Canada Quotes

Capital:             Ottawa
Government:     Federation with Parliamentary Democracy and Constitutional Monarchy
Currency:         Canadian dollar (CAD)
Area:                9,976,140 km2
Population:       33,390,141 (July 2007 est.)
Language:         English 59.3% (official), French 23.2% (official), other 17.5%

Canada Quotes

Earth is a flower and it's pollinating.
-Neil Young

Courage, my friends; 'It is not too late to build a better world.
-Tommy Douglas

Canada is the linchpin of the English-speaking world.
-Sir Winston Churchill

Our hopes are high. Our faith in the people is great. Our courage is strong. And our dreams for this beautiful country will never die.
-Pierre Trudeau

In ancient times they had no statistics so they had to fall back on lies.
-Stephen Leacock

Words are the basic tools, if you are a writer.
-James Houston

We go on and on about our differences. But, you know, our differences are less important than our similarities. People have a lot in common with one another, whether they see that or not.
-William Hall

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

You never know what you're going to get as a receiver.
-Darren Flutie

Innovation is this amazing intersection between someone's imagination and the reality in which they live.
-Ron Johnson

Any room where you feel a good vibe is a good place to write.
-Nicole Appleton

Man cannot live by incompetence alone.
-Charlotte Whitton

I always thought of this as God's country.
-Jack Granatstein

Life, we learn too late, is in the living, the tissue of every day and hour.
-Stephen Leacock

Turn your face to the sun and the shadows fall behind you.
-Charlotte Whitton

I'm not going to play politics on the floor of the House of Commons.
-John Turner

Character is power; it makes friends, draws patronage and support and opens the way to wealth, honor and happiness.
-John Howe

Nature can refuse to speak but she cannot give a wrong answer.
-Charles Brenton Huggins

Advertising - a judicious mixture of flattery and threats.
-Northrop Frye

People on the streets are ready for hockey.
-Eric Lindros