Great Canadian Quotes

#1. My family was a good family, I had a great Canadian education and I came up in a great, little town like Ottawa.

Paul Anka

#2. Great Canadian comics are often outsiders and insiders at the same time. That's a great perspective for a comedian.

David Steinberg

#3. Canadians are friends and Quebecers are my family. What France knows deep down is that within this great Canadian people, there is a Quebec nation. I do not see how proving my family, brotherly love for Quebec should be strengthened by defying Canada.

Nicolas Sarkozy

#4. Will it be a great source of comfort to certain Canadian boys to know that the bullet that maimed them for life was made from Canadian nickel sold by the International Nickel Company?

Tommy Douglas

#5. Humanism believes that the individual attains the good life by harmoniously combining personal satisfactions and continuous self-development with significant work and other activities that contribute to the welfare of the community.

Corliss Lamont

#6. 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

#7. Canadian money is also called the loony. How can you take an economic crisis seriously?

Robin Williams

#8. Your heart is full of fertile seeds, waiting to sprout.

Morihei Ueshiba

#9. Our talents don't define us any more than our faults.

Marty Rubin

#10. AIDS obliges people to think of sex as having, possibly, the direst consequences: suicide. Or murder.

Susan Sontag

#11. Canada is destined to be one of the great nations of the world and Canadian women must be ready for citizenship.

Nellie L. McClung

#12. To be Canadian is to live in relative calm and with great dignity.

William Davis

#13. Don't tell me baby you gotta go, I got the hifi high and the lights down low.

Elvis Presley

#14. Four: Be brave Tris. The first time is always the hardest.

Veronica Roth

#15. Protection and patriotism are reciprocal. This is the way which has led nations to greatness.

John C. Calhoun

#16. Success has affected my self-definition in that I have more money. Writers pooh-pooh that idea, but it's a huge deal.

Mary Karr

#17. It was funny on '24' because I'm a Scots-Canadian, and I was working with the great Scottish actor Tony Curran, and we were both playing Russian gangsters.

Callum Keith Rennie

#18. Style for me is some one who figures out who they are. What works on them. What they feel good in and develops that. Develops their character. And the outer expression of their character is what is style.

Tom Ford

#19. The old boy network is still too strong in Canadian business. A visit to the Toronto clubs at lunch stands in about as great a contrast to the multicultural, multiracial subway underneath as can be humanly imagined. This is not healthy.

Bob Rae

#20. Fashion is more about taste than money - you have to understand your body and tailor clothes to your needs; it's all about the fit. I do the alterations myself - I'm quite a seamstress - it's the influence of my Hungarian mother.

Carmen Dell'Orefice

#21. My great hope would be that Quebec would realize itself fully as a distinct part of Canada, and stay Canadian, bringing to Canada a part of its richness.

Gabrielle Roy

#22. I'm not focused on radio or whether I'm going to get all the audiences ... all I wanted were great songs that were universal to any listener - Black, White, Green, Yellow; any kind a age difference.

Ledisi

#23. Give away yourself for the benefit of others so that they will feel abundant.

Debasish Mridha

#24. Royal Canadian Air Farce, and I was in three sketches there. And they wrote some really great stuff for me.

Trish Stratus

#25. I grew up in Winnipeg, in the Canadian midwest, the fifth child. It was a great household to grow up in - I was loved to sweet death.

Len Cariou

#26. The Atheist waits for proof of God. Till that proof comes he remains, as his name implies, without God. His mind is open to every new truth, after it has passed the warder Reason at the gate.

Annie Besant

#27. I continued a legacy of great skating from this country and I was able to capitalize on the reputation of the Canadian skaters that came before me. I especially mean Brian Orser.

Kurt Browning

#28. If he had been a dog in a city, a policeman would have shot him and sent his head to a laboratory, to see if he had rabies. So it goes.

Kurt Vonnegut

#29. I think the Canadian Football League is a great league, but it's not the NFL, and I'm not Jerry Rice.

Darren Flutie

#30. Also, my humor is really dry-witted, Canadian humor, so some people get it and some people don't. I'd be great on "The Office." I would like to be on that show. And, I could see me doing romantic comedy films, and stuff like that.

Tinsel Korey