Art is History's nostalgia, it prefers a thatched roof to a concrete factory, and the huge church above a bleached village. — Derek Walcott Copy Share Image
Don't turn a blind eye to corruption. Effective and strong intervention is needed to make administration corruption free down to the level… — Pinarayi Vijayan Copy Share Image
When you do 'Mad Fat Diary' or 'The Village,' you always learn about the particular time period, and that's always nice for… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Few changes are allowed in Palm Beach, making it an anachronistic little village where everything looks almost the same as it did… — Tinsley Mortimer Copy Share Image
Early in the spring of 1750, in the village of Juffure, four days upriver from the coast of The Gambia, West Africa,… — Alex Haley Copy Share Image
Our village was built on the Ohio River, and was a halting place on this great national road, then the only avenue… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Then, when I had the opportunity to go to Africa and visit the villages, I heard the real, raw, true rhythms and… — Isaac Hayes Copy Share Image
I came to Mumbai from a village to become a good actor and fortunately I have really got much love from my… — Rajpal Yadav Copy Share Image
Yes, I first visited Korphe village, Braldu valley, Baltistan, Pakistan, after failing to summit K2 in 1993, and met Haji Ali, a… — Greg Mortenson Copy Share Image
People often ask me what I consider my goal to be at TOMS. The truth is that it's changed over the years.… — Blake Mycoskie Copy Share Image
Post office closures in the Dakotas and Minnesota will impact many communities, but the White Earth reservation villages, and other tribal towns… — Winona LaDuke Copy Share Image
The old lady told me that all the girls in the village of Annezin prayed every night for the War to end,… — Robert Graves Copy Share Image
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… — Louis L'Amour Copy Share Image
I was going to become a youth worker because I do voluntary work with the kids in the little village where I… — Stephen Graham Copy Share Image
An altered look about the hills; A Tyrian light the village fills; A wider sunrise in the dawn; A deeper twilight on… — Emily Dickinson Copy Share Image
My dad worked so hard. He slept in his own bed maybe half the nights of the year because of road assignments,… — Joe Buck Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
A collection of bad love songs, tattered from overuse, has to touch us like a cemetery or a village. So what if… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
A fiddler on the roof. Sounds crazy, no? But here, in our little village of Anatevka, you might say every one of… — Sheldon Harnick Copy Share Image
Signal smokes, war drums, feathered bonnets against the western sky. New messiahs, young leaders are ready to hurl the finest light cavalry… — Frank Nugent Copy Share Image
The point is, that the function of the novel seems to be changing; it has become an outpost of journalism; we read… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
The old men of the village of Mahotière say that the Mistress of the Water is a mulatto woman. At midnight she… — Jacques Roumain Copy Share Image
When we got to the hotel, the Hawaiian Village, there were 500 screaming women there. The police were trying to keep the… — Minnie Pearl Copy Share Image
I see people around not wanting to acknowledge that they come from a small town, but it is like a jewel in… — Rubina Dilaik Copy Share Image
Tinder in the Olympic Village is next level. It's all athletes! In the mountain village, it's all athletes. It's hilarious. — Jamie Anderson Copy Share Image
If you're going to do a movie about the Village, it's pretty nice to shoot in the village and not be in… — Robin Williams Copy Share Image
For most baseball fans, maybe oldest is always best. We love baseball because it seizes and retains the past, like the snowy… — Donald Hall Copy Share Image
It was a tough moment for me when I was in Senegal, especially when I was young. I was born in a… — Sadio Mane Copy Share Image
Since my residence at Tippecanoe, we have endeavored to level all distinctions, to destroy village chiefs, by whom all mischiefs are done.… — Tecumseh Copy Share Image
“Technology has transformed the world into a global village. And communities, families, friends, etc., into local islands.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
Ziggy Stardust, the Village People, and punk rock really shaped who I am as a person and as a gay man. — Boy George Copy Share Image
I was keen to earn my own money from an early age. I had a job as a paper girl in my… — Alice Roberts Copy Share Image
I keep a very low profile in Switzerland. There are only about 2,000 people in the village I live in, so it's… — Adam Derek Scott Copy Share Image
Yes, I was a parish priest for five years. I was a curate in a large working class parish in Bristol and… — John Polkinghorne Copy Share Image
“The sky was turning the color of a fresh bruise as we pulled into my grandfather's subdivision, a bewildering labyrinth of interlocking… — Ransom Riggs Copy Share Image
My dad was in the RAF, so we travelled quite a lot. My memory's not the best - I remember we lived… — Theo Walcott Copy Share Image
In the village where I grew up, a lot of girls didn't have a choice of whether to go to middle school.… — Zhou Qunfei Copy Share Image
I was brought up telling stories, when I was a kid, in the tiny village where I grew up. Storytelling was a… — Peter Stormare Copy Share Image
