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130 Villages quotes by 115 unique authors
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There were many words that you could not stand to hear and finally only the names of places had dignity. Certain numbers were the same…
— Ernest Hemingway
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...to look at the stars always makes me dream, as simply as I dream over the black dots of a map representing towns and villages.…
— Vincent Van Gogh
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Christians. They’re determined to rid the land of any who worship the Horned One. Murdering all the druids, burning the temples, sometimes whole villages, and…
— Brom
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What is it about maps? I could look at them all day, earnestly studying the names of towns and villages I have never heard of…
— Bill Bryson
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The birds sang, the proles sang. the Party did not sing. All round the world, in London and New York, in Africa and Brazil, and…
— George Orwell
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My family actually lived in the same village for about 400 years. They had great stability until the last century. People lived and intermarried in…
— Roger Bannister
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I grew up in a kibbutz in the Galilee, but we were surrounded by Arabic villages, so I heard all these sounds and all this…
— Maya Beiser
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I believe in carbon offset initiatives, in eco-villages, in the sustainable regeneration of the tropical rainforest.
— Dasha Zhukova
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I walked across Tuscany from Siena to Rome, which was a lovely way to see the landscape. It was sunny but not too hot, and…
— Diana Quick
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If China wants to build a new six-lane expressway, it can bulldoze its way past any number of villages in its path; in India, if…
— Shashi Tharoor
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We have shown that solar-electrified villages can be technically and financially self-sufficient.
— Bunker Roy
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In villages across the developing world, governments have provided reasonable enough latrines that have again and again been turned into storage spaces or simply abandoned.…
— Rose George
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Post office closures in the Dakotas and Minnesota will impact many communities, but the White Earth reservation villages, and other tribal towns of Squaw Lake,…
— Winona LaDuke
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More than half of Guatemalans are pureblooded Indians, descendants of the proud Maya-Quiche tribes. In their mist-shrouded villages, the Indians worship the corn god and…
— Stephen Kinzer
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There was an insurgency under President Hosni Mubarak in the 1990s. Egyptian police and soldiers fought weekly battles with Islamists in the sugarcane fields and…
— Richard Engel
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For such a small country, Britain packs in an amazing diversity of landscapes: coastline, lakes, mountains, rolling countryside, villages and great cities.
— Rory Bremner
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Because the nights bring the threat of invasion and terror to the villages, thousands of children in northern Uganda have become night commuters, leaving the…
— Sam Childers
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Having covered some half a hundred cities, towns, villages, and wide spots in the road during the last tow years, George and I fairly wallowed…
— Martin Milner
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As for now, we must not forget who would have to exchange the land? those villages which live more than others on irrigation, on orange…
— Moshe Sharett
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I first heard African drum rhythms and chants at the movies. Then, when I had the opportunity to go to Africa and visit the villages,…
— Isaac Hayes
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I once drove a pair of horses from New York to Vicksburg, and to this day I can almost map out that country as I…
— Collis Potter Huntington
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We have received credible reports that show a clear and consistent pattern: entire villages are looted, burned down and sometimes bombed. Large numbers of civilians…
— Jan Egeland
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In that sense, I became politicized because the people in the coal mining villages who were involved in the struggle knew why they were there.…
— Billy Bragg
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Well I guess my music came to prominence around one piece called 'In C' which I wrote in 1964 at that time it was called…
— Terry Riley
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Typically, in the cities there can be resistance to the gospel or just to Americans, or anybody that's Western. When you get back into the…
— Michael Scott
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