Quotes about My village

When I listen to hip-hop, it's like no big difference how people sing in my village, 'cause bling would be their cow. Votes: 4

When I was in south Sudan, people used to rap in my village. But the rapping was more in the mother tongue, Nuer. Votes: 4

I still visit my village quite often, as my parents and one of my sisters live there, but also I feel the village is more of an isolated, unreal part of me. Votes: 4

Id rather be selling groundnuts in my village than play for a pathetic club like Chelsea FC Votes: 3

As Antiquus's son, I was next in line to be the leader of my villageBut leadership is not inherited. It is earned through action. Votes: 3

I'm doing a collaborative project with another artist, Mary Hamill. My project is to gather the oral history of war widows, starting with the women of my village, Kop Nymit. Votes: 3

As the years passed in my village, I witnessed poorly educated young men leaving to seek the greater comforts and liberations of big cities. I would see them on my visits to Delhi. Votes: 3

I guess I am handsome - in certain parts of the world. If I was, like, in Mongolia, living on a mountain and in my village, I could be the hottest guy. In L.A., I'm ... average? Votes: 3

I was brought up in the north of Scotland, and where I lived was so lowly populated, it was used as a low-flying area by the Air Force, so lots of exciting aircraft used to fly over my village. Votes: 3

One of my earliest memories is walking up a muddy road into the mountains. It was raining. Behind me, my village was burning. When there was school, it was under a tree. Then the United Nations came. They fed me, my family, my community. Votes: 3

Yes, in my books I do edit myself to keep from becoming the Village Explainer. Votes: 2

I was the first member of my family to cross into Pakistan and find his ancestral village. Votes: 2

My background did not start with the East Side; it started with Greenwich Village, which is West Side. Votes: 2

I'm luckier than my grandfather, who didn't move more than five miles from the village in which he was born. Votes: 2

I would like to thank my parents in Vergaio, a little village in Italy. They gave me the biggest gift: poverty. Votes: 2

I am restless. I don't mind leaving this comfortable, static life. I could live a year on my own in a remote village. Votes: 2

My look was even more solidified when I started singing in Greenwich Village with my sister Lucy. We wore matching dresses as the Simon Sisters. Votes: 2

On 11 September, I was living in Greenwich Village, New York; my children learned to tell south from north by looking at the World Trade Center. Votes: 2

I remember being unemployed and walking the East Village streets for many years, constantly checking my voice mail on pay phones, hoping for an audition. Votes: 2

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 towns. Votes: 2

My only worry about tweeting and modern technology is how it has crept into even the darkest corners of the absolute global village we live in. Votes: 2

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 small villages. Votes: 2

I went to this tattoo parlor in the East Village and I got an outline of a violin on my lower back. They call them tramp stamps now. Votes: 2

On my show 'One on One', I interview leaders from around the world - in politics, business, art. My other show, 'Her Village', is more like 'The View'. Votes: 2

There's a village in my computer - friends, fans, readers, and colleagues. It's a populous, sometimes chaotic little burg always bustling with news, gossip, opinions and potential excitement. Votes: 2

My mother is very funny. She is from a village; she has a typical village kind of humour. Often she says a lot of things she herself isn't aware is a punch line. Votes: 2

I was privileged because my father was a policeman, and we lived in town. Many people in Malawi are from typical villages. My grandmother insisted I should be in both worlds, and so I needed to be acquainted with village life. Votes: 2

In the books I have written, I have created in my mind a universe. My kids say I have a village in my head and I live in that village, and it's true. When I start writing a book, characters from previous books reappear. All my emotions, my mind, my heart, my dreams, everything becomes connected with a new book, and nothing else really matters. Votes: 2

The Village did a lot for me, of course, because it was my first movie. Votes: 0

To think, a sweater, is made entirely of knots. My stomach could clothe a village. Votes: 0

After my grandfather began to be successful, he returned to the village where he was born and founded a primary school. Votes: 0

I could've shot the whole East Village, because it was and is my neighborhood. But Seventh Street is precious to me. Votes: 0

You wouldn't see those sorts of decisions given in village cricket, let alone Test cricket. The England players have my sympathy. Votes: 0

I love the village in my computer. There's little validation in the day-to-day life of a writer; sometimes we ache for a connection. Votes: 0

Dream Song:As my eyes Search the prairie, I feel the summer in the spring. Whenever I pause The noise Of the village. Votes: 0

I want to build a treehouse village connected by bridges in the woods by my house so my friends have a place to stay. Votes: 0

I live in New York, but I still get the village gossip. My apartment is a crash pad for so many Singaporean cousins and friends. Votes: 0

I went to Thailand and built a village for 27 rescued children and this is where my passion to help prevent modern day slavery came from. Votes: 0

Surely heaven must have something of the color and shape of whatever village or hill or cottage of which the believer says, This is my own. Votes: 0

I live in Tuxedo Park, N.Y. and spend time in the West Village, where my wife Elizabeth Cotnoir, a writer-producer and documentary filmmaker, has an office. Votes: 0

I was set down from the carrier's cart at the age of three; and there with a sense of bewilderment and terror my life in the village began. Votes: 0

I couldn't help but think, This car is taking me to a mental hospital and my mother is treating it like open-mic night at a Greenwich Village café. Votes: 0

I can't think of a specific meal, but my favourite country for food has got to be France. I love those restaurants in the middle of the village squares. Votes: 0

Long ago life was clean, sex was bad and obscene, and the rich were so mean. Stately homes for the Lords, croquet lawns, village greens, Victoria was my queen. Votes: 0

There's nothing nicer than coming back to your village, where people like my mum's friends take the mick out of me. I prefer that to the craziness of Hollywood. Votes: 0

I was a total music nerd. I grew up on Perry Street in the '80s. My father wrote books about jazz, so I was always at the 'Village Vanguard.' Votes: 0