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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
...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
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
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
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
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
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
I believe in carbon offset initiatives, in eco-villages, in the sustainable regeneration of the tropical rainforest. — Dasha Zhukova
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
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
We have shown that solar-electrified villages can be technically and financially self-sufficient. — Bunker Roy
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
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
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
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
For such a small country, Britain packs in an amazing diversity of landscapes: coastline, lakes, mountains, rolling countryside, villages and great cities. — Rory Bremner
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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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