Margaret Atwood Quotes

The coming of age of Canadian culture may not depend on our ability to protect it at home, but to project it on the world’s stage.

I think we have to realize that Canada is not immortal; but, if it is going to go, let it go with a bang rather than a whimper.

I'm not a hockey fan, which is probably why I had to leave Canada in the first place.

When I was young, I overheard a Brit say Canada wasn't a real country because it doesn't have any poets. Even then, I kind of knew that was wrong, but I still thought, 'Wow, here's my chance to do something, to be of service to my country.'

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

I knew I had to write about Canada. I just could not find in literature any examples of the immigrant experience that I've had.

First of all, when you live in a country like Canada, it's quite different from America in the sense that it's very tied to traditions that were born in Britain.

Canada is hockey.

Canada is like a loft apartment over a really great party.

I am a Canadian, a man and a Black man in that order.

I hope we shall never be disposed to offer to join the United States. They will display a great reluctance to take us but I believe we have a future of our own here.

The future of Canada, I believe, depends very largely upon the cultivation of a national spirit

Montreal is more Canadian and more British than Toronto. Toronto is more Canadian and more British than Winnipeg. Why? Because at Quebec thanks to the preponderance of the French language, you are better protected from the American invasion ...

Our country should be all Canadian and all British.

One of these days every person in Canada will be a Canadian.

Where the French Canadian nation finds its freedom, that too will be its homeland.

A Canadian nationality—not French-Canadian, not British-Canadian, nor Irish-Canadian: patriotism rejects the prefix ... is what we should look forward to.

We [French Canadians] may not assimilate, we may not blend, but for all that we are still the component parts of the same country.

The truth is that we want nothing so much as to be American. I for one would rather that we chucked it all and joined the United States and stop defying the law of politics and geography…. The reality is that Canadians are Americans already without many of the advantages.

Nobody is sure what our culture is or whether we even have a national culture at all.

Canada is not so much a country as a continental suburb, where Little Leaguers govern ineffectually, desperate for American approval.

I think my generation is defining themselves as Canadian artists.

Everything about Canada makes me proud to be Canadian.

I have a fond appreciation for the Canadian culture and the Canadian food scene in general.

When I was growing up, I felt like no one gave Canadians a chance. And now that they see we have quality in Canada and it's amazing to see.