I spent nearly two years in a small village - perhaps seventy families. I've never worked harder or learned so much so… — James C. Scott Copy Share Image
I opted for the rear door, both as a courtesy and so she couldn't freak out about me showing up on her… — Kelley Armstrong Copy Share Image
Tennis was a game invented by a woman named Samantha Tennis in 1839, in the village of Lobsworth, County of Kent, as… — Dan Jenkins Copy Share Image
A long time ago, I thought, as a writer in the Caribbean, 'I don't ever want to have to write 'It was… — Derek Walcott Copy Share Image
I grew up in a kibbutz in the Galilee, but we were surrounded by Arabic villages, so I heard all these sounds… — Maya Beiser Copy Share Image
Château and hut, stone face and dangling figure, the red stain on the stone floor, and the pure water in the village… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Because by the time I went to the village school in Switzerland, we're talking about September 1965, she was finishing 'Wait Until… — Sean Hepburn Ferrer Copy Share Image
I remember that I stood on the library steps holding my books and looking for a minute at the soft hinted green… — Shirley Jackson Copy Share Image
How many times did we hear [Barack] Obama say, 'You didn't build that. You didn't build that - no, you need government.'… — Rafael Cruz Copy Share Image
“War is a quarrel between two thieves too cowardly to fight their own battle; therefore they take boys from one village and… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
We live, we die, and like the grass and trees, renew ourselves from the soft earth of the grave. Stones crumble and… — Chief Joseph Copy Share Image
I knew that no matter what door you knock on in a Cretan village, it will be opened for you. A meal… — Nikos Kazantzakis Copy Share Image
We think we live in a global village. We don't. The world is a big and beautiful and incredibly varied place. It… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
An elephant is vastly more efficient, metabolically, than a mouse. It's the same for a megacity as opposed to a village. But… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
I decided to do what I do when I was 2 years old. At 2 years old, you know, I heard the… — Wyclef Jean Copy Share Image
Dave Van Ronk, for those who don't know him - probably most don't know - was a folk singer. He's kind of… — Ethan Coen Copy Share Image
I looked around at us all: me in my nightgown, Kiyo bare-chested, Dorian in his extravagant robes, and Tim in his Native… — Richelle Mead Copy Share Image
It was manifest to me that there was something in the Roman Catholic religion which made the priests very dear to the… — Bill Vaughan Copy Share Image
My paternal grandmother would not light a fire on the Sabbath and piled all Sunday's washing-up in a bucket, to be dealt… — Angela Carter Copy Share Image
“Here, there was an air of a country village. An apricot-colored cat sat on top of a fence, bathing himself in the… — Alice Steinbach Copy Share Image
The government are very keen on amassing statistics. They collect them, add them, raise them to the nth power, take the cube… — Josiah Stamp Copy Share Image
“Here was the place I usually found myself in, Grenelle replied. It wouldn't take long to lose its excitement. There was the… — C.S. Richardson Copy Share Image
I toyed briefly with an image someone once mentioned to me, of a village in the shadow of a twin-peaked mountain. In… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
It is wrong to take an 18-year-old boy or girl and arm them with machine guns and make them the almighty king… — Amos Oz Copy Share Image
Like primitive, we now live in a global village of our own making, a simultaneous happening. It doesn't necessarily mean harmony and… — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
Everywhere I go - from villages outside Kandy, Sri Lanka, to community centers in Amman, Jordan, to offices at the State Department… — Eboo Patel Copy Share Image
In many developing countries, girls don't go to school. They stay home. They are at the water wells, bringing water back and… — Laura Bush Copy Share Image
India allows you the luxury of a million inequalities. You can be a schoolboy selling tea to passengers sitting in a state… — Amitava Kumar Copy Share Image
Part of what attracted me to the village was it had a lot of parallels to contemporary issues. Like, fear and the… — Adrien Brody Copy Share Image
I loved Morocco. It's very exotic and different from anywhere I've ever been. I had an amazing day there in the high… — Isla Fisher Copy Share Image
In 1978, when I was a non-Congress chief minister, we distributed surplus wheat among labourers. Later, when we visited a village, I… — Sharad Pawar Copy Share Image
Monica Besra, a Bengali woman from a remote Indian village, was reportedly suffering from a malignant ovarian tumor when she went, in… — Charles Duhigg Copy Share Image
What bothers me is when music becomes entertainment. Of course, music is supposed to be entertaining, but go back to any period… — Billy Corgan Copy Share Image
If the British march By land or sea from the town to-night, Hang a lantern aloft in the belfry-arch Of the North-Church-tower,… — Paul Revere Copy Share Image
We shall defend every village, every town and every city. The vast mass of London itself, fought street by street, could easily… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
In 1965, I went to what was called the worst Bihar famine in India, and I saw starvation, death, people dying of… — Bunker Roy Copy Share Image
I've lived in Forest Hill Village, Riverdale, Summerhill, The Annex and Cabbagetown. Finding the right neighbourhood fit in Toronto is only slightly… — Andy Barrie Copy Share Image
US government policies are continuing to do exactly the same thing [produce terrorism]. Two days after the Boston marathon bombings, there was… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
In the past, it was possible to destroy a village, a town, a region, even a country. Now it is the whole… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
I began my career as a medical doctor in Ama Keng, a poor village in Lim Chu Kang. The people I cared… — Tan Cheng Bock Copy Share Image
![“How many times did we hear [Barack] Obama say, 'You didn't build that. You didn't build that - no, you need government.' We even saw Hillary Clinton say - remember her phrase - 'It takes a village to raise a child.' In other words, your children are not your children - they belong to the community.” quote by Rafael Cruz](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/aaa/rafael-cruz-12239_barack_how-many-times-did-we-hear-barack-obama_806727.jpg)
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