Parochial Quotes

You don't want a name that's parochial, convoluted or doesn't clearly communicate what the product delivers. - Mark Lieberman

What Mr. Kaufman and his team are after is less a portrait of any one person than one of the ethos of a place... In the deliberate, simple staging ... in which eight radiantly clean-scrubbed performers embody 60 different people against a bare-bones set, 'Laramie' often brings to mind 'Our Town,' the beloved Thornton Wilder study of life, love and death in parochial New Hampshire. - Ben Brantley

We will not rest... until there's a quality education -- public, private, parochial, charter, magnet or whatever -- for every child living in the United States of America, every family in America. We should be their party. - Jack Kemp

We have to realize that we no longer have the luxury of interminable dialogue over parochial issues. - Richard Lawless

We have a clear example here that earmarks caused harm. Because we siphoned off funds to go to parochial projects, we have put people in harm's way and exposed them to greater risk. Congress needs to put its house in order and target their funding to where there's the greatest need. - Steve Ellis

We commend Senators [Michael] Enzi and [Edward] Kennedy and their colleagues for their leadership in the Senate and ensuring that this much-needed relief (ensuring the equitable and religiously sensitive treatment of parochial schools) was contained in the appropriations package. - Nathan Diament

We can now work to direct this money to the classroom and help many more needy public, private and parochial school children. - Richard Riley

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