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  • Parochial schools in the United States are also responsible for educating students from a wide range of ethnic backgrounds, including many who are non-Catholic. -- Mark Foley
  • 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
  • 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
  • Empathy has some unfortunate features - it is parochial, narrow-minded, and innumerate. We're often at our best when we're smart enough not to rely on it. -- Paul Bloom
  • 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 glamour of twentieth-century air travel helped to persuade once-fearful travelers to take to the skies and encouraged parochial Americans to go out and see the world. -- Virginia Postrel
  • In politics and in society, we can use our reason to rise above our parochial natures. Too bad that our elected officials don't choose to do so more often. -- Paul Bloom
  • 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 envision presenting parents with a marketplace of school choices - public, private, parochial, charter, virtual, blended, and home education. They then can choose the model that best equips their children for success. -- Jeb Bush
  • My father grew up in an era when to be an American - a white American, at least - was to be yourself. In some respects, his generation was more ignorant, complacent, self-centered and parochial than mine. -- William T. Vollmann
  • I decided early on that I wanted to participate in the greater American experience, rather than the parochial one in Mississippi. But I have an urge as a writer to meld the Southern experience into the larger American one. -- Richard Ford
  • Honestly, I expected to get a cold reception because of my subject matter. But when editors took a look at the story I had to tell, and saw that this was not a parochial story at all, they really warmed to it. -- Laura Hillenbrand
  • It's time to update traditional public schools, charter schools, home schools, online schools and parochial schools. Let the dollars follow the child instead of forcing the child to follow the dollars, so that every child has the opportunity to attain an education. -- Bobby Jindal
  • In 50 years - or 20 years, or 200 years - our current epistemic horizon (the Big Bang, roughly) may look as parochial as the horizon Newton had to settle for in his day, but no doubt there will still be good questions whose answers elude us. -- Daniel Dennett
  • It's a very, very fascinating story for me, cause it's about a man who's been doing bad; bad things. And he's a father of four children in parochial school, he's a lieutenant of detectives, but he's in conflict with himself and with trying to do what's right. -- Harvey Keitel
  • So, the point I'm making is, we are not going to cut spending in Washington if we think it's the job of every congressman and senator is to pave local parking lots and build local sewer plants. These parochial interests are getting in the way of the national interests. -- Jim DeMint
  • Public education must be viewed from the lens of providing each child with the learning environment that best meets his or her needs. If we can send a low-income child to a parochial school, knowing that his odds of attending college will increase as a result, then that should be our mission. -- Jeb Bush
  • My hope is for a literature that raises the language above the ordinary, makes words both functional and emotional, and to resonate at the frequency of the human spirit - the skill and insight of the writer lifting the parochial novel above the level of regional concern. Making it personal, national, and universal. -- Theresa Breslin
  • Reagan was all about America, and you talked about it. Obama is, 'We are above that now. We're not just parochial, we're not just chauvinistic, we're not just provincial. We stand for something.' I mean, in a way, Obama's standing above the country, above - above the world. He's sort of God. He's going to bring all different sides together. -- Chris Matthews
  • I am the enemy of anything parochial. -- George Brandis
  • On parochial school I was told I had an overabundance of original sin. -- Susan Sarandon
  • I learned a lot from both, initially Jewish and Muslim theologians that had been missing, perhaps from my rather parochial Catholic upbringing. -- Karen Armstrong
  • 90 percent of American schoolchildren are in public schools. And the emphasis on private schools and charter schools and parochial schools is not unimportant. -- Mark Shields
  • 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
  • Religions are not imaginative, not poetic, not soulful. On the contrary, they are parochial, small-minded, niggardly with the human imagination, precisely where science is generous. -- Richard Dawkins
  • The elevation of parochial values to the realm of the sacred is a license to dismiss other people's interests, and an imperative to reject the possibility of compromise -- Steven Pinker
  • Like works of literature, mathematical ideas help expand our circle of empathy, liberating us from the tyranny of a single, parochial point of view. Numbers, properly considered, make us better people. -- Daniel Tammet
  • The average English critic is a don manqué, hopelessly parochial when not exaggeratedly teutonophile, over whose desk must surely hang the motto (presumably in Gothic lettering) "Above all no enthusiasm". -- Constant Lambert
  • My spirituality is parochial, terrestrial. I do qualify as a W.I.T.C.H. , but my irrecular practice and impromptu rituals don't aim at producing any dramatic results except, perhaps, in me. -- Stephanie Mills
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  • I can't believe people got so upset at the sight of a single breast! America is so parochial, I may just have to move to Europe where people are more mature about things like that! -- Janet Jackson
  • We need to tell Australian stories,we need to encourage and fund and present Australian work but we also need to understand that for a sophisticated, educated, culturally aware, modern nation we can't be parochial. -- George Brandis
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