“ I think a stalwart peasant in a sheepskin coat born on the soil whose forefathers have been farmers for ten generations with a stout wife and a half-dozen chickens is good quality. Clifford Sifton
“ What are these guys? He whisperedCanadians, Percy said. Frank leaned away from him. Excuse me?Uh, no offense, Percy said. That's what Annabeth called them when I fought them before. She said they live… Rick Riordan
“ Separatism is a very healthy movement within culture. It's a disastrous movement within politics and economics. Northrop Frye
“ (Canada) - the most parochial nationette on earth ... I have been living in this sanctimonious icebox ... painting portraits of the opulent Methodists of Toronto. Methodism and money in this city have… Wyndham Lewis
“ The first time I ever felt the necessity or inevitableness of verse was in the desire to reproduce the peculiar quality of feeling which is induced by the flat spaces and wide horizons of the virgin… T. E. Hulme
“ Scenery here in Canada is by the mile whereas in England it is by the foot. In England there is a great wealth of 'pretty bits'. In Canada there is a great lack of them. But there are grandeur vastn… A. Brooker Klugh
“ Americans like to make money: Canadians like to audit it. I know no country where accountants have a higher social and moral status. Northrop Frye
“ Canada was settled in the main by people with a lower middle-class outlook and a respect rather than an affectionate familiarity for the things of the mind. Robertson Davies
“ The Canadian spirit is cautious observant and critical where the American is assertive. V. S. Pritchett
“ We French-Canadians belong to one country Canada: Canada is for us the whole world: but the English-Canadians have two countries one here and one across the sea. Wilfrid Laurier
“ Our country has shown a lack of will to resist its own disintegration .. . Canada is practically the only country left in the world which is a pure colony colonial in psychology as well as in mercant… Northrop Frye
“ You are a big country now but you still tend to feel small and fragile. If the United States gets a cold you get pneumonia. Herman Kahn
