Village Quotes
619 quotes by 538 authors
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I'm luckier than my grandfather, who didn't move more than five miles from the village in which he was born.
— David Attenborough
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When I gave birth to my fourth child, I suffered from post partum hemorrhaging. I almost lost my life. I was lucky to be under…
— Joyce Banda
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I stay in France. Better to be the queen of a village than a servant in a kingdom.
— Emmanuelle Beart
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Emigration, forced or chosen, across national frontiers or from village to metropolis, is the quintessential experience of our time.
— John Berger
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The destruction of India's village system was the greatest of England's blunders.
— Annie Besant
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I began when I was a child, because I was born and grew up in a little village. And many people ride the horses. So,…
— Andrea Bocelli
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When you truly accept that those children in some far off place in the global village have the same value as you in God's eyes…
— Bono
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The people in the villages had turned in on themselves. You can understand it. When you have a bad day on the field, what do…
— Ian Botham
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In the globalized world that is ours, maybe we are moving towards a global village, but that global village brings in a lot of different…
— Lakhdar Brahimi
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Because I worked as a newspaper reporter for about 14 years before attempting my first novel, I learned to write under almost any circumstances- by…
— Geraldine Brooks
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If you go out on the Appalachian Trail, you have to bring so much more equipment - a tent, sleeping bag - but if you…
— Bill Bryson
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One cannot live on potatoes alone. It is said that one wants bread with potatoes. And when there's no bread, a Jew takes his stick,…
— Sholom Aleichem
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I had rather be first in a village than second at Rome.
— Julius Caesar
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There is one timeless way of building. It is a thousand years old, and the same today as it has ever been. The great traditional…
— Christopher Alexander
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I'm the most recognized and loved man that ever lived cuz there weren't no satellites when Jesus and Moses were around, so people far away…
— Muhammad Ali
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Very much like that, and very much a loner, do you know and I didn't fit really into sport or all kind of group activities…
— Eric Clapton
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Giving women education, work, the ability to control their own income, inherit and own property, benefits the society. If a woman is empowered, her children…
— Isabel Allende
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Early on, I was so impressed with Charles Dickens. I grew up in the South, in a little village in Arkansas, and the whites in…
— Maya Angelou
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To know after absence the familiar street and road and village and house is to know again the satisfaction of home.
— Hal Borland
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But what was most remarkable, Broadway being three miles long, and the booths lining each side of it, in every booth there was a roast…
— Frederick Marryat
Who Wrote These Village Quotes
538 authors contributed a total of 619 Village Quotes, led by these top contributors: