Best Village Proverbs
619 Village quotes by 523 unique authors
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Everywhere I go - from villages outside Kandy, Sri Lanka, to community centers in Amman, Jordan, to offices at the State Department in Washington, D.C.…
— Eboo Patel
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The soul of India lives in its villages.
— Mahatma Gandhi
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Walking through a crowd, the village is aglow. Kaleidoscope of loud heartbeats, under coats. Everybody here wanted something more. Searching for a sound we hadn't…
— Taylor Swift
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During the engagement I tried to throw a strong force through the canon, but I was obliged to use it elsewhere before it had gotten…
— George Crook
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I hired Bob at Terrytoons. He was my assistant animator, and then became an animator himself. He had just come from Boston with his family…
— Ralph Bakshi
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The future of India lies in its villages
— Mahatma Gandhi
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I grew up in a small, strictly-Catholic fishing village on the coast of Wales. The people there have a different attitude to life than those…
— Catherine Zeta-Jones
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I grew up in Greenwich Village. Dad was friends with John Lennon and Yoko Ono.
— Yancy Butler
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Information and images bump against each other every day in massive quantities, and the resonance of this interfacing is like the babble of a village…
— Marshall McLuhan
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We proceeded systematically, village by village and we destroyed the houses, filled up the wells, blew down the towers, cut down the shady trees, burned…
— Winston Churchill
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Picturesque meant - he decided after careful observation of the scenerey that inspired Twoflower to use the word - that the landscape was horribly precipitous.…
— Terry Pratchett
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As our cities have developed, they've built sometimes small villages or communities that were in place. And we've taken for granted all of that child…
— Susan Oliver
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Any well-established village in New England or the northern Middle West could afford a town drunkard, a town atheist, and a few Democrats.
— D. W Brogan
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"Glorious, stirring sight!" murmured Toad. . . . "The poetry of motion! The real way to travel! The only way to travel! Here today -…
— Kenneth Grahame
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For instance, some early ideas for Florida were done only recently. The idea of a little village was there from the beginning and now we…
— John Hench
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The north of the Central African Republic is now a war zone, with rival armed bands burning villages, kidnapping children, robbing travelers and killing people…
— Nicholas D. Kristof
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Working on a film, you don't get time to develop rivalries, but the theatre is like a little village, and the differences between me, Lionel…
— Ron Moody
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New York is to the nation what the white church spire is to the village - the visible symbol of aspiration and faith, the white…
— Elwyn Brooks White
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So I played the acoustic guitar and harmonica and stomped my foot and I think I was right in assuming that Greenwich Village would be…
— Steve Forbert
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A pedestrian seems in this country to be a sort of beast of passage - stared at, pitied, suspected and shunned by everyone who meets…
— Karl Philipp Moritz
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So, we just kind of created our own thing and that's part of the beauty of Athens: is that it's so off the map and…
— Michael Stipe
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But in my imagination this whole thing developed and I started mixing up old folk songs with the Beatles beat and taking them down to…
— Roger McGuinn
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I love Rebel Rebel in Manhattan's West Village for vinyl, but record stores are hard to come by these days. I almost don't even use…
— Jason Sellards
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I shall clasp my hands together and bow to the corners of the world. May your villages remain ignorant of tax collectors, and may your…
— Barry Hughart
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I remember standing on a street corner with the black painter Beauford Delaney down in the Village, waiting for the light to change, and he…
— James A. Baldwin
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