Village Quotes · Page 20

I'm telling you I was from such a small village I didn't even know what wrestling was until I came to America.

— Beneil Dariush

I should not romanticize the simplicity of a village. For instance, the place from where I used to buy a packet of…

— Amitava Kumar

To know after absence the familiar street and road and village and house is to know again the satisfaction of home.

— Hal Borland

Everything is connected. There is no such thing as an island, especially in our world, global village, the whole thing. Pollution from…

— Alix Kates Shulman

There was a time when craft used to mean anything but the considered, stylish or academic. It was a term of derision.…

— David Linley

Small groups or communities may be far more oppressive to the individual than larger ones. Men are in many ways freer in…

— Morris Raphael Cohen

In Uttar Pradesh there is a district called Shahjahanpur. Fifty kilometers from Shahjahanpur, there is a small, cosy village called Kulra, where…

— Rajpal Yadav

I grew up in the mining village of Dudley in Northumberland. My father, who was also called Robson Green, worked down the…

— Robson Green

Before (the Palestinians) very eyes we are possessing the land and the villages where they and their ancestors have lived We are…

— Moshe Dayan

The maids in my village talked of falling in love with a man at first sight. That has always seemed naught but…

— Anonymous

Actually, I am loathe to admit, but I also remember freshman year of Emory - and I'm so sorry to have to…

— Adam Richman

Now that Hillary [Clinton] has won Pennsylvania, it will take a village to help Obama escape from the suffocating embrace of his…

— Maureen Dowd

The movie Gul Makai' will showcase the earlier life of Malala and how she was forced and stopped from going to school.…

— Atul Kulkarni

Today every city, town, or village is affected by it. We have entered the Neon Civilization and become a plastic world.. It…

— Raymond Loewy

My first part-time job gave me the smell of earning money when I worked in a village chemist aged 14. I loved…

— Nicki Chapman

The Moulin Rouge is, like the West Village and the Nasdaq, one of those places that people who don't like to take…

— Michael Lewis

I can't say that you should extract this or that value from my books explicitly. They are up for interpretation. In terms…

— Colson Whitehead

To preserve wild animals implies generally the creation of a forest for them to dwell in or resort to. So it is…

— Henry David Thoreau

Sweet was the sound, when oft, at evening's close, Up yonder hill the village murmur rose; There as I passed, with careless…

— Oliver Goldsmith

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

Under the spreading chestnut tree The village smithy stands; The smith, a mighty man is he, With large and sinewy hands; And…

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

It has passed over mountain ranges and The waters of the seven seas. It has shown upon laborers in the fields, Into…

— Clinton Lee Scott

We came here to a country that was populated by Arabs and we are building here a Hebrew, a Jewish state; instead…

— Moshe Dayan

It was the easiest thing in the world for Arya to step up behind him and stab him. “Is there gold hidden…

— Anonymous

At 'The Village Voice,' there were all these fevers inside the offices, that would break out into full-scale rumbles between writers.

— James Wolcott

In 1978, the tradition of running from village to village with a message was revived. that first run was from Davis to…

— Dennis Banks

Now if you are condemned to life on welfare, I'm not so sure that being in a bigger welfare village is that…

— Tony Abbott

I couldn't help but think, This car is taking me to a mental hospital and my mother is treating it like open-mic…

— Augusten Burroughs

I live in Greenwich Village in New York City, but I rarely write at home, where there's too much else to do.

— Chris Pavone

I always got a kick out of it when they called it the California Sound because it really came out of Liverpool…

— Roger McGuinn

The earth has become one big village, with telephones laid on from one end to the other, and air transport, both speedy…

— Wyndham Lewis

I grew up in a small, strictly-Catholic fishing village on the coast of Wales. The people there have a different attitude to…

— Catherine Zeta-Jones

Much more than a 20th-century village storyteller, Cees Nooteboom stands as an impressive and inimitable voice among contemporary writers.

— Linda Simon

I was born a village boy, later joint city but my vilage is better than their city because of the people are…

— Mohammed Yunusa Maiduguri Nigeria

I was born in a village where there had never been a footballer who'd made it in the major championships.

— Sadio Mane

When I become the village idiot, or at least, it starts to become a joke, you can't do that much longer.

— Joan Van Ark

People from the village come up and tease me: 'We hear you've started drawing on your telephone.' And I tell them, 'Well,…

— David Hockney

Britain can sometimes feel like a very small village, and you're this, I dunno, scarlet woman they're all gossiping about.

— Anonymous

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

...and so many orchards circled the village that on some crisp October afternoons the whole wold smelled like pie.

— Alice Hoffman