The new electronic independence re-creates the world in the image of a global village. Votes: 9
Marshall McLuhanYou arrive at a village, and in this calm environment, one starts to hear echo. Votes: 6
Yannick NoahThe startings and arrivals of the cars are now the epochs in the village day. Votes: 5
Henry David ThoreauI love those connections that make this big old world feel like a little village. Votes: 5
Gina BellmanSo you start one person at a time. Change one person, you can change a village. Votes: 5
Robin QuiversMaybe there's less oppression growing up in a small village, and fewer rules, and less danger. Votes: 4
Luke TreadawayBe it a village or a city, education is very important, and it always comes into you. Votes: 4
Kareena KapoorI think of myself... as a troubadour, a village storyteller, the guy in the shadows of the campfire. Votes: 4
Louis L'AmourI want to turn the clock back to when people lived in small villages and took care of each other. Votes: 4
Pete SeegerFew things are more pleasant than a village graced with a good church, a good priest and a good pub. Votes: 4
John HillabyThe destruction of India's village system was the greatest of England's blunders. Votes: 3
Annie BesantOttawa - a sub-arctic lumber-village converted by royal mandate into a political cockpit. Votes: 3
Goldwin SmithThe life of the village became more and more affected by strikes and lock-outs. Votes: 3
John GriersonManchester, one of the greatest, if not really the greatest mere village in England. Votes: 3
Daniel DefoeThe global village is a place of very arduous interfaces and very abrasive situations. Votes: 3
Marshall McLuhanConnectivity is productivity - whether it's in a modern office or an underdeveloped village. Votes: 3
Iqbal QuadirSince the whole village was poor, we didnt realize our own poverty. I was happy. Votes: 3
Bidzina IvanishviliSince the whole village was poor, we didn't realize our own poverty. I was happy. Votes: 3
Bidzina IvanishviliTo think, a sweater, is made entirely of knots. My stomach could clothe a village. Votes: 3
Andrea GibsonIn every village marked with little spire, Embowered in trees, and hardly known to fame. Votes: 3
William ShenstoneKhadi service, village service and Harijan service are one in reality, though three in name. Votes: 3
Mahatma GandhiLet none presume to measure the irregularities of Michael Angelo or Socrates by village scales. Votes: 3
Ralph Waldo EmersonI was still 15 when I met John Lennon at a village fete in Woolton, in Liverpool. Votes: 3
Paul McCartneyThere is in every village a torch - the teacher; and an extinguisher - the priest. Votes: 3
Victor HugoI like being outdoors a lot, and I come from a small village that's fairly remote. Votes: 3
Jeremy IrvineWhen the elephant decides to walk through the village, all the dogs come out and bark. Votes: 3
Maharishi Mahesh YogiDear bells! how sweet the sound of village bells When on the undulating air they swim! Votes: 3
Thomas HoodPrinceton is a wonderful little spot. A quaint and ceremonious village of puny demigods on stilts. Votes: 3
Albert EinsteinTime' has ceased, 'space' has vanished. We now live in a global village... a simultaneous happening Votes: 3
Marshall McLuhanI would rather be the first man in a barbarian village than the second man in Rome. Votes: 3
Julius CaesarBe it a village or a city, education is very important, and it always comes into you. Votes: 3
Kareena Kapoor KhanOne does see so much evil in a village,' murmured Miss Marple in an explanatory voice. Votes: 3
Agatha ChristieIf adventures will not befall a young lady in her own village, she must seek them abroad. Votes: 3
Jane AustenI was the first member of my family to cross into Pakistan and find his ancestral village. Votes: 3
Sanjeev BhaskarThing big: Universe is a village, a small place! When you think big, all will get smaller! Votes: 3
Mehmet Murat ildanId rather be selling groundnuts in my village than play for a pathetic club like Chelsea FC Votes: 3
Samuel Eto'oWe live in a global village. No country can live in isolation of others like Robinson Crusoe. Votes: 3
Li KeqiangThe largest single step in the ascent of man is the change from nomad to village agriculture. Votes: 3
Jacob BronowskiIt is a city of villages, closely connected, each village dedicated to a different way of life. Votes: 3
Nancy SpainGrew up in Stapleton House village, where blood flood the waters in the streets like oil spillage Votes: 3
RZAA miniature village in Bournemouth caught fire and the flames could be seen nearly three feet away. Votes: 3
Bob MonkhouseI stay in France. Better to be the queen of a village than a servant in a kingdom. Votes: 3
Emmanuelle BeartYou can't build a wall round a village.The sun and the windwill always find their way in. Votes: 3
Igor GoldkindI would just as soon have abused the old village church at home for not being a cathedral. Votes: 3
Joseph ConradEvery village has its simpleton, and if one does not exist they invent one to pass the time. Votes: 3
Nikos KazantzakisEven if I say, Everyone in the village died of diarrhea, I still laugh a little after diarrhea. Votes: 3
Dana Gould[On Ezra Pound:] A village explainer, excellent if you were a village, but if you were not, not. Votes: 3
Gertrude SteinAccess to quality education has enabled me to reach far beyond the Bangladeshi village I grew up in. Votes: 3
Muhammad YunusIt may take a village to raise a baby, but hell! it takes an army to produce a book. Votes: 3
Sara SheridanIf it takes a village to raise a child, it takes a whole agency to make a successful campaign. Votes: 3
David GuerreroBeing famous as a writer is like being famous in a village. It's not really any very heady fame. Votes: 3
Peter CareyA man who has to go to the village to get the news hasn't heard from himself in a long time. Votes: 3
Henry David ThoreauThere is no way you are going to be forgiven for blowing up a village and killing a bunch of people. Votes: 3
Henry RollinsThe big man in a small village is the big ship in a small lake! Let him sail to the vast oceans! Votes: 3
Mehmet Murat ildanI am ashamed to see what a shallow village tale our so-called history is. Votes: 2
Ralph Waldo EmersonLike restless birds, the breath of coming rain Creeps, lilac-laden, up the village street Votes: 2
John McCraeI have a vision of the world as a global village, a world without boundaries. Votes: 2
Christa McAuliffeI would like to bury myself in an Indian village, preferably in a Frontier village. Votes: 2
Mahatma GandhiYour Village may be different from other people's Villages, but we are all prisoners. Votes: 0
Patrick McGoohanThe Village did a lot for me, of course, because it was my first movie. Votes: 0
Bryce Dallas HowardIt was so much fun being in the Olympic Village and meeting all the athletes. Votes: 0
Jordyn WieberYes, in my books I do edit myself to keep from becoming the Village Explainer. Votes: 0
Thomas PerryI grew up in Greenwich Village. Dad was friends with John Lennon and Yoko Ono. Votes: 0
Yancy ButlerTechnology has made the world into a Village. Spirituality has made it into a Global Family. Votes: 0
Sri Sri Ravi ShankarI dont see a lot of movies that portray the East Village as well as I think they can. Votes: 0
Adam RappI don't see a lot of movies that portray the East Village as well as I think they can. Votes: 0
Adam RappI like places where you can dance to crazy music, like Bedlam or Eastern Bloc in the East Village. Votes: 0
Nicola FormichettiIt used to happen in villages and towns in China that they would have - I guess you'd call them beauty contests - where all of the women of a particular village or town would be seated behind these screens or curtains with only their feet showing. Votes: 2 Lisa See
India is a land of plenty inhibited by poverty; India has an enthralling, uplifting civilization that sparkles not only in our magnificent art, but also in the enormous creativity and humanity of our daily life in city and village. Votes: 4 Pranab Mukherjee
Photographer James Nachtwey has spent his professional life in the places people most want to avoid: war zones and refugee camps, the city flattened by an earthquake, the village swallowed by a flood, the farm hollowed out by famine. Votes: 2 Nancy Gibbs
A great day in New York would be to wake up, get a cup of coffee and head up to Central Park for a nice walk. Then I'd go down to the East Village and stroll around. After that, maybe I'd go check out a museum or catch an indie film at the Angelika. Votes: 4 Emmanuelle Chriqui
Neo-Liberalism promised us a Global Village and gave us a Potemkin Village. Votes: 3 Dean Cavanagh
But in my imagination this whole thing developed and I started mixing up old folk songs with the Beatles beat and taking them down to Greenwich Village and playing them for the people there. Votes: 6 Roger McGuinn
I was born in Paris, and it's a beautiful place, but London feels like home. I like the village feeling, I like running in the parks - even the food isn't as bad as it used to be. Votes: 1 Eva Green
Mothers really were not built to raise babies not only by themselves, but with only a partner. For millions of years, a woman had much more than just her husband to help rear her young... This whole idea of 'it takes a village to raise a child' is exactly how we're supposed to live. Votes: 4 Helen Fisher
Mothers really were not built to raise babies not only by themselves, but with only a partner. For millions of years, a woman had much more than just her husband to help rear her young... This whole idea of 'it takes a village to raise a child' is exactly how we're supposed to live. Votes: 5 Helen Fisher
I was born and I live in a small village, where the centre of life is the square, and the small bar/cafe. Votes: 3 Diego Della Valle
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 Emmanuel Jal
I would just as soon have abused the old village church at home for not being a cathedral. Votes: 3 Joseph Conrad
Many of our own people here in this country do not ask about computers, telephones and television sets. They ask - when will we get a road to our village. Votes: 4 Thabo Mbeki
Ice Cold' is the eighth in my 'Rizzoli and Isles' thriller series. It was inspired by a true occurrence in the 1960s, now known as the 'Dugway Incident,' in which 6,000 sheep mysteriously died overnight in a remote area of Utah. I thought, 'What if it happened instead to people? What if the inhabitants of an entire village vanished overnight?' Votes: 1 Tess Gerritsen
It is a city of villages, closely connected, each village dedicated to a different way of life. Votes: 2 Nancy Spain
It used to happen in villages and towns in China that they would have - I guess you'd call them beauty contests - where all of the women of a particular village or town would be seated behind these screens or curtains with only their feet showing. Votes: 1 Lisa See
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: 3 Kevin Kwan
Come the millennium, month 12, In the home of greatest power, The village idiot will come forth To be acclaimed the leader. Votes: 4 Nostradamus
You're an idealist, and I pity you as I would the village idiot. Votes: 4 Stanley Kubrick
Now if you are condemned to life on welfare, I'm not so sure that being in a bigger welfare village is that much better than being in a smaller welfare village. Votes: 6 Tony Abbott
Obviously, you would give your life for your children, or give them the last biscuit on the plate. But to me, the trick in life is to take that sense of generosity between kin, make it apply to the extended family and to your neighbour, your village and beyond. Votes: 3 Tom Stoppard