Quotes and Sayings about Vancouver

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.

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

You can leave Vancouver, but it will never leave you.

They say money can't buy happiness. But it can book your flight to Vancouver - which is kinda the same.

If one of the Vancouver Canucks walked in here, my panties would drop so hard, there would be a hole in the floor halfway to China.

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.

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!

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

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.

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.

Maine - you can spit on Canada from here!

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.

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

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

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."

Hello, I’m Severn Suzuki, speaking for E.C.O. – the Environmental Children’s Organisation. We are a group of twelve and thirteen-year-olds trying to make a difference: Vanessa Suttie, Morgan Geisler, Michelle Quigg and me. We raised all the money to come here ourselves, to come five thousand miles to tell you adults you must changes your ways. Coming up here today, I have no hidden agenda. I am fighting for my future. Losing my future is not like using an election or a few points on the stock market. I am here to speak for all generations to come. I am here to speak on behalf of the starving children around the world, whose cries go unheard. I am here to speak for the countless animals dying across this planet because they have nowhere left to go. I am afraid to go out in the sun now because of the holes in the ozone. I am afraid to breathe the air because I don’t know what chemicals are in it. I used to go fishing in Vancouver, my home, with my dad until just a few years ago we found the fish full of cancers. And now we hear about animals and plants going extinct every day – vanishing forever. In my life I have dreamt of seeing the great herds of wild animals, jungles and rainforests full of birds and butterflies, but now I wonder if they will even exist for my children to see. Did you have to worry of these things when you were in my age? All this is happening before our eyes and yet we act as if we have all the time we want and all the solutions. I’m only a child and I don’t have all the solutions, but I want you to realise that neither do you. You don’t know how to fix the holes in our ozone layer. You don’t know how to bring the salmon back up a dead stream. You don’t know how to bring back an animal now extinct. And you can’t bring back the forest that once grew where there is now desert. If you don’t know how to fix it, please stop braking it. Here you may be delegates of your governments, business people, organisers, reporters or politicians – but really you are mothers and fathers, sisters and brothers, aunts and uncles – and all of you are someone’s child. I’m only a child yet I know we are all part of a family, five billion strong, in fact, thirty million species strong – and borders and governments will never change that. I’m only a child yet I know we’re all in this together and should act as one single world towards one single goal. In my anger, I am not blind, and in my fear, I am not afraid of telling the world how I feel. In my country, we make so much waste, we buy and throw away, buy and throw away, buy and throw away and yet northern countries will not share with the needy. Even when we have more than enough, we are afraid to share. We are afraid to let go some of our wealth. In Canada, we live the privileged life, with plenty of food, water and shelter. We have watches, bicycles, computers and television sets. The list could go on for two days. Two days ago here in Brazil, we were shocked when we spent some time with some children on the streets. This is what one child told us: 'I wish I was rich and if I were, I would give all the street children food, clothes, medicines, shelter and love and affection.” If a child on the streets who has nothing, is willing to share, why are we who have everything still so greedy? I can’t stop thinking that these children are my own age, that it makes a tremendous difference where you are born, that I could be one of those children living in the Favelas of Rio; I could be a child starving in Somalia or a victim of war in the Middle East or a beggar in India. I am only a child yet I know, if all the money spent on war were spent on finding environmental answers, ending poverty and finding treaties, what a wonderful place this earth would be. At school, even in kindergarten, you teach us how to behave in the world. You teach us: not to fight with others, to work things out, to respect others, to clean up our mess, not to hurt other creatures and to share – not be greedy. Then why do you go out and do the things you tell us not to do? Do not forget why you’re attending these conferences, who you’re doing this for – we are your own children. You are deciding what kind of world we are growing up in. Parents should be able to comfort their children by saying 'everything is going to be alright, it’s not the end of the world” and 'we’re doing the best we can”. But I don’t  think you can say that to us anymore. Are we even on your list of priorities? My dad always says 'You are what you do, not what you say.” Well, what you do makes me cry at night. You grown ups say you love us, but I challenge you, please make your actions reflect your words. Thank you.

When I was in high school, I got bullied through social media - on the Internet, on my Facebook. That was hard for me, and I think social media has made it easy for people to bully other people on-line because they can just post anything they want anonymously.

Acting has always been a way for me to express myself, and show all my vulnerabilities and flaws through my characters.

I kind of view everybody like a rainbow. Everybody on the planet has all the colors of the rainbow inside.

We went to a small lake, Bass Lake. It was beautiful. It was perfectly still when we got there in the morning. The fog was lifting off the water. It was just magical. And we did catch some fish, 13 fish.

Sometimes leadership is planting trees under whose shade you'll never sit. It may not happen fully till after I'm gone. But I know that the steps we're taking are the right steps.

We need, first of all, for there to be accountability, for there to be somebody who is responsible for enforcing standards and holding people's feet to the fire.

There's only so far you can go before you say enough is enough.

The best intelligence test is what we do with our leisure.

Competence, like truth, beauty, and contact lenses, is in the eye of the beholder.

Originality is the fine art of remembering what you hear but forgetting where you heard it.

Speak when you are angry - and you'll make the best speech you'll ever regret.

We're in a giant car heading towards a brick wall and everyone's arguing over where they're going to sit.

Education has failed in a very serious way to convey the most important lesson science can teach: skepticism.

The human brain now holds the key to our future. We have to recall the image of the planet from outer space: a single entity in which air, water, and continents are interconnected. That is our home.

In the environmental movement, every time you lose a battle it's for good, but our victories always seem to be temporary and we keep fighting them over and over again.

The harder you work, the luckier you get.

My heart is breaking
So I'm staying wasted
Maybe we can meet again
When I'm famous

I pray I will get more comfortable doing uncomfortable things.

Wish I never left, 'cause you took away my breath
You can say that we were young, but me and you were meant
For eternity, no surgery could take you off my heart
Just hang onto my words and we'll make it through this part

When you have expectations, you are setting yourself up for disappointment.

Crime sprees would be so much funnier if your get-a-way vehicle was Hodor from Game of Thrones.

Being a father is the single greatest feeling on earth. Not including those wonderful years I spent without a child, of course.

A family having a picnic about two hundred yards downwind, ate like, half my Dad's ashes this morning.

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.

I can't censor myself; it's really important for me to say how I feel.

Well, maybe this isn't a breakup. Maybe this is two friends getting back together.

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.

Harvey Dent: "When their enemies were at the gates, the Romans would suspend democracy and appoint one man to protect the city. It wasn't considered an honor, it was considered a public service."
Rachel Dawes: "Harvey, the last man who they appointed the Republic was named Caesar and he never gave up his power."
Harvey Dent: "Okay, fine. you either die a hero or you live long enough to see yourself become the villain..."

They say money can't buy happiness. But it can book your flight to Vienna - which is kinda the same.

Every time I describe a city, I'm saying something about Venice. The images from memory, once fixed in words, are erased. Maybe I'm afraid of losing Venice at once, if I'm talking about it. speaking in other cities, I have already lost it, little by little.