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Quotes About Local

It is one of the benchmarks of a culture I always think – the page at which it operates. A good way to measure it is to order a taxi and see how irate local people get if it is late.
~ Sara Sheridan
I played in garage bands and rock and roll bands when I was in junior high and high school and saw some of the great talents of all time in the local area where I lived.
~ David Cassidy
It is time to effect a revolution in female manners - time to restore to them their lost dignity. It is time to separate unchangeable morals from local manners.
~ Mary Wollstonecraft
I worked in ad sales. I would call up local businesses and try to get them to buy ads in the paper. The whole time, I felt like I was just scamming people.
~ J. Cole
I always take the time to eat well and eat locally because it's common sense.
~ Ellen Page
Most of the time, I'm here in Michigan and I'm taking out the garbage every Monday.
~ Bob Seger
I spend a lot of time visiting local organisations.
~ Diane Abbott
I guess I'm happy that I'm getting the attention. Otherwise, I'd just be playing in a local bar in front of my family members, and I'm sure they'd get sick of that in no time
~ Gavin DeGraw
My father was a prosperous hatter-farmer - making hats for the local markets during the winter months, tilling his little ten-acre farm during the summer time.
~ Jenkin Lloyd Jones
examinó en la penumbra del local las plateadas telarañas que caían del techo, las añosas estanterías con bolsitas de perejil, romero, culantro, menta, y las cajas con clavos, tornillos, granos, ojales, botones, entre estampas e imágenes de vírgenes, cristos, santos y santas, beatos y beatas, recortados de revistas y periódicos, algunas con velitas prendidas y otras con adornos que incluían rosarios, detentes y flores de cera y de papel.
~ Mario Vargas Llosa
hot vit lon, a local favorite, a duck embryo boiled and served inside the shell—
~ Mark Bowden
Being united to Christ means being united to every Christian. But that universal union must be given a living, breathing existence in a local church.
~ Mark Dever
Yet the Bible teaches that the local church is the natural environment for discipling. In fact, it teaches that the local church is itself the basic discipler of Christians. It does this through its weekly gatherings and its accountability structures (this chapter), as well as its elders and its members (next chapter). These in turn provide the context for the one-on-one discipling we have been considering so far.
~ Mark Dever
The hams of Westphalia, which were dried, salted, and then smoked with unique local woods—a recipe still followed today in Westphalia—were very popular with Romans.
~ Mark Kurlansky
In the American South, as recently as the 1930s, flying squirrels were so common that there were recipes for them—they were a favorite local dish. But today, flying squirrels are a scarcity because they live only in old-growth forests.
~ Mark Kurlansky
if you're going to a country, particularly in Southeast Asia, [where] you've never been before, it's a very good idea to go to the market first, see what they're selling, get an idea of what they're good at, what the people are buying.
~ Anthony Bourdain
Even that beloved British institution, the chippie, is preferable to the clown's fare; at least you are encouraging individual, local business, an entrepreneur who can react to neighborhood needs and wants, rather than a dictatorial system in which some focus group in an industrial park in Iowa decides for you what you will or should want.
~ Anthony Bourdain
Officially the soldiery had to wait for the Riot Act to be read by a local authority, according to the rules of the time.
~ Antonia Fraser
No mention of that local hunt, Watson, said Holmes with a mischievous smile, but a country doctor, as you very astutely observed.
~ Arthur Conan Doyle
Kristin held the child while the young mother went to get a drink of local ale.
~ Sigrid Undset
But we have to try the local food. It's a window into the culture. We learn so much about a people from what and how they eat. I actually quite enjoy the strange food. It's never too awful and it gifts a good tale.
~ Simon Reeve
I live locally, I eat regionally but I think internationally.
~ Alin Sav
Entrepreneur, let your global & generational vision start locally, now.
~ Onyi Anyado
I've always believed if you're involved even in a very small struggle - in some sort of infinity in a grain of sand - in your local neighborhood, that every action has universal implications. I believe that if I struggle for the rights of an acequia in Taos, New Mexico that the ripple effect [will spread] from that tiny struggle.
~ John Nichols