Our village is very small, so I wasn't surprised when I heard some negative comments from my neighbours on my interest in… — Hima Das Copy Share Image
The games haven't even started yet and already there are people complaining about the horrible accommodations at the Sochi Olympic village. Toilets… — Jay Leno Copy Share Image
We proceeded systematically, village by village and we destroyed the houses, filled up the wells, blew down the towers, cut down the… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
India is a land of plenty inhibited by poverty; India has an enthralling, uplifting civilization that sparkles not only in our magnificent… — Pranab Mukherjee Copy Share Image
Life is a campus: in a Greenwich Village bookstore, looking for a New Yorker collection, I asked of an earnest-looking assistant where… — Keith Waterhouse Copy Share Image
When I was in college, my whole goal was to write for the 'Village Voice,' and I think I was doing that… — Neil Strauss Copy Share Image
The Pan-Africanism that envisaged the ideal of wholeness was gradually cut down to the size of a continent, then a nation, a… — Ngugi wa Thiong'o Copy Share Image
Oriental DreamWorks did a lot of the surfacing of the village [in Kung Fu Panda 3] and you know all the little… — Jennifer Yuh Nelson Copy Share Image
Entirely incidentally, a little-known fact about Shakespeare is that his father moved to Stratford-upon-Avon from a nearby village shortly before his son's… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
[In-group exclusivism has] killed more human beings and destroyed more cities and villages than all the epidemics, hurricanes, storms, floods, earthquakes, and… — Pitirim Sorokin Copy Share Image
You could say I was born into entrepreneurship. My grandmother, who was from Sierra Leone, was left to raise four children in… — Richelieu Dennis Copy Share Image
Vaccination is pretty special because you can do a vaccination campaign anywhere in the world. All you are doing is gathering women… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
It takes a village to earn a spot representing your country, and I know that every single person who helped me get… — Gretchen Bleiler Copy Share Image
One of the early tip-offs to me about the enormous changes that were going on with being in a Bangalore house, home,… — Bharati Mukherjee Copy Share Image
I had not been in the jazz environment, having been brought up in the church. But once I got to New York,… — Aretha Franklin Copy Share Image
We are aware that globalization doesn't mean global friendship but global competition and, therefore, conflict. That doesn't mean we will all destroy… — Rene Girard Copy Share Image
I disagree with Muhammad. I'm against hate, anti-Semitism and homophobia.… This is not a village of hate. It's a village of hope.…… — Al Sharpton Copy Share Image
Ours is a brand-new world of allatonceness [all-at-once-ness]. 'Time' has ceased, 'space' has vanished. We now live in a global village ...… — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
Marine and Army women have deployed with infantry units in Iraq and Afghanistan in what's called female engagement teams, going into villages,… — Renee Montagne Copy Share Image
You need a village, if only for the pleasure of leaving it. A village means that you are not alone, knowing that… — Cesare Pavese Copy Share Image
I would often take this bus and go to a nearby village where I had hordes of animal friends. I was hardly… — Randeep Hooda Copy Share Image
Some of the very heroic and colourful figures in our history are sons of Sabaragamuwa - Parakramabahu I, born in Dedigama, the… — Dominicus Corea Copy Share Image
Some, I verily believe, delight to be slave-men; it is a joy to them, and they would not change their condition; not… — Richard Jefferies Copy Share Image
Manner and morals have improved, improved wages and world travel during the war have had effect, and the farm labourer now is… — Flora Thompson Copy Share Image
I feel all agitated, like one of those snow globes you see resting peacefully on shop counters. I was perfectly happy being… — Sophie Kinsella Copy Share Image
The name of the author is the first to go followed obediently by the title, the plot, the heartbreaking conclusion, the entire… — Billy Collins Copy Share Image
I like to give pennies to children, but unfortunately, a man cannot do these things if he lives in a small village… — W. H. Davies Copy Share Image
Soon after joining the Ministry of Health in Ethiopia, I was called upon as part of team to respond to a malaria… — Tedros Adhanom Copy Share Image
Village is an idea; universe is an idea! If you cannot create an idea bigger than your village you live in, you… — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
Ahh! Lady Pillows. So much fluffier than mine.” He took a giant whiff. “Why does everything girlie smell so delightful?” “Because we… — Kathy Reichs Copy Share Image
We were fortunate that most of the '1666' stuff we did shoot all together. We were filming out in Hampton, Georgia. It… — Kiana Madeira Copy Share Image
Obviously, you would give your life for your children, or give them the last biscuit on the plate. But to me, the… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
Despite my mum being from a small village in the middle of a forest, I'm not a country person. I don't like… — Ben Aaronovitch Copy Share Image
My father took me back home, back to Greenwich Village, and he thought by taking me out of the orphanage he'd be… — Gregory Corso Copy Share Image
My notion of democracy is that under it the weakest shall have the same opportunities as the strongest... no country in the… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
People often ask me what I consider my goal to be at TOMS. The truth is that it's changed over the years.… — Blake Mycoskie Copy Share Image
Yes, I first visited Korphe village, Braldu valley, Baltistan, Pakistan, after failing to summit K2 in 1993, and met Haji Ali, a… — Greg Mortenson Copy Share Image
I think of myself in the oral tradition-as a troubadour, a village tale-teller, the man in the shadows of the campfire. That's… — Louis L'Amour Copy Share Image
The old lady told me that all the girls in the village of Annezin prayed every night for the War to end,… — Robert Graves Copy Share Image
Post office closures in the Dakotas and Minnesota will impact many communities, but the White Earth reservation villages, and other tribal towns… — Winona LaDuke Copy Share Image