Top 160 Provincial Quotes & Sayings

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.

A great city is the place to escape the true drama of provincial life, and find solace in fantasy.

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

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.

But I always felt that I'd rather be provincial hot-tamale than soup without seasoning.

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 blame the federal government. We don't blame the Queen any more, so once in a while we might blame the Americans.

There are certainly great cities in America that don't have ATP and WTA events. Our fans are very provincial. They want American champions.

Paris is a mighty schoolmaster, a grand enlightener of the provincial intellect.

India's great economic boom, the arrival of the Internet and outsourcing, have broken the wall between provincial India and the world.

I knew I'd have to go to Paris eventually, and I didn't want to be the provincial kid who just turns up and says, 'I want to act.'

Oppression does not know the meaning of provincial boundaries. Aren't our energies better spent fighting the common enemy instead of each other?

New York is just as provincial as anyone else.

That's the trouble with provincial life. Everyone knows everyone and there is no mystery. No romance.

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.

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.

We must break through the provincial crust if we are to reach the core of all-India nationalism.

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.

Living in England, provincial England, must be like being married to a stupid but exquisitely beautiful wife.

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.

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

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.

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.

Denmark can be very small, provincial, and mediocre.

I love provincial politics.

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

World class is a phrase used by provincial cities and second-rate entertainment events, as well as a wide variety of insecure individuals, to assert that they are not provincial or second-rate, thereby confirming that they are.

Björk’s wraparound swan frock . . . made her look like a refugee from the more dog-eared precincts of provincial ballet.

If one's fated to be born in Caesar's Empire, let him live aloof, provincial, by the seashore.

The possibility that a provincial town could win the League completely bucks the trend.

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.

Germany collapsed as a result of having engaged in a struggle for empire with the concepts of provincial politics.

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.

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

My company, East West, was founded on the premise that people need to group together and not be xenophobic, parochial, or provincial.

It was a small provincial place with great people and I had a happy childhood growing up in Queens.

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.

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.

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.

We came out of a very provincial city that was not very supportive of music, and we had to do our own thing and flyer everywhere.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Withdraw from the Canada Pension Plan... Collect our own revenue from personal income tax... Resume provincial responsibility for health-care policy. If Ottawa objects to provincial policy, fight in the courts... [E]ach province should raise its own revenue for health... It is imperative to take the initiative, to build firewalls around Alberta.

I'm a child of provincial France.

No patriotism is genuine that is merely partisan or provincial.

I grew up abroad, and when I first passed through London in the 1970s, it seemed a drab and provincial place.

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.

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.

In any event, colonization and the grant of lands were provincial matters.

Good digestions, the gray monotony of provincial life, and the boredom-ah the soul-destroying boredom-of long days of mild content.

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.

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.

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

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.

We are very grateful for what the Ontario provincial government is doing, and for cooperation from provincial and local police forces all across Canada.

Berlin is like being abroad in Germany. It's German, but not provincial.

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.

A patchwork solution of provincial targets is an admission of defeat and a statement that we have failed our children and grandchildren.

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.