Best Village Wisdom
619 Village quotes by 523 unique authors
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Lincoln's stature and strength, his intelligence and ambition - in short, all the elements which gave him popularity among men in New Salem, rendered him…
— John George Nicolay
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It may take a village to raise a baby, but hell! it takes an army to produce a book.
— Sara Sheridan
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Our job is to show how it is possible to take an illiterate woman and make her into an engineer in six months and show…
— Bunker Roy
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As an undergraduate, I had an opportunity to go on a number of archeological digs. So I had experience excavating, digging up remains of ancient…
— Donald Johanson
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Sometimes, looking up at Sophiatown... I have felt I was looking at an Italian village somewhere in Umbria. For you do ‘look up’ at Sophiatown,…
— Trevor Huddleston
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I have a vision of the world as a global village, a world without boundaries.
— Christa McAuliffe
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Today, we turn to one person to provide what an entire village once did: a sense of grounding, meaning, and continuity. At the same time,…
— Esther Perel
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New York is the biggest collection of villages in the world.
— Alistair Cooke
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The games haven't even started yet and already there are people complaining about the horrible accommodations at the Sochi Olympic village. Toilets don't flush. The…
— Jay Leno
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I am in Birmingham because injustice is here. Just as the eighth century prophets left their little villages and carried their "thus saith the Lord"…
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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In Africa, you often see that the difference between a village where everybody eats and a village where people starve is government. One has a…
— Barack Obama
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You arrive at a village, and in this calm environment, one starts to hear echo.
— Yannick Noah
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A muddy little stream, a village grown unfamiliar with time and trees. I turn around and retrace my way up Main Street and park and…
— Wallace Stegner
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We believe that no matter where you live - whether a village in Punjab or the bylanes of Chandni Chowk...an old section of Kolkata or…
— Barack Obama
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A little group of thatched cottages in the middle of the village had an orchard attached; and I remember well the peculiar purity of the…
— Alfred Leslie Rowse
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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 down the road...…
— Sophie Kinsella
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Schools should be the most beautiful place in every town and village-so beautiful that the punishment for undutiful children should be barred from going to…
— Oscar Wilde
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A boy can see the smoke rising from Sioux villages under the shadow of the Albert memorial.
— Baden Powell de Aquino
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Over the next few days we want cities, towns and villages across the UK to send a message to Scotland: stay with us.
— Ed Miliband
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Ella's supersonic voice followed her all the way to Bleecker Street and then dissolved amid the noisy profusion of shops, cafes, and restaurants and the…
— Francine Pascal
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Remember, the Arctic didn't have any ice. And the Northwest Passage was wide open. They were raising grapes in Scotland for God sakes, had a…
— Don Young
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I don't think one parent can raise a child. I don't think two parents can raise a child. You really need the whole village.
— Toni Morrison
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Would it not be prudent to get our civilization tools together, and see how much stock is left on hand in the way of Glass…
— Mark Twain
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I am alarmed when it happens that I have walked a mile into the woods bodily, without getting there in spirit. In my afternoon walk…
— Henry David Thoreau
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Technology has made the world into a Village. Spirituality has made it into a Global Family.
— Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
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