we drove on and on, past little villages and both good things and bad things were happening to the people in those… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
The reason I joined the struggle against Apartheid was because you had this system of oppression, which affected everybody who was black.… — Thabo Mbeki Copy Share Image
when I was a boy I used to dream of becoming the village idiot. I used to lie in bed and imagine… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
She couldn't disappoint the whole village. There were no wallscreens here, no newsfeeds or satellites bands, and touring soccer teams were no… — Scott Westerfeld Copy Share Image
It was a village where I come from, obviously a lot smaller than London, so the support was unreal and close by.… — Millie Bright Copy Share Image
People listen to The Beatles, but while they were muscially influential, they weren't culturally influential in quite the same way. You can… — Kevin Macdonald Copy Share Image
Society' in America means all the honest, kindly-mannered, pleasant- voiced women, and all the good, brave, unassuming men, between the Atlantic and… — Henry Adams Copy Share Image
I think the most surprising thing about the Olympics would be the amount of interaction and partying that goes on behind the… — Misty May-Treanor Copy Share Image
[Vice chairman of Barbour] Helen [Barbour] and I realized that I come from the same village that her ancestor John Barbour came… — Sam Heughan Copy Share Image
When my elder sister decided to pursue sports, she faced a lot of music at home. We didn't have a TV in… — Dutee Chand Copy Share Image
Ezra Pound still lives in a village and his world is a kindof village and people keep explaining things when they live… — Gertrude Stein Copy Share Image
In the occupation in Afghanistan, there are tragedies as well. It's not as bad as in Iraq because there are fewer American… — Yaroslav Trofimov Copy Share Image
Science is international: the best scientists can come from anywhere; they can come from next door, or they can come from a… — John O'Keefe Copy Share Image
That's what I think my job in the world has been, is to sort of try to sit silently a bit and… — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
There is one timeless way of building. It is a thousand years old, and the same today as it has ever been.… — Christopher Alexander Copy Share Image
I have asked the village blacksmith to forge golden chains to tie our ankles together. I have gathered all the gay ribbons… — Harry Crosby Copy Share Image
My father was a doctor, and I admired him and got along well with him. He took me with him on house… — Lewis Thomas Copy Share Image
He is no longer a city dweller who has even once in his life caught a ruff or seen how, on clear… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
Some of the nations of Europe who believe in the one wife system have actually forbidden a plurality of wives by their… — Orson Pratt Copy Share Image
You're so narrow-minded! You live in the same village you grew up in, you run the family business, you're buying a nursery… — Sophie Kinsella Copy Share Image
I was working as a volunteer in a village, 25 km. from Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, in 2012 when India Against Corruption movement… — Atishi Copy Share Image
When I was a kid growing up, I lived in a little rural village called Woolton Hill, and the nearest town was… — Jamie Hince Copy Share Image
I know a lot of people in the retirement village that I have a house in in Florida that are on the… — Davy Jones Copy Share Image
...to look at the stars always makes me dream, as simply as I dream over the black dots of a map representing… — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
If you go to most third world countries, the older woman dispenses advice to the arguing couple while other members of the… — Trisha Goddard Copy Share Image
If you lie down in a village square hoping to capture a sea gull, you could stay there your whole life without… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
The school in the Yorkshire mining village in which my father grew up in the 1920s and 1930s allowed only a few… — Angus Deaton Copy Share Image
They [Rappites] were moving from Southern Indiana to Pennsylvania, where they had originally settled when they came from Germany. They were looking… — Christine Jennings Copy Share Image
When we get the remote Russian village online, what will get people to the Internet is not going to be reports from… — Evgeny Morozov Copy Share Image
I never had posters on my walls, and I didn't have any icons, either. I come from a small village in Wirral,… — Pete Burns Copy Share Image
I was raised in a sort of village. I have a huge family, and I think there is strength in that. It… — Chadwick Boseman Copy Share Image
But the war on terror as I have repeatedly said in the past, and the Afghan people believe in it, in truth,… — Hamid Karzai Copy Share Image
remember a feeling of excitement, of sudden inspiration, when I was visiting Giovanni Boccaccio's home in the walled village of Certaldo, outside… — Mary Pope Osborne Copy Share Image
There is San Diego - this retirement village, with its prim petticoat, that doesn't want to get too near the water. San… — Richard Rodriguez Copy Share Image
The war on terror is the most insane and immoral war of all time. The Americans are doing what they did in… — Imran Khan Copy Share Image
The sight of stars always sets me dreaming just as naively as those black dots on a map set me dreaming of… — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
“Orion sniffed. "Good. Then, worthy centaur, perhaps you could give me a ride to the village on your back. Then I can… — Eoin Colfer Copy Share Image
But remember, boy, that a kind act can sometimes be as powerful as a sword. As a mortal, I was never a… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
A famously wise old man in a village was once asked how he came by his wisdom. "I got it from my… — Sydney J. Harris Copy Share Image
Not only do these abominable weapons lie buried in silence and in their millions waiting to kill or maim innocent women and… — Kofi Annan Copy Share Image