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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

The flavour of life is love. The salt of life is also love. — Mariama Ba

I went to parochial grammar school, and I give thanks to the Catholic training because of course, they brought me to the heart of Jesus. — Tony Orlando

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 grew up in a house with no running water, 16 miles from the closest place that had a post office. I had a very parochial view of the world. — Rick Perry

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