Local Identity Quotes

You never get away from that thing in your hometown that it has over you. You don't outgrow where you come from.

This President takes his inspiration from the capitals of Europe; we look to the cities and small towns of America. This President puts his faith in government. We put our faith in the American people.

Hackney gets a bit of a bad rap, but it's the only place I've ever lived that felt like a community. I know my neighbours.

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.

You have pretty much the same fan base in Memphis, year over year the same group. We watched teenagers in the stands become parents. You'd see little kids become young men and women. Those relationships mean much more than just basketball.

I've been telling people, if we want to keep the Republican party in Texas, the Republican party in Texas needs to start looking like Texas. And I think that this is - that goes for the rest of the country as well.

I got the sense that Alabama is a place where people don't want handouts and don't much care for people talking out of the side of their mouth.

I'm from Raleigh, N.C. It's my home, the most beautiful place ever - but it has some racist history.

I am Chicago. I'm from Chicago. I bleed Chicago. I really think I can help the city. I think I can save the city.

When we simply write a place off as, like, 'Well, it's just Trump country,' for the people who are there, we do them a disservice on some level. It's their country, too.

The people of Chicago are a proud people - and for good reason.

I don't want to bring a European city or an east-coast city to the West Coast.

It makes me feel like I can look the East End in the face.

I wouldn't have been able to move to L.A. if I felt I was going to lose my identity as a New Jerseyian. My accent has gotten thicker since I've lived here.

Someone once claimed I was not really a Yorkshireman!

Comics were not something that as a young kid you could say you were into in Manchester, Missouri. Kids did not read comic books back then.

It's the South that maintains the idea that they're different, which is interesting because nobody else really cares.

Straight up, I'm from Waldorf, Maryland, you guys. Let's not forget that.

There was a little spell when we had no real leadership at the top but we've always had quality people here, lovely characters to whom Sunderland means an awful lot.

I love all the Imperial Valley, man.

Arkansas Comes First.

I love the dignity in the name Philadelphia, but at heart, we're Philly.

I'm a kid from Boston.

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.

Growing up, I always thought of Detroit as a basketball town because of the Pistons, but everyone says it's really, at its core, a football town.