An English village could never be mistaken for an American one: the outline against the sky differs; a thatched cottage makes a… — Maria Mitchell Copy Share Image
I want to turn the clock back to when people lived in small villages and took care of each other. — Pete Seeger Copy Share Image
Take vicars; there are often village vicars in 'Midsomer Murders', but the village vicar in England was killed off long ago. — John Nettles Copy Share Image
You can pregrow a village with no consequence on the land. In fact, with a positive carbon contribution. — Mitchell Joachim Copy Share Image
I was set down from the carrier's cart at the age of three; and there with a sense of bewilderment and terror… — Laurie Lee Copy Share Image
Women can succeed in villages all over the world today without relying on heavy machinery or debt. They can take leadership roles… — Frances Moore Lappé Copy Share Image
The road was frozen. The village lay quiet under the cold sky. Komako hitched up the skirt of her kimono and tucked… — Yasunari Kawabata Copy Share Image
Western influences have turned the world into a small global village, particularly through television and other mediums. — Shobana Copy Share Image
I always felt bad for Mother Teresa. Mother Teresa lived a whole life helping starving children and dying villages, but she could… — Gilbert Gottfried Copy Share Image
But I go with my friend to the shore of our little river, and with one stroke of the paddle, I leave… — Ralph Waldo Emerson 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
Before the days of video village a director should stand right next to the camera, look with his naked eye and if… — Matt Damon Copy Share Image
it's a good idea to wait a few months before joining anything when you arrive at a village. A bookseller friend who… — Jilly Cooper Copy Share Image
Everyone thought my son had zero value. You would take one look at his school records, and you'd think he was the… — Leigh Anne Tuohy Copy Share Image
To Mahatma Gandhi, the key to India's progress was the development of its villages. In his unified vision, education, agriculture, village industry,… — Rajiv Gandhi Copy Share Image
Christians. They’re determined to rid the land of any who worship the Horned One. Murdering all the druids, burning the temples, sometimes… — Brom Copy Share Image
Teenagers are bored. By everything. Show a teenager an actual volcanic eruption, in progress, featuring giant billowing clouds of smoke, hot rocks… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
Have you got a local mind? Broaden it! Have you got an international mind? Broaden it! Have you got a universal mind?… — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
There is a great good in returning to a landscape that has had extraordinary meaning in one's life. It happens that we… — N. Scott Momaday Copy Share Image
What is left that only the family can do? According to the new economy - nothing. The leading view today is 'It… — Oliver DeMille Copy Share Image
I am alarmed when it happens that I have walked a mile into the woods bodily, without getting there in spirit. In… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The hidden village was something we found when we went to research in China we climbed a mountain in the Sichuan province… — Jennifer Yuh Nelson Copy Share Image
I'm an artist living in a small, Scottish village. So one would expect to be treated with some sort of caution. And… — Andy Goldsworthy Copy Share Image
Western progress (from one damned thing to another) seems to be essentially the MO of nowhere fast. But, on the other hand,… — Quentin S. Crisp Copy Share Image
The amount of horror one used to hear about in one village could be quite extreme. But one might not have heard… — Sharon Olds Copy Share Image
I'd spent my first 12 years in New York in an East Village walk-up. The upstairs neighbor was the cowboy from the… — Amy Chozick Copy Share Image
Born in the Village. My mom still lives on Bleeker Street. I went to the performing arts high school. — Hale Appleman Copy Share Image
Schools should be the most beautiful place in every town and village-so beautiful that the punishment for undutiful children should be barred… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“The wolf lives right here. In this village". He looked at the villages. "Among you. It is one of you.” — Sarah Blakley-Cartwright Copy Share Image
There's an African proverb that I always quote as I think it's incredible which is, 'if the children are not initiated into… — Wunmi Mosaku Copy Share Image
In my village, girls have limited opportunities. If they get admission in a college, only a few households would allow them to… — Geeta Phogat Copy Share Image
A man's greatest moment in life is when his enemy lays vanquished, his village aflame, his herds driven before you and his… — Genghis Khan Copy Share Image
Basic education links the children, whether of the cities or the villages, to all that is best and lasting in India. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
I grew up in Ditchling. It was an idyllic village at the foot of the South Downs. In those days, the village… — Donald Sinden Copy Share Image
I used to have a wild night with three women until 5am., but I am getting older. In the Olympic village here,… — Alberto Tomba Copy Share Image
Give the villagers village arithmetic, village geography, village history and the literary knowledge that they must use daily, i.e. reading and writing… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
I grew up in a small, strictly Catholic fishing village - the people there have a different attitude to life than those… — Catherine Zeta-Jones Copy Share Image
I was born in a mining village, and you either played football or played football. If you didn't play, there was something… — Alan Hansen Copy Share Image
India's way is not Europe's. India is not Calcutta and Bombay. India lives in her seven hundred thousand villages. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
My golden dream was to move to New York and live in the Village and become that cool rebel beatnik Jack Kerouac. — Kevin Kwan Copy Share Image