Canadian Alphabet
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QuotaBillsCanada was built on dead beavers. - Margaret Atwood
In Canada, things are very honest. - Jim Pattison
I look at Canada like a second home. - Prince Andrew
Music is the universal language of mankind. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
I get to go to overseas places, like Canada. - Britney Spears
I don't even know what street Canada is on. - Al Capone
Life is a foreign language; all men mispronounce it. - Christopher Morley
The 'Earth' without art is just 'eh'. - Unknown
Man invented language to satisfy his deep need to complain. - Lily Tomlin
If Plan A didn't work, the alphabet has 25 more letters! - Claire Cook
An animal's eyes have the power to speak a great language. - Martin Buber
To a child's ear, 'mother' is magic in any language. - Arlene Benedict
In Canada, nobody is ever overthrown because nobody gives a damn. - Mordecai Richler
You have to know a man awfully well in Canada to know his surname. - John Buchan
I love Canadians because I don't see very much racism in Canada. - Patti LaBelle
The four most beautiful words in our common language: I told you so. - Gore Vidal
I would rather write 10,000 notes than a single letter of the alphabet. - Ludwig van Beethoven
Canada is the only country founded on the relentless pursuit of the rodent. - Preston Manning
Music is the only language in which you cannot say a mean or sarcastic thing. - John Erskine
I was in the ROTC. Of course, ROTC stood for "Running off to Canada." - Jay Leno
I saw a notice which said "Drink Canada Dry" and I've just started. - Brendan Behan
I personally think we developed language because of our deep inner need to complain. - Jane Wagner
We really have everything in common with America nowadays except, of course, language. - Oscar Wilde
Canada is a good country to be from. It has a gentler slower pace - it lends perspective. - Paul Anka
I love working in Canada. The ovation is great. It makes me feel like I'm the top dog. - Owen Hart
A person's name is, to that person, the sweetest, most important sound in any language. - Dale Carnegie
The first man to use abusive language instead of his fists was the founder of civilization. - Sigmund Freud
South Africa is the most beautiful country I have been to. Canada is also hugely underrated. - Honor Blackman
Coming from Canada, being a writer and Jewish as well, I have impeccable paranoia credentials. - Mordecai Richler
In Pierre Elliott Trudeau, Canada has at last produced a political leader worthy of assassination. - Irving Layton
Human language appears to be a unique phenomenon, without significant analogue in the animal world. - Noam Chomsky
The names of colors are at the edge, between where language fails and where it's at its most powerful. - A.S. Byatt
Canada has given us John Candy and Martin Short and Bill Shatner and Lord knows how many other wonderful performers. - Jamie Farr
If the English language made any sense, 'lackadaisical' would have something to do with a shortage of flowers. - Doug Larson
The protean nature of the computer is such that it can act like a machine or like a language to be shaped and exploited. - Alan Kay
Canada is a balloon-puncturing country. You are not really allowed to be an icon unless you also make an idiot of yourself. - Margaret Atwood
If you're skinny and you can't play hockey in Canada, you aren't left with a lot of options. I was left with running. - Malcolm Gladwell
Canada is like an old cow. The West feeds it. Ontario and Quebec milk it. And you can well imagine what it's doing in the Maritimes. - Tommy Douglas
I remain convinced that obstinate addiction to ordinary language in our private thoughts is one of the main obstacles to progress in philosophy. - Bertrand Russell
Mathematicians are like Frenchmen: whatever you say to them they translate into their own language and forthwith it is something entirely different. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe