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Quotes About Local

I've traveled around the country and I read local newspapers and all of that, and it's a sad, sad thing to go from city to city and see the small newspapers and they're tiny. They're tiny not only in size but also in scope.
~ Jim Lehrer
I wanted to start something in New York that focused on making products locally and, because I'd just had my second child, didn't want to be traveling halfway across the world anymore. Originally, I wanted to open up a gallery space and sell things like cushions or blankets that didn't have a season, and have friends or artists contribute.
~ Maria Cornejo
I'm not a big traveller.
~ Patrick Chan
I was never a big traveller - if I wasn't working, I would have a job to get out of my own postcode.
~ Rob Cross
Slow travel now rivals the fly-to-Barcelona-for-lunch culture. Advocates savour the journey, travelling by train or boat or bicycle, or even on foot, rather than crammed into an airplane. They take time to plug into the local culture instead of racing through a list of tourist traps.
~ Carl Honore
It's always better when travelling to be in a place where your friends know the area well.
~ Matthew Williamson
I rode for Maindy Flyers, a local kids' club from Cardiff. We started travelling across the country doing races, but Manchester was the first stage race I did.
~ Geraint Thomas
When I was in my college, I remember travelling by buses to tutions, and I have travelled by local trains as well.
~ Raveena Tandon
The majority of soldiers and officers of the Soviet Army and the allied armies treated the local population humanely.
~ Antony Beevor
Everyone is treating it like a Hollywood story. In Madison, it's a neighborhood story.
~ Chris Farley
The importance of local governance may not be obvious to an America accustomed to treating city and state downfalls with doses of federal comeuppance. Sometimes there's a reason for that - the Civil War. More often, all reasoning seems absent - No Child Left Behind.
~ P. J. O'Rourke
I don't like the idea of 'trends' at all. If you follow trends, then everybody looks the same. The best shopping experiences are in local markets, especially in foreign cities.
~ Leigh Lezark
A lot of people got a lot of money around Kansas City, Missouri. If we didn't, KC Trends would be out of business.
~ Tech N9ne
A great deal of my comedy comes from the trials and tribulations of growing up a big kid in the Boston area.
~ John Pinette
It's usually a jolly good trick to pick up a local tour guide. They can tell you all the anecdotes that make a place interesting. I'm one for rushing off to museums at the crack of dawn, eating fabulous things on terraces for lunch, and enjoying long dinners on balmy evenings.
~ Jane Birkin
Changes in behavioral state are accompanied by internally coordinated changes in the information processing mode of local neuronal circuits.
~ Stephen Harrod Buhner
The idea, popular in Orthodox apologetics, that the Church can have no visible head, because Christ is her invisible head, is theological nonsense. If applied consistently, it should also eliminate the necessity for the visible head of each local church, i.e. , the bishop.
~ Stephen K. Ray
The crowd started cheering as soon as they seen him, he was one of them, a local lad from Lancashire. In the first round, I tried to put him away but my punches had nothing in them, I might as well as been hitting thin air. It was then that I knew I had to really dig deep if I wanted to hear the final bell; I threw a clever little corkscrew right. A great shot, but ineffective unless it hits with some vigour, which it didn't!
~ Stephen Richards
Do a Google search for local farmers or food co-ops.
~ Steve Economides
Dutch is our first language. When you talk to older people, you speak Dutch. It's more respectful. The local language, you talk with your friends. You don't talk to your parents like that with the local slang.
~ Jairzinho Rozenstruik
My favorite city is anything close to home. Anytime I can sleep in my own bed, that's a good one.
~ John Cena
One of the big learnings both out of the referendum, and out of 2017 general election is that parties that don't have a professional network on the ground slightly lose the ability to hear what local people are saying, so we've reestablished our network of campaign managers out in the field.
~ James Cleverly
Everywhere I go, I always look for creative entrepreneurs, whether it's artisans and craftsmen, small farmers and gardeners, or restaurateurs who use fresh, locally sourced ingredients.
~ Martha Stewart
I would like to see people more aware of where their food comes from. I would like to see small farmers empowered. I feed my daughter almost exclusively organic food.
~ Anthony Bourdain