Quebec Quotes

• Well, I am trying to put Quebec in its place - and the place of Quebec is in Canada, nowhere else.

  Pierre Trudeau

  Trying, Canada, Wells

  Pierre Trudeau's speech on the Quebec separatist movement (June 25, 1968); later quoted in "Pierre Elliott Trudeau Memoirs" (Disk 2, 24:05), January 27, 2009.

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• Recognizing Quebec as being different, recognizing our history, recognizing our identity, has never meant a weakening of Quebec and has never been a threat to national unity.

  Jean Charest

  Being Different, Unity, Identity

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• Canada is like an old cow. The West feeds it. Ontario and Quebec milk it. And you can well imagine what it's doing in the Maritimes.

  Tommy Douglas

  Inspirational, Humorous, Ontario

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com. June 29, 1983.

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• Long live free Quebec!

  Charles de Gaulle

  Long, Live Free

  Address to crowd before City Hall, Montreal, Canada, 24 July 1967

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• Quebec City is the most European of any city in North America, they speak French all the time. There is a part of town called Old Quebec which is really like being in France. The architecture is just gorgeous, food, shopping. I'd say Quebec city is the most beautiful city in North America I've seen.

  Sebastian Bach

  Beautiful, Cities, Shopping

  "Ex-Skid Row Frontman Sebastian Bach on What's Cool in Canada". Interview with Avinash Ramsadeen, www.foxnews.com. October 12, 2011.

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• Quebec does not have Opinions, but only sentiments.

  Wilfrid Laurier

  Doe, Opinion, Sentiments

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• Quebec's distinct character makes Canada an even better country, and vice versa: being in Canada makes Quebec a better place too.

  Philippe Couillard

  Country, Character, Canada

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• I'll be a Quebecker-Canadian. I'm from Quebec, and every time I go to a country, I say that. It's my roots, my origins, and it's the most important thing to me.

  Celine Dion

  Country, Roots, Important

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

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• In the province of Quebec where I come from, we speak French and the only cosmopolitan city is Montreal. Every time we tackle the subject of immigration and racial tension, it's an issue that concerns Montreal. Also, in Quebec, we have this added issue that we want people to speak French, because French is always on the verge of disappearing to some extent. I work, play and do everything in French.

  Philippe Falardeau

  Play, Cities, Speaks French

  Source: collider.com

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• Quebec from the boat looked like the ramparts where Hamlet's ghost might have walked.

  Charlie Chaplin

  Funny, Humorous, Might

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• My quality of life here in Quebec City is extraordinary.

  Patrick Roy

  Cities, Quality, Extraordinary

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• My great hope would be that Quebec would realize itself fully as a distinct part of Canada, and stay Canadian, bringing to Canada a part of its richness.

  Gabrielle Roy

  Would Be, Canada, Realizing

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• In Quebec City many Muslims have said that they hide their faith because they know that if they don't, if they show that they are Muslims, practicing Muslims, they won't be accepted in Quebec society.

  Andre Pratte

  Cities, Accepted, Said

  Source: www.cbc.ca

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• Long live Montreal, Long live Quebec! Long live Free Quebec!

  Charles de Gaulle

  Long, Live Free, Montreal

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• Canada's eminent position today is a tribute to the patience, tolerance, and strength of character of her people, of both French and British strains. For Canada is enriched by the heritage of France as well as of Britain, and Quebec has imparted the vitality and spirit of France itself to Canada. Canada's notable achievement of national unity and progress through accommodation, moderation and forbearance can be studied with profit by her sister nations.

  Harry S. Truman

  Character, People, Achievement

  United States. President (1945-1953 : Truman), Harry S. Truman (1963). “Harry S. Truman: Containing the Public Messages, Speeches, and Statements of the President, 1945-53”

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• There was a young man of Quebec
  Who was frozen in snow to his neck,
  When asked, 'Are you Friz?'
  He replied, 'Yes I is,
  But we don't call this cold in Quebec.'

  Rudyard Kipling

  Men, Snow, Frozen

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• As to whether Marcos is gay: Marcos is gay in San Francisco, black in South Africa, an Asian in Europe, a Chicano in San Ysidro, an anarchist in Spain, a Palestinian in Israel, a Mayan Indian in the streets of San Cristobal, a Jew in Germany, a Gypsy in Poland, a Mohawk in Quebec, a pacifist in Bosnia, a single woman on the Metro at 10pm, a peasant without land, a gang member in the slums, an unemployed worker, an unhappy student and, of course, a Zapatista in the mountains.

  Subcomandante Marcos

  Gay, Gang Members, San Francisco

  "'Marcos is Gay'". www.greenleft.org.au. November 05, 1997.

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• One afternoon late in October of the year 1697, Euclide Auclair, the philosopher apothecary of Quebec, stood on the top of Cap Diamant gazing down the broad, empty river far beneath him.

  Willa Cather

  Book, Years, Rivers

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• Canadians are friends and Quebecers are my family. What France knows deep down is that within this great Canadian people, there is a Quebec nation. I do not see how proving my family, brotherly love for Quebec should be strengthened by defying Canada.

  Nicolas Sarkozy

  People, Canada, France

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• Our problem in Quebec is our summer is so short that we can't wear bathing suits, whatever, what kind of bathing suit. So I mean, we have this debate with political parties involved whether we should forbid the burkini yes or no, and this was in the media, you know, front page for days and days and days. This is wildly exaggerated. And people that don't live for instance in Montreal, where they don't have a diverse population, they think this is a real problem.

  Andre Pratte

  Summer, Real, Party

  Source: www.cbc.ca

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• I was born in Quebec City, I've lived there many years before moving to Montreal and then Ottawa. And I mean, Quebec City is a very, you know, closed city if I may say. So it's not easy to be accepted living in Quebec City. So if you're from a different faith, you may be a bit timid in showing your faith. So I mean, you're already from a different country, you're an immigrant and hearing what you hear about Islam, you might not wish to be identified as a Muslim, and you may be very discreet into your faith and going to the mosque.

  Andre Pratte

  Country, Moving, Mean

  Source: www.cbc.ca

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• I knew that the wall was the main thing in Quebec, and had cost a great deal of money.... In fact, these are the only remarkable walls we have in North America, though we have a good deal of Virginia fence, it is true.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Wall, Virginia, America

  Henry David Thoreau (2015). “Excursions and Poems : The Writings of Henry David Thoreau, Volume V (of 20)”, p.73, HOUGHTON MIFFLIN AND COMPANY

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• Attempting to build a language wall around Quebec is precisely the wrong policy to follow. It will keep out of Quebec exactly what we need to attract by way of talent and capital; it will drive our best - francophones as well as allophones and anglophones, with their talents and capital - to leave Quebec.

  Dick Pound

  Wall, Needs, Way

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• I'm writing a political comedy that takes place in Canada in Quebec. It's funny. Saying political comedy is a little redundant but it's a first. I've never done any comedy per se.

  Philippe Falardeau

  Writing, Political, Done

  Source: collider.com

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• We were always expected to see Quebec's side of things, but there was damned little reciprocity.

  Judy LaMarsh

  Littles, Sides, Reciprocity

  Judy LaMarsh (1969). “Memoirs of a Bird in a Gilded Cage”, Toronto ; Montreal : McClelland and Stewart

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