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Quotes About Community

In Toronto, the film festival is like a carnival... entire families come to it.
~ Vetrimaaran
I grew up in the suburbs of Toronto, where everything was in a strip mall.
~ Dave Foley
Everything that comes out of Canada musically, I support. I support Toronto 100% because I'm on the side of the music.
~ Tory Lanez
I like B.C. because it's so beautiful, but I think Toronto's the greatest place because every corner of the world is here.
~ Rupi Kaur
Toronto is a very multicultural city, a place of immigrants, like my parents.
~ Melanie Fiona
Growing up in the greater Toronto area, I was a happy kid. I was my mother's first child, surrounded by admiring godparents and cousins.
~ Winnie Harlow
It's easy for me to care about Toronto, because Toronto is a community that cares about itself. It represents the world. It talks to itself, and because it does, it figures out that there must be a music garden as part of its existence.
~ Yo-Yo Ma
A lot of people don't know this, but Toronto is probably the most multicultural city in North America.
~ Stephen Amell
I think I am staying in Toronto. It keeps me grounded and I can be with my family and friends.
~ Dakota Goyo
I was raised in Mimico, a small neighborhood just outside of Toronto, Canada. One of the most culturally diverse cities in the world.
~ Joey Votto
I have a dear friend here in Toronto, Sarah Millman, who has helped me a lot as a stylist.
~ Karine Vanasse
Toronto was a great place to work, a fun place to work. People were so hockey-oriented, hockey-minded, without being too critical. In Montreal, they got downright nasty sometimes.
~ Pat Burns
Toronto's a delightful city.
~ Nellie McKay
I'm an east coaster, you know, I'm brought up in Toronto where it's very much, like, kind of a miniature New York in that there's a subway and you're surrounded by people a lot and, you know, you bump into people and you have interactions and you communicate and la la la.
~ Paulo Costanzo
In Toronto and Los Angeles, too, there are a lot of Koreans - Koreatown, Korean markets. I feel like I'm at home and very comfortable.
~ Kim Yuna
I lived in London for a long time, and that's a pretty white town. In Toronto, I just ended up in this circle of indie rock kids who happened to be white, too... Really, it was just when I started getting out there and meeting more people and seeing more fans that I went, 'Oh, actually, I'm not white.'
~ Bryan Lee O'Malley
I teach students that what people say about failure in politics is mostly wrong. People always told me, 'They'll praise you on your way up and kick you on your way down.' That wasn't my experience. I can't walk down the street in Toronto without someone coming up and saying hello.
~ Michael Ignatieff
I don't have a problem with anybody in Toronto.
~ Tory Lanez
I was in Toronto when the big Women's March was going on, and I thought, 'Well, I've never been to a protest, and I can't sit this one out, and they're having a gathering here in Toronto, so I may as well go,' and gosh, I didn't expect 60,000 or 65,000 people to be there - it was huge! It was something that I didn't feel I could sit out at all.
~ Yvonne Strahovski
Toronto is like a smaller, safe New York.
~ Mekhi Phifer
Toronto is an amazing place to be as a family.
~ Sarah Rafferty
There are some cities that you go to that bring something out of you. Toronto is one of them.
~ Kevin Owens
I remember being in the States a few years ago, and when I said I was from Toronto, it doesn't really make a difference. Now you say you're from Toronto, and people want to talk to you a little longer. Drake's putting on and bringing a lot of eyes to the city, but I feel like the seed and the flowers have always been here.
~ Jessie Reyez
Toronto has been home to me and my family for almost 5 years. I arrived here from Italy in January 2015 and immediately felt something special.
~ Sebastian Giovinco