Province Quotations

I was born on July 23rd, 1906, in Sarajevo in the province of Bosnia, which then belonged to the Austrian-Hungarian Monarchy and later, in 1918, became part of Yugoslavia.

In the province of Quebec where I come from, we speak French, and the only cosmopolitan city is Montreal. Every time we tackle the subject of immigration and racial tension, it's an issue that concerns Montreal.

Ever since Katrina, there has been a proliferation of efforts at the state level and among hospital administrators to come up with guidelines that would help professionals stuck in a situation like this to prioritize patients. These are questions of values much more than they are of medicine or nursing. They're the province of everybody.

Under the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, a company is not allowed to provide a personal benefit to a decision maker in return for business. But hiring the sons and daughters of powerful executives and politicians is hardly just the province of banks doing business in China: it has been a time-tested practice here in the United States.

News and images move so easily across borders that attitudes and aspirations are no longer especially national. Cyber-weapons, no longer the exclusive province of national governments, can originate in a hacker's garage.

Although many people in Aceh are still poor and vulnerable, the province resembles nothing like the place I saw the day after the tsunami hit.

It is in the province of home and society that woman has fashioned the customs. Here, women's approval and disapproval, wishes and wants, have been quite as formative and reformative as the action of the sea on the mainland.

There is not an example on record of any free state holding a province of the same extent and population without disastrous consequences. The nations conquered and held as a province have, in time, retaliated by destroying the liberty of their conquerors through the corrupting effect of extended patronage and irresponsible power.

Science is increasingly answering questions that used to be the province of religion.

Are you a Democrat because you're a union member? Then why, after eight years of Bill Clinton, does some Chinese guy in Guangdong province have your job?

We start at a market somewhere in Guangdong Province in China. And it's packed with cages, and you'll have chickens, and you'll have ducks. You might have some other animals -- cats, dogs, turtles, snakes -- and they're all stacked in cages, and they're all spreading their germs to each other.

We're so excited. This is the first real new money for libraries from the province in a long time.

What's interesting is how strong it is in the province of Quebec.

We are going to hold the province to that now.

We are very far away from returning refugees to Kosovo or returning displaced people within the province to their original homes because, as we speak, people are still being expelled from Kosovo.

The province of Kosovo is now one of the largest crime scenes in history,

The province is the bogeyman and I'm not afraid of the bogeyman.

The province has created a ticking download that will cost Ontario property taxpayers hundreds of millions of dollars over time.

Let's face it: innovation in the U.S. is now the province of our thriving city-states. We all know that nothing happens in Washington anymore.

She is representing this trend of foreign students or people who are visitors to the province who are running into problems.

My arm is starting to feel good and I really wanted to come out and show them what I could do. For me, it's an honour to represent your province at the nationals. That's why you play. It's going to be the third year in a row for me and I'm excited about the chance to contribute.

Rick works tremendously hard to accommodate media across the province and it is gratifying to see him recognized." ()

If these meteorites fell on the ice sheet, they would have to have been on Earth for 12,000 years or longer. We now have to make a plan for the Prairie Meteorite Search to further investigate the region next summer and I expect Manitoba could well become Canada's pre-eminent meteorite province during 2006.

I am trusting of the prime minister, the premier of the province and the government of the United States to stick to a commitment that's been made.

China Mobile is actually 31 provinces, and each province has its autonomy and capital expenditures. Often they'll promote their own local brands at the expense of national brands they should be promoting.

Frankly, if there's money to be made the province would have involved itself.

I don't think it is a surprise in Canada's only officially bilingual province that it is a great training ground for future prime ministers.

There is a fair amount of ambivalence, principally in the province of Quebec, about the whole mission and mandate.

The people of the province want the government to be focused on energy. It is something that is very troubling to many, many Nova Scotians, and we are going to focus on energy.

We've gained something for disabled people in the province that they've never had before. Now they have rights.

To every nation and every province and every local community across the globe that is standing with the American people and with those who hurt on the Gulf Coast, our entire nation thanks you for your support.

There is a need in this city to do things and if you can't do it in 2005, in the province of Alberta, with the vast wealth we have, when are you going to be able to do it?

We have tightened security on the border between (the northern province of) Nineveh and Syria.

I think the expectations of the citizens of the province have changed, and it's no different for teachers.

It isn't realistic in this province to think that tuition is going to be frozen indefinitely. It doesn't make sense.

Overall, there's nearly 2,000 inspection stations in the province of Manitoba, they know exactly what is loose and what isn't loose. They know the guidelines in the inspection handbook, so they follow it.

Our office in Beijing was informed of this today. It is in a province that hasn't identified human cases before but it is somebody who seems to have a history of exposure to poultry.

Naming is a privilege of reason and the province of bullies. We name to tame and to maim; to honor the great, the dead, and ourselves.

Most of the policies that support robust economic growth in the long run are outside the province of the central bank.

We dream of a province where the values of co-operation and caring, optimism and hope are the foundation of an unbreakable social fabric,

We have but the one drug section for the province of Manitoba, and there literally could be a grow op every five miles.

Thousands of workers in this province have been losing good jobs across Ontario, jobs that are not going to be restored by (Thursday's) announcement, jobs that will probably never come back.

Trauma is not the sole province of victims. If that were true, soldiers returning from Afghanistan wouldn't suffer from PTSD.

The premier and the province of Ontario have abilities to stop illegal strikes. We would hope they would act on that.

What it requires is an agreement between ourselves and the province on the fiscal terms that are appropriate. When might that happen? It's not a month away, it's not six months away, it might not even be a year away.

With $2.8 billion in oil revenue surpluses, I think we could have spent a few million to help promote and show North America what a great province we live in,

There are quite a few vehicles in the ditch, quite a few reports of vehicles that are losing control in the whiteouts. All major 100-series highways in and around the province are experiencing the same whiteout conditions.

The government has taken urgent measures, and the insufficient supply in southern Guangdong Province will soon be alleviated.

to abandon their isolation and agree, as the Albanians have done, to join the consulting governing bodies of the province which work with the international administration.

We cannot forget that our flag received its first foreign salute from a Dutch officer, nor that the Province of Friesland gave to our independence its first formal recognition.

We will start looking to set up another gallery in the province of New Brunswick, other than in Fredericton, to house works that belong to the Canadian and also possibly the British Beaverbrook foundations.

Boxes and rectangles on the side or top of a website simply do not deliver against brand advertising goals. Like it or not, boxes and rectangles have for the most part become the province of direct response advertising, or brand advertising that pays, on average, as if it's driven by direct response metrics.

Everybody took the money, from the income tax departments representing the province and the federal government,

At present, people don't trust him due to his status as a criminal suspect for a purported fake diploma, so Rudolf should show that he has leadership skills and honesty to encourage people to build the province together and use natural resources for the people's benefits.

There's no question in my mind that this man has done more for this province overall than probably any premier. I'm struggling to understand this." ()

There's no way that all the marijuana being grown in the province is being used here.

The teachers of this province are not going to be broken.

Our detailed assessment found that the worst affected regions are the pastoral areas covering the northern districts of the Rift Valley and Eastern provinces, the entire North Eastern Province and parts of the Coast.

Adoration of God has to be through one name and one form; but, that should not limit your loyalty to that particular province only.

Spending increases in Alberta are cause for concern and could potentially jeopardize the fiscal advantage the province currently enjoys.

Nova Scotia is my home and I have a great deal of affection for my province but having said that, I made the decision some time ago to enter federal politics,

The money has only been entering the system in the last few months in most jurisdictions, ... Though each province has some considerable success story to tell about how things have improved, a lot of that wouldn't have filtered down to physicians' practices.

any investment in our province around uranium is subject to all of our own environmental and occupational health and safety regulations and law.

As a result, I think it's fair to say that there's an appetite for the Province of Ontario to seriously explore more nuclear power.

That's going to be a delicate exercise because it does involve essentially trying to establish defined grid of rates, but that is something that we've got together with the province on because it will be important to preserving stability,

Your statutory powers to consider these matters are explicitly set forth in New Mexico Food Act (25-2-1 through 25-2-19) poisonous & deleterious food adulteration is the province of the EIB; your powers in that regard are very precise.

This is going to be the province of tech geeks, your early adopter. It's a niche play, not a volume play.

The unknown is the province of the student; it is the field for his life's adventure, and it is a wide field full of beckonings

This particular appointment seems to blunt and mute the opposition where it's most pronounced, which is in the province of Quebec.

For example, what it represents is for a territory like Nunavut, they would get about eight times as much in those transfers as the highest province would, P.E.I.,

The number of youth addictions treatment beds will increase by approximately 75 per cent and allows us to build capacity to ensure youth across the province get the assistance they need.

It's like rain delays. That's in the province of the commissioner's office. It's to prevent someone from getting what they perceive is an advantage. The roof is designed for weather, not for competitive advantage. It's not like watering the baselines.

It's like rain delays, ... That's in the province of the commissioner's office. It's to prevent someone from getting what they perceive is an advantage. The roof is designed for weather, not for competitive advantage. It's not like watering the baselines.

It's scandalous that Premier Campbell is in Europe furthering his plot to privatize our system while here at home seniors across the province are suffering from lack of home support, residential care beds, and end of life care.

I want to assure everyone that the government of Canada will not put at risk the success of this province or the promise of its resources,

It will be up to the province to determine whether that is required. Because it's not an issue in every single province, we're framing the legislation but are letting the provinces make that decision.

Once again, our government has shown its commitment to heath care for the province of Ontario and in particular to citizens of the Ottawa area. This funding will ensure that our cancer patients in Ottawa receive the best treatments possible and I'm particularly proud that the Queensway Carleton hospital will play an important role with the regional cancer centre.

Not many parties want the optics of coming to the rescue of what is considered to be a very rich province in Canada.

I'm happy (the decision process is over). I don't have to move to another city or province so that's cool.

I lived in a region in the northwestern province - the people there in general have a great love for the Taliban, so I started to read some of the literature of the scholars and the history of the movement. And my heart became attached to them.

If you had a one person, one vote situation and if a Metro candidate was to win, there's a real risk that people from other parts of the province would look at it and say that wasn't fair, we were not fairly represented,

I have taken all knowledge to be my province

In order to have a mandate from the country and a mandate from the province and a mandate from the city, one has to have a mandate from your riding and your constituents and that's not the case here.

I couldn't stop crying. It's so big for him, for the team, for the curling club, for the province of Newfoundland and for the sport of curling and for Canada. It's huge. It's so important for the growth of the sport.

This is only a quick fix, and what I hope is this will send a message to the province (that) it took a students' union to step in and get this young man into residence.

Air Canada's planes assisted in the evacuation. To every nation and every province and every local community across the globe that is standing with the American people and with those who hurt on the Gulf Coast, our entire nation thanks you for your support.

The fiscal gap and the idea of Ontario becoming a have-not province are related, but not closely related,

The idea of him penalizing his home province is obviously a very difficult one politically, and he didn't want to discuss it in any significant way.

And I saw in a vision; and it came to pass, when I saw, that I was at Shushan in the palace, which is in the province of Elam; and I saw in a vision, and I was by the river of Ulai.

The earliest known writing probably emerged in southern Mesopotamia around 5,000 years ago, but for most of recorded history, reading and writing remained among the most elite human activities: the province of monarchs, priests and nobles who reserved for themselves the privilege of lasting words.

The law is not the private property of lawyers, nor is justice the exclusive province of judges and juries. In the final analysis, true justice is not a matter of courts and law books, but of a commitment in each of us to liberty and mutual respect.

We believe that in your province you have granted a second term to our president, George W. Bush, and our vice president, Richard Cheney,