Quotes About Alberta

#1. W. P. Kinsella, who was born on a farm near Edmunton, Alberta, has earned wide recognition for his wild imagination and rash humor as a writer.

Gerald Vizenor

#2. Sometimes we face resistance in Alberta and Canada because we already have other power sources, but this is a competitive alternative.

Alison Thompson

#3. You know what? I look forward to the Battle of Alberta for the next X number of years. If the idea is, 'Burn it to the ground,' then Ken can find another manager to do it.

Jay Feaster

#4. I was attending the University of Alberta. I was going to be a high school teacher, like my parents. I failed - no, I didn't fail a class, I just barely passed. I really didn't try. It was Canadian history, through the plays of the time. My God, those were boring plays.

Nathan Fillion

#5. Maybe if I knew music I couldn't do what I am doing.

Alberta Hunter

#6. Put your faith in God and confidence in yourself.

Alberta Hunter

#7. I would like to especially acknowledge my home community of Calgary, and the people of central Alberta who made my dream of freedom a reality.

Amanda Lindhout

#8. Chess is far too complex to be definitively solved with any technology we can conceive of today. However, our looked-down-upon cousin, checkers, or draughts, suffered this fate quite recently thanks to the work of Jonathan Schaeffer at the University of Alberta and his unbeatable program Chinook.

Garry Kasparov

#9. 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.

Mac DeMarco

#10. My school is the world, and my teacher is the people. It is very important not to stay cloistered in the office if you want to create. We have to go out in society to understand how people live and dress in their real lives.

Alberta Ferretti

#11. I've been more places by accident than most people have been on purpose.

Alberta Hunter

#12. You can be in Tokyo or Alberta at four in the morning in your hotel and you can still practice if you feel like it. A trombone cannot do that at four in the morning.

Toots Thielemans

#13. Alberta had always had many forms of idling. She frittered away her time with virtuosity.

Cora Sandel

#14. Basically, if you were a triceratops in Alberta, you had about two minutes before you got vaporized is how one geologist put it to me.

Elizabeth Kolbert

#15. Always in Alberta there is a fresh wind blowing.

Nellie L. McClung

#16. I got amazing training both with Theatre Sports ... back in Edmonton, Alberta - I can't give those people enough credit - and the daytime drama I did. Incredible training, both of them.

Nathan Fillion

#17. None of them going to treat me bad, honey, I'm too strict for that.

Alberta Hunter

#18. I talk about reducing our dependence on foreign oil. If we're buying electricity from a solar-thermal plant in Tijuana, I'm not sure we should say that's evil. If we are buying wind power from Alberta, I don't have a huge objection to that.

Jay Inslee

#19. The musicians that didn't know music could play the best blues. I know that I don't want no musicians who know all about music playin' for me.

Alberta Hunter

#20. What people don't understand about Sarah Palin is that she is a rancher's wife. From Alberta down to Texas I've known women like that: good common sense, bright and vilified by city people.

Robert Duvall

#21. Bishop Frederick Henry of Calgary is facing at least two official objections to his public statements along with expensive hearings before the Alberta Human Rights Commission for expressing his biblical views on same sex marriage.

Stockwell Day

#22. It is imperative to take the initiative, to build firewalls around Alberta, to limit the extent to which an aggressive and hostile federal government can encroach upon legitimate provincial jurisdiction.

Stephen Harper

#23. I think that there's no question that, in Alberta as the price of oil continues to drop, that there are families ... that are worried about the instability that that brings to the economy. And so that has to be more and more front and centre in terms of the work that we do as a government.

Rachel Notley

#24. He couldn't be more than forty-five, but Murray Miles was stooped, old before his time. The mountains of Alberta had the ability to bend those who lived here.
That, or it broke them.

Danika Stone

#25. Passionate and forcefully argued, Tar Sands is a wake-up call not just to Canadians but to the wider world to take a serious look at what is happening in northern Alberta. To call this book a polemic is a compliment.

Margaret MacMillan

#26. I'm just singing for the women who think they can't speak out. Can't a man alive mistreat me, 'cause I know who I am.

Alberta Hunter

#27. Until they put that sand and dirt in my face I will not sit in church all day.

Alberta Hunter

#28. I spent my childhood in Newfoundland and then my junior high and high school years in Alberta, Canada.

Sara Canning

#29. Troy: Then when I saw that gal [Alberta] ... she firmed up my backbone. And I got to thinking that if I tried ... I just might be able to steal second.

August Wilson

#30. My father, Cecil Banks Mullis, and mother, formerly Bernice Alberta Barker, grew up in rural North Carolina in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains. My dad's family had a general store, which I never saw. My grandparents on his side had already died before I started noticing things.

Kary Mullis

#31. Blues means what milk does to a baby. Blues is what the spirit is to the minister. We sing the blues because our hearts have been hurt, our souls have been disturbed.

Alberta Hunter

#32. Let your playerhaters be your motivators.

Alberta Parish

#33. People think the blues is sad. They hear people moaning and such. That's not the blues. That's just somebody singing slow ... The blues is about truth-telling.

Alberta Hunter

#34. Alberta's two largest cities collected more in library fines than two higher levels of government levied against polluters in 2006-2007.

Gordon Laird

#35. What's really important to remember is that this type of legislation exists in one form or another in every other province in the country. The right to refuse unsafe work is a right that is enjoyed by every other farm worker, paid farm worker, in the country and every other paid worker in Alberta.

Rachel Notley

#36. I'm having a good time, Please don't blame me, I'm knocking myself out Don't try to tame me Let me have my fun, I've got to have my fling, Some folks say I'm blowing my top Talk don't mean a thing, ...

Alberta Hunter

#37. I was always drawn to the blues. Alberta Hunter at the Cookery was a life-changing experience. I only wanted to get enriched as a performer as I got older, to have an audience which got older, too, and would come to see me when I'm 80.

Bonnie Raitt

#38. I try to transform a dream's magic into reality.

Alberta Ferretti

#39. Alberta funds almost all its schools and districts to design and evaluate their own innovations. Teachers are the drivers of change, not the driven.

Andy Hargreaves