Provincial Quotes

73 Provincial quotes by 69 unique authors

I was 18 when I first visited London, I'm very provincial like that, but I must confess the moment I got to America I thought:… — David Hockney
I think provincialism is an endemic characteristic with mankind, I think everybody everywhere is provincial, but it is particularly striking with Texans, and we tend… — Molly Ivins
Reagan was all about America, and you talked about it. Obama is, 'We are above that now. We're not just parochial, we're not just chauvinistic,… — Chris Matthews
I'm a provincial. I live very much like a hermit: reading, listening to music, working in the cutting room, writing, commercial work - which doesn't… — Orson Welles
Be subtle, various, ornamental, clever, And do not listen to those critics ever Whose crude provincial gullets crave in books Plain cooking made still plainer… — Wystan Hugh Auden
Life in the world... was nothing more than a system of atavistic contracts, banal ceremonies, preordained words, with which people entertained each other in society… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez
I don't know how you perceive my mission as a writer, but for me it is not a responsibility to reaffirm your concretized myths and… — Harlan Ellison
Living in a foreign country is one of those things that everyone should try at least once. My understanding was that it completed a person,… — David Sedaris
From a long view of the history of mankind, seen from, say, ten thousand years from now, there can be little doubt that the most… — Richard P. Feynman
If one's fated to be born in Caesar's Empire, let him live aloof, provincial, by the seashore... — Joseph Brodsky
To do such a thing would be to transcend magic. And I beheld, unclouded by doubt, a magnificent vision of all that invisibility might mean… — H.G. Wells
Attacking a provincial lord in his manor house, surrounded by guards...Honestly, Kell, I'd nearly forgotten how foolhardy you can be. "Foolhardy?" Kelsier asked with a… — Brandon Sanderson
An artist is a provincial who finds himself somewhere between a physical reality and a metaphysical one. It’s this in-between that I’m calling a province,… — Federico Fellini
That's the trouble with provincial life. Everyone knows everyone and there is no mystery. No romance. — John Fowles
I am haunted by what my life would have been had I not had the courage in my early twenties to leave Pittsburgh for New… — Said Sayrafiezadeh
With the growth of Harvard from a small provincial college into a great University, a unique paranoia has swept the ranks of local officialdom, furrowing… — J. Anthony Lukas
When my party won the elections convincingly on February 18th, 2008, we immediately reached out to other parties to form broad-based coalitions of national unity… — Asif Ali Zardari
We lived in the provincial town of Ramat Gan where I spent most of my youth adjacent to the chess board. — Arnon Goldfinger
I first visited Kurdistan in 2003. I arrived in the town of Sulaimaniyah, courtesy of smugglers who drove me across the border from Iran. Sulaimaniyah… — Luke Harding
We lived in Northern Quebec, and the nearest school was thirty miles away, so my mother took on the task of home schooling me. She… — Willard Boyle
In regard to education, something has been done by the Provincial Legislature; but to build churches, and to place clergymen is a work of greater… — John Strachan
In any event, colonization and the grant of lands were provincial matters. — Albert Bushnell Hart
I want much more than this provincial life! -Belle — Disney Princess

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