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
Mechanical instruments, potentially a vehicle of rational human purposes, are scarcely a blessing when they enable the gossip of the village idiot… — Lewis Mumford Copy Share Image
Urbanisation is not a crisis but an opportunity, seeing it as a crisis is wrong. And not just villages, we want everyone… — Narendra Modi Copy Share Image
The collectors of revenue and the policeman are the only symbols by which millions in India's villages know British rule. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
It was my dream to have a beauty parlour in our village and to live near my family in Sinjar. — Nadia Murad Copy Share Image
What are you going to do? "Can't say - run for president, write -" "Greenwich Village?" "Good heavens, no - I said… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
When a man is not wanted in the village, he is always accused of raising dust even when he falls in a… — Vikrant Parsai Copy Share Image
We will apply the experience accumulated in the past four years to the operation of every competition and training venue as well… — Liu Jingmin Copy Share Image
If you go out on the Appalachian Trail, you have to bring so much more equipment - a tent, sleeping bag -… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
When I walked to school in the mornings I would start out alone but would pick up four other boys along the… — Roald Dahl 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
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
But to me, Broadway has always had more a 'village' feeling than London's West End. The theaters here are clustered together, the… — Rosemary Harris Copy Share Image
We're not designed to know hundreds of people - we're designed to know four people in our village. So the only way… — David Baddiel 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
Grew up in Stapleton House village, where blood flood the waters in the streets like oil spillage — RZA Copy Share Image
I grew up in a little village in England that had a river running through it so I've been fishing from a… — Jeremy Wade Copy Share Image
Until the Nineteen-Eighties, when Deng Xiaoping designated the area as China's first special economic zone, Shenzhen had been a tiny fishing village.… — Michael Specter Copy Share Image
She told me that all the girls in Annezin prayed every night for the war to end and for the English to… — Robert Graves Copy Share Image
You frequently ask, where are the friends of your childhood, and urge that they shall be brought back to you. As far… — Stephen Leacock Copy Share Image
You are the stars and the world is watching you. By your presence, you send a message to every village, every city,… — Eunice Kennedy Shriver Copy Share Image
Here, you can walk into a bookstore and pick up a Bible or Christian literature and learn. Over there, they are lucky… — Michael Scott Copy Share Image
