Local Scene

Famous quotes containing the words local and/or scene:

“These native villages are as unchanging as the woman in one of their stories. When she was called before a local justice he asked her age. “I have 45 years.” “But,” said the justice, “you were forty-five when you appeared before me two years ago.” “Señor Judge,” she replied proudly, drawing herself to her full height, “I am not of those who are one thing today and another tomorrow!””
—State of New Mexico, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)

“‘Twas that friends, the belov’d of my bosom, were near,
Who made every dear scene of enchantment more dear,”
—Thomas Moore (1779–1852)