Local Recognition Quotes

I had rather be first in a village than second at Rome.

I'm quite content with who I am and what I do. You might get someone in your local Tesco who might know who you are. But not really. To think you couldn't do those simple things, I'd say I'd probably crave them quite a lot.

I know that it's the southern film industries that have made me an actor, and that is where people relate to me the most. I would never give it up or separate myself from it.

I'm not in it for fame. I've been famous in the streets already.

People in Nevada know me from the street to the ring to the Senate chambers. I've never had to prove my manhood to anyone.

A poet's hope: to be, like some valley cheese, local, but prized elsewhere.

The people of Sydney who can speak of my work without a smile are very scarce.

Every man must be content with that glory which he may have at home.

I'm known up there as the guy from Frog Jump. And it's a good thing.

You can be the best coach in the world and if you go to dinner in New York, nobody knows you, but here in Syracuse it’s very different.

The measure of success was writing a song, recording it and for it being in the hit parade in England. Success was about the postman walking up the garden whistling my song. I wasn't trying to conquer the world.

I am not facing the problem of emigration. I want my music to be acknowledged here first of all, in this country: after that, we shall see - perhaps the question will than become urgent.

I'm a British designer, and it's great to show on your own ground.

I did have a big following in the upper New York area. I was at the New York State Fair a few times over the years. I have areas that I say are my areas.

I was once made honorary mayor of my hometown of Newark, Del.

People have set that up as a standard, not to recognize a prophet in his own country.

Nothing had changed in my routine, except that when I went down the chippy and got me special fried rice, it would be wrapped in a newspaper that had my picture all over it.

A prophet is not without honor except in his own country among his own people.

I have a great T-shirt that I received at the New Jersey Hall of Fame when I was inducted. It says - it makes me choke up - it says, 'I'm a Jersey tomato'... I am. I am a Jersey girl and proud of it.

Most of the people in Donegal knew me long before I was an actor. But even since then, they don't talk that much about it, which is very nice.

You have to make a lot of sacrifices, and the main thing you have to sacrifice is your privacy. It's funny because when I was growing up, my daddy was and still is an insurance agent in our home town. He couldn't go anywhere without somebody recognizing him or needing something from him.

In spite of a heavy disguise, a few days' growth on my face, dark glasses, a beret and one of William's jackets that fitted me not at all, as I emerged from a hotel in Lecce, a young fisherman pointed me out to his friends and said "Lavrenche Olivaire." It was not all that amazing; if you're not known in Italy, you're not known anywhere.

I think, overall, the name 'The Storm' in Seattle has just continued to grow. It has now become not just an afterthought that we have a WNBA team here: it has become a part of the 'fabric' of our sports society.

No man is a hero in his own country.

In my hometown of Chicago, I'm kind of a medium deal.