We lived in the schoolhouse of the village school in Church Preen, in deepest Shropshire, and my mum was the schoolmistress. She… — Mary Beard Copy Share Image
When we got to the hotel, the Hawaiian Village, there were 500 screaming women there. The police were trying to keep the… — Minnie Pearl Copy Share Image
The destruction of India's village system was the greatest of England's blunders. — Annie Besant Copy Share Image
The largest single step in the ascent of man is the change from nomad to village agriculture. — Jacob Bronowski Copy Share Image
If one sits on the head of the Great Buddha and looks across the green valley, framed by the arch of the… — Maynard Owen Williams Copy Share Image
The Jews invented the legend of the Nazi atrocities... Anyone who reads the Koran and the holy writings of the monotheistic religions… — Hassan Nasrallah Copy Share Image
I grew up on the South Island of New Zealand, in a city chosen and beloved by my parents for its proximity… — Eleanor Catton Copy Share Image
Death carries off a man busy picking flowers with an besotted mind, like a great flood does a sleeping village. — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Moving into an unoccupied village when there's no opposition, I don't call that a military victory. — Norman Schwarzkopf Copy Share Image
I went to an art school in Brooklyn and painted Fine Art, if thats what youd call it for eight years in… — Bill Griffith Copy Share Image
Dignity and majesty have I seen but once, as it stood in chains, at midnight, in a dungeon in an obscure village… — Parley P. Pratt Copy Share Image
The Pan-Africanism that envisaged the ideal of wholeness was gradually cut down to the size of a continent, then a nation, a… — Ngugi wa Thiong'o Copy Share Image
The village had institutionalized all human functions in forms of low intensity.... Participation was high and organization was low. This is the… — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
I love the village in my computer. There's little validation in the day-to-day life of a writer; sometimes we ache for a… — Lisa Unger Copy Share Image
I remember being unemployed and walking the East Village streets for many years, constantly checking my voice mail on pay phones, hoping… — Rainn Wilson 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
I grew up in New York City in Greenwich Village and had parents who were somewhat bohemian so I was always on… — Anne Waldman Copy Share Image
“God gave us ground we created a city, God gave us time we need to create a future.” — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
I was born in an Ilokano village called Cabugawan. Most of the houses in it were roofed with thatch, pan-aw, a species… — F. Sionil Jose Copy Share Image
She finds tales everywhere, in grains of sand she picks up from the garden, in puffs of smoke that drift out from… — David Almond Copy Share Image
Technology has made the world into a Village. Spirituality has made it into a Global Family. — Sri Sri Ravi Shankar Copy Share Image
Photographer James Nachtwey has spent his professional life in the places people most want to avoid: war zones and refugee camps, the… — Nancy Gibbs Copy Share Image
Sometimes it takes a child to raise a village - or to take down an injustice. — Craig Kielburger Copy Share Image
