Village Quotes

[Washington is a] very gossipy little village of people all going to the same bars . . . all watching each other having affairs with each other

Our exile organizations have been our way of replacing the cities and villages we have lost.

In Canada an ordinary New England house would be mistaken for the château, and while every village here contains at least severalgentlemen or "squires," there is but one to a seigniory.

I have heard of many going astray even in the village streets, when the darkness was so thick you could cut it with a knife, as the saying is...

A man who has to go to the village to get the news hasn't heard from himself in a long time.

There is no way you are going to be forgiven for blowing up a village and killing a bunch of people.

We're not allowed to carry out harsh interrogations anymore, but we're allowed to fly over somebody's village, without due process, and kill them all?

You wouldn't see those sorts of decisions given in village cricket, let alone Test cricket. The England players have my sympathy.

The largest single step in the ascent of man is the change from nomad to village agriculture.

I rode with four street-clothes cops in the East Village. I spent six weeks riding with them every day - in street clothes, with a vest underneath.

There's nothing nicer than coming back to your village, where people like my mum's friends take the mick out of me. I prefer that to the craziness of Hollywood.

in a village you can't sack or fight with someone, as you'll find yourself stuck beside them in the hairdresser's next morning.

It's not a secret family like I have a beautiful, gorgeous wife in Tokyo; I have another mom and dad. I'm the kid and I have another mom and dad in Atwater Village, Los Angeles.

It was so much fun being in the Olympic Village and meeting all the athletes.

This country's crazy in terms of fame and what people think it means. They expect a writer to be something between a Hollywood starlet and the village idiot.

I grew up Windlesham in Surrey, which is a beautiful and quaint village.

This means more to me than any Grammy I could ever win ... It will take a village and an army, [some] countries and continents to make bullying a hate crime.

Much more than a 20th-century village storyteller, Cees Nooteboom stands as an impressive and inimitable voice among contemporary writers.

When I was in college, I had a jazz radio show. I called it 'Excursion on a Wobbly Rail,' after a Cecil Taylor song. I used to run around the Village following Ornette Coleman wherever he played.

Khadi is the sun of the village solar system.

If the village worker is not a decent man or woman, conducting a decent home, he or she had better not aspire after the high privilege and honour of becoming a village worker.

If we want to impart education best suited to the needs of the villagers, we should take the vidyapith to the villages.

Khaddar was conceived with a much more ambitious object, that is, to make our villages starvation-proof.

Organization of khaddar is infinitely better than co-operative societies or any other form of village organization.

The message of khaddar can penetrate to the remotest villages if we only will that it shall be so.

The villagers want bread-not butter-and disciplined work, some work that will supplement their agricultural avocations which do not go on for all the 12 months.

Give the villagers village arithmetic, village geography, village history and the literary knowledge that they must use daily, i.e. reading and writing letters, etc.

The collectors of revenue and the policeman are the only symbols by which millions in India's villages know British rule.

My idea of village SWARAJ is that is a complete republic, independent of its neighbors for its own vital wants, and yet interdependent for many others which dependence is a necessity.

India's way is not Europe's. India is not Calcutta and Bombay. India lives in her seven hundred thousand villages.

In a true democracy of India, the unit is the village.

Khadi service, village service and Harijan service are one in reality, though three in name.

If we want Swaraj to be built on non-violence, we will have to give the villages their proper place.

An English village could never be mistaken for an American one: the outline against the sky differs; a thatched cottage makes a very wavy line on the blue above.

I'd like to go to New Society Village someday and find out exactly how far I can walk before people stop talking like me.

The big man in a small village is the big ship in a small lake! Let him sail to the vast oceans!

Thing big: Universe is a village, a small place! When you think big, all will get smaller!

You must think about building a 'granth-mandir' in your village. Why is your village lacking such a 'granth-mandir'? Start with 50 books...100 books.

Through Saansad Adarsh Gram Yojana, we want to give impetus to Demand driven development model instead of Supply driven development model. Let the villages say what has to be done, and what not.

Every village should celebrate its birthday & it will end the poison of casteism... and once casteism ends, see how the strength of villages increase!

Whatever education a university or institutes of higher education imparts, it must achieve the global level of benchmarking given the vastness and diversity of global village we live in today.

There are 18,500 villages in the country where electricity is yet to reach. We want to ensure these villages are electrified within the next 1000 days.

The main jobs would be The New Yorker, The Village Voice, The Washington Post and - I'm thinking of The Reporter when Max Askeli was there, but I got fired from The Reporter.

I write a column for The Village Voice, which I've done since time immemorial, and occasionally - and books. And I occasionally write minor notes for record albums and occasional articles.

I practiced medicine up 'til now. I practice psychiatry. I shifted from different specialties. I started as a village doctor - community doctor, public health preventive medicine.

When you do 'Mad Fat Diary' or 'The Village,' you always learn about the particular time period, and that's always nice for an actor.

Every village has its simpleton, and if one does not exist they invent one to pass the time.

In such places as Greenwich Village, a menage-a-trois was completed- the bohemian and the juvenile delinquent came face-to-face with the Negro, and the hipster was a fact in American life.

I was still 15 when I met John Lennon at a village fete in Woolton, in Liverpool.

Being famous as a writer is like being famous in a village. It's not really any very heady fame.