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Every person lives bounded by the structural formation of human anatomy and the provincial demands of the human condition.
— Kilroy J. Oldster
In any event, colonization and the grant of lands were provincial matters.
— Albert Bushnell Hart
But I always felt that I'd rather be provincial hot-tamale than soup without seasoning.
— F Scott Fitzgerald
Paris is a mighty schoolmaster, a grand enlightener of the provincial intellect.
— Mary Elizabeth Braddon
India's great economic boom, the arrival of the Internet and outsourcing, have broken the wall between provincial India and the world.
— Aravind Adiga
A patchwork solution of provincial targets is an admission of defeat and a statement that we have failed our children and grandchildren.
— Elizabeth May
That's the trouble with provincial life. Everyone knows everyone and there is no mystery. No romance.
— John Fowles
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
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
No patriotism is genuine that is merely partisan or provincial.
— William Rainey Harper
My understanding was that it completed a person, sanding down the rough provincial edges and transforming you into a citizen of the world.
— David Sedaris
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
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 lived in the provincial town of Ramat Gan where I spent most of my youth adjacent to the chess board.
— Arnon Goldfinger
The country is provincial; it becomes ridiculous when it tries to ape Paris.
— Honore De Balzac
The sudden approximation of my dull, provincial life to a New Yorker cartoon was exhilarating.
— Alison Bechdel
It was a small provincial place with great people and I had a happy childhood growing up in Queens.
— Fran Drescher
I would write of the universal, not the provincial, in human nature ... I would write of characters, not of characteristics.
— Ellen Glasgow
I know how syrupy this sounds, how dull, provincial, and possibly whitewashed, but what can I do? Happy childhoods happen
— Marisa De Los Santos
We must break through the provincial crust if we are to reach the core of all-India nationalism.
— Mahatma Gandhi
A great city is the place to escape the true drama of provincial life, and find solace in fantasy.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
You're just poor cornball provincial people, you critics; you just don't know what the hell you're talking about.
— George Cukor
Besides, there is perhaps nothing so effective as the monotony of provincial town life in the Andes for suffocating ideals and creativity.
— Miguel Garnett Johnson
Denmark can be very small, provincial, and mediocre.
— Thomas Vinterberg
If one's fated to be born in Caesar's Empire, let him live aloof, provincial, by the seashore ...
— Joseph Brodsky
Germany collapsed as a result of having engaged in a struggle for empire with the concepts of provincial politics.
— Albert Camus
Living in England, provincial England, must be like being married to a stupid but exquisitely beautiful wife.
— Margaret Halsey
Berlin is like being abroad in Germany. It's German, but not provincial.
— Claudia Schiffer