Provincial Quotations

We lived in Northern Quebec, and the nearest school was thirty miles away, so my mother took on the task of home schooling me. She spoke to some friends, received some instructions from the provincial school board, and found some interesting books that perhaps I might find useful.

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.

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.

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, we took only granola, thinking we'd be eating a lot of lake trout. Well, we neglected to bring along a net, and our fishing line was only 8-lb. test.

You know, the state of Connecticut is... sometimes it's a provincial state. And I've been working very hard to get the endorsement of the people within our state, and ultimately, the ultimate endorsement is from the voters in the state of Connecticut.

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.

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.'

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.

You could grow up in Germany in the postwar years without ever meeting a Jewish person. There were small communities in Frankfurt or Berlin, but in a provincial town in south Germany, Jewish people didn't exist.

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.

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).

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

In Edna, I created a satiric portrait of my hometown of Melbourne, a large provincial English city paradoxically in far Southeast Asia. She's a theatrical figure, related to vaudeville in some respects. She inhabits a world in which there are comparatively few female exponents of comedy.

We find in a number of provincial centres where people are setting up galleries, they can have no idea what to charge for commission or the business of running a gallery, let alone documentation for the artist. So this booklet is a guideline for what you should provide for the artist.

We're feeling shock and dismay. For her to capitulate like this -- that's not the Pam Goldsmith-Jones that I knew. I can only assume that she's under unbelievable pressure from a far too powerful provincial government.

We want to see the provincial government play more of a leadership role and not leaving the colleges, and the students especially, out to hang dry, and we need to see that action very quickly.

There is a red sandy beach in the Minas Basin in Nova Scotia that is unlike any other shore landscape I have ever seen. The world's highest tides wash its shores, and the soft cliffs of Blomidon Provincial Park are constantly crumbling away; whole trees will occasionally slide down to the sea to decay slowly in the wind and brine.

The provincial government of NWFP has not barred women from casting their votes in local government elections,

The provincial government has set up a special team to investigate the accusations of pollution and shut down those chemical plants thought responsible.

Simply fanning out these people to cover the country isn't going to achieve substantive results. The priority must be given to working with the leadership corps at the provincial and city level, and ensure that their activities are coordinated with the elected representatives, other ministries, and local leaders in their respective area.

Minister MacKay, as you all know, has deep roots in Atlantic Canada and is very familiar with PEI and its provincial government. He will serve Islanders well in our new cabinet.

Of all the inventions that have helped to unify China perhaps the airplane is the most outstanding. Its ability to annihilate distance has been in direct proportion to its achievements in assisting to annihilate suspicion and misunderstanding among provincial officials far removed from one another or from the officials at the seat of government.

Morale among provincial police officers is not high,

My sense is there's a lot of momentum behind this desire for democracy here, ... We've had town hall meetings, selection of provincial councils ... all over this country. There's a real thirst for democracy.

I wouldn't have traded places with the provincial reps who didn't make it. It was a difficult situation, but you make the best of it and move on.

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.

If Ontario needs a first-rate post-secondary education system, then in our view, the bulk of the funding for that should come from general revenues of the provincial government.

For sure, it's the best year I've ever had. We had a really good cash year, and sometimes it's difficult to follow that up with a provincial title, which we were able to do. So definitely this has been a pretty good year for us -- so far.

What is at stake is not the provincial council elections, but democracy.

What is an artist? A provincial who finds himself somewhere between a physical reality and a metaphysical one.... Its this in-between that Im calling a province, this frontier country between the tangible world and the intangible onewhich is really the realm of the artist.

He shook the Star at the foundation. He changed the character of the newspaper. It became more of a big-city, cosmopolitan newspaper. It wasn't as provincial as it was under the family.

We lost our 10 top leaders in the blast. The provincial Government failed to provide adequate security cover despite being repeated threats to our leadership.

We look forward to how we can work with both the provincial and federal governments on improving the system.

It is one of the chief sources of income for the provincial governments. They're actually partners in all of these projects.

Other than on budget day each year, I don't recall ever in my years as being premier, or in my years in provincial politics, ever making such a significant one-day investment announcement,

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.

That amount is based on if the hospital is built in 2007. The cost will escalate if is later than that. We believe we are one of the hospitals included in provincial plans.

Local and provincial governance needs to be improved. There will have to be hard budget constraints.

We need an overall provincial obesity strategy to drive down the risk factors associated with being obese.

We need a federal, provincial and municipal program with a focus.

We're certainly going to have to have a look at what was going on in provincial cities,

We're working with our federal counterparts through the strategy and I know my colleagues in the provinces are working with their provincial governments and cancer agencies to look at how we can get this program implemented as quickly as possible.

With the growth of Harvard from a small provincial college into a great University, a unique paranoia has swept the ranks of local officialdom, furrowing brows throughout University Hall. The lurking fear is that somehow, in the operations of the gigantic administrative machine, a student might get lost in the shuffle.

We are now in the process of having the signatures verified with the municipal, city and provincial election registrars. We are verifying signatures as we gather them.

When Friedan came to Smith in the fall of 1938 from a provincial town in Illinois, she was not very political, and her Smith education gave her the language of politics and feminism. She was definitely a feminist when she left.

We want the workers and families to know that the provincial government and the people of Saskatchewan are standing with them and will work with them to find solutions.

There are many pressing issues in this file and the prime minister has told me I have all the decision-making powers and freedoms of a regular minister and so to that end I will be as soon as possible visiting with my provincial counterparts and also with the stakeholders,

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.

The government ... has responded with pilot projects for the GTA, which may make some marginal improvements, but certainly doesn't respond to the criticisms that the provincial auditor has raised.

What are a few extra weeks if a provincial championship is in the offing.

We just take each game like it's a provincial final - not a club game - but like a provincial final. We like to not put too much pressure on ourselves and be the underdogs so hopefully that will keep us in good luck for the rest of the week.

We just take each game like it's a provincial final -- not a club game.

At this point, I think most people are just delving back to his time as the provincial finance minister, and focusing on the tax-cut angle, which I think in the long run would be perceived in a fairly positive fashion.

Federal and provincial programs that benefit the city of Ottawa are financed by hard working, tax paying Canadians. Those tax dollars shouldn't be spent to support workers in other countries, when there are Canadians that can do the work.

I've been in direct contact with the (Ontario Provincial Police) and we're pretty well assured. . .that there will be no action taken by them.

It would have been called provincial and barbarous; it would have been cited as an incident of low civilization to confuse such art.

There would be no involvement in any operational matters, in how the (Ontario Provincial Police) conducted their affairs.

I've seen too much blood. I've seen too many deaths from off-highway vehicles. How many more deaths is it going to take before the provincial government realizes they're making a wrong mistake?

Profits for auto insurers have skyrocketed with the direct assistance of provincial governments. These governments have legislated reduced benefits by putting caps on payments to victims of crashes in the hope rates would come down.

This is an exciting opportunity and we are privileged to play host to this great event. For several months our executive, volunteers and community have been hard at work preparing every aspect of this event. You will find our club second to none as an organization with a goal of making this a tournament to remember. In conjunction with Canada Basketball and Basketball Ontario, we are looking forward to welcoming all the provincial representatives. Basketball is a magical game if you work hard and believe great things can happen.

It really isn't a suitable facility for them to be in a provincial detention centre, which is really geared to people who are there for relatively short periods of time,

It's kind of shocking that a private investor can own a crossing between two countries. He can impact two very large state and provincial economies.

It's really with the Legion now, to obtain 66 per cent of the funding from provincial and federal sources. That goes back to the original three-way partnership proposed last fall.

The last thing I'd like to see is a glut of provincial clubs holding these meetings.

The Canadian poultry industry is, in general, little dependent on exports or imports, but new provincial rules forcing the confinement of birds make the practice of free-range raising more difficult.

I liked his style. I found him to be very open. He didn't try -- as federal ministers often do with provincial ministers -- the divide and conquer strategy,

If the provinces' budgets get a little better and the federal budget a little worse, it can only be good for provincial bonds.

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.

I had been going to school at St. Michael's for six years since Grade 7 and schooling and playing for the Buzzers (of the Provincial Jr. A league) was a good mix that I wanted to keep going. Balancing hockey and school at a place like St. Mike's, I did not know anything different.

I had been going to school at St. Michael's for six years since Grade 7 and playing for the Buzzers (of the Provincial Jr. A league) was a good mix that I wanted to keep going. Balancing hockey and school, I did not know anything different.

Canada's health-care professionals remain frozen out of the upcoming meeting of federal, provincial leaders in 10 days because our leaders want to change the channel and move on from health.

Canada would benefit from a fresh dose of competition. Although tariffs on goods are declining, the list of non-tariff barriers is daunting. The primary impact of these barriers is to raise costs, which reduces the competitiveness of Canadian firms. This is not a federal versus provincial issue ? all governments are responsible for maintaining barriers.

Gerri's track record of success in creating value in early stage technology companies makes her a great addition to the Ballard Board. In addition, she has solid experience working with government, at both the provincial and federal levels. Because of the leadership role that government needs to play in the introduction and advancement of disruptive technologies, Gerri's understanding of the political realm will be a great asset to the Ballard team.

I could see in him a guy who would have success over the long haul. And that's what he's been. His roots have helped him. He's not one of those people who come to Pittsburgh and look around and think he's in some provincial town. He knows Pittsburgh, he understands the people, and he thinks of it as home. It's great to have him.

I don't see any excuse for the federal government to wait, because the provincial government is certainly treating this document as a precursor to legislation.

I am prepared to broker a meeting between the federal justice minister and the provincial attorney general. I want them to meet to determine how far they are prepared to go to implement criminal liability in the workplace and then to say so publicly.

He brings a gust of acrid provincial air to the ancient office. He is an angry young prophet rather than a smooth courtier. His verse is angular, savage, robust and very good.

For the first time it establishes a common environment standard across the basin and puts in place a virtual prohibition against diversions from the Great Lakes. It puts in place a requirement to build conservation programs that would be implemented at the state and provincial level.

All of the communities are on stream to investigate the cost and talk to the provincial government about possible funding.

The main purpose of this book is to provide Canadians with information about much tax in all forms they pay to federal, provincial and municipal governments, and how the size of the tax bill has changed over the years.

The Lions were keen to have an additional match against one of the top provincial sides and I'm sure Auckland will provide them with a challenging match-up before the third test.