Father of Canada

Famous quotes containing the words father of, father and/or canada:

    “Bastidides, on the contrary, who both talks and writes of nothing
    save copulation,
    Has become the father of twins,
    But he accomplished this feat at some cost;
    He had to be four times cuckold.”
    —Ezra Pound (1885–1972)

    “As I went about with my father when he collected taxes, I knew that when taxes were laid some one had to work to earn the money to pay them.”
    —Calvin Coolidge (1872–1933)

    “This universal exhibition in Canada of the tools and sinews of war reminded me of the keeper of a menagerie showing his animals’ claws. It was the English leopard showing his claws.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)