Ryan Gosling Quotes

I absolutely love Canada, and I wouldn't live anywhere else. It's half American and half European, and I really enjoy that. And the people are just fantastic - nicer than any people in the world.

It was a lot of fun to grow up in Canada.

I love being Canadian. I think growing up in Canada gives you a world perspective that I certainly enjoy.

Canada had the good health-care system and educational system. It was a privilege for me to grow up there.

Say 'Toronto' or 'Ontario,' and the immediate thought associations are with a somewhat blander version of North America: a United States with a welfare regime and a more polite street etiquette, and the additionally reassuring visage of Queen Elizabeth on the currency.

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

First of all, when you live in a country like Canada, it's quite different from America in the sense that it's very tied to traditions that were born in Britain.

Oh, I think Canadians look like all sorts of people. That's the beauty of Canada.

(Canada) - the most parochial nationette on earth ... I have been living in this sanctimonious icebox ... painting portraits of the opulent Methodists of Toronto. Methodism and money in this city have produced a sort of hell of dullness.

It is as queen of Canada that I am here. Queen of Canada and all Canadians, not just one or two ancestral strains.

I am not anti-American. But I am strongly pro-Canadian.

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.

Canada is a big part of my life.

Never mind what makes Canada's constitution so special. Probably something to do with hockey, or the inalienable right to poutine, or securing the blessings of Rick Moranis.

I am so proud to be a Canadian.

Why would I be embarrassed about being Canadian? I'm very proud. We're just the nicest people. Everyone likes us.

Yeah, I was born in Montreal and I go back to Vancouver and Toronto a lot, so I have a sense of being Canadian, and I was raised by two Canadians, and my wife is Canadian, so yeah, I feel it.

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

Political freedom is rare enough in the world, but the kind of social and cultural freedom which is the hallmark of Canada is even less common.

One of these days every person in Canada will be a Canadian.

Everything about Canada makes me proud to be Canadian.

If I look at my make-up, Canada is a huge part of what I am.

We are very proud, wherever we are in the world, to tell you about Canadian values and what we think is the right thing for Canada to do. And when it comes to refugees, we very much believe in welcoming refugees to our country, and that includes Syrian refugees, and that includes Muslim refugees.

All I can say is I'm proud to be Canadian.

At the end of the day, what would be a Canadian sensibility? Is it Michael Ondaatje? Alice Munro? Is Margaret Atwood more Canadian than Neil Bissoondath?