Parochial Quotes

42 quotes by 39 authors

Today, the notion of progress in a single line without goal or limit seems perhaps the most parochial notion of a very parochial century — Lewis Mumford
So much American science fiction is parochial -- not as true now as it was years ago, but the assumption is one culture in the… — Poul Anderson
The elevation of parochial values to the realm of the sacred is a license to dismiss other people's interests, and an imperative to reject the… — Steven Pinker
In a way, both the U.S. media and those wacky rioters in the Afghan-Pakistani hinterlands are very similar, two highly parochial and monumentally self-absorbed tribes… — Mark Steyn
The problem we have had on the budget all along is a lack of adult supervision on the part of the White House. You can't… — Bruce Bartlett
Congress is best viewed from a distanceâ€”the farther the betterâ€”because up close, it is truly ugly. I saw most of Congress as uncivil, incompetent at… — Robert M. Gates
Like works of literature, mathematical ideas help expand our circle of empathy, liberating us from the tyranny of a single, parochial point of view. Numbers,… — Daniel Tammet
It is humanity's destiny to explore the universe. When we start thinking and working on that cosmic level, we will transcend our parochial differences and… — Story Musgrave
The parochial snobbery of these people was partly responsible for their failure to convert the Indians. Probably they also preferred to take land from heathens… — Arthur Miller
Honestly, I expected to get a cold reception because of my subject matter. But when editors took a look at the story I had to… — Laura Hillenbrand
On parochial school I was told I had an overabundance of original sin. — Susan Sarandon
If you reject the infinite, you are stuck with the finite, and the finite is parochial... the best explanation of anything eventually involves universality, and… — David Deutsch
There is no reader so parochial as the one who reads none but this morning's books. Books are not rolls, to be devoured only when… — Clifton Fadiman
Parochial schools in the United States are also responsible for educating students from a wide range of ethnic backgrounds, including many who are non-Catholic. — Mark Foley
What Mr. Kaufman and his team are after is less a portrait of any one person than one of the ethos of a place. In… — Ben Brantley
New York is at once cosmopolitan and parochial, a compendium of sentimental certainties. It is in fact the most sentimental of the world's great cities… — John Gregory Dunne
The pack of media brayed and bellowed outside the house for seven weeks. Sol realized then what he had known and forgotten about very small… — Dan Simmons
I can't convince myself that it does much good to try to challenge the everyday political delusions and dementias of Americans at large. Their contained… — Kenny Smith
There's too much political hay to be made undercutting the war, and the consequences be damned. If they want to defeat the war to defeat… — James Lileks
For a Catholic kid in parochial school, the only way to survive the beatings - by classmates, not the nuns - was to be the… — George A. Romero

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