Quotes for Canada Day

Jul 01, 2015 14:31

There are few, if any, Canadian men that have never spelled their name in a snow bank.
     - Douglas Coupland

Canada is a country whose main exports are hockey players and cold fronts. Our main imports are baseball players and acid rain.
     - Pierre Elliott Trudeau, 1919 - 2000

When I'm in Canada, I feel this is what the world should be like.
     - Jane Fonda

Canadians don't have a very big political lever, we're nice guys.
     - Paul Henderson

As a people, we know what we can do, we know how to do it, and we just want to get on with it. How? By ensuring that Canada's place in the world is one of influence and pride.
     - Paul Martin

Under this flag may our youth find new inspiration for loyalty to Canada; for a patriotism based not on any mean or narrow nationalism, but on the deep and equal pride that all Canadians will feel for every part of this good land.
     - Lester B. Pearson, 1897 - 1972

Canadian girls are so pretty it's a relief now and then to see a plain one.
     - Mark Twain, 1835 - 1910

Later I will try for a short due South fic, but I leave in 45 minutes to get a crown put on. ::wincing:: Hopefully, this will not knock me on my ass the way prepping for it did.  I have the redhead reactions to anesthesia, which shot last Weds and Thurs to hell.  I shouldn't need much this time, right?
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