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)

    “My father named me Autolycus, who being, as I am, littered under Mercury, was likewise a snapper-up of unconsidered trifles.”
    —William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

    “I see Canada as a country torn between a very northern, rather extraordinary, mystical spirit which it fears and its desire to present itself to the world as a Scotch banker.”
    —Robertson Davies (b. 1913)