Local Community Quotes

I like living in Berkeley, but I know Berkeley's not the world.

I'm lucky to have been raised in the most beautiful place - Amherst, Massachusetts, state of my heart. I'm more patriotic to Massachusetts than to almost any place.

Calling representatives every single day, arranging local community meetings, and marching in the streets every Sunday. It's not the path to glory, but it's absolutely essential to maintaining a democracy under threat.

[CIA] Case officers most fear the US ambassador and his staff, then restrictive headquarters cables, then curious gossipy neighbors in the local community, as potential threats to the operation. Next would come the local police, then the press. Last of all is the KGB.

I'm from a small town on the bottom edge of Mississippi, very near New Orleans and the Louisiana border. My family has lived there for generations.

It's a lot of wonderful things about the Bay area and Oakland that I absolutely love. I wouldn't change being from there by any stretch.

It was always a goal of mine to bring a world title fight back to my city of Baltimore.

When I was a kid, we didn't really leave Cambridge, which was the town where I grew up in.

Our community is like many around the country that have, as the gentleman from New York referenced, sophisticated planning and zoning regulations. These are elements that are developed as a result of local community pressure to balance interests.

Hollywood to me is a place to work. Home is Chester County.

Work gives you meaning. Work turns you into a servant to your family and to your neighbors and to your local community.

We believe that government in Britain should improve the quality of people's lives and improve the quality of our public services in every local community.

I'm not gonna lie; I don't always like everything about Bow and I don't always like everyone in Bow and they don't always like me but on the whole I love where I come from. I'm proud of where I come from and I'm proud to represent that area.

All the privileged can travel, see different worlds; not everyone can. I think it is important for people to have an interesting locale nearby.

I love focusing on what we have to do right here in Lexington.

I grew up in Rhode Island. Most of my family on both sides is from Rhode Island.

You have all the ambition of winning a championship and competing in your hometown. For me, it didn't work out that way.

Los Angeles has been my home since the days even before Motley Crue, so I am beyond excited that 'The Side Show' has found a home on 98.7 FM. This is the station I listen to - my friends listen to it, my family listens to it. It's the station I wanted to be on, and I'm psyched to get started.

For our welfare reform efforts to be successful, we must empower local charitable organizations with the resources to address their local community needs.

My homies in Gadsden aren't as exposed as I am culturally, which is awesome - that's why I love going home. I'm in the kitchen with people who don't know anything but the simple life, what's important to them, and what's dope.

Where I grew up, we had the three TV networks, maybe two radio stations, no cable TV. We still had a long-distance party line in our neighborhood, so you could listen to all your neighbors' phone calls. We had a very small public library, and the nearest bookstore was an hour away.

Charity begins at home, and justice begins next door.

I grew up in Hockley, Birmingham. It was an environment I'll never forget in terms of playing football on local pitches, kicking a ball around in the front garden and all over the house. It was a positive place to live, and somewhere, that gave me the right grounding for where I am today.

Opening Day was a big thing. I came to a lot of Orioles games. I grew up a couple blocks from here, so I was always coming down to the stadium. I always made it down for Opening Day until I was a little bit older and I had ball. But when I was younger, I always missed school.

I knew Barack Obama, absolutely. And I knew him probably as well as thousands of other Chicagoans.