Quotes About Canadian Identity

#1. It seems to me that Canadian sensibility has been profoundly disturbed, not so much by our famous problem of identity, important as that is, as by a series of paradoxes in what confronts that identity. It is less perplexed by the question "Who am I?" than by some such riddle as "Where is here?

Northrop Frye

#2. To make sustainable progress in reducing extreme poverty will require improvements in both the quantity and quality of aid.

Peter Singer

#3. 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

#4. I want to play challenging characters. You should never be satisfied.

Bryan Greenberg

#5. ...to lead an individual along a spiritual path consonant with the person's gifts and personality...[The Jesuit training of novitiates and lay students]

John W. O'Malley

#6. I'm pretty straightforward as a performer, but I do have a bit of a diva in me.

Corin Tucker

#7. Even when she was just a flutter inside me, I loved her. Because she is ours.

Kate Quinn

#8. Ambition had never troubled me, so I decided to begin by watching life at my leisure for a few years, waiting until I finally felt tempted to find some circle of influence for myself.

Stefan Zweig

#9. Everything is sort of built in a way that to me suggests intelligent design. But at the same time there's a lot of things in life where you say to yourself, well, if this is God's plan, it's very peculiar. And you have to wonder about that guy's personality, the big guy's personality.

Stephen King

#10. No matter what an individual decides to become, hard work and determination is very important in today's competitive world. You may also encounter hardships along the way, but you must not get discouraged and you push on in order to fulfill your goals.

Tom Monaghan

#11. We build this country ourselves every day and we have to be, in the most positive sense, totally unreal.

J.C. Villamere