I love Quote by Doug Ford

I'm a child of provincial France.

— Emmanuel Macron

We lived in the provincial town of Ramat Gan where I spent most of my youth adjacent to the chess board.

— Arnon Goldfinger

On every album I've put out, I've put diverse Canadian songs on it. They're not provincial album; my albums are national albums. There'll be…

— Stompin' Tom Connors

“Being bigheaded can be as irritating and as dangerous as being small-minded.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

The country is provincial; it becomes ridiculous when it tries to ape Paris.

— Honore de Balzac

My new play 'Chinglish,' which will go to Broadway, is about a white American businessman who goes to a provincial capital in China, hoping…

— David Henry Hwang

I've noticed that my resolutions involve me not doing stuff that I wasn't going to do anyway so here's something more positive. I'm going…

— Arthur Smith

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…

— Asif Ali Zardari

My youngest brother and I went on a ten-day canoe trip in Bowron Provincial Park in British Columbia years ago. Believe it or not,…

— Will Hobbs

A lot of the novels I admire are 'admirably provincial.'

— Melvyn Bragg

It's nearly impossible to believe just how provincial the wine world was in 1978, the year I launched my journal, 'The Wine Advocate.' There…

— Robert M. Parker, Jr

When I was young, I despised old people. I was provincial and narrow-minded. It's the reason I stayed stupid so long. If you only…

— Edmund White

New York is very provincial. They're very cut-off; they don't have an awareness of so much that is going on in the world.

— Robert Wilson

The greatest writers have been, at heart, parochial, provincial in their rootedness.

— Derek Walcott

You could grow up in Germany in the postwar years without ever meeting a Jewish person. There were small communities in Frankfurt or Berlin,…

— W. G. Sebald