#canada

Read through the most famous quotes by topic #canada




We would be there for Canada, part of our family. That is why so many in the United States are disappointed and upset that Canada is not fully supporting us now.


Paul Cellucci


#disappointed #family #fully #many #now

I don't even know what the odds are for one kid or one team to make it here. Obviously, being from Canada this is their Stanley Cup - they made it. It's hard enough to get here and it's hard enough to advance.


John Atkinson


#being #canada #cup #enough #even

More polar bears live in Canada than in the rest of the world combined, which raises the question, Why the hell did we choose the beaver as our national emblem? We could have had Nanuk of the North, Lord of the Arctic, as our symbol. Instead we got stuck with Squirrelly McTeeth. Sheesh.


Will Ferguson


#humour #beauty

For [Stephen] Harper, a national daycare plan bordered on being a socialist scheme, a phrase he had once used to describe the Kyoto Protocol on climate change. For [Paul] Martin, whose plan would have transferred to the provinces $5 billion over five years, the national program was what Canadianism was all about. "Think about it this way," [Martin] said. "What if, decades ago, Tommy Douglas and my father and Lester Pearson had considered the idea of medicare and then said, 'Forget it! Let's just give people twenty-five dollars a week.' You want a fundamental difference between Mr. Harper and myself? Well, this is it.


Lawrence Martin


#canadian #canadian-history #canadian-politics #health-care #healthcare

Not that there wasn't still plenty of subduing to do here in North America. "Even within our own limits, the savage still lights his death fires, to appease the wrath of an idol," he points out. What's worse, to the "north, there is an immense region of palpable darkness." (Hi, Canada!)


Sarah Vowell


#death

North of the 49th parallel we value equality; south of it, they treasure freedom.


Michael Adams


#equality

I have spent weeks in the desert, forgetting to look at the moon, he says, as a married man may spend days never looking into the face of his wife. These are not sins of omission but signs of pre-occuopation.


Michael Ondaatje


#desert #marriage #war #marriage

I love Toronto. I love it. I love Toronto. I love Canada. I can't wait to get back. Can't wait to have some Timbits.


Aisha Tyler


#canada #get #i #i love #love

Boys are 30 percent more likely than girls to drop out of school. In Canada, five boys drop out for every three girls. Girls outperform boys now at every level, from elementary school to graduate school.


Philip Zimbardo


#drop #elementary #elementary school #every #five

The unfortunate thing is, for the contents of the building I could not get any insurance anywhere in Canada.


Ernst Zundel


#anywhere #building #canada #contents #could