Parochial Quotes
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Parochial Quotes & Sayings
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Happily ever after is a concept I'll never believe in.
— Ellen Hopkins
A few hundred yards ahead a Michelin post showed where a small parochial road crossed with the highway.
— Ian Fleming
Christmas isn't a parade or concert but a piece of home you keep in your heart wherever you go.
— Donna VanLiere
People who think of a nationalist party sometimes think 'inward-looking and parochial.' The kind of nationalism I represent is the opposite of that.
— Nicola Sturgeon
The innocent are guilty, the guilty are beyond hope, everything's on its head, it's a Twelfth Night of late-capitalist contradiction ...
— Thomas Pynchon
I am the enemy of anything parochial.
— George Brandis
All that passes under our eyes proves that we do not live in a peaceful and harmonious world.
— Francois Mitterrand
Pity can be nearsighted and condescending; shared suffering can be dignifying and life-changing.
— Eugene H. Peterson
patriotism, vitiated by the growing global diaspora, has become parochial, a tarnished, disappearing virtue.
— William Manchester
Say yes, Jordan," he said, shifting closer."No," I said.
Owen smiled. "Close enough." And then he kissed me. — Eli Easton
Art must be parochial in the beginning to be cosmopolitan in the end.
— George A. Moore
Today, the notion of progress in a single line without goal or limit seems perhaps the most parochial notion of a very parochial century.
— Lewis Mumford
For a Catholic kid in parochial school, the only way to survive the beatings - by classmates, not the nuns - was to be the funny guy.
— George A. Romero
Where issues used to be, say, parochial or local in Ireland or England and so forth, all politics is global now because all business is global.
— Gabriel Byrne
I was raised in a Catholic family, spent twelve years in parochial schools, and had extremely fond memories of my interactions with Catholic clergy.
— Jennifer Haigh
I learned a lot from both, initially Jewish and Muslim theologians that had been missing, perhaps from my rather parochial Catholic upbringing.
— Karen Armstrong
Like works of literature, mathematical ideas help expand our circle of empathy, liberating us from the tyranny of a single, parochial point of view.
— Daniel Tammet Thinking In Numbers How Maths Illuminates Our Lives