Will Ferguson Quotes

On this page you can find the TOP of Will Ferguson's best quotes! We hope you will find some sayings from Writer Will Ferguson's in our collection, which will inspire you to new achievements! There are currently 8 quotes on this page collected since October 12, 1964! Share our collection of quotes with your friends on social media so that they can find something to inspire them!
All quotes by Will Ferguson: more...
  • The great themes of Canadian history are as follows: Keeping the Americans out, keeping the French in, and trying to get the Natives to somehow disappear.

  • You ever want to negotiate a hostage situation in Quebec, I'm your man. Send me in for a little parley and the francophone miscreants will flee, hands over bleeding ears.

    Travel   Men   Hands  
    Will Ferguson (2010). “Beauty Tips from Moose Jaw: Travels in Search of Canada”, p.220, Vintage Canada
  • With or without the Royals, we are not Americans. Nor are we British. Or French. Or Void. We are something else. And the sooner we define this, the better.

    Canada   Void   Royal  
  • Hellraisers destroy only themselves, and they do it because they love life too much to fall asleep.

    Will Ferguson (2002). “Happiness”
  • Human nature, at its best, had always been based on a deep heroic restlessness, on wanting something-something else, something more, whether it be true love or a glimpse just beyond the horizon. It was the promise of happiness, not the attainment of it, that had driven the entire engine, the folly and glory of who we are.

    Will Ferguson (2002). “Happiness”
  • I read and learned and fretted more about Canada after I left than I ever did while I was home. I absorbed anything I could on topics that ranged from Folklore to history to political mainifestos... I ranted and raved and seethed about things beyond my control. In short I acted like a Canadian.

    Funny   Humorous   Home  
  • You know what made us the biggest, meanest, Big Mac eating, calorie-counting, world-dominating kick-ass powerhouse country in the history of the human race? The pursuit of happiness. Not happiness. The pursuit.

    Will Ferguson (2002). “Happiness”
  • Many Canadian nationalists harbour the bizarre fear that should we ever reject royalty, we would instantly mutate into Americans, as though the Canadian sense of self is so frail and delicate a bud, that the only thing stopping it from being swallowed whole by the US is an English lady in a funny hat.

Page of
We hope you have found the saying you were looking for in our collection! At the moment, we have collected 8 quotes from the Writer Will Ferguson, starting from October 12, 1964! We periodically replenish our collection so that visitors of our website can always find inspirational quotes by authors from all over the world! Come back to us again!
Will Ferguson quotes about: