Locals Quotes - Page 39

• I started my career in a town so small the local clinic was called Fred's Hospital and Grill.

  Joan Rivers

  Careers, Towns, Clinic

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

  Gloria Steinem

  Bosnia, Far Away, Victim

  Gloria Steinem (2014). “Doing Sixty & Seventy”, p.26, Open Road Media

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• How we delight to build our recollections upon some basis of reality,--a place, a country, a local habitation! how the events of life, as we look back upon them, have grown into the well-remembered background of the places where they fell upon us! Here is some sunny garden or summer lane, beautified and canonized forever, with the flood of a great joy; and here are dim and silent places,--rooms always shadowed and dark to us, whatever they may be to others,--where distress or death came once, and since then dwells forevermore.

  Washington Irving

  Summer, Country, Dark

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• If we mean to support the liberty and independence which has cost us so much blood and treasure to establish, we must drive far away the demon of party spirit and local reproach.

  George Washington

  Party, Mean, Blood

  George Washington (1852). “The life of General Washington: first president of the United States”, p.182

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• In the time of Spanish rule, and for many years afterwards, the town of Sulaco--the luxuriant beauty of the orange gardens bears witness to its antiquity--had never been commercially anything more important than a coasting port with a fairly large local trade in ox-hides and indigo.

  Joseph Conrad

  Book, Garden, Orange

  Joseph Conrad (2000). “Lord Jim and Nostromo: (A Modern Library E-Book)”, p.411, Modern Library

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• If there's a single message passed down from each generation of American parents to their children, it is a two-word line: Better Yourself. And if there's a temple of self-betterment in each town, it is the local school. We have worshipped there for some time.

  Ellen Goodman

  Education, Children, School

  Ellen Goodman (1983). “At Large”, Fawcett Books

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• In New Haven, Conn., when I was growing up, there were two sorts of Irish. There were the "drugstore cowboy" micks, who hung around the Elm Street poolroom over Longley's Lunch. And there were the earnest young Irishmen who fought their way up from the Grand Avenue saloonkeeper backgrounds of their fathers, went through Yale Law School, and have now found high place by the preferment of local politics or in the teaching profession.

  James T. Farrell

  Growing Up, Father, Book

  JAMES T. FARRELL (1938). “STUDS LONIGAN”

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• While local economies may experience significant price imbalances, a national severe price distortion seems most unlikely in the United States, given its size and diversity.

  Alan Greenspan

  Diversity, Imbalance, Size

  "The mortgage market and consumer debt". Remarks by Chairman Alan Greenspan At America’s Community Bankers Annual Convention, Washington, D.C., www.federalreserve.gov. October 19, 2004.

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• It is hard for people who have not lived in Los Angeles to realize how radically the Santa Ana figures in the local imagination. ... The wind shows us how close to the edge we are.

  Joan Didion

  Wind, Weather, People

  Joan Didion (2013). “Slouching Towards Bethlehem”, p.157, Zola Books

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• Harvard (across the river in Cambridge) and Boston are two ends of one mustache. ... Without the faculty, the visitors, the events that Harvard brings to the life here, Boston would be intolerable to anyone except genealogists, antique dealers, and those who find repletion in a closed local society.

  Elizabeth Hardwick

  Two, Rivers, Boston

  Elizabeth Hardwick (1962). “A View of My Own: Essays on Literature and Society”

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• The best poet is the man who delivers our daily bread: the local baker.

  Pablo Neruda

  Food, Men, Cooking

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• I would go see local bands play, and noticed how many girls were there to see the band, and that's what inspired me.

  Phil Ehart

  Girl, Play, Band

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• I don't think it's particularly useful to be going to another country and staying in a classroom and just studying in the classroom. What's important, I think, is to get immersed into the local economy.

  Robert J. Dolan

  Country, Thinking, Important

  "Robert Dolan Innovates Michigan’s MBA Program". Big Think Interview, bigthink.com. April 13, 2009.

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• I'm not a philanthropist. While I care about the poor, the issue of local or global poverty doesn't keep me up at night.

  Andy Stanley

  Night, Issues, Care

  Source: paulsohn.org

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• It is the highest form of culture and craftmanship in art to use local materials. That way you stand a chance of adding to culture. The other way you are in danger of merely imitating it.

  Miles Franklin

  Art, Culture, Use

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• a local train ... moved gently off up the line with a very singular motion indeed, in which the leap of a frog, the bounce of a pogo-stick, and the canter of a very short fat pony all were brought to mind.

  Honor Tracy

  Mind, Ponies, Lines

  Honor Tracy (1957). “Silk Hats and No Breakfast: Notes on a Spanish Journey”, New York, Random House [1958

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• Thirty years ago, my sister, Gale (so named because a gale hit Boston Harbor the night she was born), some friends and I stole a boat in the middle of the night and sailed it out of the Santa Barbara harbor. Suddenly we were becalmed and the current began pushing us toward the breakwall. With no running lights and no power, we were dead in the water. Out of that darkness a steel hull appeared: it was the local Coast Guard cutter. My father, stern-faced and displeased, stood in the bow.

  Gretel Ehrlich

  Running, Father, Night

  Gretel Ehrlich (1995). “A Match to the Heart: One Woman's Story of Being Struck By Lightning”, p.29, Penguin

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• For more than eight decades, Washington has been my hometown. ... It is a city that offers me more people -- more different kinds of people -- than I could otherwise possibly have come to know in a lifetime: the native Washingtonian, the local merchant, the foreign diplomat, the ever-present tourist, the public servant, the journalist, the president, the friend.

  Katharine Graham

  Eight, Cities, People

  Katharine Graham (2009). “Katharine Graham's Washington”, p.16, Vintage

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• Nowhere has democracy ever worked well without a great measure of local self-government, providing a school of political training for the people at large as much as for their future leaders.

  Friedrich August von Hayek

  School, Government, Self

  "The Road to Serfdom". Book by Friedrich Hayek, Ch. 15 : The Prospects of International Order, 1940 - 1943.

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• It's as if women are in a totally rigged race. A lot of men are driving souped-up, low-slung racing cars and we're running as fast as we can in tennis shoes we managed to salvage from a local garage sale.

  Naomi Weisstein

  Running, Men, Race

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• Local esteem is far more conducive to happiness than general reputation. The latter may be compared to the fixed stars which glimmer so remotely as to afford little light and no warmth. The former is like the sun, each day shedding his prolific and cheering beams.

  William Benton Clulow

  Stars, Cheer, Light

  William Benton Clulow (1843). “Aphorisms and Reflections: A Miscellany of Thought and Opinion”, p.415

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

  William Benton Clulow

  Time, Distance, Events

  William Benton Clulow (1843). “Aphorisms and Reflections: A Miscellany of Thought and Opinion”, p.160

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• I realized that the only possible response was to go to my wonderful local café, Maison Bertaux, check everyone was well, eat a little cake and then make art. To me, making art, and in particular public art, is always an assertion of our humanity and our strength.

  Martin Firrell

  Art, Cake, Humanity

  International Herald Tribune, September 19, 2005.

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• In a democracy, it is the people who are sovereign. Therefore, with regard to the promotion of democracy at the local, country and regional levels, civil society must have a stronger voice in all political processes.

  Alfred-Maurice de Zayas

  Country, Voice, People

  "Report of the Independent Expert on the promotion of a democratic and equitable international order, Alfred-Maurice de Zayas". July 01, 2013.

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• I began to see motorcyclists who had attached computer discs to their back mudflaps, because they made good reflectors. In a place called Xingwuying, locals climbed the Great Wall whenever they wanted to receive a cell phone signal.

  Peter Hessler

  Wall, Phones, Cells

  Peter Hessler (2010). “Country Driving: A Chinese Road Trip”, p.94, Canongate Books

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