Provincial Quotes

73 Provincial quotes by 69 unique authors

All Gaza's temples are torn down and burned and the city is cleansed of every belief but the Christian faith. The most stubborn opponents, faute… — Ramsay MacMullen
A patchwork solution of provincial targets is an admission of defeat and a statement that we have failed our children and grandchildren. — Elizabeth May
The cities of America are inexpressibly tedious. The Bostonians take their learning too sadly; culture with them is an accomplishment rather than an atmosphere; their… — Oscar Wilde
The provincial intellectual is doomed to arguing at low level... there is still no Australian literary world, not in Sydney, Melbourne, Adelaide. It is some… — Clive James
It was a small provincial place with great people and I had a happy childhood growing up in Queens. — Fran Drescher
I continue to hear concerns from health professional organizations that dried marijuana is not an approved drug or medicine in Canada. They want clearer guidance… — Rona Ambrose
Our neighbor Canada has 2,200 troops serving in Afghanistan. Canada has also assumed responsibility for the Provincial Reconstruction Team in Kandahar, which was originally established… — Tom Lantos
I think you know that when an American stays away from New York too long something happens to him. Perhaps he becomes a little provincial,… — Sherwood Anderson
First New York was a sort of provincial capital, bigger and richer than Manchester or Marseilles, but not much different in its essential spirit. Then,… — Malcolm Cowley
What if one were up there, drifting about among suns and feeling the tails of comets fan one's forehead! How small the earth was and… — Knut Hamsun
It would be naive to imagine we have solved all our income security problems simply because the roles of the federal and provincial governments in… — Kim Campbell
India's great economic boom, the arrival of the Internet and outsourcing, have broken the wall between provincial India and the world. — Aravind Adiga
Mangalore, the coastal Indian town where I lived until I was almost 16, is now a booming city of malls and call-centres. But, in the… — Aravind Adiga
A great city is the place to escape the true drama of provincial life, and find solace in fantasy. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
In sci-fi convention, life-forms that hadn't developed space travel were mere prehistory -- horse-shoe crabs of the cosmic scene -- and something of the humiliation… — Barbara Ehrenreich
Australians are very provincial in many ways. If they feel that you've used them as a stepping stone to bigger things, they resent it. — Graham Russell
Sometimes Hollywood is a small town on the West Coast of America at the furthest point from everywhere else, and that can make it a… — Howard Stringer
Of all the inventions that have helped to unify China perhaps the airplane is the most outstanding. Its ability to annihilate distance has been in… — Soong May-ling
The candidates before you know that the IFP has set up a system of deployed IFP national and provincial leaders who are not only monitoring… — Mangosuthu Buthelezi
When you're a mayor and you have a problem you blame the provincial government. If you are provincial government and you have a problem you… — Jean Chretien
The East Coast, and certainly Boston, has a provincial quality to it that makes it harder to bust out and move up. Try to be… — Brad Falchuk
With the idea that a single creator can build a society wherein a huge number of people will live, Le Corbusier later approached Stalin. In… — Masato
Provincial governments in Canada have terminated the positions of marriage commissioners who have, for personal religious convictions, not performed same sex marriages. It has happened… — Stockwell Day
Although we have do not have adequate access to all parts of Darfur we do fortunately have humanitarian personnel, including staff from my own office,… — Jan Egeland
I forget what the relevant American rate is, but I can tell you that our goal is to have a combined federal-provincial corporate tax rate… — Stephen Harper

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