Quotes About Canadian History

#1. When you go back and look at American history, it's not terribly different from Canadian history. If you weren't self-reliant on the prairie, you wouldn't survive.

Alan Greenspan

#2. When I was in school, all our history books were American, so we learned American history, not Canadian history.

Dave Foley

#3. Women are practically invisible on the pages of Canadian history textbooks, too often overshadowed by the feats of famous men.

Merna Forster

#4. 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

#5. Burton Cummings joining the Guess Who in January 1966 changed my life forever. It's been a rocky affiliation, no doubt. One journalist once described our relationship as the longest running soap opera in Canadian history. That may be a bit oversimplified.

Randy Bachman

#6. The trial of Ernst Zundel has gone down in Canadian history.

Ernst Zundel

#7. 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

#8. I was attending the University of Alberta. I was going to be a high school teacher, like my parents. I failed - no, I didn't fail a class, I just barely passed. I really didn't try. It was Canadian history, through the plays of the time. My God, those were boring plays.

Nathan Fillion

#9. The journey has been incredible from its beginning.

Sidney Poitier

#10. I'm not in a real rush to be a big star.

Martin Henderson

#11. I love everything from country to alternative to Blink-182 and '90s music to Dave Matthews.

Spencer Boldman

#12. The abscess is a distant memory. The pain is gone. This dinner with her hosts and her health-care team, this week of seeing another country and another culture, this time of being in demand, this moment is reality. I am a lucky girl, (Judy) thinks.

Shireen Jeejeebhoy

#13. Lucky is the man who has been successful with his children and not got ones who are notorious disasters.

Euripides

#14. I am in revolt against the age-old lie that the majority is always right.

Henrik Ibsen

#15. You're God?" he says. "A piece of the pie, yes. You look disappointed. Turn that around, multiply it by a million, and you'll know how I feel about you people.

Richard Kadrey

#16. To suggest is to create; to describe is to destroy.

Robert Doisneau

#17. You can only come to the morning through the shadows.

J.R.R. Tolkien

#18. So as near as I could tell the end of the world began roughly about the time that Billy Carver's butt rang about halfway through the War of 1812.

Steve Vernon

#19. We all play by the same rules. But some people spend more time reading those rules and figuring out how to make them work in their behalf.

Garth Stein

#20. There is a resemblance between men and women, not a contrast. When a man begins to recognize his feeling, the two unite. When men accept the sensitive side of themselves, they come alive.

Anais Nin

#21. I am chairman of the Pakistan People's Party.

Bilawal Bhutto Zardari

#22. Do as you would be done by

Jennifer Dance

#23. What I love about 'The Chew' is that we have these celebrities come on, and you get to see them in a different light, cooking or enjoying food, when we usually don't see them in that setting. So it's a lot of fun for their fans to see them be normal people and having that commonality of food.

Carla Hall

#24. I read and learned and fretted more about Canada after I left than I ever did while I was home. I absorbed anything I could on topics that ranged from Folklore to history to political mainifestos ... I ranted and raved and seethed about things beyond my control. In short I acted like a Canadian.

Will Ferguson

#25. Beloved, have you ever thought that someday you will not have anything to try you, or anyone to vex you again? There will be no opportunity in heaven to learn or to show the spirit of patience, forbearance, and longsuffering. If you are to practice these things, it must be now.

A.B. Simpson

#26. When I first began writing In the Country of Men all I had was the voice of the protagonist. He intrigued me and my desire to want to know him and his world became almost compulsive.

Hisham Matar

#27. Like an unfinished symphony, her story played on my mind for most of my life. It would rock to the tune of the passage of time, an adagio of high notes, low notes an illusive movements. Then when I least expected it, I happened upon the missing notes in the life of Charlotte Howe Taylor.

Sally Armstrong

#28. Customer research produces bland products. We're producing a piece of art.

Michael Arrington