Best Parochial Quotes

42 Parochial quotes by 39 unique authors

So, the point I'm making is, we are not going to cut spending in Washington if we think it's the job of every congressman and… — Jim DeMint
Reagan was all about America, and you talked about it. Obama is, 'We are above that now. We're not just parochial, we're not just chauvinistic,… — Chris Matthews
Art must be parochial in the beginning to be cosmopolitan in the end. — George A. Moore
I grew up in a house with no running water, 16 miles from the closest place that had a post office. I had a very… — Rick Perry
As a writer one doesn’t belong anywhere. Fiction writers, I think, are even more outside the pale, necessarily on the edge of society. Because society… — William Trevor
Where issues used to be, say, parochial or local in Ireland or England and so forth, all politics is global now because all business is… — Gabriel Byrne
The glamour of twentieth-century air travel helped to persuade once-fearful travelers to take to the skies and encouraged parochial Americans to go out and see… — Virginia Postrel
My father grew up in an era when to be an American - a white American, at least - was to be yourself. In some… — William T. Vollmann
Public education must be viewed from the lens of providing each child with the learning environment that best meets his or her needs. If we… — Jeb Bush
I envision presenting parents with a marketplace of school choices - public, private, parochial, charter, virtual, blended, and home education. They then can choose the… — Jeb Bush
My hope is for a literature that raises the language above the ordinary, makes words both functional and emotional, and to resonate at the frequency… — Theresa Breslin
I decided early on that I wanted to participate in the greater American experience, rather than the parochial one in Mississippi. But I have an… — Richard Ford
I am bourgeois to the core and parochial beyond belief, and yet I am drawn to art and scholarship as my anti-type, my shadow, the… — Robert Inchausti
It's a very, very fascinating story for me, cause it's about a man who's been doing bad; bad things. And he's a father of four… — Harvey Keitel
In the UK, which is what I know because it's where I grew up, it's more of a parochial thing that's going on there. It's… — Emily Blunt

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