“ All children should be taught to unconditionally accept, approve, admire, appreciate, forgive, trust, and ultimately, love their own person. Asa Don Brown
“ Let us build for the tomorrow, build a nation strong and free; and the Lord who dwells above us, He will bless our destiny". P. J. Peters
“ The lonely, wistful revisionism of memories is as gratingly repetitive as snow and ice in Canada. I avoid them both at all costs - memories and Canada. Brian D'Ambrosio
“ In a time like this, let us trust in God even more. To trust when life is easy is no trust. Joy Kogawa
“ Can I see some ID? WE DON'T HAVE ID, said Jay, loudly. 'CAUSE WE'RE CANADIAN. WE DON'T USE ID...THERE. AND THAT'S WHY WE LOOK SO YOUNG. 'CAUSE WE'RE CANADIAN. Doug stiffened. Jay sounded crazy. Doug t… Adam Rex
“ Don't tell me you're not beautiful. You're the kind of beautiful the blind would see if we could figure out some way to give them three seconds of sight. Shane L. Koyczan
“ In Canada, when we speak of water, we're speaking of ourselves. Canadians are known to be unextravagant, and one explanation of this might be that we know that wasted water means a diminished collecti… Douglas Coupland
“ The hardest part of being a Canadian kid is having to color in Nunavut with a crayon in school, hell on earth. Rebecca McNutt
“ The moon twangs its silver strings;The river swoons into town;The wind beds down in the pines,Covers itself with stars. George Elliott Clarke
“ A rural Venus, Selah rises from thegold foliage of the Sixhiboux River, sweepspetals of water from her skin. At once,clouds begin to sob for such beauty.Clothing drops like leaves."No one makes poetry… George Elliott Clarke
“ Strange, how in all those apocalyptic movies, when their society breaks down into lawlessness and anarchy, Canada is always the haven of safety, the place people want to escape to. Jenifer Mohammed
“ In school, I hated poetry - those skinny,Malnourished poems that professors love;The bad grammar and dirty words that catchIn the mouth like fishhooks, tear holes in speech.Pablo, your words are rain… George Elliott Clarke
“ As long as I live, I will always remember those wee children standing at the railing on that ship." - John Hanlon, the sailor Deana J. Driver
“ Imagination must be allowed to run free in our subconscious mind and when ready, it reveals its ideals to us in our conscious state. Lee Bice-Matheson
“ Ernst was still in the Eastern Zone, about ninety kilometres from Berlin, when the truck emerged so inexplicably out of nowhere that it seemed to have been created by the rain itself. Mordecai Richler
“ Bill C-9 was supposed to be a budget bill, but it came with innumerable measures that had little or nothing to do with the nation's finances. It was, as critics put it, the advance of the Harper agend… Lawrence Martin
“ We build this country ourselves every day and we have to be, in the most positive sense, totally unreal. J.C. Villamere
“ You know, Dorothy, you can’t let people bring you down so easily or you’ll have your nose in the dirt for the rest of your life. From what I make of it, for every person with a good thought, there are… J.M. Lavallee
