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
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 Copy Share Image
Giving women education, work, the ability to control their own income, inherit and own property, benefits the society. If a woman is… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
Former brownfields, depressed urban areas, and hard-hit rural towns blossom as eco-industrial parks, green enterprise zones, and eco-villages. Farmers' markets, community co-ops,… — Van Jones Copy Share Image
Just as there are many more Californians now to be found in the temples of Kyoto or the villages of Bali or… — Pico Iyer Copy Share Image
In many poor countries, if the daughter is told who she's going to marry, and told that she's going to live in… — Pietra Rivoli Copy Share Image
I began when I was a child, because I was born and grew up in a little village. And many people ride… — Andrea Bocelli Copy Share Image
I was always into comic books and horror stories and a huge consumer of pop culture. And then I worked for awhile… — Colson Whitehead Copy Share Image
I feel all agitated, like one of those snow globes you see resting peacefully on shop counters. I was perfectly happy being… — Sophie Kinsella Copy Share Image
I dont see a lot of movies that portray the East Village as well as I think they can. — Adam Rapp Copy Share Image
I refuse to be held up as some kind of superwoman because, in my mind, the superwomen are the ones who do… — Jacinda Ardern Copy Share Image
A relatively primitive village in which there are still real feasts, common artistic shared expressions, and no literacy at all is more… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
Creative people who can't help but explore other mental territories are at greater risk, just as someone who climbs a mountain is… — R D Laing Copy Share Image
When Im in town on Sundays, I sometimes go down to the Central Bar in the East Village to watch English football.… — Joe Scarborough Copy Share Image
I don't pretend to make my photographs speak the truth of what Mexico is all about. But in its villages I can… — Graciela Iturbide 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
When you truly accept that those children in some far off place in the global village have the same value as you… — Bono Copy Share Image
We came here to a country that was populated by Arabs and we are building here a Hebrew, a Jewish state; instead… — Moshe Dayan 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
Stick a camera up in an Indian village, and thousands of people come to watch. — Art Malik Copy Share Image
One of my friends called me up and said kids in our village are playing hockey with PVC pipes. This is the… — P. R. Sreejesh Copy Share Image
Emigration, forced or chosen, across national frontiers or from village to metropolis, is the quintessential experience of our time. — John Berger Copy Share Image
When you are starting away, leaving your more familiar fields, for a little adventure like a walk, you look at every object… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
