Michelle Lujan Grisham Quotes

All Americans need a sense of place. That's what makes our physical surroundings worth caring about.

I'm proud of where I'm from. I'm proud of Long Island.

If you go down to Texas, people are real proud about and they rep Texas.

Anyone who has been born in Yorkshire is very proud of it. It's something that's embedded in your character.

It's something to be proud of... I'm a proud New South Welshman.

We are all proud to be British. But we also feel more local and regional allegiances.

We joke that St. Louis people love their own.

People from here will often say, "I'm not from the United States, I'm from New Orleans."

The people of Texas are rightly proud of their own, just like the French and the Italians, but visiting artists have often been given a shot in the history of art.

West Bengal belongs to Bengalis. We should live here like a king and not as servants.

Perhaps the virtue of coming from a place like Tasmania is that you had the great gift of knowing that you were not the centre of things, yet life was no less where you were.

I'm a California girl, and I'd love to restore a sense of place to Southern California.

I think my sense of humor is Jewish. I'm smarter than most white people, which is kind of a Jewish thing, too.

I think Jersey stands alone, and because I'm from Jersey, I never make fun of where people are from. I'll make fun of what they look like, but I'll never make fun of where they are from. Jersey is special.

Someone once claimed I was not really a Yorkshireman!

I am such a Pacific Northwest girl.

We are fans because the game also appeals to our local pride, our pleasure in thinking of ourselves as, yes, Americans but nonetheless different from residents of other towns, other states, other regions.

My grandparents would never admit to being Tasmanian, but I think it's really great and funny. But I guess, in the past, Tasmanians just weren't quite accepted. You had that lazy reference to them being felons.

Minnesotans really think they run the whole world, I love that.

I'm a girl from Jersey.

Derby born and bred, mate.

A lot of those ideal towns are all starting to look the same, the specifics are starting to disappear. So we need to retain a love for life, a love for one's family, a love for where one's really from.

I wouldn't have been able to move to L.A. if I felt I was going to lose my identity as a New Jerseyian. My accent has gotten thicker since I've lived here.

All lands are beautiful in the eyes of their people.

Local Nationalism