Village Quotes · Page 10

I grew up in the West Village and went to the New York City Lab School for junior high.

— Morena Baccarin

I grew up on a fishing village, a little river, South Carolina.

— Scott Bessent

Since the whole village was poor, we didn't realize our own poverty. I was happy.

— Bidzina Ivanishvili

What do they do for a village idiot when you're here?

— Tanya Huff

I hail from Padhyana village in Adampur district near Jalandhar.

— Mukul Dev

Maybe there's less oppression growing up in a small village, and fewer rules, and less danger.

— Luke Treadaway

The village I come from is the most ruthless, lawless land one can encounter.

— Nawazuddin Siddiqui

The village where my father lives is, like, 300 people.

— Karolina Pliskova

This country's crazy in terms of fame and what people think it means. They expect a writer to be something between a…

— Kent Haruf

What is it about maps? I could look at them all day, earnestly studying the names of towns and villages I have…

— Bill Bryson

My parents were simpletons. Everyday living was a big thing in that small village where I was born. They had no clue…

— Ilaiyaraaja

When I was doing my A-levels, I'd spend Friday nights in Mumbles, a village by the beach that's popular with surfers.

— Joanna Page

About five years ago, I was offered a contract by the Clifton Village Cricket Club in Nottingham, England. I was staying with…

— Shreyas Iyer

Don't turn a blind eye to corruption. Effective and strong intervention is needed to make administration corruption free down to the level…

— Pinarayi Vijayan

Art is History's nostalgia, it prefers a thatched roof to a concrete factory, and the huge church above a bleached village.

— Derek Walcott

I always like to hang out with whoever's directing and watch what they do. I hang out at Video Village, the area…

— Miriam Shor

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

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

One year, my parents hired someone in the village to dress up as Krampus for a surprise visit to our home -…

— Conchita Wurst

I was born in '76, so I vaguely remember seeing 'Empire Strikes Back' in theaters. But I remember just being obsessed with…

— Brian Quinn

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

“After we passed a few more houses, the street ceased to mantain any pretense of urbanity, like a man returning to his…

— Bruno Schulz

Early on, I was so impressed with Charles Dickens. I grew up in the South, in a little village in Arkansas, and…

— Maya Angelou

I remember my father making many things. Once we made a shed, and a man in the village came along to help.…

— David Linley

I find what I call the [bleep] side of the industry very difficult. You won't see me at other peoples' premiers. I…

— Jeremy Irons

We must reach out to villages even in scorching heat with temperature upto 44 C. We must ensure that no girl child…

— Narendra Modi

Before the birth of the New Woman the country was not an intellectual desert, as she is apt to suppose. There were…

— Rebecca Harding Davis

I am ashamed to see what a shallow village tale our so-called History is. How many times must we say Rome, and…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

I remember standing on a street corner with the black painter Beauford Delaney down in the Village, waiting for the light to…

— James A. Baldwin

A collection of bad love songs, tattered from overuse, has to touch us like a cemetery or a village. So what if…

— Marcel Proust

A fiddler on the roof. Sounds crazy, no? But here, in our little village of Anatevka, you might say every one of…

— Sheldon Harnick

Signal smokes, war drums, feathered bonnets against the western sky. New messiahs, young leaders are ready to hurl the finest light cavalry…

— Frank Nugent

All the real things in Russia are done in the villages.

— Ernest Poole

Somewhere out there was a village I'd deprived of it's idiot.

— Jim Butcher

I don't see a lot of movies that portray the East Village as well as I think they can.

— Adam Rapp

I love those connections that make this big old world feel like a little village.

— Gina Bellman

New York is the biggest collection of villages in the world.

— Alistair Cooke

There are downsides to every technology. Fire kept us warm, but also burned down our villages.

— Ray Kurzweil

Like restless birds, the breath of coming rain Creeps, lilac-laden, up the village street

— John McCrae

Benteen, come on, big village, be quick. Bring packs.

— George Armstrong Custer