French Canadian Sayings

#1. I did some artistic nudes when I was I 8 with a French-Canadian photographer while I was modeling. They were beautiful shots, and they were not about nudity.

Lexa Doig

#2. The central symbol for Canada-and this based on numerous instances of its occurrence in both English and French Canadian literature-is undoubtedly Survival, la Survivance.

Margaret Atwood

#3. The English Patient' is about the coming together of a French-Canadian nurse, an English patient, a Sikh in a turban and me, Caravaggio, and each of us is seeking a resolution to our own problems.

Willem Dafoe

#4. Because I cannot write my native language and have no native home anymore, and am amazed by that horrible homelessness of all French-Canadian s abroad in America.

Jack Kerouac

#5. I went to a French immersion school, and French-Canadian improv is a big thing, and we had an improv team at school, and 12 of us would get up and make things up against other elementary schools. I'd always wanted to perform, and that was just another extension of it.

Tatiana Maslany

#6. My food is Louisiana, New Orleans-based, well-seasoned, rustic. I think it's pretty unique because of my background being influenced by my mom, Portuguese and French Canadian. There's a lot going on there.

Emeril Lagasse

#7. You can be a French Canadian or an English Canadian, but not a Canadian. We know how to live without an identity, and this is one of our marvellous resources.

Marshall McLuhan

#8. The great themes of Canadian history are as follows: Keeping the Americans out, keeping the French in, and trying to get the Natives to somehow disappear.

Will Ferguson

#9. Paul was blandness itself, just tinged with pink.

Alan Hollinghurst

#10. It has not been the style of Canadian politicians to write of their experiences, although it is the common practice for British, French, and American Politicians upon their retirement. But I have been criticized before and I expect to be again.

Judy LaMarsh

#11. Let us be French, let us be English, but most importantly let us be Canadian!

John A. Macdonald

#12. As the winter set in with its customary Canadian severity the real trouble of the French began. They did not suffer from the cold, but they were dying of scurvy.

Harry Johnston

#13. People shouldn't be treated like objects. They aren't that valuable.

P. J. O'Rourke

#14. There are two miracles in Canadian history. The first is the survival of French Canada, and the second is the survival of Canada.

F. R. Scott

#15. The Canadian community must invest, for the defence and better
appreciation of the French language, as much time, energy, and money as
are required to prevent the country from breaking up

Pierre Trudeau

#16. Whatever skills I have acquired, whatever gifts I have been given, I place them at Your service.

Saint Augustine

#17. I can't think of this country without Quebec. Je parle francais. And when I think about being a Canadian, speaking French is part of it.

Michael Ignatieff

#18. When it comes to revolutionaries, trust only the sad ones. The enthusiastic ones are the oppressors of tomorrow.

William T. Vollmann

#19. That hedge provides almost complete privacy from cars and pedestrians, and I would bet he and his wife do it more than the national average.

Cassandra Danz

#20. I'm Canadian, but no, I don't speak French.

Cory Monteith