Quote by Moyshe Rekhtman

“I felt an urge to conquer this new village.”

— Xiaolu Guo

“Leave your village, and conquer yourself before you conquer the world. That’s what I did—I left my village. And once I master myself, I’m…

— Jarod Kintz

You need a village, if only for the pleasure of leaving it. A village means that you are not alone, knowing that in the…

— Cesare Pavese

“villages that their leaders came together to save themselves.”

— Chinua Achebe

“But I will never ask anyone from our village-from any village in Tlanth-to risk his or her life unless I'm willing to myself.”

— Sherwood Smith

“I had left the tribe, and I was being punished for that.”

— Sherman Alexie

“It was as though the people needed the ugliness of the village, and fed on it. The houses and the stores seemed to have…

— Shirley Jackson

“realized that I forgot to talk to the mayor about making a village guardian. It was then that I also realized that having a…

— Steve the Noob

“There is no longer a need for Village Idiots because villages are run by even bigger idiots.”

— NEF

“A small village lay just over the farthest hill. When he had to feed, he went there. And when he left after feeding, the…

— Linda Howard

“overgrown fields, obviously abandoned. We must be getting close to the next village, which was just as well. The sun was approaching the horizon,…

— Kiran Millwood Hargrave

“I went to work the next day out of curiosity, as people return to their villages after the war to see what is left.”

— Miranda July