“Parochialism and provincialism are direct opposites. A provincial is always trying to live by other people's loves, but a parochial is self-sufficient.” — Patrick Kavanagh Copy Share Image
if we continue with what is surely our greatest Western temptation, and think that in some way history owes us a solution, that we can, by pursuing our own most parochial self-interest, achieve in some miraculous way a consummation of… — Barbara Ward, Baroness Jackson of Lodsworth Copy Share Image