Best Village Quotations
619 Village quotes by 523 unique authors
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Behind every door on every ordinary street, in every hut in every ordinary village in this middling planet of a trivial star, such riches are…
— Vikram Seth
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India was the motherland of our race, and Sanskrit the mother of Europe's languages: she was the mother of our philosophy; mother, through the Arabs,…
— Will Durant
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It is in a small village in the Pyrenees where no one knows me 7that my life will come to a close.... There is not…
— Walter Benjamin
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There is a great good in returning to a landscape that has had extraordinary meaning in one's life. It happens that we return to such…
— N. Scott Momaday
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You have to dream. We all have to dream. Dreaming is OK. Imagine me teaching from space, all over the world, touching so many peoples…
— Christa McAuliffe
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I am the son of peasants and I know what is happening in the villages. That is why I wanted to take revenge, and I…
— Gavrilo Princip
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I could never muster the courage to speak to girls in my college in Pune. Most of them were Parsis and spoke English. I came…
— Sharad Pawar
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We came here to a country that was populated by Arabs and we are building here a Hebrew, a Jewish state; instead of the Arab…
— Moshe Dayan
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Before (the Palestinians) very eyes we are possessing the land and the villages where they and their ancestors have lived We are the generation of…
— Moshe Dayan
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What cause have we to complain about their fierce hatred to us? For eight years now, they sit in their refugee camps in Gaza, and…
— Moshe Dayan
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Technology, including Zaadz, will allow us to evade the jerks far more than we could before. The technology-based social responsibility movement, broadly construed, will allow…
— Michael Strong
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Regarding The Music Man, Jay Nordlinger wrote: The Music Man (for which Willson also wrote the lyrics) is an astonishing creation. It came in a…
— Meredith Willson
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You must realize one thing. In every little village in the world there are great potential champions who only need motivation, development and good exercise…
— Arthur Lydiard
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Being famous as a writer is like being famous in a village. It's not really any very heady fame.
— Peter Carey
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The heart of the matter, as I see it, is the stark fact that world poverty is primarily a problem of two million villages, and…
— E F Schumacher
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What if I told you insane was working fifty hours a week in some office for fifty years at the end of which they tell…
— Steve Buscemi
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Beer was the driving force that led nomadic mankind into village life. It was this appetite for beer-making material that led to crop cultivation, permanent…
— Alan D. Eames
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Just as the bee takes the nectar and leaves without damaging the color or scent of the flowers, so should the sage act in a…
— Gautama Buddha
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Death carries off a man busy picking flowers with an besotted mind, like a great flood does a sleeping village.
— Gautama Buddha
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As we enter the 21st Century it is clear that we have entered an unprecedented global age in which our diverse cultures, religions, philosophies, worldviews…
— Ashok Gangadean
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The true India resides in its villages
— Charan Singh
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There's nothing nicer than coming back to your village, where people like my mum's friends take the mick out of me. I prefer that to…
— Jeremy Irvine
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It is not an act of bravery to try to save your own village. It is an instinct to protect what you possess. Bravery is…
— Gail Tsukiyama
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The notion of the world as a village is becoming a reality.
— James Wolfensohn
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Generally students are the best vehicles for passing on ideas, for their thoughts are plastic and can be molded and they can adjust the ideas…
— Theodore White
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