Parochial Quotes

It`s a very, very fascinating story for me, cause it`s about a man who`s been doing bad; bad things. And he`s a father of four children in parochial school, he`s a lieutenant of detectives, but he`s in conflict with himself and with trying to do what`s right.

Honestly, I expected to get a cold reception because of my subject matter. But when editors took a look at the story I had to tell, and saw that this was not a parochial story at all, they really warmed to it.

Parochial schools in the United States are also responsible for educating students from a wide range of ethnic backgrounds, including many who are non-Catholic.

People become parochial when it is in their patch. It will be extremely difficult in the foreseeable future to go down the line of closures in rural communities.

I am bourgeois to the core and parochial beyond belief, and yet I am drawn to art and scholarship as my anti-type, my shadow, the voice of distinction I never possessed. I don`t think of myself as a teacher so much as an impersonator of profundities, inhabiting the wisdom of texts with the naked confidence that the value of the genius I espouse transcends the particular fraud that I am the one espousing it. And it doesn`t even matter to me that no one seems to be listening; those who listen that I don`t know about are enough to keep me going--soaring on the wings of borrowed metaphors.