Canadian Celebrity Quotes

“You can shed the past. You can’t shake it. But you certainly get new skin. You can grow and become stronger.” — Lesra Martin, lawyer

“Even before you’ve earned it, treat yourself and your career with the level of respect that you hope to one day deserve.” — Catherine O’Hara, actress

“The winters of my childhood were long, long seasons. We lived in three places – the school, the church and the skating rink – but our real life was on the skating rink.” — Roch Carrier, novelist

“I only use my iPhone as a camera. I don’t even know my number. I don’t belong to this modern world and I’m out of it, but I don’t want in.” — Joni Mitchell, singer-songwriter

“I don’t know what to say. I’m just a kid from Nanaimo who had a good band teacher and good parents, and I don’t know how I ended up here.” — Diana Krall, singer and pianist

“At the end of Grade 10, I remember the vice principal at Prince of Wales sat me down and invited me to leave, which, looking back, was just a very Canadian way of kicking me out.” — Ryan Reynolds, Vancouver

“Canadians are fond of a good disaster, especially if it has ice, water, or snow in it. You thought the national flag was about a leaf, didn’t you? Look harder. It’s where someone got axed in the snow.” — Margaret Atwood, in Strange Things: The Malevolent North in Canadian Literature, 1995

“Not until I came to Canada did I realize that snow was a four-letter word.” — Canadian-Argentine writer Alberto Manguel