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Quotes About Alberta

I see the rivalry in Alberta now between Calgary and Edmonton on the men's side and I'd love to see it on the women's side as well. I'd love to bring a team home. I think that would be a great legacy to leave.
~ Stephanie Labbe
I'm from Calgary, Alberta, Canada, and my family is Punjabi.
~ Jinder Mahal
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
He shivered uncontrollably and turned his back on the driving wind. 'Anyway, I wish to God I had his job,' he added feelingly. 'This is worse than winter in Alberta!
~ Alistair MacLean
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
I had half my family that were farmers, and I was really pretty good at repairing farm equipment. There was certainly a period of time where I would have been happy to do that, just to be a farm equipment repairman in Dalemead, Alberta.
~ James Gosling
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
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
My province needs to understand that Alberta's issues are national issues.
~ Erin O'Toole
But Alberta has the best potential of any province for solar energy. It has enormous potential for wind power. And so replacing coal in Alberta with wind and solar is totally doable, and good for their economy.
~ Elizabeth May
Broncos hockey game in southern Alberta, a team that played in the same Major Junior A league as the Vancouver Giants
~ Malcolm Gladwell
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
The reality is that Rachel Notley's adherence to pipelines and exporting raw bitumen doesn't make sense for Alberta's economy and it doesn't make sense for Canada.
~ Elizabeth May
Obviously I'm very proud to be Canadian because there's a lot of crazy cool artists that come out of Canada. It's always been my home ground, even if I'm traveling around the world dancing or singing or in L.A. all the time. But Alberta doesn't really have a music industry.
~ Tate McRae
I spent my childhood in Newfoundland and then my junior high and high school years in Alberta, Canada.
~ Sara Canning
The best thing is not to think about [separatism]. [People in Alberta] don't even want to engage in talking pros and cons and why people feel this way.
~ Jane Jacobs
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
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
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
fringes in Alberta weren't too pleased, but not much pleases an Albertan far-rightist anyway.
~ David Foster Wallace
Few years ago, we were up north in Canada, in Alberta, this one-street town off the Pouce Coupe River? Dark the whole time, October to March, and fuck-all to do except read and listen to CBC radio. Had to drive fifty klicks to do our washing. Still —" he laughed – "loads better than Ukraine. Miami Beach, compared.
~ Donna Tartt
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
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