Quotes About Locality

All my mates are massive Leeds fans because I live in Wakefield, but my best friend in the entire world is the Middlesbrough chairman.

In Majorca, I can be myself. I go to the supermarket and the cinema, and I am just Rafa. Everyone knows me, and it is no big deal. I can go all day - no photographs.

I am not really a football man but I have always supported Chelsea because we lived there. We have been through the lows.

We came out of a very provincial city that was not very supportive of music, and we had to do our own thing and flyer everywhere.

The Great British Dig' is a fantastic format which combines finding out about the history of where you live and the surprising things that lie under your own back garden. Its kind of a community archaeology project.

La gente, acá, aprende a vivir en las orillas de la desgracia. Los turistas llaman a esta miseria color local.

He knew what they said of him locally: Oh, he likes to keep himself to himself. The phrase was descriptive, not judgemental. It was a principle of life the English still respected. And it wasn't just about privacy, about an Englishman's home—even a pebbledash semi—being his castle. It was about something more: about the self, and where you kept it, and who, if anyone, was allowed to fully see it.

I don't need to be asking for money for local museums and other projects just to make me look good back home.

By listening to his language of his locality the poet begins to learn his craft. It is his function to lift, by use of imagination and the language he hears, the material conditions and appearances of his environment to the sphere of the intelligence where they will have new currency.

Or, to put it in a slightly different way: there is always a fundamental distinction between the way one relates to friends, family, neighbourhood, people and places that we actually know directly, and the way one relates to empires, nations and metropolises, phenomena that exist largely, or at least most of the time, in our heads.

there is always a fundamental distinction between the way one relates to friends, family, neighbourhood, people and places that we actually know directly, and the way one relates to empires, nations and metropolises, phenomena that exist largely, or at least most of the time, in our heads.

I've never known of Wal-Mart to be a good neighbor in any town it's ever moved into.

The securest guarantee of the long-term good health of both farmland and city is, I believe, locally produced food.

Where, after all, do universal human rights begin? In small places, close to home.

When the world seems large and complex, we need to remember that great world ideals all begin in some home neighborhood.

It's like geographical humor. You just don't get it unless you were there.

Puesto que la familia había vivido siempre junto al cartel del Toro, a menudo se los conocía simplemente como la familia Bull.

The Tejo runs down from Spain And the Tejo goes into the sea in Portugal. Everybody knows that. But not many people know the river of my village And where it comes from And where it's going. And so, because it belongs to less people, The river of my village is freer and greater.

I started playing futsal in the favela because it was the closest pitch to where we lived. I think it was good for me, playing in a small space like that. You have to think and act quickly.

The best government is not the one that you can serve in the longest, but the government that's closest to the people.

Collective decisions about health care and education are best answered on a local level.

All Americans need a sense of place. That's what makes our physical surroundings worth caring about.

You cannot treat Sydney the same as the rest of the state.

I was born and raised in Maryland and attended the public school system.