Quotes and Sayings about Canada

Canada also helped in two world wars and gave the world Neil Young, William Shatner, Leonard Cohen, Pamela Anderson, one quarter of Barney Stinson, instant mashed potatoes and best of all - you.

Barney Stinson in How I Met Your Mother - Season 9 Episode 12

William Shatner Leonard Cohen Pamela Anderson Neil Young

Look, if Michael Jordan's healthy, you don't let Scottie Pippen run the offense. Oh, you're from Canada, right. If Wayne Gretzky's healthy, you don't let François... what I'm saying is: hockey is stupid and I'm point guy!

Barney Stinson in How I Met Your Mother - Season 8 Episode 23

Michael Jordan Wayne Gretzky Scottie Pippen Hockey

Canadians are nice and polite. It's not just a stereotype.

Justin Trudeau

The fact is Canadians understand that immigration, that people fleeing for their lives, that people wanting to build a better life for themselves and their kids is what created Canada, it's what created North America.

Justin Trudeau

Canada is a sweet country. It is like your retarded cousin you see at Thanksgiving and sort of pat him on the head. You know, he's nice, but you don't take him seriously. That is Canada.

Tucker Carlson

Maine - you can spit on Canada from here!

Maine

Canada is the linchpin of the English-speaking world. Canada, with those relations of friendly, affectionate intimacy with the United States on the one hand and with her unswerving fidelity to the British Commonwealth and the Motherland on the other, is the link which joins together these great branches of the human family.

Winston Churchill - September 1941

1941

In Canada, there's two seasons: 6 months of winter and 6 months where skiing sucks.

Skiing

Canada is not the party. Its the apartment above the party.

Craig Ferguson

Ted: "It's freezing out there. Where's your coat?"
Robin: "Ted, I'm Canadian. I don't need a coat. This kind of weather is nothing for me."
Marshall: "Yeah. This is like a spring day back in Minnesota."

Marshall Eriksen in How I Met Your Mother - Season 4 Episode 11

Minnesota

I've been to Canada, and I've always gotten the impression that I could take the country over in about two days.

Jon Stewart

I'm not a hockey fan, which is probably why I had to leave Canada in the first place.

Ryan Reynolds

Hockey

Canada - what you'd get if America and Britain had a baby they abandoned in the snow.

John Oliver (Last Week Tonight)

Canada is a country of ingredients without a cuisine; we're a country with musicians without an indigenous instrument; Toronto's a city that doesn't even have a dish named after it.

Mike Myers

Toronto

Canada is like a loft apartment over a really great party.

Robin Williams

Every country is like a particular type of person. America is like a belligerent, adolescent boy; Canada is like an intelligent, 35-year-old woman. Australia is like Jack Nicholson. It comes right up to you and laughs very hard in your face in a highly threatening and engaging manner.

Douglas Adams

Jack Nicholson USA Australia

You are a big country. You are the kindest country in the world. You are like a really nice apartment over a meth lab.

Robin Williams - about Canada

USA

There's kids playing hockey in the back. It's like you want us to make fun of you!

Barney Stinson in How I Met Your Mother

Money can't buy happiness, but it can buy a flight to Canada - and that's practically the same thing.

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Heard your new joint, it's embarrassing, sh-t
You talk to the cops on some therapist sh-t
You act like you love this American sh-t
But, really, the truth is you scared of the Six

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Toronto

Vancouver is home. I spent a huge amount of time here as a kid growing up with my mom, with my grandparents who lived here.

Justin Trudeau

Vancouver

I have a lot of Japanese friends: I grew up in Vancouver, and there's this huge Japanese population over there.

Grimes

Vancouver

It's only once you've stopped, that you realize how hard it is to start again. So you force yourself not to want it.

Ted Mosby in How I Met Your Mother - Season 6 Episode 3

Breakup Beginning

Whatever you do in this life, it's not legendary, unless your friends are there to see it.

Barney Stinson in How I Met Your Mother - Season 9 Episode 17

Barney: "Our wedding is gonna be legendary."
Robin: "No wait for it?"
Barney: "I've got you, I don't have to wait for it anymore."

Barney Stinson in How I Met Your Mother - Season 9 Episode 1

Love declerations

Underneath all of those lies is one true thing. One true thing that can support the weight of all the lies in the world, and that's the fact that I love you.

Barney Stinson in How I Met Your Mother - Season 8 Episode 18

Love declerations

But there was a hockey game where they didn't even play hockey, they just threw the puck aside and started fighting.

Richard Sherman

Hockey

In 2021, we will continue our fight against Covid-19 with a renewed sense of hope. Canadians have already started to receive doses of safe and effective vaccines.

Justin Trudeau - New Year Eve’s address 2020/21

Coronavirus 2021

Life is fleeting. And if you're ever distressed, cast your eyes to the summer sky when the stars are strung across the velvety night. And when a shooting star streaks through the blackness, turning night into day... make a wish and think of me.

Robin Williams

Shooting Stars

If there is a country that has committed unspeakable atrocities in the world, it is the United States of America. They don’t care for human beings.

Nelson Mandela

USA

Success should always be just beyond your grasp.

William Shatner

Success

Act the way you'd like to be and soon you'll be the way you act.

Leonard Cohen

Taking action Motivation

It's great to be a blonde. With low expectations it's very easy to surprise people.

Pamela Anderson

It's better to burn out, than to fade away.

Neil Young

I stand with those who are calling out the ingrained racism and violence toward people of color in our country. We have had enough.

Michael Jordan - June 2020

Racism 2020 Death of George Floyd

A good hockey player plays where the puck is. A great hockey player plays where the puck is going to be.

Wayne Gretzky

Hockey

Yes, I think the '96 Bulls are the greatest of all time. I think the 72-10 record speaks for itself and the fact that we were able to cap it off with a championship.

Scottie Pippen in The Last Dance

Chicago Bulls

There's only two people in your life you should lie to... the police and your girlfriend.

Jack Nicholson

Lies Police

Don't take a leak on my shoes and tell me it's raining.

Tucker Carlson

You Know You're in Maine:

If you own more than four pair of gloves.
If every other vehicle is a 4X4.
If in March your vehicle is 43% mud.
If you leave your keys in your car and the next morning your car is still there.
If your central heating system is fueled by large logs.
If people drive 100 miles to shop in a real mall.
If more than 1/2 the meat in your freezer is moose.
If the bumper jack in your pickup will lift a house.
If dressing up means wearing a tie with your flannel shirt.
If you don't use your blinker because everyone already knows where you're going.

Maine

The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.

Winston Churchill

Optimism Pessimism

If Hitler invaded hell I would make at least a favourable reference to the devil in the House of Commons.

Winston Churchill - 1941, zu einem Bündnis mit Stalin

Adolf Hitler Devil 1941 World War II

When God understand that only the best go skiing, he created football for the rest.

Skiing

Happy Cinco de Mayo. If you don't know what that means, maybe you're a little out of touch – or maybe you're the governor of Arizona.

Craig Ferguson

Arizona Cinco de Mayo

Marshall: "It's kind of a big, professional meeting. You might want to trade out that lollipop for a shirt."
Ted: "Yeah. I'll just give it to one of these kids."
Marshall: "Oh, buddy. You're half naked, you're not a parent to any of these children. Don't offer 'em candy!"

Marshall Eriksen in How I Met Your Mother - Season 8 Episode 9

Being naked

While it's not very Minnesotan to brag, I've got to brag on our state a little here: We were just ranked #1 in the country for health care.

Tim Walz - July 2024

Minnesota

When did fact checking and journalism go their separate ways?

Jon Stewart

Journalism Facts

Some a-hole leaks it online and I'm like, you know, looking at the guy in the mirror brushing my teeth, "Dude, what have you done? This could be punishable by law!" But the internet forced the studio to say, "We're gonna make this movie", and 24 hours later, that movie had a green light.

Ryan Reynolds - September 2025

Deadpool

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