Quotes About Local

Almost all the trouble spots involved local opposition to residential displacement and community destruction.

That is, a class is a local scope and has access to enclosing local scopes, but it does not serve as an enclosing local scope to further nested code.

My job as a comedian is to heighten awareness about locally grown produce, fight factory farming, and promote euthanasia, but in a funny way.

Innovations that are guided by smallholder farmers, adapted to local circumstances, and sustainable for the economy and environment will be necessary to ensure food security in the future.

A squirrel dying in your front yard may be more relevant to your interests right now than people dying in Africa.

One way for communities to create affordable housing is for local communities to adopt land-use rights. Local governments or community land trusts would provide financing to homebuyers, who would then make land contributions on their properties in perpetuity. As a result, communities would get reimbursed for the goods and services they provide to homeowners, while property buyers would primarily become home buyers not land buyers.

The missionaries ate the local food. Sometimes, as in the case of one New Zealand tribe whose favorite recipe called for Anglicans, the locals ate the missionaries.

Every city should support its own poor, and if it was too small, the people in the surrounding villages should also be urged to contribute

ones. They also contain more nutrients and enzymes. If you have to choose one over the other, go for local. You'll save money, and enjoy more nutrients. Fruits and vegetables

The phenomenon of play is local: that is, while the phenomenon of play is universal, the experience of play is intrinsically tied to location and culture.

Focusing exclusively on local measurements has a tendency to inhibit collaboration beyond the area being measured, because there is no reward for it.

There is a charming little bakery down the street, called the Charming Little Bakery.

There is no universal clock, but local histories take form beneath our eyes, and begin to regulate themselves, and haltingly are linked to one another and demand to live, and confirm the powerful in the wisdom which the immensity of the risks and the consciousness of their own disorder had given them. The world is more present to itself in all its parts than it ever was.

It is worth noting that the fiscal impact of immigrants is more positive at the federal level—given that most of them are of working age—than at the state and local levels, which fund the education of their children.

Being a teacher at a restaurant in the town where you lived was a little like being a TV star...

For God must have more important universal matters to attend to than keeping himself busy with us, people! God is not interested in local matters!

The six-man inquest jury assembled was composed of local residents, men whose lives strikingly resembled that of the murdered Robert Newsom.

at the dawn of the 1930s, state and local budgets dwarfed federal outlays by a factor of ten. Limited largely to the keeping of a standing army and navy and the payment of obligations incurred in wartime (including interest on war debt and the upkeep of veterans), the federal budget amounted to a negligible 3 percent of gross national product. By the end of the twentieth century, that figure would be closer to 20 percent.

Local newspapers are directories of horror - unbelievably vile people doing unbelievably vile things to each other.

It's real important to get these dollars to local agencies to serve the area.

Competition in the current system is at the same time too broad, too narrow, and too local.

Sustainability requires that every community meet the needs of all its members (including plants and animals), present and future, without compromising the needs of other communities meeting the needs of their members, present and future. From The Small-Mart Revolution: How Local Businesses are Beating the Global Competition by

If he was dismissed and despised by the local folk in life, the economics of his immorality have called for his complete resurrection.

People in Slow Food understand that food is an environmental issue.