Local Life Quotes

Small scale is critical to local life, to the ability of local people to control what happens where they live.

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

When I appeared in 'Coronation Street,' I lived in Manchester and enjoyed it very much.

I like where I lived in Alnwick; I always tell people about it. There's so much to do there, even though it's so small and quaint.

For the vast majority of humans in history, people lived, traveled, worked and died within a few miles of their birthplace.

I live in Brooklyn, in Williamsburg, so I just like to wander around. Williamsburg's such a cool little neighborhood community spot.

I've always been happy playing in Kansas City.

I discovered that my own little postage stamp of native soil was worth writing about and that I would never live long enough to exhaust it.

For me, the high street is a key part of how we live, what sort of community we are, how we get our news, and how we get our gossip.

I don't really know anything about the movie business, even though I've lived in Los Angeles my whole life - somehow I've never bumped into it.

I come from a small town in Ohio and was always into sports.

I don't really go out, 'go out' that much anymore. I live in Brooklyn, in Williamsburg, so I just like to wander around. Williamsburg's such a cool little neighborhood community spot.

Welsh is my mother tongue, and my children speak it. If you come and live in this community you'll work out pretty quickly that it's beneficial to learn the language, because if you're going to the pub or a cafe you need to be a part of the local life.

It’s funny how you can live somewhere your whole life, but not really see it.

I've gotten to know a lot of great people here in all the different sports. It's fun. It's fun to get involved where you live. And this is where I live. I'm a registered voter here. I have my Wisconsin driver's license.

When I'm in a foreign city, I like to get to know it like a local.

But I went to high school in a Portland suburb and went to college here.

...I suddenly realized what small towns are. They are places where you grow up with the peculiar-you live next door to the strange and the unlikely for so long that everything and everyone become commonplace.

I adore the fact that when I'm driving home from work, as soon as I hit my neighbourhood, I see people I know.

We actors don't travel as tourists with a camera, we really get to enter the life of a place and get to know it.

I’m learning that to be at home everywhere, I have to be sure to include the place I actually live.

I live about six miles from where I was born and raised.

Perhaps the virtue of coming from a place like Tasmania is that you had the great gift of knowing that you were not the centre of things, yet life was no less where you were.

When you go for a vacation, you hit the usual spots, but staying in a country for over a month is a different experience altogether.

I've loved Lucknow for its feel, its people and the food.