Top 39 Quotes About Alberta
#1. Sometimes we face resistance in Alberta and Canada because we already have other power sources, but this is a competitive alternative.
Alison Thompson
#2. 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
#3. 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
#4. 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
#5. Alberta's two largest cities collected more in library fines than two higher levels of government levied against polluters in 2006-2007.
Gordon Laird
#6. 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
#7. 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
#8. I spent my childhood in Newfoundland and then my junior high and high school years in Alberta, Canada.
Sara Canning
#9. 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
#10. 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
#11. 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
#12. 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
#13. 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
#14. 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
#15. 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
#16. 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
#17. 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
#18. 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
#19. 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
#20. 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
#21. 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
#22. 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
#23. Alberta had always had many forms of idling. She frittered away her time with virtuosity.
Cora Sandel
#24. 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
#26. 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
#28. 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
#29. 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
#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. Until they put that sand and dirt in my face I will not sit in church all day.
Alberta Hunter
#33. 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
#34. 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
#35. None of them going to treat me bad, honey, I'm too strict for that.
Alberta Hunter
#36. I've been more places by accident than most people have been on purpose.
Alberta Hunter
#37. 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
#39. Maybe if I knew music I couldn't do what I am doing.
Alberta Hunter
Famous Authors
Popular Topics
Scroll to Top
