Best Villages Sayings
130 Villages quotes by 115 unique authors
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Every week a tsunami rips through poor towns and villages all over the world ... That tsunami is hunger.
— Colin Farrell
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Every week a tsunami rips through poor towns and villages all over the world. It claims 25,000 lives a day, 175,000 a week. It sweeps…
— Colin Farrell
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All the real things in Russia are done in the villages.
— Ernest Poole
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We will only keep people from fleeing the countryside into urban favelas, villas miseries, shantytowns and squatter villages when the productivity gap is closed between…
— Alvin Toffler
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My name is Mankiller, and in the old Cherokee Nation, when we lived here in the Southeast, we lived in semi-autonomous villages, and there was…
— Wilma Mankiller
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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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New York is the biggest collection of villages in the world.
— Alistair Cooke
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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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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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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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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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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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The future of India lies in its villages
— Mahatma Gandhi
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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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"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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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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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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What a reason the Company has for observing its Rules faithfully: to do what the Son of God came into the world to do! That…
— Vincent de Paul
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Why should not we, who have renounced the king's authority, have our national preserves, where no villages need be destroyed, in which the bear and…
— Henry David Thoreau
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In the villages in Europe, there are still healers who tell stories.
— Yannick Noah
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The wilderness is near as well as dear to every man. Even the oldest villages are indebted to the border of wild wood which surrounds…
— Henry David Thoreau
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When several villages are united in a single complete community, large enough to be nearly or quite self-sufficing, the state comes into existence, originating in…
— Aristotle
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I think we've shot scenes from every angle directors can think of to make it look like different villages. I've directed a couple shows on…
— Vic Morrow
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