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Quotes About Local

Stealing goods from a town store would be a criminal offense and provoke righteous indignation. Stealing muskrats from his swamp would be just another example of what the hillmen were always doing to each other and provoke, at the very most, a sympathetic chuckle. Even
~ Unknown
Celtic won the European Cup, beating Internazionale in Lisbon with a team made up of players who hailed from within twelve miles of Celtic Park. It was a Glasgow team of Glasgow men.
~ Unknown
thinking you are attacking society when you condemn or ravage the hypothetical Nice Girl Next Door is the exact equivalent of thinking that stealing from the local supermarket makes you a Communist.
~ Joanna Russ
People grieve in different ways, some silently, some in anger, some in spite. Rarely does grief bring out the best in people, despite what local historians like to tell you.
~ Joanne Harris
We have this idea of bureaucracy in local government, and it's generally things that we're frustrated at. It doesn't work the way we like it to work.
~ Jennifer Pahlka
These suggestions are only preliminary. A statistician on the job will of course modify and revise them to suit his own inclinations and local conditions.
~ W. Edwards Deming
A poet's hope: to be, like some valley cheese, local, but prized elsewhere.
~ W.H. Auden
It is the highest form of culture and craftmanship in art to use local materials. That way you stand a chance of adding to culture. The other way you are in danger of merely imitating it.
~ Miles Franklin
No sane local official who has hung up an empty stocking over the municipal fireplace is going to shoot Santa Claus just before a hard Christmas.
~ Al Smith
Unfortunately a lot of Bristol's creativity just gets marooned in Bristol. It is a cool place though, maybe too laidback for its own good.
~ Simon Price
Les banlieues tristes des dimanches et les lignes d'intérêt local sont un triste décor
~ Philippe Soupault
If our vision of the way to have better food is to have less processing, more natural food, more home cooking, and more local food, we will cut ourselves off from the most likely hope for better food in the future.
~ Unknown
We currently enjoy the hospitality of the local smith, a gentleman named Heughan.
~ Diana Gabaldon
Bodies under the foundation, though—that's where a lot of the local ghosts come from.
~ Diana Gabaldon
When you travel like I do, just within our own country the atmosphere is different. The environment is different; the way people talk is different. The energy is different. And that's just material-wise, with the local culture.
~ Zak Bagans
The issues that most impact the average person are made at the local level.
~ Erin Brockovich
Economics should not drive you out of the community.
~ Ron Dellums
If people think that local elections are won or lost on local education matters, that isn't happening.
~ Nicky Morgan
Pakistan needs to have decentralisation and a good local government system.
~ Imran Khan
The Central Committee will cut off its relations with [the undisciplined organization] and it will thereby cut off that organization from the entire world of revolution. The Central Committee will stop the flow of literature and of wherewithal to that organization. It will send into the field … its own detachment, and, having endowed it with the necessary resources, the Central Committee will proclaim that this detachment is the local committee.
~ Isaac Deutscher
New York is perhaps the only place in America where you feel at the centre and not at the margins, in the provinces, so for that reason I prefer its horror to this privileged beauty, its enslavement to the freedoms which remain local and privileged and very particularized, and which do not represent a genuine antithesis.
~ Italo Calvino
They liked black ironwork here on Pyrites. They made everything out of it. Even the beer, judging by the taste.
~ Dan Abnett
Spider legs. Some arachnid form, anyway. A xenos variety of chelicerata. But these limbs were not under a microscope. They were two hundred metres long. 'That's not local,' he said.
~ Dan Abnett
Local economies are suffering as people spend more on fuel and less on consumer goods and travel.
~ Dan Lipinski