The big downside to the global village that the Internet has created is that nothing has time to grow out of the… — Derek Ridgers Copy Share Image
I am still the same village girl from Dhing who used to help my father in the paddy field, help mother in… — Hima Das Copy Share Image
The works of mercy are the opposite of the works of war, feeding the hungry, sheltering the homeless, nursing the sick, visiting… — Dorothy Day Copy Share Image
Until the middle of the nineteenth century, Biarritz was a community of whalers. During the Middle Ages, it had grown from a… — Carol Drinkwater Copy Share Image
I did a research assignment on life in the Middle Ages only last year. I found the era fascinating, all that chivalry… — Marianne Curley Copy Share Image
In Britain, there's kids who grew up in London and then kids who didn't. You become quite street wise. It's such a… — Ben Lloyd-Hughes Copy Share Image
Every week a tsunami rips through poor towns and villages all over the world. It claims 25,000 lives a day, 175,000 a… — Colin Farrell Copy Share Image
I started running because my neighbour, Patrick Sang, was an athlete and I wanted to be just like him. Patrick came from… — Eliud Kipchoge Copy Share Image
Guernsey itself was overcrowded, but its cliffs were utterly empty. I spent a wonderful year with a friend, climbing them. It was… — Simon Mawer Copy Share Image
In 1990, my wife and I were married in her village in southwestern Uganda. The festivities went on for three days, and… — Alex Shoumatoff Copy Share Image
But what was most remarkable, Broadway being three miles long, and the booths lining each side of it, in every booth there… — Frederick Marryat Copy Share Image
Our society consists exclusively of free working people of cities and villages, workers, peasants, intelligentsia. Each of these strata may have its… — Joseph Stalin Copy Share Image
I was traumatised in the medieval Afghan society at Sarana village by the local boys of Omar's Taliban who forced my in-laws… — Sushmita Banerjee Copy Share Image
My art teacher in junior high was a very out gay man and a mentor to me. He would tell us about… — Gus Van Sant Copy Share Image
I was born in a small village in Kerala. From there, I went on to play for the Kerala state team and… — S. Sreesanth Copy Share Image
These are such First World problems, but there's a certain claustrophobia to New York. You don't escape in the East Village, but… — Timothee Chalamet Copy Share Image
I know Juffure was a British trading post and my portrait of the village bears no resemblance to the way it was.… — Alex Haley Copy Share Image
I reached the point where I was getting arrested all the time in London. I couldn't walk down the street. London becomes… — Pete Doherty Copy Share Image
When I was 18, I lived in Greenwich Village, New York, for nine months. At that time, I wanted to change the… — Christian de Portzamparc Copy Share Image
Like so many poor Ilokanos, my grandparents left their village, for it could no longer sustain them. The Ilocos is a narrow… — F. Sionil Jose Copy Share Image
Almost every week, there are stories in the press or on Chinese social media about what even the official Chinese media call… — Rebecca MacKinnon Copy Share Image
Hillary Clinton famously talked about how raising a child takes a village. Except our society isn't set up that way. We're organized… — Katharine Weymouth Copy Share Image
Every day, women and girls are finding incredible confidence and taking risks. When they change one mind, pretty soon, they have changed… — Jill Biden Copy Share Image
My mum's from a very rural village in Nigeria, she grew up in a war, and for her it was really important… — Vick Hope Copy Share Image
I've seen villages in South America with no police whatever. Then the cops would arrive, then the sanitary inspectors, and before you… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
I was born in '76, so I vaguely remember seeing 'Empire Strikes Back' in theaters. But I remember just being obsessed with… — Brian Quinn Copy Share Image
One year, my parents hired someone in the village to dress up as Krampus for a surprise visit to our home -… — Conchita Wurst Copy Share Image
“After we passed a few more houses, the street ceased to mantain any pretense of urbanity, like a man returning to his… — Bruno Schulz Copy Share Image
Faculty met, and after the usual business, some conversation was had about certain students being addicted to drinking, and it was reported… — Daniel H. Hill Copy Share Image
Early on, I was so impressed with Charles Dickens. I grew up in the South, in a little village in Arkansas, and… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
We know Jesus taught that if someone slaps you on the right cheek, turn to the left. We know that Mohammed was… — Eliza Griswold Copy Share Image
Strange now to think of you, gone without corsets & eyes, while I walk on the sunny pavement of Greenwich Village. downtown… — Allen Ginsberg Copy Share Image
A tradition I remember from my childhood was that when there was a wedding in any one family, the entire village shared… — Ram Nath Kovind Copy Share Image
The family feuds or the village feuds often had to do with an idea of honor. Perhaps it was a peasant idea;… — V. S. Naipaul Copy Share Image
A missing arm might ruin your symmetry. Personal asymmetry where I come from is a big taboo and brings great shame on… — Jasper Fforde Copy Share Image
What do you know about dragons?” “They're big, scaly, four-legged creatures with wings who terrorized small villages until a virgin was offered… — Katie MacAlister Copy Share Image
During the 1942 Quit India Movement, I was a student at Gwalior High School. I was arrested by the British for participating… — Atal Bihari Vajpayee Copy Share Image
Generally students are the best vehicles for passing on ideas, for their thoughts are plastic and can be molded and they can… — Theodore White Copy Share Image
The trains roared by like projectiles level on the darkness, fuming and burning, making the valley clang with their passage. They were… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
My God, the suburbs! They encircled the city's boundaries like enemy territory and we thought of them as a loss of privacy,… — John Cheever Copy Share Image
