Canadian quotes ~ Citations Canadiennes

[jessef]

Your own, famous or not famous ~ post 'em.

~ Canada is like your attic, you forget that it's up there, but when you go, it's like "Oh man, look at all this great stuff!"

~ To be complex does not mean to be fragmented. This is the paradox and the genius of our Canadian civilization.

~ I am told that the Inuit have some sixty words for snow... for different kinds of snow. That doesn't surprise me; they see a lot of it. I live considerably south of the tree line, but even I have seventeen words for snow - none of them usable in public.

~ In a world darkened by ethnic conflicts that tear nations apart, Canada stands as a model of how people of different cultures can live and work together in peace, prosperity, and mutual respect.

~ La terre n`est pas un don de nos parents; ce sont nos enfants qui nos la prêtent. Land isn't a heritage from our parents: it's a loan we owe to our children.

[Dingus]

Vive la difference!

[nxski]

F***ing eh

[Shaun Van Ramen]

Canada has never been a melting-pot; more like a tossed salad.
~Arnold Edinborough

[jessef]

I don't even know what street Canada is on. ~ Al Capone

A Canadian is someone who knows how to make love in a canoe. ~ Pierre Burton

Vive la Canada. This country is not for sale. ~ Don Sweet

When I'm in Canada, I feel this is what the world should be like. ~ Jane Fonda

Canada is probably the most free country in the world where a man still has room to breathe, to spread out, to move forward, to move out, an open country with an open frontier Canada has created harmony and cooperation among ethnic groups, and it must take this experience to the world because there is yet to be such an example of harmony and cooperation among ethnic groups. ~ Valentyn Moroz

Canadians don't have a very big political lever, we're nice guys. ~ Paul Henderson

.. and of course

Molson's Canadian: 'I Am Canadian'!

[jessef]

No doot aboot it !

[fmande]

Your own, famous or not famous ~ post 'em.



~ La terre n`est pas un don de nos parents; ce sont nos enfants qui nos la prêtent. Land isn't a heritage from our parents: it's a loan we owe to our children.

This is a statement that is universal.I have worked through out the South Pacific and through out Australia.All the Indigenous people have similar statement.
I also have a similar belief.
I am only the caretaker of this land for my childrens ,children.
Good topic to post

[The Noi]

~Right on!
~No Doubt!
~Just Givener!

Johnny Johnstone

[bassnailer]

"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

"Love Canada or give it back".
-Indian saying in Saskatchewan

"To be Canadian is to live in relative calm and with great dignity".
-William Davis

[tonydca]

A Canadian is someone who knows how to make love in a canoe. ~ Pierre Burton

"American beer is like making love in a canoe. Why? Because it's f*ck!ng close to water" - Monty Python.

Now about what happens when Canadians get riled up on the international stage... (Hans Island is a disputed territory off the coast of Newfoundland):

http://satwcomic.com/epic-battle

[jessef]

"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

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