Village Quotes

Maybe there's less oppression growing up in a small village, and fewer rules, and less danger.

Return to the villages means a definite, voluntary recognition of the duty of bread labour and all its connotes.

Past the village flowed the river, like time, like life itself, waiting for the swimmer to come again on his way to the climax of his adventurous life, and to the end for which he had been made.

People must understand the Clean Ganga program, as an economic activity also. The Gangetic plains account for 40% of our population. They have over one hundred towns, and thousands of villages.

So you start one person at a time. Change one person, you can change a village.

If you're going to do a movie about the Village, it's pretty nice to shoot in the village and not be in Toronto.

The inertia of a jungle village is a dangerous thing. Before you know it your whole life has slipped by and you are still waiting there.

Simplicity enables us to live lives of integrity in the face of the terrible realities of our global village.

It may take a village to raise a baby, but hell! it takes an army to produce a book.

Neo-Liberalism promised us a Global Village and gave us a Potemkin Village.

I prefer the countryside to cities. This is also true of my films: I have made more films in rural societies, and villages, than in towns.

I dont see a lot of movies that portray the East Village as well as I think they can.

These people, as far as I can see, do not congregate in the notorious centers of the movement, like the North Beach in San Francisco or Greenwich Village, or Venice, California.

Early in the spring of 1750, in the village of Juffure, four days upriver from the coast of The Gambia, West Africa, a manchild was born to Omoro and Binta Kinte.

When I saw the rough cuts of ‘The Village of Peace,’ I was immediately intrigued and wanted to share this story on the global stage.

The place of my novels is Israel, almost without exception. All of them take place in Israel - in Jerusalem, in the desert, in the kibbutz, in small towns, in villages.

As a fairly innocent teenager, growing up in a village in Wales, I just thought, "God, I would like to go and hang about Soho and write great poetry and try to avoid drinking myself to death."

I live in the East Village, and occasionally people will recognize me there. When I'm in Williamsburg, I always get recognized. Midtown, not so much.

With five to ten hundred pure-minded young women threading the streets of the village every evening unattended, vice must slink away, like frost before the rising sun.

The destruction of India's village system was the greatest of England's blunders.

I am a village boy, and Amsterdam for me was always the big town.

I couldn't help but think, This car is taking me to a mental hospital and my mother is treating it like open-mic night at a Greenwich Village café.

As anyone knows who has ever had to set up a military encampment or build a village from the ground up, occupations pose staggering logistical problems.

You know, one of the only times I ever wrote about art was the obituary of Warhol that I did for the Village Voice.

The emotional health of a village depended upon having a man whom everyone loved to hate, and Heaven had blessed us with two of them.

Since the whole village was poor, we didnt realize our own poverty. I was happy.

A community is made up of intimate relationships among diversified types of individuals--a kinship group, a local group, a neighborhood, a village, a large family.

I am holed up in a small village where I am doing my own work and it feels great. I have a small gallery and not many people find me, but I am happy being left alone and doing what I love.

I grew up in a small, strictly Catholic fishing village - the people there have a different attitude to life than those in Hollywood - people stick together.

I'm doing a collaborative project with another artist, Mary Hamill. My project is to gather the oral history of war widows, starting with the women of my village, Kop Nymit.

Any well-established village in New England or the northern Middle West could afford a town drunkard, a town atheist, and a few Democrats.

Even if I say, Everyone in the village died of diarrhea, I still laugh a little after diarrhea.

Manchester, one of the greatest, if not really the greatest mere village in England.

So you see, when war comes to one’s village, one’s doorstep, it isn’t tragic and impersonal any longer. It is just an excuse to vomit private hatred. That is why I am not a great patriot.

I'm luckier than my grandfather, who didn't move more than five miles from the village in which he was born.

I went to Thailand and built a village for 27 rescued children and this is where my passion to help prevent modern day slavery came from.

If it takes a village to raise a child, it takes a whole agency to make a successful campaign.

I know a lot of people in the retirement village that I have a house in in Florida that are on the Internet and are reading the paper on the Internet, and they're communicating on the Internet.

I grew up in Ditchling. It was an idyllic village at the foot of the South Downs. In those days, the village was full of artists and sculptors.

I think video village is bullshit. It's like it's a breeding ground for people to nitpick and feel important. It's just such a weird dynamic.

I grew up in a village of about 800 people surrounded by lakes and woods, and I think it's made a definite impact on me.

Have you an unexpurgated copy of Hannah More's 'Letters to a Village Maiden'?

"What are you going to do?" "Can't say - run for president, write -" "Greenwich Village?" "Good heavens, no - I said write - not drink."

I don't think that village idea of actually knowing what you're contributing to the whole exists anymore.

In the old days, Zen was not really practiced so much in a monastery. The Zen Master usually lived up on a top of the mountain or the hill or in the forest or sometimes in the village.

Many enlightened persons are never very well known. Many are reclusive. They live in little villages in India or up in the high Himalayas in Tibet. Some have no students at all. Some have a few.

I live in a Swiss village so small, if you sneeze everyone knows.

[On Ezra Pound:] A village explainer, excellent if you were a village, but if you were not, not.

You go to Holland, France, Germany, every community, the tiniest village, they have magnificent, pristine sports facilities.

Yes, I first visited Korphe village, Braldu valley, Baltistan, Pakistan, after failing to summit K2 in 1993, and met Haji Ali, a long time dear mentor and friend. My second visit to Korphe was in 19