27 Provincial Quotes for You to Enjoy

One of my oldest friends has a cottage on Smoke Lake in Algonquin Provincial Park, and it's one of my favorite places in the world. Alexi Zentner

World Favorite Favorite Places Cottage Park Smoke Provincial Friends Lake Places Oldest

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 to retrain as a Latin teacher in a provincial public school. Arthur Smith

Positive Teacher Me School Latin Something More Stuff Involve Doing Provincial Going Anyway Public Noticed Public School Here Resolutions

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, we're not just provincial. We stand for something.' I mean, in a way, Obama's standing above the country, above - above the world. He's sort of God. He's going to bring all different sides together. Chris Matthews

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My new play 'Chinglish,' which will go to Broadway, is about a white American businessman who goes to a provincial capital in China, hoping to make a deal there. It's bilingual. And it's about trying to communicate across language and cultural barriers. David Henry Hwang

Communicate Language Will White Broadway Hoping About New Make Deal Go Cultural Provincial Trying American Goes Which China Capital Bilingual Across Who Businessman Barriers Play

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: This is the place. It was more open, with 24-hour cities and pubs and restaurants that didn't close. David Hockney

Thought First Visited Cities Must Restaurants London More Open Like Got Provincial Very Close America Confess Place Moment Pubs

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

Heart Writers Parochial Greatest Been Provincial Greatest Writers

I think that the pivotal point of me in terms of the choral stuff is that I was involved in this provincial choir at 16 or 17. We went and played in churches and convention centres. The music we got to do was so inspiring for me. Devin Townsend

Music Me Think Churches Point Inspiring Stuff Involved Terms Got Provincial Convention Pivotal Choir Played

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 your friends, the cinema was a world of fantasy. I had always been in love with it. Dino De Laurentiis

Love You World Cinema Nothing Had Town Like Always Go Been Provincial Friends Where Movies Fantasy Your Evening Lived

I love provincial politics. Doug Ford

Love Politics Provincial

I'm a child of provincial France. Emmanuel Macron

France Provincial Child

You're just poor cornball provincial people, you critics; you just don't know what the hell you're talking about. George Cukor

You People Hell Critics About Know Talking Provincial Just Poor

I was told that, when 'Betrayal' was being produced by one of the provincial companies in England, the two actors playing those roles actually went into a pub one day and played that scene as if it were really happening to them. The people around them became very uncomfortable. Harold Pinter

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As long as I can remember, I had a strong interest in fishing, and my parents, even though they had never fished or camped, took us on canoe camping trips in the wilderness of Quetico Provincial Park in Ontario, Canada, where I could fish to my heart's content. Henry Paulson

Heart Strong Remember Long Parents Took Wilderness Though Trips Park Could Ontario Never Had Content Fish Fishing Provincial Camping Canada Where Canoe Interest Us Even

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

Country Tries Paris Becomes Provincial Ape Ridiculous

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 little provincial and insular. Howard Stringer

Sometimes Else Everywhere Furthest Small Point Small Town Town Make Insular West West Coast Provincial America Little Hollywood Coast

I get nostalgic about having lived in Ames, Iowa, even though being a vegetarian in Iowa is not fun. But I really love Durham more than any place I've ever been; some small towns can be really provincial and strangling, but Durham is the best city in the world. John Darnielle

Love Best World Though City Some About Having More Small Vegetarian Small Towns Towns Iowa Been Provincial Than Get Any Being Nostalgic Place Really Strangling Fun Even Lived Ever

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 the performance of candidates during these elections but will also do so after these elections. Mangosuthu Buthelezi

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

Admire Lot Provincial Novels

New York is just as provincial as anyone else. Molly Ivins

Else New Provincial York Just New York Anyone Anyone Else

I grew up in small towns in Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh and Maharashtra - places like Akola, Betul, Wardha, Jhansi; I thought the rise of provincial India would be an interesting subject to tackle. Pankaj Mishra

Thought Would Would-Be India Rise Tackle Small Small Towns Like Towns Subject Provincial Up Grew Places Interesting

If we are visiting Afghans, typically the Afghan governor, district or provincial governor, we see he doesn't wear body armor, and yet we're walking through his streets. I'm his guest. I think that that's important that I send a message that I trust him and I don't think I am more valuable than I think he is. Stanley A. McChrystal

Trust Valuable Important Think Guest Visiting Wear District See More Through He Armor Message Him Am His Provincial Governor Walking Than Send Afghan Afghans Body Streets

Denmark can be very small, provincial, and mediocre. Thomas Vinterberg

Small Denmark Provincial Very Mediocre

I've gotten to really, really like being back in the States. It's so easy being in your own country, and I really like Americans - typical American towns and provincial college towns are my ideal place to be. Whit Stillman

College Country Own Back Typical States Easy Ideal Like Towns Gotten Provincial American Being Place Really Your

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