Top 55 Province Quotes

My province needs to understand that Alberta’s issues are national issues.

It is okay to be an outsider, a recent arrival, new on the scene – and not just okay, but something to be thankful for… Because being an insider can so easily mean collapsing the horizons, can so easily mean accepting the presumptions of your province.

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

The loneliest Chinese man I ever met lived halfway up the Three Gorges, in Sichuan Province.

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.

When projects like a pipeline are imposed on a province without a buy-in, without a collaborate approach, they just don’t go ahead. What happens is they get caught up in court, there’s court challenges, the project doesn’t proceed.

My personal experience in Ninawa Province has been that, at the most fundamental level, people don’t really care if it’s a Shiite, a Sunni, a Kurd, or a Turkoman that’s providing them security as long as that force treats them with respect.

The imperial province should have a university, the prefectures should have colleges, and the counties should have day schools.

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?

It is the province of knowledge to speak, and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen.

I felt like I was the odd one out growing up in the province because I was half-Filipino and half-German, so I wasn’t full-blooded Filipina and, of course, I was the tallest in my class and I felt kind of awkward.

I was born in a family of landless peasants, in Azinhaga, a small village in the province of Ribatejo, on the right bank of the Almonda River, around a hundred kilometres north-east of Lisbon.

An international presence in Serbia‘s Kosovo province is not a problem. But only a civilian and unarmed mission under U.N. auspices, with Russia‘s participation, would be acceptable.

Khaki trousers soon became the province of hipsters like Jack Kerouac and Miles Davis. They were taken to new heights by Ralph Lauren, who helped popularize them among college professors and preppy men.

My obsession is to provide food and jobs to people in Tarlac. The province is primarily an agricultural province; food security tops the priority.

Philanthropy is involved with basic innovations that transform society, not simply maintaining the status quo or filling basic social needs that were formerly the province of the public sector.

I got to travel around Anbar Province, had a great group of Marines who worked for me who traveled around Anbar Province. I got to hang out with a lot of different types of Marines and soldiers and sailors.

We must give less money to these provinces, like my own province of Quebec, and give them the right incentive to develop their own natural resources and their economy.

War is the province of danger.

Project 523 was both a good and a bad thing. They held so many meetings, and there were so many competing centres, it was a real mess. Nearly every province had their own research centre, and they all asked me to share my research, which I did. But that’s no way to do science. They wasted a lot of money and a lot of time.

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

In view of the importance of education, Punjab government is making all-out efforts for the promotion of education throughout the province.

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.

Alexandre Antoine Davy de la Pailleterie – father of the future Alex Dumas – was born on February 26, 1714, in the Norman province of Caux, a region of rolling dairy farms that hung above great chalk cliffs on the northwest coast of France.

I have a profound resistance to the idea that a reader could say, ‘Oh, well, that’s her story.’ We should all be interested, no matter where we come from, or who our parents are. It’s not my province; it’s ours. These questions concern us all.

I always considered myself a minor writer. My province is small, and I try to explore it very, very thoroughly.

I love the masochistic aspect of eating seething, real Sichuan food in Sichuan Province.

Particularly the mark for success for us would be that a woman can not only walk in the streets of every major city, but can go from one province to another without any hindrance.

I know no national boundary where the Negro is concerned. The whole world is my province until Africa is free.

I’ve always wanted to be a businessman. No other ambitions – I just wanted to be in business, even when I was a child in Fujian province, south China.

The image of entrepreneurship as the province of the unprivileged and un-entitled – the Horatio Alger, rags to riches myth – flies in the face of reality.

We will work as if the PyeongChang Olympics is jointly hosted by Gangwon Province and Seoul.

The resources industry has a long future in Queensland, whether it’s metallurgical coal from the Bowen Basin, bauxite from Weipa or rare earth minerals from the North West Minerals Province.

You know that in the Eurasian space, Russia is the central state, the most powerful state. But to become an empire, a member of some empire, a province in this empire – you know, we’re probably not ready for that yet, neither in Kazakhstan nor in Belarus.

Health care decisions are the sole province of an individual, her family, her doctor and her faith. Fear of the law has no place in the equation.

Thanh Hoa itself is a rich agricultural province. Rice fields, a pattern of many shades of green, stretch far into the distance along the road, which also winds through foothills and the fringes of heavy jungle where tigers are said to roam. The vegetation, wild or cultivated, is lush.

While there is perhaps a province in which the photograph can tell us nothing more than what we see with our own eyes, there is another in which it proves to us how little our eyes permit us to see.

Hillbilly stereotypes have always made it easier for middle-class whites to presume that racism is the exclusive province of ‘that kind’ of person.

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.

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.

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.

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

The city and province were given up to anarchy; the coloured people, elated with victory, proclaimed the slaughter of all whites, except the English, French, and American residents.

No one yet knows what a man’s province is, and how far that province, as conceived of today, is artificial.

Never feel that a piece of criticism or advice is too much trouble to give, or that it exceeds your province.

I love this province and I believe in a better future for Ontario.

While the FBI carries out investigative work, the responsibility for supervising, directing and ultimately determining the resolution of investigations is solely the province of the Justice Department‘s prosecutors.

These Sunni Arabs in places like al Anbar province in Iraq, where I served back in 2007, if they see Iran as the dominant power, a Shiite country, they’re going to be much more likely to want to join ISIS.

Foreign policy can no longer be the province of just a few elites.

Mistaken identity, of course, has been the province of much postcolonial fiction. An important feature of this writing is the manner in which misrecognition has haunted all cognition.

When I write a novel, I am God at my own typewriter, and there is nobody in between. But when I write a screenplay, it must be a compromise because there are so many elements which are outside the writer’s province.

We, in our Province, are beginning to realize and appreciate that our slowness in keeping up with our North American neighbours may well have been a blessing in disguise.

China is one of those vast, continental conglomerates that… I mean, if they were to start a tourist trade in China, they’d just bus people in from another province, you know what I mean? They’re very self-contained.

For me, it’s all about the Canadian tuxedo, and maybe a bolero. The province I grew up in in Alberta is pretty much the denim capital of Canada. The first premier of Alberta started Grand Western Garment, which Levi‘s bought later on.

There have always been difficult situations for activists in Pakistan. In the 1960s, people fought for linguistic and ethnic rights in relation to the Bangladesh movement and the struggle of the people in the western Balochistan province.