On The Eighth Day

America is a vast conspiracy to make you happy. - John Updike

The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Canada is a great country, one of the hopes of the world. - Jack Layton

That most elusive organ that nature has ever yet created. - Stanley Baldwin

You have to know a man awfully well in Canada to know his surname. - John Buchan

If God had wanted me otherwise, he would have created me otherwise. - Johann von Goethe

England and America are two countries separated by a common language. - George Bernard Shaw

As you get older it is harder to have heroes, but it is sort of necessary. - Ernest Hemingway

In America, anybody can be president. That's one of the risks you take. - Adlai Stevenson

I used to go missing a lot... Miss Canada, Miss United Kingdom, Miss World. - George Best

America forms the longest and straightest bone in the earth's skeleton. - Ellsworth Huntington

In America there are two classes of travel - first class, and with children. - Robert Benchley

Baseball is a skilled game. It's America's game - it, and high taxes. - Will Rogers

The number one disease of business leaders in North America is procrastination. - Napoleon Hill

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men and women are created equal. - Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Great heroes need great sorrows and burdens, or half their greatness goes unnoticed. - Peter S Beagle

In America, we like everyone to know about the good work we're doing anonymously. - Jay Leno

Canada is a good country to be from. It has a gentler slower pace - it lends perspective. - Paul Anka

America did not invent human rights. In a very real sense, human rights invented America. - Jimmy Carter

We can't all be heroes because somebody has to sit on the curb and clap as they go by. - Will Rogers

The Lord hath created medicines out of the earth; and he that is wise will not abhor them. - The Bible

We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them. - Albert Einstein

South Africa is the most beautiful country I have been to. Canada is also hugely underrated. - Honor Blackman

America is becoming so educated that ignorance will be a novelty. I will belong to the select few. - Will Rogers

The way you can understand all of the social media is as the creation of a new kind of public space. - Danah Boyd

Trudeau's contribution was not to build Canada but to destroy it, and I had to come in and save it. - Brian Mulroney

Our children may learn about heroes of the past. Our task is to make ourselves architects of the future. - Jomo Mzee Kenyatta

Democracy is very different in U.S. and A. from Kazakhstan. In America, woman can vote, but horse cannot! - Borat Sagdiyev

I can remember when Democrats believed that it was the duty of America to fight for freedom over tyranny. - Zell Miller

America is the country where you can buy a lifetime supply of aspirin for a dollar and use it up in two weeks. - Barrymore

I get the feeling that the two biggest problems in America today are making ends meet, and making meetings end. - Robert Orben

Had I been present at the creation, I would have given some useful hints for the better ordering of the universe. - Alfonso X, the Wise

America's present need is not heroics but healing; not nostrums but normalcy; not revolution but restoration. - Warren G. Harding

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

My dream is for people around the world to look up and to see Canada like a little jewel sitting at the top of the continent. - Tommy Douglas

Every person is the creation of himself, the image of his own thinking and believing. As individuals think and believe, so they are. - Claude M. Bristol

The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one. - Albert Einstein

I have a maple leaf tattoo over my heart, quite literally, and my two favorite things on Earth are being in Canada and making movies. - Jay Baruchel

If Aliens visit us, the outcome would be much as when Columbus landed in America, which didn't turn out well for the Native Americans. - Stephen Hawking

Ultimately, America's answer to the intolerant man is diversity, the very diversity which our heritage of religious freedom has inspired. - Robert F. Kennedy