Village Quotes · Page 22

I write a column for The Village Voice, which I've done since time immemorial, and occasionally - and books. And I occasionally…

— Nat Hentoff

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

— Thomas Sowell

Many of our own people here in this country do not ask about computers, telephones and television sets. They ask - when…

— Thabo Mbeki

The Westgate Landfill is zoned for residential use. It's near a planned village. The Navy has a capping plan for the site,…

— James Young

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

— Simone Weil

When I was small - I grew up in a village outside of Krakow - my brothers and sisters and I would…

— Joanna Kulig

Emigration, forced or chosen, across national frontiers or from village to metropolis, is the quintessential experience of our time.

— John Berger

I want to be a good example for young generations, even if you are a guy from a small country, a small…

— Merab Dvalishvili

People would go from village to village with their books in a time of poverty and disease. They would get people around…

— Lexi Alexander

In this era of the global village, the tide of democracy is running. And it will not cease, not in China, not…

— Paul Tsongas

Remember, the Arctic didn't have any ice. And the Northwest Passage was wide open. They were raising grapes in Scotland for God…

— Don Young

We lived in the schoolhouse of the village school in Church Preen, in deepest Shropshire, and my mum was the schoolmistress. She…

— Mary Beard

In a small village near Calcutta, in 1998, a villager who could not speak English sang me What Did You Learn In…

— Tom Paxton

It used to happen in villages and towns in China that they would have - I guess you'd call them beauty contests…

— Lisa See

With one hand, you're selling the country out to Western multinationals. And with the other, you want to defend your borders with…

— Arundhati Roy

The thing about living in a village at the foot of a mountain is that the world for you becomes, without thinking…

— Henry Louis Gates

There are two instances I studied in which a community moved, amazingly, into an preexisting village built by other, earlier communalists. The…

— Christine Jennings

“He mused on this village of his, which had sprung up in this place, amid the stones, like the gnarled undergrowth of…

— Émile Zola

There is nothing in the world more helpless and irresponsible and depraved than a man in the depths of an ether binge.…

— Hunter S. Thompson

Once I went so far as to slaughter a woodchuck which ravaged my bean-field,--effect his transmigration, as a Tartar would say,--and devour…

— Henry David Thoreau

“Life was about to take her away from here. Fro the place where she'd become herself. This sold little village that never…

— Louise Penny

In northwest Alaska, kunlangeta "might be applied to a man who, for example, repeatedly lies and cheats and steals things and does…

— Martha Stout

Since we are not yet fully comfortable with the idea that people from the next village are as human as ourselves, it…

— Demosthenes

I am in Birmingham because injustice is here. Just as the eighth century prophets left their little villages and carried their "thus…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

Access to quality education has enabled me to reach far beyond the Bangladeshi village I grew up in.

— Muhammad Yunus

My idea of village SWARAJ is that is a complete republic, independent of its neighbors for its own vital wants, and yet…

— Mahatma Gandhi

It's almost easy for me to write about a magnificent tropical village with orchids and dragonflies. That's intoxicating, but the United States…

— Luis Alberto Urrea

I'm sure that the ideas being incubated at places like Startup Village today will form the core of the technologies of tomorrow.

— Pranav Mistry

This means more to me than any Grammy I could ever win ... It will take a village and an army, [some]…

— Lady Gaga

“Monoculture wants you to forget that the joy of life is in the community of the village, where you can touch, taste,…

— Bryant McGill

Moving into an unoccupied village when there's no opposition, I don't call that a military victory.

— Norman Schwarzkopf

I'm a simple village girl who has always obeyed the orders of my father and brothers. Since forever, I have learned to…

— Nujood Ali

I grew up in New York, in the Village, and I started going to Stella Adler pretty young. I was 13 or…

— Steven Strait

Just walk down any street in any city, town or village and you'll see somebody who looks different to you.

— Rebecca Root

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

— Mahatma Gandhi

I'm reading a manuscript by Rodney Jones, "Village Prodigies",it's one of the best contemporary poetry books I've ever read ever.

— Stephen Dobyns

“It took a village to raise a child, and it took a rainbow of colors to make them feel at home and…

— T.A. Webb

My first gold was in the 2002 cadet national. I realized I was good enough even outside my village and my district.

— Geeta Phogat

Being prime minister isn't the only job in life! As far as I'm concerned, I could live in a village and be…

— Indira Gandhi

I came from a really small village outside Edinburgh in Scotland and had quite a sheltered upbringing.

— Nina Nesbitt