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Your Quotes for 1 July 2005 - Canada Day

I grew up on American soil, but looking north from home I was looking at Canada whenever the weather permitted. I listened to Canadian radio for so many years that the first time I voted I was looking for candidates from the NDP or SoCred parties. Today is the anniversary of the first British North America Act, which took effect on this day in 1867. I think I'll sit back on the Chesterfield and lift a virtual Molson's to the land of hockey, the beaver, and the Maple Leaf.

Living next to you is in some ways like sleeping with an elephant: No matter how friendly and even-tempered the beast, one is affected by every twitch and grunt.
     - Pierre Elliott Trudeau, 25 March 1969 at the Press Club, Washington City

It is wonderful to feel the grandness of Canada in the raw, not because she is Canada but because she's something sublime that you were born into, some great rugged power that you are a part of.
     - Emily Carr

Canada is an interesting place, the rest of the world thinks so, even if Canadians don't.
     - Terence M. Green

I see Canada as a country torn between a very northern, rather extraordinary, mystical spirit which it fears and its desire to present itself to the world as a Scotch banker.
     - Robertson Davies

I am not anti-American. But I am strongly pro-Canadian.
     - John George Diefenbaker, 1895 - 1979

In Canada we have enough to do keeping up with the two spoken languages without trying to invent slang, so just go right ahead and use English for literature, Scotch for sermons, and American for conversation.
     - Stephen Leacock

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