Canadian sense of self is so frail and delicate a bud, that the only thing stopping it from being swallowed whole by the US is an English lady in a funny hat.

  Will Ferguson

  Humorous, Self, Stopping

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• It seems that Canada's historic mission is to come to the selfless aid both of its friends and of complete strangers, and then, once the crisis is over, to be well and truly ignored. Canada is the perpetual wallflower that stands on the edge of the hall, waiting for someone to come and ask her for a dance.

  Kevin Myers

  Funny, Humorous, Waiting

  "The Country the World Forgot - Again". www.telegraph.co.uk. April 21, 2002.

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• I've been to Canada, and I've always gotten the impression that I could take the country over in about two days.

  Jon Stewart

  Funny, Hilarious, Country

  "Vancouver Hockey Riot: Blame Canada!". ew.com. June 16, 2011.

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