Canada Sayings and Quotes

Below you will find our collection of inspirational, wise, and humorous old canada quotes, canada sayings, and canada proverbs, collected over the years from a variety of sources.

Canadians are more polite when they are being rude than Americans are when they are being friendly. Edgar Friedenberg
Canada will be a strong country when Canadians of all provinces feel at home in all parts of the country, and when they feel that all Canada belongs to them. Pierre Trudeau
Canada is one of the most impressive countires in the world. Barack Obama
Canada is a really big melting pot of cultures, so we ended up with a giant mosaic of different music. Alessia Cara
Without Montreal, Canada would be hopeless. Anthony Bourdain
Make no mistake. Canada is not a bilingual country. In fact it is less bilingual today than it has ever been. Stephen Harper
Canada is the only country in the world that knows how to live without an identity. Marshall McLuhan
Canada was built on dead beavers. Margaret Atwood
Canada has two emblems - the beaver and the maple. John W. Dawson
The fact is, Canada needs investment, particularly in infrastructure. Justin Trudeau
Canada has always been there to help people who need it. Justin Trudeau
Canadians are the people who learned to live without the bold accents of the natural ego-trippers of other lands. Marshall McLuhan
Canadian nationalism is a subtle, easily misunderstood but powerful reality, expressed in a way that is not to state directed - something like a beer commercial or the death of a significant Canadian figure. Paul Kopas
Canada is the homeland of equality, justice and tolerance. Kim Campbell
Canada is not really a place where you are encouraged to have large spiritual adventures. Robertson Davies
Canada has great natural resources, and its people have the spirit and ability to develop them. Charles E. Wilson
Canadian pride may not rest on our sleeves, but it resides deeply in our hearts. Steve Miller
Canada is founded upon principles that recognize the supremacy of God and the rule of law. Stockwell Day
Canada is a balloon-puncturing country. You are not really allowed to be an icon unless you also make an idiot of yourself. Margaret Atwood
Canada is not a country for the cold of heart or the cold of feet. Pierre Trudeau
Canada is a great country, one of the hopes of the world. Jack Layton
A Canadian is sort of like an American, but without the gun. Anonymous
Canada, more than any nation, will be affected by rising sea levels from global warming. David Suzuki
Canada is like a loft apartment over a really great party. Robin Williams
Canada is free and freedom is its nationality. Wilfrid Laurier
It is wonderful to feel the grandness of Canada in the raw. Emily Carr
Canada is a country so square that even the female impersonators are women. Richard Benner
Canadians do not like heroes, and so they do not have them. George Woodcock
Canada is the greatest nation in this country. Allan A. Lamport
The cool thing about being famous is traveling. I have always wanted to travel across seas, like to Canada and stuff. Britney Spears
Canada, as you know, is a major important nation boasting a sophisticated, cosmopolitan culture that was tragically destroyed last week by beavers. Dave Barry
It's never felt more Canadian to be Canadian than it does now. Douglas Coupland
Canada's climate is nine months winter and three months late in the fall. Evan Esar
Canada is a broad land broad in mind, broad in spirit, and broad in physical expanse. Harry S. Truman
Canada is a place of infinite promise. We like the people, and if one ever had to emigrate, this would be the destination, not the U.S.A. The hills, lakes, and forests make it a place of peace and repose of the mind, such as one never finds in the U.S.A. John Maynard Keynes
Canada is either an idea or it does not exist. It is either an intellectual undertaking or it is little more than a resource-rich vacuum lying in the buffer zone just north of a great empire. John Ralston Saul
Canada is the essence of not being. Not English, not American, it is the mathematic of not being. And a subtle flavour - we're more like celery as a flavour. Mike Myers
In Canada, nobody is ever overthrown because nobody gives a damn. Mordecai Richler
God has made Canada one of those nations which cannot be conquered and cannot be destroyed, except by itself. Norman Angell
Canadians have an abiding interest in surprising those Americans who have historically made little effort to learn about their neighbour to the North Peter Jennings
A Canadian is somebody who knows how to make love in a canoe. Pierre Berton
Canada is a country whose main exports are hockey players and cold fronts. Our main imports are baseball players and acid rain. Pierre Trudeau
Canada is the only country founded on the relentless pursuit of the rodent. Preston Manning
We don't come to Canada for our health. We can think of other ways of enjoying ourselves. Prince Philip
Canada appears content to become a second-tier socialistic country, boasting ever more loudly about its economy and social services to mask its second-rate status. Stephen Harper
Canada is like an old cow. The West feeds it. Ontario and Quebec milk it. And you can well imagine what it's doing in the Maritimes. Tommy Douglas
There are no limits to the majestic future which lies before the mighty expanse of Canada with its virile, aspiring, cultured, and generous-hearted people. Winston Churchill
There can be no dedication to Canada's future without a knowledge of its past. John Diefenbaker