Steve Kornacki

Boston is both a world-class city, home to some of the best academic and medical institutions on the planet, and a quirkily parochial place, where one of the biggest annual sporting events involves college hockey players competing for a beanpot and where generations of baseball fans actively believed they were victims of a curse.

Alan K. Simpson

Restoring and maintaining a great nation's fiscal health will require not just sound arguments and an engaged public but something more. It will require an electoral system that encourages our representatives to place the long-term interests of the public ahead of parochial special interests.

American Politician

Yuval Noah Harari

We are living in a global world - but most schools and books still tell us only parochial histories of one particular country or culture. The truth is that there are no longer any independent countries in the world.

Israeli Historian

Yemi Osinbajo

Many of the ethnic and other parochial tensions that have tended to create insecurity and outright conflict, time and time again, are largely as a result of failure to deliberately undertake nation-building efforts.

Nigerian Politician

William T. Vollmann

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.

American Novelist

Virginia Postrel

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.

American Writer

Gladys Berejiklian

The people of NSW should not continue to be held hostage to a lowest common denominator approach that privileges the parochial interests of small populations.

Australian Politician

Jennifer Haigh

I was raised in a Catholic family, spent twelve years in parochial schools, and had extremely fond memories of my interactions with Catholic clergy.

Rick Perry

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.

George A. Moore

Art must be parochial in the beginning to be cosmopolitan in the end.

Irish Novelist

Use 'parochial' to connect something to a local church community, emphasizing a religious aspect.

Church Association

'Parochial' refers to local church matters and should not be mistaken for broader religious contexts.

Local Scope

'Parochial' often implies activities or services focused on serving the local parish community.

Community-Focused

Use 'parochial' to describe thinking that is limited or not open to wider perspectives.

Limited Viewpoint

Be aware that using 'parochial' in this sense can have a negative connotation, suggesting ignorance.

Negative Implication

'Parochial' is not just about geographic limitations, but also narrowness in thinking and experiences.

Beyond Geography

 I'm saying really radically different that can still sell for produce and potentially create living organisms my personal opinion is that if we found new life we might not even recognize it so this obsession with the search for Goldilocks planets and in exactly the right place with water and whatever that that's a very parochial assumption

The radical possibilities...

 The point is, none of us should be parochial, none of us should be so nationalistic to believe that all good ideas will come only from our country. No, we have to have the humility to learn from knowledge of economically poor people, wherever they are. And look at this whole range of cycle-based

Anil Gupta: India's...

 Out in intergalactic space, those three prerequisites for the open-ended creation of knowledge are at their lowest possible supply -- as I said, it's empty, it's cold and it's dark out there. Or is it? Now actually, that's just another parochial misconception.

David Deutsch: Chemical...

 between the people who want to stop at nation, the people who are more parochial -- and I don't mean that in a bad way -- people who have much more of a sense of being rooted, they care about their town, their community and their nation.

Can a divided America...

 you know, has divided a nation even more so. And one critic of the breakup called those who favor it -- I just love this phrase -- "the frightened parochial lizard brain of Britain." The frightened parochial lizard brain of Britain.

3 ways to practice...

 We're still locked in a 17th-century paradigm of parochial national sovereignty. And yet, in the 1600's, when nation-states were really coming into their own, less than one percent of the world's population resided in a city.

The biggest risks facing...

 have our own standards of what we think make for a just legal system within our own borders we should not take a parochial or chauvinistic view of those standards no country has a monopoly on

Where foreign laws and...

 Michael's a young guy. He had a pretty low-wage job. He was supporting his wife and a child, and the child was going to parochial school. Then he lost his job. He panicked

Barry Schwartz: Using...

 as probably the most cosmopolitan of all cultures. But it's not. In many ways, it's the most parochial, because for 200 years, the West has been so dominant in the world

Understanding the rise...

 They've expanded and enriched our lives. But they don't solve humanity's big problems. What happened? So there is a parochial explanation in Silicon Valley,