Village Quotes · Page 3

It takes a village to raise a judge.

— Ketanji Brown Jackson

“widowed. Quite the backbone of the village.”

— Helen Bryan

A village somewhere was missing it's idiot.

— Linda Howard

“I’ll be the gringa queen of my village.”

— Kristen Ashley

I grew up in a mud house, in a small village.

— Ram Nath Kovind

My parents hail from a village near Mysore.

— Prabhu Deva

Every village in Africa now has a cyber cafe.

— Patrick Chappatte

We all live in a little Village,

— Patrick McGoohan

I was born in Pizzoferrato, a little village of 1000, in the Abruzzi region of Italy.

— Bruno Sammartino

Every summer Lin Kong returned to Goose Village to divorce his wife, Shuyu.

— Ha Jin

This is unexposed film of Greenwich Village because nothing ever happens there.

— Anonymous

We lived in a little village in West Yorkshire in the middle of nowhere.

— Lucy Beaumont

Healthy and nourishing food was the only alpha and omega of rural economy.

— Mahatma Gandhi

World has become a global village, but no one knows the other.

— Tasneem Hameed

I grew up in a village of 12 houses. We had a well and a cow.

— Olesya Rulin

I was the first member of my family to cross into Pakistan and find his ancestral village.

— Sanjeev Bhaskar

An English village could never be mistaken for an American one: the outline against the sky differs; a thatched cottage makes a…

— Maria Mitchell

I want to turn the clock back to when people lived in small villages and took care of each other.

— Pete Seeger

Take vicars; there are often village vicars in 'Midsomer Murders', but the village vicar in England was killed off long ago.

— John Nettles

You can pregrow a village with no consequence on the land. In fact, with a positive carbon contribution.

— Mitchell Joachim

I have nothing against romance. I believe that we must hold on to the right to dream and to be romantic. But…

— Arundhati Roy

I was born in Clinton, Mississippi, which had 1,500-2,500 people when I was growing up - a village.

— Barry Hannah

Beer was the driving force that led nomadic mankind into village life. It was this appetite for beer-making material that led to…

— Alan D. Eames

BJP is committed to transform the agriculture sector. We want to increase farmer income and the purchasing power of villages.

— Narendra Modi

It is particularly recommended, as a means of uniting the inhabitants of the village into one family, that while each faithfully adheres…

— Robert Owen

Because in the feudal system of that period at least 80% of people lived in villages, so it's very simple to get…

— Michael Haneke

For all its material advantages, the sedentary life has left us edgy, unfulfilled, even after 400 generations in villages and cities, we…

— Carl Sagan

I ask you all so earnestly to open girl's schools in every village and try to uplift them. If the Conditions of…

— Swami Vivekananda

Hilary Clinton said you know, it takes a village to raise a child and somebody said it takes a village idiot to…

— Thomas Sowell

I was born in a family of landless peasants, in Azinhaga, a small village in the province of Ribatejo, on the right…

— Jose Saramago

I saw the Village as a place you could escape to, to express yourself. When I first went there, I wrote and…

— Richie Havens

My parents loved music, and my father would come home with cassette tapes of Chic and the Village People and Barbra Streisand.…

— Marjorie Gubelmann

Maybe being good isn't about getting rid of anything. Maybe being good has to do with living in the mess in the…

— Eve Ensler

Women are far more likely to follow orders to evacuate, especially women with children. At the same time, women were much more…

— Amanda Ripley

Hiking - I don't like either the word or the thing. People ought to saunter in the mountains - not hike! Do…

— John Muir

I can't believe it's actually happening. This is independent adulthood, this is what it feels like. Shouldn't there be some sort of…

— David Nicholls

We have Islamic rebels [in Syria] who've been eating the hearts or organs of their enemies. We have priests that have been…

— Rand Paul

If your first Christmas tree is a wilting eucalyptus and if you're normally troubled by heat and sand... then, to have just…

— J. R. R. Tolkien

Regarding The Music Man, Jay Nordlinger wrote: The Music Man (for which Willson also wrote the lyrics) is an astonishing creation. It…

— Meredith Willson

A priest is a man vowed, trained, and consecrated, a man belonging to a special corps, and necessarily with an intense esprit…

— H. G. Wells