quotations about Canada
Because of the "city upon a hill" sound bite, "A Model of Christian Charity" is one of the formative documents outlining the idea of America. But dig deep into its communitarian ethos and it reads more like an America that might have been, an America fervently devoted to the quaint goals of working together and getting along. Of course, this America does exist. It's called Canada.
SARAH VOWELL
The Wordy Shipmates
We would drive to Canada, where it would probably be legal for us to get married--it was Canada where they let people do whatever they wanted because it was too cold to bother stopping them.
W. BRUCE CAMERON
Emory's Gift
Other nations merely change governments as a lady changes dancing partners: Canada contrives to fall in a dead faint every time the music stops.
GORDON DONALDSON
The Prime Ministers of Canada
I see Canada as a country torn between a very northern, rather extraordinary, mystical spirit which it fears and its desire to present itself to the world as a Scotch banker.
ROBERTSON DAVIES
The Enthusiasms of Robertson Davies
Canadians are Americans with no Disneyland.
MARGARET MAHY
The Changeover
When Canada's having its way with you, you know something's gone horribly wrong.
MICHAEL BALLABAN
"Watch These Russian Missiles Completely Tear Through a Derelict Wreck", Foxtrot Alpha, February 17, 2014
Canada regards herself as responsible to all mankind for the peculiar ecological balance that now exists so precariously in the water, ice and land areas of the Arctic archipelago. We do not doubt for a moment that the rest of the world would find us at fault, and hold us liable, should we fail to ensure adequate protection of that environment from pollution or artificial deterioration.
PIERRE TRUDEAU
House of Commons debate, October 24, 1969
O Canada I have not forgotten you,
as I kneel in my canoe, beholding this vision of a bookcase.
You are the paddle, the snowshoe, the cabin in the pines.
You are the moose in the clearing and the moosehead on the wall.
You are the rapids, the propeller, the kerosene lamp.
You are the dust that coats the roadside berries.
But not only that, you are the two boys with pails walking along that road.
BILLY COLLINS
Sailing Alone Around the Room: New and Selected Poems
Strange, how in all those apocalyptic movies, when their society breaks down into lawlessness and anarchy, Canada is always the haven of safety, the place people want to escape to.
JENIFER MOHAMMED
Resurrecting Cybele
We shall form to the American union a barrier against the dangerous extension of the British Province of Canada.
THOMAS JEFFERSON
letter to George Rogers Clark, December 25, 1780
The Canadian Prime Minister said Canada would lend the U.S. its full military support. You know what that means: both tanks.
JAY LENO
The Tonight Show