Provincial Life Quotes

#1. If we live in the Nineteenth Century, why should we not enjoy the advantages which the Nineteenth Century offers? Why should our life be in any respect provincial?

Henry David Thoreau

#2. In sci-fi convention, life-forms that hadn't developed space travel were mere prehistory
horse-shoe crabs of the cosmic scene
and something of the humiliation of being stuck on a provincial planet in a galactic backwater has stayed with me ever since.

Barbara Ehrenreich

#3. I've often thought that beauty can be a
deterrent to love," Fern's father mused.
"Why?"
"Because sometimes we fall in love with a
face and not what's behind it.

Amy Harmon

#4. Whatever else may divide us, Europe is our common home; a common fate has linked us through the centuries, and it continues to link us today.

Leonid I. Brezhnev

#5. Self, listen for moment, I will speak to you.

Martyn

#6. Homes-the very idea of homeownership-evoke a strong emotional reaction in all of us.

Spencer Rascoff

#7. Lenin's Personal life was extraordinarily dull. He dressed and lived like a middle-aged provincial clerk, with precisely fixed hours for meals, sleep, work and leisure. He liked everything to be neat and orderly.

Orlando Figes

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

John Fowles

#9. The author points out that, with life in provincial Washington difficult for those not of independent means, Adams and his wife undervalued the social connections that others found vital. They often made an impression as distant and prideful.

Paul C. Nagel

#10. Have you ever seen a pedant with a warm heart?

Johann Kaspar Lavater

#11. His is a joy which consequences cannot quench. His is a peace which circumstances cannot steal.

Max Lucado

#12. 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

#13. The sudden approximation of my dull, provincial life to a New Yorker cartoon was exhilarating.

Alison Bechdel

#14. Why would anyone wish to be provincial in time, any more than being tied down to one place through life, when the whole reach of the human drama is there to experience in some of the greatest books ever written.

David McCullough

#15. Do not let the rapidity with which these thoughts can change deceive you into feeling that you think them all at once.

Alan W. Watts

#16. The monotony of provincial life attracts the attention of people to the kitchen. You do not dine as luxuriously in the provinces as in Paris, but you dine better, because the dishes serve you are the result of mediation and study.

Honore De Balzac

#17. I thought I couldn't afford to take her out and smoke as well. So I gave up cigarettes. Then I took her out and one day I looked at her and thought: 'Oh well,' and I went back to smoking again, and that was better.

Benny Hill

#18. 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

#19. But sometimes I really felt as though the starry sky rose and fell with the gasping of his chest.

Franz Kafka

#20. Belief ... was its own magic-so long as it was carefully placed, often examined, like a bridge kept in careful repair.

C.J. Cherryh

#21. Do you believe in an afterlife? Do your personal beliefs include a life after death? - no matter how they phrase their snotty test, do the following. Simply look them in the eye, snort derisively, and retort, Frankly, only a provincial ignoramus would even believe in death.

Chuck Palahniuk

#22. Life in the world ... was nothing more than a system of atavistic contracts, banal ceremonies, preordained words, with which people entertained each other in society in order not to commit murder. The dominant sign in that paradise of provincial frivolity was fear of the unknown.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

#23. We will never abdicate the security of the United States to a foreign country or refrain from taking action when appropriate. But we cannot ignore the reality that cooperative counterterrorism activities are a key to our national defense.

John O. Brennan

#24. Life ... was nothing more than a system of atavistic contracts, banal ceremonies, preordained words, with which people entertained each other ... The dominant sign in that paradise of provincial frivolity was the fear of the unknown

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

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

Gilbert K. Chesterton

#26. I always felt strongly connected to the region where I was born. But after leaving school, the only clear thought I had about my life was to leave this provincial area and go to places where real life was happening.

Volker Bertelmann

#27. Demons don't like iron. Or any metal really. Leave it at that. It hurts them.

Johnny Worthen