Locality Quotes

• There has never been a spiritual awakening in any country or locality that did not begin in united prayer.

  Arthur Tappan Pierson

  Country, Spiritual, Prayer

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• Amongst Women concentrated on the family, and the new book concentrates on a small community. The dominant units in Irish society are the family and the locality. The idea was that the whole world would grow out from that small space.

  John McGahern

  Book, Space, Ideas

  "The whole world in a community" by Robert McCrum, www.theguardian.com. January 5, 2002.

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

  Arthur Keith

  Discovery, Agriculture, Groups

  Sir Arthur Keith (1947). “Evolution and Ethics”

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• 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.

  Aristotle

  Education, Wise, Drinking

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• This truth of the gathering together of God's children is in Scripture seen realised in various localities, and in each central locality the Christians resident therein composed but one body: Scripture is perfectly clear on that head.

  John Nelson Darby

  Christian, Children, Together

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

  Seneca the Younger

  Evil

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• In other localities certain places in the streams are much better than others, but at Niagara one place is just as good as another, for the reason that the fish do not bite anywhere.

  Mark Twain

  Fishing, Reason, Certain

  Mark Twain (2006). “The Signet Classic Book of Mark Twain's Short Stories”, p.23, Penguin

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• Any simple but delicious dish that celebrates the season and locality is what I want to be known for.

  Mario Batali

  Simple, Want, Celebrate

  "Mario Batali's Favorite Chicken Dish Is Simply Beautiful". Interview with Anna Monette Roberts, www.popsugar.com. October 9, 2016.

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• Whether we live by the seaside, or by the lakes and rivers, or on the prarie, it concerns us to attend to the nature of fishes, since they are not phenomena confined to certain localities only, but forms and phases of the life in nature universally dispersed. The countless shoals which annually coast the shores of Europe and America are not so interesting to the student of nature as the more fertile law itselffrom which it results that they may be found in water in so many places, in greater or lesser numbers.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Nature, Lakes, Europe And America

  Henry David Thoreau (2016). “A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers”, p.18, Xist Publishing

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• The answer to many of the domestic problems we face is not higher taxes and more spending. It is less waste, more results and greater freedom for the individual American to earn a rightful place in his own community - and for States and localities to address their own needs in their own ways, in the light of their own priorities.

  Richard M. Nixon

  Light, Community, Priorities

  Nixon, Richard M. (1975). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Richard M. Nixon, 1973”, p.76, Best Books on

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• 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.

  Wendell Berry

  Principles, Today, Sake

  New Perspectives Quarterly, www.poetryfoundation.org. 1992.

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• Whether he sleeps or wakes,--whether he runs or walks,--whether he uses a microscope or a telescope, or his naked eye,--a man never discovers anything, never overtakes anything, or leaves anything behind, but himself. Whatever he says or does, he merely reports himself. If he is in love, he loves; if he is in heaven, he enjoys; if he is in hell, he suffers. It is his condition that determines his locality.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Running, Sleep, Eye

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.1871, Delphi Classics

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• The intelligent beings in these regions should therefore not be surprised if they observe that their locality in the universe satisfies the conditions that are necessary for their existence. It is a bit like a rich person living in a wealthy neighborhood not seeing any poverty.

  Stephen Hawking

  Atheist, Intelligent, Religion

  Stephen Hawking (2009). “A Brief History Of Time: From Big Bang To Black Holes”, p.105, Random House

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• The total quantity of all the forces capable of work in the whole universe remains eternal and unchanged throughout all their changes. All change in nature amounts to this, that force can change its form and locality, without its quantity being changed. The universe possesses, once for all, a store of force which is not altered by any change of phenomena, can neither be increased nor diminished, and which maintains any change which takes place on it.

  Hermann von Helmholtz

  Science, Form, Stores

  Hermann von Helmholtz (1873). “Popular Lectures on Scientific Subjects”, p.360

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• No department or locality may, or will be allowed to, interfere in the affairs which should be administered by [the SAR] on its own.

  Jiang Zemin

  May, Affair, Should

  "Hong Kong's new leaders offer reassuring words". www.cnn.com. July 1, 1997.

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• In all works on Natural History, we constantly find details of the marvellous adaptation of animals to their food, their habits, and the localities in which they are found.

  Alfred Russel Wallace

  Animal, Details, Adaptation

  Alfred Russel Wallace (1853). “A Narrative of Travels on the Amazon and Rio Negro: With an Account of the Native Tribes, and Observations on the Climate, Geology, and Natural History of the Amazon Valley”, p.83, London : Reeve and Company

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• The great enemy of freedom is the alignment of political power with wealth. This alignment destroys the commonwealth - that is, the natural wealth of localities and the local economies of household, neighborhood, and community - and so destroys democracy, of which the commonwealth is the foundation and practical means.

  Wendell Berry

  Mean, Community, Political

  Wendell Berry (2003). “The Art of the Commonplace: The Agrarian Essays of Wendell Berry”, p.58, Counterpoint

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• The purpose of seasonal festivals is periodically to revive the topocosm. Gaster coined this word from the Greek - topo for place and cosmos for world order. Topocosm means "the world order of a particular place." The topocosm is the entire complex of any given locality conceived as a living organism, not just the human community but the total community - the plants, animals and soils of the place. The topocosm is not only the actual and present living community but also that continuous entity of which the present community is but the current manifestation.

  Dolores LaChapelle

  Life, Mean, Animal

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• When autumn returns with its long anticipated holidays, and preparations are made for a scamper in some distant locality, hammer and notebook will not occupy much room in the portmanteau, and will certainly be found most entertaining company.

  Archibald Geikie

  Notebook, Holiday, Autumn

  Sir Archibald Geikie (1858). “The Story of a Boulder: Or, Gleanings from the Note-book of a Field Geologist”, p.9

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• I don't like to have the federal government start pushing its weight deeper and deeper into our schools. Let the states and localities do that.

  Mitt Romney

  School, Government, Weight

  Source: genius.com

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• Most of the men regarded Europe as a wine list. In their mental geography Rheims, Rhine, Moselle, Bordeaux, Champagne, or Würzburg were not localities but libations.

  Edna Ferber

  Wine, Men, Europe

  Edna Ferber (2015). “Gigolo”, p.58, Booklassic

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• The Germans, for example, have some kind of compromise between single-member and broader districts. In Israel, you have nothing, you have only a national election. You have no local districts at all. And that's because of the idea that in addition to other ideological differences, locality matters. The question is does the congressman represent his district and the interests of his district? And as I said there's quite a variety of systems the democratic world. The implications need to be examined.

  Kenneth Arrow

  Israel, Ideas, Differences

  Source: electology.org

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• The designation of the locality in one excludes the appearances narrated by the rest; the determination of time in another leaves no space for the narratives of his fellow-evangelists; the enumeration of a third is given without any regard to the events reported by his predecessors; lastly, among several appearances recounted by various narrators, each claims to be the last, and yet has nothing in common with the others. Hence nothing but wilful blindness can prevent the perception that no one of the narrators knew and presupposed what another records.

  David Friedrich Strauss

  Determination, Space, Perception

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• Nobody is so constituted as to be able to live everywhere and anywhere; and he who has great duties to perform, which lay claim toall his strength, has, in this respect, a very limited choice. The influence of climate upon the bodily functionsextends so far, that a blunder in the choice of locality and climate is able not only to alienate a man from his actual duty, but also to withhold it from him altogether, so that he never even comes face to face with it.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Men, Choices, Climate

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• The United States Constitution grants education decision authority to the states and localities not to the president of the United States.

  Dan Forest

  Decision, President, United States

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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