“God gave us ground we created a city, God gave us time we need to create a future.” — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
Id rather be selling groundnuts in my village than play for a pathetic club like Chelsea FC — Samuel Eto'o Copy Share Image
“Modern man has lost the sense of wonder about the unknown and he treats it as an enemy.” — Laurens van der Post Copy Share Image
“...the emotional health of a village depended upon having a man whom everyone hated.” — Barry Hughart Copy Share Image
In our village, folks say God crumbles up the old moon into stars. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
When I have a chance to go back to my village, I always remind myself where I came from. — Mohamed Salah Copy Share Image
It was a tough moment for me when I was in Senegal, especially when I was young. I was born in a… — Sadio Mane Copy Share Image
For most baseball fans, maybe oldest is always best. We love baseball because it seizes and retains the past, like the snowy… — Donald Hall Copy Share Image
Since my residence at Tippecanoe, we have endeavored to level all distinctions, to destroy village chiefs, by whom all mischiefs are done.… — Tecumseh Copy Share Image
“Technology has transformed the world into a global village. And communities, families, friends, etc., into local islands.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
Ziggy Stardust, the Village People, and punk rock really shaped who I am as a person and as a gay man. — Boy George Copy Share Image
I was keen to earn my own money from an early age. I had a job as a paper girl in my… — Alice Roberts Copy Share Image
I keep a very low profile in Switzerland. There are only about 2,000 people in the village I live in, so it's… — Adam Derek Scott Copy Share Image
“The sky was turning the color of a fresh bruise as we pulled into my grandfather's subdivision, a bewildering labyrinth of interlocking… — Ransom Riggs Copy Share Image
The important thing about travel in foreign lands is that it breaks the speech habits and makes you blab less, and breaks… — Paul Goodman Copy Share Image
I started drawing comics, and at first I was very influenced by the whole pop art movement, you know, Batman was on… — Trina Robbins Copy Share Image
Peace in every home, every street, every village, every country - this is my dream. Education for every boy and every girl… — Malala Yousafzai Copy Share Image
It was only against my mother's will that I attended the preparatory high school in the city. She wanted me to become… — Herta Muller Copy Share Image
Villages are small and personal, and their inhabitants have names, characters, and personalities. What more appropriate concept on which to base our… — Charles Handy Copy Share Image
What do you know about dragons?” “They're big, scaly, four-legged creatures with wings who terrorized small villages until a virgin was offered… — Katie MacAlister Copy Share Image
A missing arm might ruin your symmetry. Personal asymmetry where I come from is a big taboo and brings great shame on… — Jasper Fforde Copy Share Image
Generally students are the best vehicles for passing on ideas, for their thoughts are plastic and can be molded and they can… — Theodore White Copy Share Image
There's a diversion between economic reality - integration, global village, everybody depending on everybody else - and cultural reality, which is people… — Duncan Green Copy Share Image
Mahlia... understood Doctor Mahfouz and his blind rush into the village. He wasn't trying to change them. He wasn't trying to save… — Paolo Bacigalupi Copy Share Image
Behind every door on every ordinary street, in every hut in every ordinary village in this middling planet of a trivial star,… — Vikram Seth Copy Share Image
It is my belief that whereas the twentieth century has been a century of war and untold suffering, the twenty-first century should… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
You have to look at the reality in Syria. Whenever we liberate any city or village from the terrorists, the civilians will… — Bashar al-Assad Copy Share Image
Villages and woods, meadows and chateaux, pass across the moving scene, out of which the whistling of locomotives throws sharp notes. These… — Alberto Santos-Dumont Copy Share Image
Occasionally they came to villages, and at each village they encountered a roadblock of fallen trees. Having had centuries of experience with… — Richard Preston Copy Share Image
What a benefit would the American government, not yet relieved of its extreme need, render to itself, and to every city, village… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Its not a global village, but we're in a highly interconnected globe. — Howard Rheingold Copy Share Image
Every village has its simpleton, and if one does not exist they invent one to pass the time. — Nikos Kazantzakis Copy Share Image
One does see so much evil in a village,' murmured Miss Marple in an explanatory voice. — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
As the editor at the Village Voice, I always tried to find writers of colour. — Robert Christgau Copy Share Image
