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Quotes About Local

We embrace the shoestring budget. We like being limited by the constraints. It inspires creativity. I don't know what we would spend money on. We don't hire actors. We see budget constraints as a personal challenge. We're like survivalist local commercial directors.
~ Charles Lincoln Neal
Under the law, the government, whether it's state, local or federal, cannot give the Catholic Church or any religious institution money directly.
~ Ed Rendell
I think we were instrumental in saving downtown Seattle. To me, that's the biggest thing we did.
~ Bruce Nordstrom
From avoiding littering to encouraging local economy, there is a lot each one of us can do that will go a long way in keeping the country's cultural legacy intact.
~ Shenaz Treasury
Join the locals as they bounce from place to place, never knowing what fun lies ahead but certain of the possibility. Add in local bounty such as the famous oysters and nearby
~ Fionn Davenport
When you look closely at our small giants, one characteristic immediately jumps out at you. Like Righteous Babe, they were all so intimately connected to the place where they were located that it was hard to imagine them being anywhere else.
~ Bo Burlingham
While no solutions seem obvious, there is general agreement throughout the industry that if local newspapers go away and some entity does not rise to do what we have come to expect of them—that is, keep an eye on local government—we will experience corruption at levels we have never seen.
~ Bob Schieffer
Most of the time, I'm here in Michigan and I'm taking out the garbage every Monday.
~ Bob Seger
Today, education is perhaps the most important function of state and local governments.
~ Bobby Scott
As both a local resident and a parent with a CF-afflicted child, I'm thankful for companies like Canon, Chase and Outback who believe that giving back to the community is critical to their role as corporate citizens.
~ Boomer Esiason
Clarence Morrow and Frank Tremont, along with a few local cops, were nearby. They were surreptitiously checking around. There was still faint hope that maybe Guy Novak had kidnapped Reba Cordova and was holding her here, but as the seconds passed, that seemed less and less likely. Guy
~ Harlan Coben
The food is farm to table, though when you order eggs, I'm not sure what other route they'd go.
~ Harlan Coben
Wilde!" Nicole called out, clearly happy to see him. She brought him a beer. When it came to beer, he was, like the hotel, "unfussy," but he enjoyed whatever local ale was on tap. Today, that was a "blonde lager" from the Asbury Park Brewery. Nicole leaned over the bar to buss his cheek. Tom down at the other end gave him a wave.
~ Harlan Coben
I could meet her. Turn the charm on full blast." "And have her disrobe right in the station?" "You may have a point." Esperanza rolled her eyes without actually rolling her eyes. "I don't think she can help us anyway. The local force has had a lot of turnover since Rhys and Patrick were kidnapped." "I
~ Harlan Coben
When he died on February 23, 1902, at age ninety-six, he had broken a local longevity record
~ Harold Schechter
He rarely gathered news; people brought it to him. It was said he made up every edition of The Maycombe Tribune out of his own head and wrote it down on the linotype.
~ Harper Lee
Then he made a rush for the bar and choked down about a water-glass full of the local spirits. Only when he was working on his second glass did he remember to offer me some of this potable aqua regia.
~ Harry Harrison
The trick in decision making is to avoid becoming either mindlessly global or hopelessly local. If
~ Harvard Business School Press
At no other time in history has it been possible to think that you are a local but to be so lacking the deep knowledge of a place that keeps you safe during rare events. We moderns struggle to grasp this gap in our knowledge for many reasons. For starters, we no longer rely on tight-knit communities or a deep understanding of local terrain like humans did until recently.
~ Heather E. Heying
It is unfortunate that so much of the history of Africa has been written by conquerors, foreigners, missionaries and adventurers. The Egyptians left the best record of their history written by local writers.
~ John Henrik Clarke
The Constitution was the expression not only of a political faith, but also of political fears. It was wrought both as the organ of the national interest and as the bulwark of certain individual and local rights.
~ Herbert Croly
When kids tune in and see Jordan Devlin, Trent Seven, Pete Dunne, Wolfgang on the WWE Network, and then they see a poster at the town hall for their local wrestling show, they're gonna say, 'Oh my God, that's Pete Dunne. I wanna go see him.'
~ Finn Balor
For 'King Cole's American Salvage,' I rode around in the wrecker with a local driver and watched him deal with customers and hook up the cars. I watched the guy who tore apart the cars in the junkyard. I also wrote poems about those guys. I loved hanging around the yard.
~ Bonnie Jo Campbell
We tend to think of human trafficking as a foreign issue, not something that could happen here in our own back yards. But it's a fast-growing problem in the United States, in every area, with no real defined demographic.
~ Lori Foster