Quotes About Buying Local

#1. One of the challenges of buying local advertising is, how do you know if it worked? How do you know if it's got value? We're moving toward an e-commerce experience for local, an Amazon-like experience for local.

Jeremy Stoppelman

#2. I take my kids to the farmer's market - knowing I'm buying local and fresh makes the humiliation of the little choo-choo train ride worthwhile.

Sara Gilbert

#3. I think in general in my teens I had a lot of crushes on men on the Internet, most notably Momus since I was in my late teens. John Darnielle was also another big crush.

Marie Calloway

#4. I thought buying at the local market would be an excellent way to build positive relationships with the local villagers.

Eric Greitens

#5. Clients are becoming more global; they're realizing that markets are more interconnected. It's no longer the local regional clients buying the local regional flavors. It's everybody asking for everything.

Mary Callahan Erdoes

#6. I find myself changing my entire lifestyle every three years or so, and I'm comfortable in being an outsider. I have grown up like that.

Poorna Jagannathan

#7. Ordinary fortune-tellers tell you what you want to happen; witches tell you what's going to happen whether you want it to or not. Strangely enough, witches tend to be more accurate but less popular.

Terry Pratchett

#8. Kids learn more from example than from anything you say; I'm convinced they learn very early not to hear anything you say, but to watch what you do.

Jane Pauley

#9. The Road to success is a pattern that mirrors your behavior for the next halfway

Jinzo Sloatch

#10. My children's favourite thing is to con me into buying them ice-cream if there's not too big a queue at our local gelataria, Messina.

Catherine Martin

#11. The experience is fundamentally different for buying from local businesses than it is for buying consumer goods.

Andrew Mason

#12. Buying from a local farmer can mean that he makes a two-hour extra truck drive, which can damage the environment more than a bunch of bananas on a boat.

Tyler Cowen

#13. We must go beyond organic, as it is currently defined in the National Organic Standards, and strive for food that is not only healthful and natural but also local ... Buying locally means farmers get more of the food dollar, we get better nutrition, and less fuel is consumed in transport.

Kathleen Merrigan

#14. Sickly gray color, in which a handful of scraggly trees produce apples so sour that one only has to look at them to feel ill. Lousy Lane traverses the

Lemony Snicket

#15. Get your friends together, go to your local bookstore and have a book-buying party.

Roy Blount Jr.

#16. I want to live in a world where the need for pizza belittles that of war.

Jason Barnett

#17. Theres not a lot out there, and what is out there has to be really interesting to make me want to leave my life, which is really precious to me.

Lisa Bonet

#18. The disaster in the Gulf was no accident. It was the result of years of oil money buying off politicians to lead to an unregulated and ill focused addiction to oil and drilling. The doomed fate of the local fisherman and the environment were foretold in the infamous chants of 'Drill, Baby, Drill.'

Robert Greenwald

#19. The real connoisseurs in art are those who make people accept as beautiful something everybody used to consider ugly, by revealing and resuscitating the beauty in it.

Jules De Goncourt

#20. Why are cancer patients so hard to buy for? This question always puzzles me. When people are healthy, things are so simple, including gift buying. A jaunt to the local mall or a day in front of the TV watching QVC can be just enough for all the loved ones on your list.

Jenna Morasca