Village Quotes
There are downsides to every technology. Fire kept us warm, but also burned down our villages.
I would like to thank my parents in Vergaio, a little village in Italy. They gave me the biggest gift: poverty.
Dignity and majesty have I seen but once, as it stood in chains, at midnight, in a dungeon in an obscure village of Missouri.
For passion, be it observed, brings insight with it; it can give a sort of intelligence to simpletons, fools, and idiots, especially during youth.
If you would be known, and not know, vegetate in a village; if you would know, and not be known, live in a city.
Let every man, every corporation, and especially let every village, town, and city, every county and State, get out of debt and keep out of debt. It is the debtor that is ruined by hard times.
Finally, there's a sense in which I look at this Westminster village and London intelligentsia as an outsider.
First in violence, deepest in dirt, lawless, unlovely, ill-smelling, irreverent, new; an overgrown gawk of a - village, the "tough" among cities, a spectacle for the nation.
To know after absence the familiar street and road and village and house is to know again the satisfaction of home.
I could never muster the courage to speak to girls in my college in Pune. Most of them were Parsis and spoke English. I came from a village and could barely converse in English.
One cannot live on potatoes alone. It is said that one wants bread with potatoes. And when there's no bread, a Jew takes his stick, and goes through the village in search of business.
Schools should be the most beautiful place in every town and village-so beautiful that the punishment for undutiful children should be barred from going to school the following day.
It is a city of villages, closely connected, each village dedicated to a different way of life.
I believe that in a great city, or even in a small city or a village, a great theater is the outward and visible sign of an inward and probable culture.
During the engagement I tried to throw a strong force through the canon, but I was obliged to use it elsewhere before it had gotten to the supposed location of the village.
Id rather be selling groundnuts in my village than play for a pathetic club like Chelsea FC
Like restless birds, the breath of coming rain Creeps, lilac-laden, up the village street
Princeton is a wonderful little spot. A quaint and ceremonious village of puny demigods on stilts.
Time’ has ceased, 'space' has vanished. We now live in a global village... a simultaneous happening
Celebrated in the Bob Dylan ballad “Joey”, Crazy Joe Gallo was a charismatic beatnik gangster whose forays into Greenwich Village in the 1960s inspired his bloody revolution against the Mafia.
I am restless. I don't mind leaving this comfortable, static life. I could live a year on my own in a remote village.
We have to tackle the triple malady which holds our villages fast in its grip; want of corporate sanitation, deficient diet and inertia.
The Westgate Landfill is zoned for residential use. It's near a planned village. The Navy has a capping plan for the site, but it's not consistent with residential use for the site.
Your village may be different from other people's villages but we are all prisoners.
And broader still became the blaze, and louder still the din, And fast from every village round the horse came spurring in.
I went to this tattoo parlor in the East Village and I got an outline of a violin on my lower back. They call them tramp stamps now.
Yes, I was a parish priest for five years. I was a curate in a large working class parish in Bristol and the Vicar of a village in Kent.
I want to build a treehouse village connected by bridges in the woods by my house so my friends have a place to stay.
The place was packed as we flooded in, all the patrons freezing at the sight of an armed sheriff, two deputies, an Indian, and a construction worker; we probably looked like the Village People.
Every week a tsunami rips through poor towns and villages all over the world ... That tsunami is hunger.
Under pressure, people admit to murder, setting fire to the village church or robbing a bank, but never to being bores.
When we allow freedom ring, when we let it ring from every village and every hamlet, from every state and every city...
The village had institutionalized all human functions in forms of low intensity.... Participation was high and organization was low. This is the formula for stability.
Our job is to show how it is possible to take an illiterate woman and make her into an engineer in six months and show that she can solar-electrify a village.
I went to Bali, and I was in a small village, and somebody who was with me showed a woman a little figurine of Bart and asked: 'Do you know who this is?' And she said: 'Mickey Mouse.'
People from the village come up and tease me: 'We hear you've started drawing on your telephone.' And I tell them, 'Well, no, actually, it's just that occasionally I speak on my sketch pad,'
If in our daily life we can smile, if we can be peaceful and happy, not only we, but everyone will profit from it. This is the most basic kind of peace work.
A miniature village in Bournemouth caught fire and the flames could be seen nearly three feet away.
I grew up in New York, in the Village, and I started going to Stella Adler pretty young. I was 13 or 14 years old. But I was also really shy when I was growing up.
As a woman who grew up in a village in India, I've spent my whole life fighting tradition. There's no way that I want to be a traditional Indian housewife.
I don't think one parent can raise a child. I don't think two parents can raise a child. You really need the whole village.
I've gone through the village of my songwriting and my artistry, and I've gone through lots of different phases, including one where it has been very quiet and abandoned me for a few years.