Local Quotes

1172 Local quotes by 970 unique authors

As governor, there isn't a lot I can do beyond that to crack down on crime. Law enforcement is really a local issue. It's the… — Jesse Ventura
Local and regional food systems are about opportunity. — Tom Vilsack
Many young and beginning farmers start out in local markets. Some stay there, and some scale up. — Tom Vilsack
To help producers serve larger institutional customers like schools and hospitals, USDA has helped fund new regional infrastructure like cold storage warehouses, commercial kitchens and… — Tom Vilsack
So I rang up my local swimming baths. I said 'Is that the local swimming baths?' He said 'It depends where you're calling from.' — Tim Vine
I wouldn't just come home from school and watch TV everyday, they had me involved in lots of local theatre. I was a very dramatic,… — Kerry Washington
We have been getting ready to recycle more e-waste by investing in infrastructure, providing grants to local government and working with industry. — Jay Weatherill
One of the critical issues that we have to confront is illegal immigration, because this is a multi-headed Hydra that affects our economy, our health… — Allen West
In the real world, I see conservatives volunteering at adoption agencies, at churches, at bake sales and the local American Legion Post while the only… — Allen West
Long ago, I did a five-and-a-half-hour-a-day, six-day-a-week talk show for four years, early on, in Los Angeles - local show. And when you are on… — Betty White
My mom was an actress in the local Seattle theater doing experimental plays. — Rainn Wilson
It is time to effect a revolution in female manners - time to restore to them their lost dignity. It is time to separate unchangeable… — Mary Wollstonecraft
I remember one of the first gigs I played with that amp was at a local church. They wanted someone to fill in with the… — Angus Young
We still have community, but we don't seem to have local community. Even in a small town where you know your neighbors and your mother's… — Helen Fisher
In China, Internet surveillance has already become a profitable industry. In fact, a growing number of private firms eagerly assist the local police by aggregating… — Evgeny Morozov
Citizens by birth or choice of a common country, that country has a right to concentrate your affections. The name of American, which belongs to… — George Washington
The poet's eye, in a fine frenzy rolling, doth glance from heaven to Earth, from Earth to heaven; and as imagination bodies forth the forms… — William Shakespeare
A lone peak of high point is a natural focal point in the landscape, something by which both travelers and local orient themselves. In the… — Rebecca Solnit
A poet's hope: to be, like some valley cheese, local, but prized elsewhere. — Wystan Hugh Auden
Reality TV was to me the worst form of entertainment--the modern equivalent of paying sixpence to watch lunatics howling at the wall down at the… — Jasper Fforde
No matter how you care to define it, I do not identify with the local group. Planet, species, race, nation, state, religion, party, union, club,… — George Carlin
Stealing ideas from contemporaries is rude and tasteless. Stealing from the long dead is considered literary and admirable. The same is true of grave-robbing. Loot… — N.D. Wilson
There are two kinds of knowledge, local and universal. — Ursula K. Le Guin
A good local pub has much in common with a church, except that a pub is warmer, and there's more conversation. — William Blake
He's most likely robbing the bank as a paycheck on the world for winning the ugliness prize at his local fete three years running. — Markus Zusak

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