Provincial Quotes
73 quotes by 69 authors
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The country is provincial; it becomes ridiculous when it tries to ape Paris.
— Honore de Balzac
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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 It is old and it is young, very green in summer, very white in winter, gregarious, withdrawn and at once…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
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No patriotism is genuine that is merely partisan or provincial.
— William Rainey Harper
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Thanks to the ongoing support of the Government of Ontario, RHF, in partnership with the Ontario Neurotrauma Foundation, has galvanized Ontario’s best researchers, clinicians and…
— Rick Hansen
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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
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Growing up in Northern Ontario provided me with a strong affinity for the natural environment that was so eloquently responded to by Tom Thomson and…
— Ken Danby
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Living in England, provincial England, must be like being married to a stupid but exquisitely beautiful wife.
— Margaret Halsey
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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
Who Wrote These Provincial Quotes
69 authors contributed a total of 73 Provincial Quotes, led by these top contributors: