Locality Quotes

The evil which assails us is not in the localities we inhabit but in ourselves.

Maybe I'm a serial regional writer. First here, then there, across the map.

We have not entire faith in the trust that Congress has in the unchangeableness of the laws of arithmetic. We might think that their competency to select a professor of history might be doubted. They seem to have an impression that there is such a thing as" American" political economy, which can no more be than "American" chemistry or "American" physics. Finally, gentlemen, we should a little distrust the selection by Congress of a professor of ethics. Of course, we should feel no doubt in regard to the tenure of office of the professors being entirely suitable, it being the well-known practice of both branches of Congress to select men solely for fitness, without regard to locality, and to keep them in office as long as they are competent and faithful.

I grew up on lovely Staten Island, which is the forgotten borough of New York City.

Nashville is a pretty small place.

Wherever you grow up, you think of it as normal.

Before the discovery of agriculture mankind was everywhere so divided, the size of each group being determined by the natural fertility of its locality.

Special care should be taken of the health of the inhabitants, which will depend chiefly on the healthiness of the locality and of the quarter to which they are exposed, and secondly on the use of pure water; this latter point is by no means a secondary consideration. For the elements which we use the most and oftenest for the support of the body contribute most to health, and among those are water and air. Wherefore, in all wise states, if there is want of pure water, and the supply is not all equally good, the drinking water ought to be separated from that which is used for other purposes.

Norman, Okla. That's where my folks live, so it's home to me.

…in every locality we should look beyond our noses; and at least say nothing on points where it is probable we shall disagree.

All I can do is take influences from where I was raised.

I don't live in the city of L.A. I live in West Hollywood.

There certainly is a tension between the relativity of simultaneity and non-locality in quantum theory, but it's not strong enough to add up to a falsification of either side by itself.

I grew up in a town called Prairie View. It's like 45 minutes outside of Houston.

Rather than pinpointing any particular part of the country as a place where the family lives, I would prefer to have readers think we live just down the street from their own home.

I wanted to use some kind of name so people would know where I was from. So I took the name "bluegrass." There is not a prettier name in the whole world.

If every plant and flower were found in all places, the charm of locality would not exist. Everything varies, and that gives the interest.

I have a lot of connection to Pataudi. I have spent a lot of time there and I love the place very much, but at no point, do I consider myself a Nawab.

Nations have the wrong granularity. They’re too small to be global and too big to be local, and all they can think about is competing.

I grew up in a semi-slum area in Gavipuram, Guttahalli.

Local color has a fatal tendency to remain local; but it is also true that the universal often borders on the void.

The twentieth century was about getting around. The twenty-first century will be about staying in a place worth staying in.

I make my home in Tulsa.

Today, local economies are being destroyed by the 'pluralistic,' displaced, global economy, which has no respect for what works in a locality. The global economy is built on the principle that one place can be exploited, even destroyed, for the sake of another place.

Somerset is where I call home, and where I feel most myself.