Inspirational Canadian Quotes & Sayings

Lie life through its fullest — Ernest Hemingway,

Let us build for the tomorrow, build a nation strong and free; and the Lord who dwells above us, He will bless our destiny". — P. J. Peters

If I had my own world I'd build you an empire from here to the far lands to spread love like violence! — Tom DeLonge

The truth is Canada is a cloud-cuckoo-land, an insufferably rich country governed by idiots, its self-made problems offering comic relief to the ills of the real world out there, where famine and racial strife and vandals in office are the unhappy rule. — Mordecai Richler

I wasn't sure how it looked on paper when a crew of costumed oddballs took on Canadian meth dealers. — Tea Krulos

I feel scared and unsure of what to do next, but decide that no matter what happens, I'm glad I ran away. A pony like Smokey is worth fighting for - even if we did get him for free. A pony like Smokey is no small thing. — Natale Ghent

Heaven is freakin' not ready for me! - seven-time cancer survivor Dionne Warner in Never Leave Your Wingman — Deana J. Driver

As long as I live, I will always remember those wee children standing at the railing on that ship. - John Hanlon, the sailor — Deana J. Driver

The skill set for hockey is so specific to skating and if you haven't been skating as a kid it's impossible to play - and I wasn't a skater. — Liev Schreiber

The abscess is a distant memory. The pain is gone. This dinner with her hosts and her health-care team, this week of seeing another country and another culture, this time of being in demand, this moment is reality. I am a lucky girl, (Judy) thinks. — Shireen Jeejeebhoy

We build this country ourselves every day and we have to be, in the most positive sense, totally unreal. — J.C. Villamere

There are two kinds of people who do martial arts: those who practice a thousand different kicks one time each, and those who practice one kick a thousand times minimum. You can guess which group I belong to. — Georges St-Pierre

There is a thing that happens when you are not as privileged and you start hanging out with a seedier crowd because you can afford to do the same things, And all of a sudden the big night out is sitting in somebody's trailer, smoking something or getting hold of something to put up to your nose. — Eddie Vedder

All men and women are born, live suffer and die; what distinguishes us one from another is our dreams, whether they be dreams about worldly or unworldly things, and what we do to make them come about ... We do not choose to be born. We do not choose our parents. We do not choose our historical epoch, the country of our birth, or the immediate circumstances of our upbringing. We do not, most of us, choose to die; nor do we choose the time and conditions of our death. But within this realm of choicelessness, we do choose how we live. — Joseph Epstein