Locals Quotes · Page 5

Vegetable box schemes, local greengrocers, farmers' markets and organic stores are a great place to source package-free foods.

— Sheherazade Goldsmith

...he had a way of taking your hand which made it clear he'd have to be the one to let go." From…

— Alice Hoffman

Why are women raped far away (say, Bosnia) called victims, while those raped nearby (say, a local campus) are playing victim politics?

— Gloria Steinem

I think some of these solutions are prepared in an office without a full understanding of the local situation.

— Wangari Maathai

Time sheds a softness on remote objects or events, as local distance imparts to the landscape a smoothness and mellowness which disappear…

— William Benton Clulow

Great food, like all art, enhances and reflects a community’s vitality, growth and solidarity. Yet history bears witness that great cuisines spring…

— Rick Bayless

There are many other possibilities more enlightening than the struggle to become the local doctor's most affluent ulcer case.

— Nelson Rockefeller

I do not belive that Washington should do for the people wha they can do for themselves through local and private effort.

— John F. Kennedy

Because it's unacceptable that the aid worker's chauffeur only speaks his own tribal language, an applicant is needed who also speaks English…

— James Shikwati

If I had a religious experience, what I know for sure is that I would stop doing philosophy and would start doing…

— Simon Critchley

It was still the custom of the countryside to build with local materials produced as close to the selected site as possible,…

— Flora Thompson

I opposed annexing in areas around our city borders, because I knew that if neighborhoods wanted to be a part of the…

— Sarah Palin

In 1962, the Supreme Court banned organized prayer from public schools. Since then, federal, state, and local courts and officials, including public…

— Ralph E. Reed, Jr

I feel really uncomfortable writing about Sudan when I'm not there. It always looks different. When you're outside Sudan it's easy to…

— Rebecca Hamilton

The primary role of the church is to reflect God's value system in society and to train people in that value system.…

— Tony Evans

When Gypsy was older, after she became Gypsy Rose Lee, I think she was both proud and slightly ashamed of her Seattle…

— Karen Abbott

For 40 years, my argument has been that democratizing ownership of wealth has been the key to egalitarian society and the goals…

— Gar Alperovitz

Our Government understands that local, community organizations are essential in addressing social issues like economic development, poverty, education and integration in Canadian…

— Ed Holder

I was under contract with Walt Disney at the time. I was co-starring in my second season of a show called, Texas…

— Betty Lynn

After decades of faithful study, ecologists have begun to fathom hidden likenesses among many interwoven systems. ...a canon of nature's laws, strategies,…

— Janine Benyus

There's an old, private cemetery here in Palm Springs, where I live, just down the street from the airport, that belongs to…

— Tod Goldberg

Cowgirl is a spirit, a special brand of courage. The cowgirl faces life head on, lives by her own lights, and makes…

— Dale Evans

I once was asked to contribute to a mushroom poem anthology. I didn't have anything, and so instead ended up writing the…

— Jane Hirshfield

It is better to buy from a small, privately owned local store than from a chain store. It is better to buy…

— Wendell Berry

While I've been asked to run for Congress, I really believe we need to defend freedom locally. And by doing that, by…

— Matt Shea

I think I was technically uncredited as Local #1, because there were three of us. But I had the most lines [in…

— Brent Spiner

If I go somewhere, I want to interact with the locals, not just stay cooped up in a little English enclave.

— Maureen Lipman

We need to find a balance between protecting our local economies while pursuing the longer-term goal of producing clean, affordable and reliable…

— Ann Kirkpatrick

[Sigmund Freud] just made people feel so neurotic about their lives. I mean, if you dreamt about a lampshade, it meant you…

— Steven Morrissey

To be clear, we the Department of Education want curriculum to be driven by the local level. We are by law prohibited…

— Arne Duncan

I actually got started in acting when I was in pre-school. I was really into dance and performing, so my mom had…

— Fiona Gubelmann

Western civilization, because of fortuitous historical circumstances, has spread itself more widely than any other local group that has so far been…

— Ruth Benedict

The only time I get recognised is when I go somewhere that is showing 'Coupling' on local television.

— Gina Bellman

Nations have the wrong granularity. They’re too small to be global and too big to be local, and all they can think…

— Nicholas Negroponte

Home is memory, home is your history, home is where you work. Some people want to abandon it and become truly local.…

— Toni Morrison

I'm certainly very conservative when it comes to education. We're getting rid of Common Core. We're going to have education at a…

— Donald Trump

Visit your local supermarket or retail chain. You'll experience a lot of visual stimulus, but it's unlikely that your other senses will…

— Martin Lindstrom

People love to hear the brag of the local boy, because they want him to be great, but the foreigner must deny…

— Orson Scott Card

I'm very committed to my family and my town. My biggest local commitment are my children, my husband, my home and my…

— Elizabeth Lesser

Egotism is a kind of buckram that gives momentary strength and concentration to men, and seems to be much used in Nature…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson