Provincial Quotes

73 quotes by 69 authors

The country is provincial; it becomes ridiculous when it tries to ape Paris. — Honore de Balzac
I listen to money singing, it's like looking down from long French windows at a provincial town. The slums, the canal, the churches ornate and… — Philip Larkin
Unless the chemist learns the language of mathematics, he will become a provincial and the higher branches of chemical work, that require reason as well… — Alexander Crum Brown
Good digestions, the gray monotony of provincial life, and the boredom-ah the soul-destroying boredom-of long days of mild content. — Jean-Paul Sartre
Follow your heart, whatever you do. You are placing your fate and our fate in the hands of men and women who are going to… — Thuli Madonsela
Hinduism is like the Ganga, pure and unsullied at its source but taking in its course the impurities in the way. Even like the Ganga… — Mahatma Gandhi
For over 20 years, the federal and provincial governments have made enormous efforts employing a variety of approaches in an attempt to stimulate Montreal's economy. — Kim Campbell
The East is a montage. It is old and it is young, very green in summer, very white in winter, gregarious, withdrawn and at once… — Phyllis McGinley
No patriotism is genuine that is merely partisan or provincial. — William Rainey Harper
In the last analysis, provincialism is your belief in yourself, in your neighborhood, in your reality. It is patriotism without belligerence. Convincing cases have been… — Richard M. Weaver
As a child, I wanted only two things - to be left alone to read my library books, and to get away from my provincial… — Julie Burchill
We are very grateful for what the Ontario provincial government is doing, and for cooperation from provincial and local police forces all across Canada. — Paul Cellucci
Withdraw from the Canada Pension Plan... Collect our own revenue from personal income tax... Resume provincial responsibility for health-care policy. If Ottawa objects to provincial… — Stephen Harper
It is imperative to take the initiative, to build firewalls around Alberta, to limit the extent to which an aggressive and hostile federal government can… — Stephen Harper
Socially, Philadelphia was still a fairly provincial city, its business community governed by the mores of the Main Line. Politically, it was a cauldron of… — Andrea Mitchell
Thanks to the ongoing support of the Government of Ontario, RHF, in partnership with the Ontario Neurotrauma Foundation, has galvanized Ontarioâ€™s best researchers, clinicians and… — Rick Hansen
If you lived in a provincial town like Torre Annunziata, where there was nothing to do in the evening but go to the movies with… — Dino De Laurentiis
Growing up in Northern Ontario provided me with a strong affinity for the natural environment that was so eloquently responded to by Tom ThomsonÂ and… — Ken Danby
Living in England, provincial England, must be like being married to a stupid but exquisitely beautiful wife. — Margaret Halsey
The intelligent and good man holds in his affections the good and true of every land -- the boundaries of countries are not the limitations… — Robert Green Ingersoll

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