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Quotes About Locality

It's pretty cool to see, like, from town to town, how different the crowds are.
~ Matthew Ramsey
I might have made more money if I had outsourced to India, and I knew I'd find it easier to hire senior managers in London. But I wanted to be in Stoke. What could be more satisfying than creating work for 3,000 people in my home town?
~ John Caudwell
I came from a town of maybe 30,000 people.
~ Jim Caviezel
I think mobility is very important, not only to discover opportunities elsewhere but at times, also to appreciate better what your home town has. Allahabad, for instance, has the feel of a small, tightly-knit community where everyone participates.
~ Vikas Swarup
I grew up in a small town that was absolutely a perfect embodiment of new urbanism.
~ Leon Krier
I grew up in small towns in Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh and Maharashtra - places like Akola, Betul, Wardha, Jhansi; I thought the rise of provincial India would be an interesting subject to tackle.
~ Pankaj Mishra
I didn't realise you could travel so far and still be in England.
~ Kevin Bond
There's no need to travel further. The Los Angeles area is big enough for us.
~ Marvin Davis
You can start locally. Upturn a glass on a map and centre it on your home. Then draw a ring around the rim and explore that circle so you know it like the back of your hand. All travel gifts memories, and spontaneity has a place.
~ Simon Reeve
Most works of art, like most wines, ought to be consumed in the district of their fabrication.
~ Simone Weil
I resent the fact that people in places like Boston, New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, and San Francisco believe that they should be able to tell us how to live our lives, operate our businesses, and what to do with the land that we love and cherish.
~ Wilford Brimley
I've always said we need to build resilience locally.
~ Eric Garcetti
living to make, and he wanted to make it here in these parts, where
~ Josephine Cox
I try and speak out on things that affect where I live in London, and at home in Enniskillen. For instance, I am very keen we get our bypass - the town is completely clogged with traffic and it's one of the most beautiful inland towns in Ireland.
~ Adrian Dunbar
During COVID, I was still training, working on my fitness and my tennis. I was able to practice and play near where I live in Orlando.
~ Jennifer Brady
For a long time, I have been making many predictions, far in advance, of events since come to pass, naming the particular locality. I acknowledge all to have been accomplished through divine power and inspiration.
~ Nostradamus
Before the discovery of agriculture mankind was everywhere so divided, the size of each group being determined by the natural fertility of its locality.
~ Arthur Keith
And to think that he was going to live right here in the neighborhood!
~ Beverly Cleary
Norfolk specializes in odd pronunciations. Hautbois is hobbiss, Wymondham is windum, Costessey is cozzy, Postwick is pozzik. People often ask why that is. I'm not sure, but I think it is just something that happens when you sleep with close relatives.
~ Bill Bryson
Third, each company had an extraordinarily intimate relationship with the local city, town, or county in which it did business—a relationship that went well beyond the usual concept of "giving back.
~ Bo Burlingham
I was not able to light on any map or work giving the exact locality of the Castle Dracula, as there are no maps of this country as yet to compare with our own Ordnance Survey Maps; but I found that Bistritz, the post town named by Count Dracula, is a fairly well-known place. I shall enter here some of my notes, as they may refresh my memory when I talk over my travels with Mina.
~ Bram Stoker
Habría un hoyo negro de seis pies de profundidad en el duro suelo. Esa sombra se uniría con esta sombra, y el peculiar suelo amarillento de nuestra localidad sellaría la herida en la blancura, y otra nevada borraría la novedad en la tumba de Joan
~ Sylvia Plath
Instead of noblemen, let us have noble villages of men.
~ Henry David Thoreau
One of the reasons why I don't leave Northampton is that the people don't treat me like a celebrity. I've been here for years; I'm just that bloke with long hair.
~ Alan Moore