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Quotes About Locality

I've always believed in local government.
~ Chuck Fleischmann
I think it's lovely when people are more involved in local politics.
~ Emily V. Gordon
Wherever I go, I try to see all the local markets and places which are popular in the city.
~ Mukesh Rishi
To remember what bio-diversity is and why it is important, we must conserve nature close to where we live and work as well as develop distant reserves.
~ Unknown
It is the local community that needs to own the commitment to education.
~ Adam Braun
There was an old joke about a small town: a real small town meant that you didn't have to use the turn signals on your car, because anybody behind you already knew where you were going…
~ John Sandford
These local yokels couldn't find their own asses if you tattooed their names on each cheek.
~ Unknown
Our real interest starts with our neighbors... the future is about regional economies.
~ Jean Charest
If we look deeply at life, we realise that the benefits we receive from society are largely attributable to their location. Benefits are local to the areas that we live in: the roads we drive on, the stores we shop at, and the services we use.
~ Unknown
There's no need to travel further. The Los Angeles area is big enough for us.
~ Marvin Davis
He was probably visiting Ravi, Nora thought. Ravi was her brother's best friend. While Joe had given up the guitar and moved to London, for a crap IT job he hated, Ravi had stuck to Bedford. He played in a covers band now, called Slaughterhouse Four, doing pub gigs around town.
~ Matt Haig
Science says that there are many more universes apart from ours. In that case, even when we think universally, we still think locally!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
Our local communities, once vibrantly self-governing, have lost vital autonomy, as the Court has hemmed in their ability to police themselves and regulate their schools, all in the name of atoning for America's original sin of slavery but in fact harming black Americans more than helping them.
~ Myron Magnet
What I say is, a town isn't a town without a bookstore. It may call itself a town, but unless it's got a bookstore it knows it's not fooling a soul.
~ Neil Gaiman
Sometimes it feels like I live in such a shit town. It meets all reasonable definitions of a shit town. There are still men who put on hats to drive on these roads, our only celebrities are sports stars and newsreaders, and everyone you meet already knows your mother. p.34
~ Nick Earls
The standing of the local high school football team was more likely to be the subject of conversation and concern than the war in Europe.
~ Unknown
There are no 'men-in-themselves' such as the philosophers talk about, but only men of a time, of a locality, of a race, of a personal cast, who contend in battle with a given world and win through or fail, while the universe around them moves slowly on with a godlike unconcern. This battle is life — life, indeed, in the Nietzschean sense, a grim, pitiless, no-quarter battle of the Will-to-Power.
~ Oswald Spengler
Mert a provincializmus csak a provinciában érdekes. Mert érdekeltek vagyunk. Az itteni pletykák és cinkosságok fontosak: nekünk; a mi bÅ'rünkre megy. Saját nívótlanságunkhoz elérzékenyülten ragaszkodunk.
~ Peter Esterhazy
luego. No podía ser un chino en general, tenía que ser un chino de Sinaloa, un local de Mexicali, o uno de la calle Dolores en el df. Voy a añadir eso la próxima vez que lo cuente —dijo Macario.
~ Paco Ignacio Taibo II
would be to start local. Assuming
~ Peter James