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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 difficulty. -- John Strachan
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 difficulty. -- John Strachan
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 in Saskatchewan. -- Stockwell Day
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 by our own military. -- Tom Lantos
Berlin is like being abroad in Germany. It's German, but not provincial. -- Claudia Schiffer
In any event, colonization and the grant of lands were provincial matters. -- Albert Bushnell Hart
The country is provincial; it becomes ridiculous when it tries to ape Paris. -- Honore de Balzac
It was a small provincial place with great people and I had a happy childhood growing up in Queens. -- Fran Drescher
India's great economic boom, the arrival of the Internet and outsourcing, have broken the wall between provincial India and the world. -- Aravind Adiga
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
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
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
When I wrote about the French Revolution, I didn't choose to write about aristocrats; I chose characters who began their lives in provincial obscurity. -- Hilary Mantel
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 to be very Texcentric. -- Molly Ivins
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 take up that much time. -- Orson Welles
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 was a small, charming provincial Kurdish town. -- Luke Harding
I know that a prime minister of Canada needs to be deeply respectful of the other levels of government - whether it be municipal, provincial, or even nation-to-nation relationships with aboriginal governments. -- Justin Trudeau
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 the area of skills training have been clarified. -- Kim Campbell
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 in the National Assembly and in the four provincial assemblies. -- Asif Ali Zardari
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
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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 get involved with young people you don't learn anything about the world. -- Edmund White
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
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
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 were no wines exported from New Zealand and virtually none from Australia (including Penfolds Grange, one of the greatest wines in existence). -- Robert M. Parker, Jr.
As a child, I wanted only two things - to be left alone to read my library books, and to get away from my provincial hometown and go to London to be a writer. And I always knew that when I got there, I wanted to make loads of money. -- Julie Burchill
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 York City and really commit to being a writer. Pittsburgh is both post-industrial and provincial, and the opportunities there are limited. It would have been quite easy to simply drift through life. -- Said Sayrafiezadeh
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
Events that get covered in the U.S. one way are not very important elsewhere or are given a completely different slant, and one needs to have a kind of comparative way of thinking in order to arrive at a judgment that is not completely provincial, that doesn't end up ratifying one's own national perspective and hence, one's own national agendas. -- Judith Butler
No patriotism is genuine that is merely partisan or provincial. -- William Rainey Harper
Paris is a mighty schoolmaster, a grand enlightener of the provincial intellect. -- Mary Elizabeth Braddon
The provincial dandy wore the longest of spurs and the fiercest of mustaches. -- Victor Hugo
But I always felt that I'd rather be provincial hot-tamale than soup without seasoning. -- F. Scott Fitzgerald
That's the trouble with provincial life. Everyone knows everyone and there is no mystery. No romance. -- John Fowles
Living in England, provincial England, must be like being married to a stupid but exquisitely beautiful wife. -- Margaret Halsey
We must break through the provincial crust if we are to reach the core of all-India nationalism. -- Mahatma Gandhi
If one's fated to be born in Caesar's Empire, let him live aloof, provincial, by the seashore... -- Joseph Brodsky
You're just poor cornball provincial people, you critics; you just don't know what the hell you're talking about. -- George Cukor
A great city is the place to escape the true drama of provincial life, and find solace in fantasy. -- Gilbert K. Chesterton
Germany collapsed as a result of having engaged in a struggle for empire with the concepts of provincial politics. -- Albert Camus
BjÃ¶rk's wraparound swan frock . . . made her look like a refugee from the more dog-eared precincts of provincial ballet. -- Jay Carr
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
I know how syrupy this sounds, how dull, provincial, and possibly whitewashed, but what can I do? Happy childhoods happen -- Marisa de los Santos
I would write of the universal, not the provincial, in human nature.... I would write of characters, not of characteristics. -- Ellen Glasgow
The desolate narrowness, the definitive thinness of experience is both the vainglory and the dead giveaway of a provincial man. -- Pat Conroy
We lived in the provincial town of Ramat Gan where I spent most of my youth adjacent to the chess board. -- Arnon Goldfinger
A patchwork solution of provincial targets is an admission of defeat and a statement that we have failed our children and grandchildren. -- Elizabeth May
Oppression does not know the meaning of provincial boundaries. Aren't our energies better spent fighting the common enemy instead of each other? -- Benazir Bhutto
There are certainly great cities in America that don't have ATP and WTA events. Our fans are very provincial. They want American champions. -- Jim Courier
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
One battle would do more towards a Declaration of Independence than a long chain of conclusive arguments in a provincial convention or the Continental Congress. -- Samuel Adams
Never again can we afford to live with the narrow, provincial "outside agitator" idea. Anyone who lives inside the United States can never be considered an outsider. -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
What North Europe thinks of as its history is actually quite provincial and of limited interest. Different sorts of Christian killing each other, and that's about it. -- Thomas Pynchon
Like paths and alleys overgrown with hardy, rank-growing weeds, the words we use are overgrown with our individual, private, provincial associations, which tend to choke the meaning. -- Stefan Themerson
I knew Id have to go to Paris eventually, and I didnt want to be the provincial kid who just turns up and says, I want to act. -- Tahar Rahim
If we live in the Nineteenth Century, why should we not enjoy the advantages which the Nineteenth Century offers? Why should our life be in any respect provincial? -- Henry David Thoreau
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 by plain cooks. -- W. H. Auden
Bistro cooking is good, traditional food, earnestly made and honestly displayed. It is earthy, provincial, or bourgeois; as befits that kind of food, it is served in ample portions. -- David Liederman
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
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
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 both sophisticated and provincial. -- Phyllis McGinley
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, a little dead and afraid. -- Sherwood Anderson
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 encroach upon legitimate provincial jurisdiction. -- Stephen Harper
Boston - wrinkled, spindly-legged, depleted of nearly all her spiritual and cutaneous oils, provincial, self-esteeming - has gone on spending and spending her inflated bills of pure reputation, decade after decade. -- Elizabeth Hardwick
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 govern at national and provincial level. -- Thuli Madonsela
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I'm not in the business of saying just one thing about just one place. If you only see Palestine in my films, then I've failed because then I'm just a provincial filmmaker. -- Elia Suleiman
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 too different and they'll pull you down. -- Brad Falchuk
Well, Ramadi is a provincial capital of Anbar province. It's a sprawling city west of Baghdad. It's a poor city, endless cinderblock houses and high-rises almost as far as the eye can see. -- Tom Bowman
My wife and I were never happy here. Spain can be narrow-minded, and provincial. In LA you don't have to justify yourself. I think I will leave here again soon and move back there. -- Carlos Ruiz Zafon
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 1980s, it was a provincial town in a socialist country. -- Aravind Adiga
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 mad in the evening sun. It is intensely sad... -- Philip Larkin
My sense of Los Angeles was very New York provincial, as in 'all those people are crazy out there' (which they are), and stupid (which they're not), and immoral (it's more interesting than that). -- Lynda Obst
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 as skill, will gradually pass out of his hands. -- Alexander Crum Brown
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, in each of the three provincial capitals of Darfur. -- Jan Egeland
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 ethnic rivalries, dominated by competing Irish and Italian constituencies. -- Andrea Mitchell

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