Best Villages Quotations
130 Villages quotes by 115 unique authors
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On bad days, I think I'd like to be a plastic surgeon who goes to Third World countries and operates on children in villages with…
— Tama Janowitz
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We need to reach the millions who live in cities, the hundreds of thousands in industrial centers, the tens of thousands in medium-sized towns, the…
— Eberhard Arnold
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China is going to be one of Avon's largest market opportunities. It has a large geographic expanse, with hundreds of thousands of women in small…
— Andrea Jung
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It used to happen in villages and towns in China that they would have - I guess you'd call them beauty contests - where all…
— Lisa See
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Small groups or communities may be far more oppressive to the individual than larger ones. Men are in many ways freer in large cities than…
— Morris Raphael Cohen
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Hiking - I don't like either the word or the thing. People ought to saunter in the mountains - not hike! Do you know the…
— John Muir
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Many enlightened persons are never very well known. Many are reclusive. They live in little villages in India or up in the high Himalayas in…
— Frederick Lenz
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A drone strike is a terror weapon, we don't talk about it that way. It is; just imagine you are walking down the street and…
— Noam Chomsky
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Remember the rights of the savage, as we call him. Remember that the happiness of his humble home, remember that the sanctity of life in…
— William E. Gladstone
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Totem poles and wooden masks no longer suggest tribal villages but fashionable drawing rooms in New York and Paris.
— Mason Cooley
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Jewish villages were built in the place of Arab villages. You do not even know the names of these Arab villages, and I do not…
— Moshe Dayan
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The war on terror is the most insane and immoral war of all time. The Americans are doing what they did in Vietnam, bombing villages.…
— Imran Khan
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I prefer the countryside to cities. This is also true of my films: I have made more films in rural societies, and villages, than in…
— Abbas Kiarostami
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After tea it's back to painting - a large poplar at dusk with a gathering storm. From time to time instead of this evening painting…
— Gustav Klimt
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I want to turn the clock back to when people lived in small villages and took care of each other.
— Pete Seeger
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Instead of noblemen, let us have noble villages of men.
— Henry David Thoreau
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I belong to the generation of workers who, born in the villages and hamlets of rural Poland, had the opportunity to acquire education and find…
— Lech Walesa
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A total of 1,580 people, the civilian population, suffered as a result of the bloody wave of terrorist acts that swept over Moscow and other…
— Boris Yeltsin
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Once you educate the boys, they tend to leave the villages and go search for work in the cities, but the girls stay home, become…
— Greg Mortenson
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I am the lover of uncontained and immortal beauty. In the wilderness, I find something more dear and connate than in streets or villages. In…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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we drove on and on, past little villages and both good things and bad things were happening to the people in those villages too, but…
— Charles Bukowski
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What do you know about dragons?” “They're big, scaly, four-legged creatures with wings who terrorized small villages until a virgin was offered up as a…
— Katie MacAlister
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To those peoples in the huts and villages of half the globe struggling to break the bonds of mass misery, we pledge our best efforts…
— John F. Kennedy
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Our civilization has fallen out of touch with night. With lights, we drive the holiness and beauty of night back to the forests and the…
— Henry Beston
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The greatest crimes in the world are not committed by people breaking the rules but by people following the rules. It's people who follow orders…
— Banksy
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