Village Quotes

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.

At 'The Village Voice,' there were all these fevers inside the offices, that would break out into full-scale rumbles between writers.

The snakes have their place in the agricultural economy of the village, but our villagers do not seem realize it.

I'm a simple village girl who has always obeyed the orders of my father and brothers. Since forever, I have learned to say yes to everything. Today I have decided to say no.

Even if you live in a tiny village, there's an Internet site. It's quite easy to find clothes, but sometimes women don't know how to mix them.

I think of myself in the oral tradition-as a troubadour, a village tale-teller, the man in the shadows of the campfire. That's the way I'd like to be remembered- as a storyteller. A good storyteller.

Few of the great tragedies of history were created by the village idiot, and many by the village genius.

You go to India and you see the poorest village somewhere in the middle of India. And the poor family is happier than any rich billionaire in this country because of spirituality.

When we got to the hotel, the Hawaiian Village, there were 500 screaming women there. The police were trying to keep the crowd back. It was very dangerous.

How could they think Noel was hot? If this was REALLY Versailles, Noel SO would not be Louis XIV, he would be the French version of the village idiot

In a rich moonlit garden, flowers open beneath the eyes of entire nations terrified to acknowledge the simplicity of the beauty of peace.

It seems a shallow observation, but... the Tory Conference are not an attractive lot, are they? I mean, if all those people were born in the same village, you'd blame pollution, wouldn't you?

Information and images bump against each other every day in massive quantities, and the resonance of this interfacing is like the babble of a village or tavern gossip session.

Dream Song: As my eyes Search the prairie, I feel the summer in the spring. Whenever I pause The noise Of the village.

Creative people who can't help but explore other mental territories are at greater risk, just as someone who climbs a mountain is more at risk than someone who just walks along a village lane.

Art is History's nostalgia, it prefers a thatched roof to a concrete factory, and the huge church above a bleached village.

The Boeing 747 is the commuter train of the global village.

[Vice chairman of Barbour] Helen [Barbour] and I realized that I come from the same village that her ancestor John Barbour came from, who created Barbour. It just seemed like such a great connection.

The villagers seldom leave the village; many scientists have limited and poorly cultivated minds apart from their specialty.

For most baseball fans, maybe oldest is always best. We love baseball because it seizes and retains the past, like the snowy village inside a glass paperweight.

I knew Bobby Dylan back in the days when he lived in the village. He used to come and see me and sing songs for me, saying they ought to go into my next collected book on American folk music.

New York is to the nation what the white church spire is to the village - the visible symbol of aspiration and faith, the white plume saying the way is up!

The people in the villages had turned in on themselves. You can understand it. When you have a bad day on the field, what do you do? Talk to your teammates.

I was set down from the carrier's cart at the age of three; and there with a sense of bewilderment and terror my life in the village began.

When combined with information and communication technologies, microcredit can unleash new opportunities for the world's poorest entrepreneurs and thereby revitalize the village economies they serve.

When I met my designs in the market of a remote village in the West Indies, or in the airport restaurant in Zurich, I felt like the mother of many well-behaved children.

Village cricket spread fast through the land.

Ottawa - a sub-arctic lumber-village converted by royal mandate into a political cockpit.

The Moulin Rouge is, like the West Village and the Nasdaq, one of those places that people who don't like to take risks come to for the thrill of being on the spot where risks once were taken.

I grew up in a small village close to a big lake. There are heavy winds there, and they always sound different. I like these sounds best.

In 1978, the tradition of running from village to village with a message was revived. that first run was from Davis to Los Angeles, a distance of 500 miles

The notion of the world as a village is becoming a reality.

I went to an art school in Brooklyn and painted Fine Art, if thats what youd call it for eight years in New York, until I saw the first underground comics in the East Village Other.

People say it takes a village to raise a child. People ask me how my daughter is doing. She’s only doing good if your daughter’s doing good. We’re all one family.

One does see so much evil in a village,' murmured Miss Marple in an explanatory voice.

When the enterprising burglar isn't burgling; When the cut-throat isn't occupied in crime; He loves to hear the little brook a-gurgling; And listen to the merry village chime.

This poet is a griot in search of a village.

The global village is a place of very arduous interfaces and very abrasive situations.

One, if by land, and two, if by sea; And I on the opposite shore will be, Ready to ride and spread the alarm Through every Middlesex village and farm For the country folk to be up and to arm.

It would be easier to subjugate the entire universe through force than the minds of a single village.

It takes a man of genius to travel in his own country, in his native village; to make any progress between his door and his gate.

The startings and arrivals of the cars are now the epochs in the village day.

Healthy and nourishing food was the only alpha and omega of rural economy.

Everything is connected. There is no such thing as an island, especially in our world, global village, the whole thing. Pollution from way across the ocean circulates in the air.

If you go to most third world countries, the older woman dispenses advice to the arguing couple while other members of the family, or even the village, sit around and listen. It is no big deal.

There is no better way of industrializing the villages of India than the spinning wheel.

True swadeshi is that alone in which all the processes through which cotton has to pass are carried out in the same village or town.

Yes, in my books I do edit myself to keep from becoming the Village Explainer.

My family actually lived in the same village for about 400 years. They had great stability until the last century. People lived and intermarried in small villages.

I would rather be first in a little Iberian village than second in Rome.