Quotes About Local culture

I don't think you can separate a place from its history. I think a place is much more than the bricks and mortar that go into its construction. I think it's more than the accidental topography of the ground it stands on.

We're not really trying to do anything besides represent where we come from, and that's New Orleans.

My mother is, my father certainly was. They were kind of the local intelligentsia in the town where I grew up.

we must consistently challenge dehumanizing public representations of poverty and the poor. Restoring to our nation the understanding that people can be materially poor yet have abundant lives rich in engagement with nature, with local culture, with spiritual values is essential to any progressive struggle to halt mountaintop removal

I think the language as spoken in Limerick and Cork has not really been written; 'City of Bohane' is a combination of the two. Bohane is a little kingdom. When I began writing it, I realised that it was in the future and that it was a place that didn't care about anything that happened outside it.

regional variations in things like slam dancing had gotten erased by MTV. "It went from each town having its own little story to it being kind of the same group of people in every town.

London isn't a place at all. It's a million little places.

People in Philadelphia don't come from there; they come from "Fuhluffia.

Irish people are educated not only about artistry but local history.

I want my songs to be enjoyed by those who travel in a town bus and they should be played repeatedly in a tea shop.

Slow travel now rivals the fly-to-Barcelona-for-lunch culture. Advocates savour the journey, travelling by train or boat or bicycle, or even on foot, rather than crammed into an airplane. They take time to plug into the local culture instead of racing through a list of tourist traps.

Everybody ought to have a lower East Side in their life.

I learned so much in Zimbabwe, in particular about the need for humility in our ambition to extend mental health care in countries where there were very few psychiatrists and where the local culture harboured very different views about mental illness and healing. These experiences have profoundly influenced my thinking.

Today I travel a lot, and when I tell people that I live in New Orleans their expression changes slightly; something in their facial muscles relaxes, something brightens in their eyes, and they smile.

I've gotten to really, really like being back in the States. It's so easy being in your own country, and I really like Americans - typical American towns and provincial college towns are my ideal place to be.

I'm from Bourbon, Missouri, where spirits are high and where the cattle population exceeds the human population.

The Austin music scene is the reason why so many of them moved here.

I'm a true native of the Bay Area.

The South Side of Chicago is my oyster.

I like staying in the hood.

In England, football is a big thing to talk about, but Liverpool, it's a special place. You feel it when you make your first step.

A person from Northern Ireland is naturally cautious.

Chicago is a city of neighborhoods, and I love that. It's cool to have different foods from all over the world within a stone's throw of my house.

The more local and settled the culture, the better it stays put, the less the damage. It is the foreigner whose road of excess leads to a desert.