#local

I suspect that many corporations have begun to understand that they have an important role to play in the lives of their communities, and that allocating funds to support local groups helps them discharge that function and also burnish their image. ↗

— David Rockefeller

#also #begun #communities #corporations #discharge

Many in local government will ask why should only a few areas have the freedoms and benefits of Enterprise Zone status while the majority lose out? ↗

— Andy Sawford

#ask #benefits #enterprise #few #freedoms

I think the rules will change and I think more and more young women are going to decide that having a family and taking care of a home is not a bad choice, but how do we subsidize it - not necessarily European-style socialism. It'll have to be a new more creative, dynamic and local solution. ↗

— Christina Hoff Sommers

#care #change #choice #creative #decide

Conway Twitty was always our local hero while I was growing up. He had a series of good bands. I wanted to sit in, if Conway would let me. And he did a couple of times. ↗

— Levon Helm

#bands #conway #couple #did #good

Irish people are educated not only about artistry but local history. ↗

— Fiona Shaw

#artistry #educated #history #irish #irish people

The experience is fundamentally different for buying from local businesses than it is for buying consumer goods. ↗

— Andrew Mason

#buying #consumer #different #experience #fundamentally

At the federal level, we must help, not hinder, local school boards, parents, teachers and administrators as they make decisions about educating our children. ↗

— Mark Kennedy

#administrators #boards #children #decisions #educating

We have been getting ready to recycle more e-waste by investing in infrastructure, providing grants to local government and working with industry. ↗

— Jay Weatherill

#getting #government #grants #industry #infrastructure

As free citizens in a political democracy, we have a responsibility to be interested and involved in the affairs of the human community, be it at the local or the global level. ↗

— Paul Wellstone

#citizens #community #democracy #free #free citizens

It was pretty awful for us children because we never really knew the local children. Mother was keen for us to learn languages, so our travels took us to France and Italy, as well as the West Country. ↗

— Mary Wesley

#because #children #country #france #italy