Village Quotes

No she isn't from my village

— Michael Blackson

This poet is a griot in search of a village.

— Kwame Dawes

I come from a small village.

— Dutee Chand

The future of India lies in its villages

— Mahatma Gandhi

“A city has no sense, no sentiment, no soul.”

— Amit Kalantri

“the village, since they forbade us to leave”

— Moyshe Rekhtman

A mans village is his peace of mind.

— Anwar Sadat

It takes a child to raze a village.

— Zach Lee

The new electronic independence re-creates the world in the image of a global village.

— Marshall McLuhan

I'm every woman. It takes a village to make me who I am.

— Katy Perry

A boy can see the smoke rising from Sioux villages under the shadow of the Albert memorial.

— Baden Powell de Aquino

She's the village bicycle, everyone's had a ride.

— Anonymous

“Tha know where thy are we' ferrets. Ya never know where ya are we' lasses”

— Gervase Phinn

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

— Goldwin Smith

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

— Annie Besant

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

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

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

— Drew Hayden Taylor

I was born into the third generation of an entrepreneurial Scottish family and grew up in the small village of Twynholm, in…

— David Coulthard

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

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

No sophistry, no jugglery in figures can explain away the evidence that the skeletons in many villages present to the naked eye.

— Mahatma Gandhi

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

— Mahatma Gandhi

I think in order to love yourself, you've got to wake up saying, 'Alexa, play 'Macho Man' by The Village People' and…

— Adam Pearson

We live now in a global village and we are in one single family. It's our responsibility to bring friendship and love…

— Jackie Chan

My family come from a rural village in Wiltshire and my nan's never seen first-hand what I do or the effect it…

— Joe Sugg

I think there's something weird about how we always say, 'It takes a village to raise a child,' but when it comes…

— Brett Goldstein

They were playing old Bob Dylan, more than perfect for narrow Village streets close to Christmas and the snow whirling down in…

— Donna Tartt

I had a lot of time before I actually got my break so to speak. I was building websites for other actors.…

— Jeremy Irvine

What if I told you insane was working fifty hours a week in some office for fifty years at the end of…

— Steve Buscemi

Creative people who can't help but explore other mental territories are at greater risk, just as someone who climbs a mountain is…

— R D Laing

Cancer doesn't just happen to me; it happens to my best friend; it happens to everyone who means something in my life...…

— Jessica St. Clair

Being outside the candy store looking in is the state of people today. Whether you're in a Pakistani village watching somebody in…

— Mohsin Hamid

Kids go crazy for the Krampus tradition and dress up as little monsters - they have beautiful masks, handmade from wood. Our…

— Conchita Wurst

As we enter the 21st Century it is clear that we have entered an unprecedented global age in which our diverse cultures,…

— Ashok Gangadean

Sitting in the flickering light of the candles on this kerchief of sand, on this village square, we waited in the night.…

— Antoine de Saint-Exupery

The point is, that the function of the novel seems to be changing; it has become an outpost of journalism; we read…

— Doris Lessing

Writers today must navigate the shifting verbal currents of the post-Gutenberg era. When does jargon end and a new vernacular begin? Where's…

— Constance Hale

The old men of the village of Mahotière say that the Mistress of the Water is a mulatto woman. At midnight she…

— Jacques Roumain

London always reminds me of a brain. It is similarly convoluted and circuitous. A lot of cities, especially American ones like New…

— James Geary

I remember standing on a street corner with the black painter Beauford Delaney down in the Village, waiting for the light to…

— James A. Baldwin

I am ashamed to see what a shallow village tale our so-called History is. How many times must we say Rome, and…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson