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Quotes About Local

I grew up in Pitman, New Jersey, which is a tiny 2-square-mile town near Philadelphia. Everyone knows each other there.
~ Madeline Brewer
I've learned what Tip O'Neill meant when he said all politics is local. We need more people in Congress who have this experience, who have this boots-on-the-ground experience.
~ Jim Gray
The Loopt mobile app is all about giving you the latest local deals and insider tips.
~ Sam Altman
One reason I left local news was that I was tired of the constant musical chairs among news directors.
~ Jessica Savitch
Any independent bookstore that has managed to survive is the best place to do a reading.
~ Ruth Ozeki
Today, education is perhaps the most important function of state and local governments.
~ Bobby Scott
I grew up in the countryside in Saitama prefecture, north of Tokyo.
~ Nobu Matsuhisa
At least I sure hope it will - and I see good signs all the time, especially in things like the rise of local agriculture.
~ Bill McKibben
I'm launching my own festival in South Wales. It's something I've wanted to do for a long time. It's going to be held at Margam Park, because I wanted the venue to be as close to my home as possible.
~ Katherine Jenkins
I've been trained by a two-time world champion kickboxer, who's local to where I come from, and who is really just there to keep me fit and healthy while I'm shooting.
~ Kieran Bew
I am a big Ellen fan. I have been one for quite a long time now. I used to do the local news talk shows with her in San Francisco, when we were both still kids.
~ Margaret Cho
Well, the priest did very well, considering.  He got in all the details, and that is a good thing in a local item:  you see, he had kept books for the undertaker-department of his church when he was younger, and there, you know, the money's in the details; the more details, the more swag:
~ Mark Twain
He's most likely robbing the bank as a paycheck on the world for winning the ugliness prize at his local fete three years running.
~ Markus Zusak
Gone to the nearest public-house. That is the centre of country gossip. They would have told you every name, from the master to the scullery-maid.
~ Arthur Conan Doyle
I first went there late one afternoon with the fabled Paris photographer Robert Doisneau, who thrived on collecting local color.
~ Stanley Karnow
The world is big in some ways, and so small in others.
~ Ashly Lorenzana
I used to love going into local hardware stores, to look at little things they made locally. Nowadays it's harder, though you can still do it in Vietnam.
~ Francis Ford Coppola
Muller asserted that modern conservatism is really about creating the best possible society, the one that brings about the greatest happiness given local circumstances.
~ Jonathan Haidt
conservative caring is somewhat different—it is aimed not at animals or at people in other countries but at those who've sacrificed for the group.12 It is not universalist; it is more local, and blended with loyalty.
~ Jonathan Haidt
You know you're an Arizona native when you think Taco Bell is the local phone company.
~ Emma Louise Philabaum
Only through its presence and ministries grounded in local places is the church able to proclaim the gospel message: "Today salvation has come to this house.
~ Emmanuel Katongole
The war vindicated their conviction, itself a product of the slavery controversy, that freedom stood in greater danger of abridgment from local than national authority (a startling reversal of the founding fathers' belief, enshrined in the Bill of Rights, that centralized power posed the major threat to individual liberties).
~ Eric Foner
If a variable is declared outside a function, it's GLOBAL. If it's declared inside a function, it's LOCAL.
~ Eric Freeman
When I'm loading a page from my computer, like we are in these exercises, what is my origin? A: A: Good question. In that case your origin is known as the "Local Files" origin, which
~ Eric Freeman