Quotes about Village

The Internet is becoming the town square for the global village of tomorrow. Votes: 10

The new electronic independence re-creates the world in the image of a global village. Votes: 8

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: 8

Its not a global village, but we're in a highly interconnected globe. Votes: 7

I had a world of people raising me; it was like a little village. Votes: 7

It takes a village to raise a child. Votes: 6

New Zealand is not a small country but a large village. Votes: 6

I had rather be first in a village than second at Rome. Votes: 6

You're an idealist, and I pity you as I would the village idiot. Votes: 6

Emigration, forced or chosen, across national frontiers or from village to metropolis, is the quintessential experience of our time. Votes: 6

If you would be known, and not know, vegetate in a village; if you would know, and not be known, live in a city. Votes: 6

Dignity and majesty have I seen but once, as it stood in chains, at midnight, in a dungeon in an obscure village of Missouri. Votes: 6

You arrive at a village, and in this calm environment, one starts to hear echo. Votes: 5

Your village just called. They're missing an idiot. Votes: 4

The village is coming back, like it or not. Votes: 4

Every village in Africa now has a cyber cafe. Votes: 4

I grew up in a little village in the west of Ireland. Votes: 4

The notion of the world as a village is becoming a reality. Votes: 4

I live in a Swiss village so small, if you sneeze everyone knows. Votes: 4

I grew up Windlesham in Surrey, which is a beautiful and quaint village. Votes: 4

Celebrate the birth of a girl child by planting 5 trees in your village. Votes: 4

I grew up in a village of 12 houses. We had a well and a cow. Votes: 4

The startings and arrivals of the cars are now the epochs in the village day. Votes: 4

I love those connections that make this big old world feel like a little village. Votes: 4

So, it looks like we rebuild the village and blow it apart a few more times. Votes: 4

So you start one person at a time. Change one person, you can change a village. Votes: 4

Maybe there's less oppression growing up in a small village, and fewer rules, and less danger. Votes: 4

I think of myself... as a troubadour, a village storyteller, the guy in the shadows of the campfire. Votes: 4

I want to turn the clock back to when people lived in small villages and took care of each other. Votes: 4

You may live in an unknown small village, but if you have big ideas, the world will come and find you! Votes: 4

South Africa has all the tools to compete in the new global village - an eager workforce, ready to take on any challenge. Votes: 4

One lesson that every nation can learn from China is to focus more on creating village-level enterprises, quality health services and educational facilities. Votes: 4

Miracles happen every day. Not just in remote country villages or at holy sites halfway across the globe, but here, in our own lives. Votes: 4

I believe that in a great city, or even in a small city or a village, a great theater is the outward and visible sign of an inward and probable culture. Votes: 4

Since my residence at Tippecanoe, we have endeavored to level all distinctions, to destroy village chiefs, by whom all mischiefs are done. It is they who sell the land to the Americans. Votes: 4

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: 4

Creative people who can't help but explore other mental territories are at greater risk, just as someone who climbs a mountain is more at risk than someone who just walks along a village lane. Votes: 4

Let every man, every corporation, and especially let every village, town, and city, every county and State, get out of debt and keep out of debt. It is the debtor that is ruined by hard times. Votes: 4

I suppose I'm a cultural Anglican, and I see evensong in a country church through much the same eyes as I see a village cricket match on the village green. I have a certain love for it. Votes: 4

[In-group exclusivism has] killed more human beings and destroyed more cities and villages than all the epidemics, hurricanes, storms, floods, earthquakes, and volcanic eruptions taken together. It has brought upon mankind more suffering than any other catastrophe. Votes: 4

In the globalized world that is ours, maybe we are moving towards a global village, but that global village brings in a lot of different people, a lot of different ideas, lots of different backgrounds, lots of different aspirations. Votes: 4

In winter I go skiing on Saturdays and Sundays when the slopes are quieter due to changeover day for tourists, and in summer I hike up into the mountains at sunset, just as the village is settling down to dinner. Votes: 4

Despite my mum being from a small village in the middle of a forest, I'm not a country person. I don't like my bacon sandwich to be curiously snuffling at my fingers. But sometimes being police means holding your breath and fondling a pig. Votes: 4

I am the granddaughter of a Welsh coal miner who was determined that his kids get out of the mines. My dad got his first job when he was six years old, in a little village in Wales called Nantyffyllon, cleaning bottles at the Colliers Arms. Votes: 4

People often ask me what I consider my goal to be at TOMS. The truth is that it's changed over the years. When we first began, the goal was to create a for-profit company to help the children that I met in a small village in Argentina. Votes: 4

The books transported her into new worlds and introduced her to amazing people who lived exciting lives. She went on olden-day sailing ships with Joseph Conrad. She went to Africa with Ernest Hemingway and to India with Rudyard Kipling. She travelled all over the world while sitting in her little room in an English village. Votes: 4

A village somewhere was missing it's idiot. Votes: 3

Sweet Auburn, loveliest village of the plain. Votes: 3

There is a beautiful village in every country. Votes: 3

Courage is walking naked through a cannibal village Votes: 3

Death. Starvation. Blindness. Another grim day in our village. Votes: 3

Benteen, come on, big village, be quick. Bring packs. Votes: 3

Khadi is the sun of the village solar system. Votes: 3

It takes only one child to raze a village. Votes: 3

Greenwich Village... the village of low rents and high arts. Votes: 3

The Boeing 747 is the commuter train of the global village. Votes: 3

This poet is a griot in search of a village. Votes: 3

Nobody wants to see the village of the happy people. Votes: 3

It is always the village women who drive these things. Votes: 3

In a true democracy of India, the unit is the village. Votes: 3

What do they do for a village idiot when you're here? Votes: 3

Somewhere out there was a village I'd deprived of it's idiot. Votes: 3

The destruction of India's village system was the greatest of England's blunders. Votes: 3

I will be a missionary in a remote village at some point. Votes: 3

A village is a hive of glass, where nothing unobserved can pass. Votes: 3

Ottawa - a sub-arctic lumber-village converted by royal mandate into a political cockpit. Votes: 3

I live in a village where people still care about each other, largely. Votes: 3

In our village, folks say God crumbles up the old moon into stars. Votes: 3

I'm every woman. It takes a village to make me who I am. Votes: 3

Connectivity is productivity - whether it's in a modern office or an underdeveloped village. Votes: 3

I don't need to move to the States; I love our little village, Ibstock. Votes: 3

The life of the village became more and more affected by strikes and lock-outs. Votes: 3

I am a village boy, and Amsterdam for me was always the big town. Votes: 3

The global village is a place of very arduous interfaces and very abrasive situations. Votes: 3

Manchester, one of the greatest, if not really the greatest mere village in England. Votes: 3

Let none presume to measure the irregularities of Michael Angelo or Socrates by village scales. Votes: 3

In every village marked with little spire, Embowered in trees, and hardly known to fame. Votes: 3

Khadi service, village service and Harijan service are one in reality, though three in name. Votes: 3

To think, a sweater, is made entirely of knots. My stomach could clothe a village. Votes: 3

Since the whole village was poor, we didnt realize our own poverty. I was happy. Votes: 3

Since the whole village was poor, we didn't realize our own poverty. I was happy. Votes: 3

I like being outdoors a lot, and I come from a small village that's fairly remote. Votes: 3

I was still 15 when I met John Lennon at a village fete in Woolton, in Liverpool. Votes: 3

There is in every village a torch - the teacher; and an extinguisher - the priest. Votes: 3

Dear bells! how sweet the sound of village bells When on the undulating air they swim! Votes: 3

Princeton is a wonderful little spot. A quaint and ceremonious village of puny demigods on stilts. Votes: 3

When the elephant decides to walk through the village, all the dogs come out and bark. Votes: 3

Time' has ceased, 'space' has vanished. We now live in a global village... a simultaneous happening Votes: 3

Organization of khaddar is infinitely better than co-operative societies or any other form of village organization. Votes: 3

A miniature village in Bournemouth caught fire and the flames could be seen nearly three feet away. Votes: 3

Grew up in Stapleton House village, where blood flood the waters in the streets like oil spillage Votes: 3

I don't think that village idea of actually knowing what you're contributing to the whole exists anymore. Votes: 3

It is a city of villages, closely connected, each village dedicated to a different way of life. Votes: 3

The largest single step in the ascent of man is the change from nomad to village agriculture. Votes: 3

We live in a global village. No country can live in isolation of others like Robinson Crusoe. Votes: 3

You go to Holland, France, Germany, every community, the tiniest village, they have magnificent, pristine sports facilities. Votes: 3

I was the first member of my family to cross into Pakistan and find his ancestral village. Votes: 3

Be it a village or a city, education is very important, and it always comes into you. Votes: 3

One does see so much evil in a village,' murmured Miss Marple in an explanatory voice. Votes: 3

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

Thing big: Universe is a village, a small place! When you think big, all will get smaller! Votes: 3

Be it a village or a city, education is very important, and it always comes into you. Votes: 3

I would rather be the first man in a barbarian village than the second man in Rome. Votes: 3

If adventures will not befall a young lady in her own village, she must seek them abroad. Votes: 3

Our village life would stagnate if it were not for the unexplored forests and meadows which surround it. Votes: 3

You can pregrow a village with no consequence on the land. In fact, with a positive carbon contribution. Votes: 3

I stay in France. Better to be the queen of a village than a servant in a kingdom. Votes: 3

It would be easier to subjugate the entire universe through force than the minds of a single village. Votes: 3

Every village has its simpleton, and if one does not exist they invent one to pass the time. Votes: 3

The villagers seldom leave the village; many scientists have limited and poorly cultivated minds apart from their specialty ... Votes: 3

Access to quality education has enabled me to reach far beyond the Bangladeshi village I grew up in. Votes: 3

You can't build a wall round a village.The sun and the windwill always find their way in. Votes: 3

[On Ezra Pound:] A village explainer, excellent if you were a village, but if you were not, not. Votes: 3

I would just as soon have abused the old village church at home for not being a cathedral. Votes: 3

Even if I say, Everyone in the village died of diarrhea, I still laugh a little after diarrhea. Votes: 3

Finally, there's a sense in which I look at this Westminster village and London intelligentsia as an outsider. Votes: 3

A samagra gramsevak must know everybody living in the village and render them such service as he possibly can. Votes: 3

...and so many orchards circled the village that on some crisp October afternoons the whole wold smelled like pie. Votes: 3

Being famous as a writer is like being famous in a village. It's not really any very heady fame. Votes: 3

Much more than a 20th-century village storyteller, Cees Nooteboom stands as an impressive and inimitable voice among contemporary writers. Votes: 3

Few of the great tragedies of history were created by the village idiot, and many by the village genius. Votes: 3

In every village there will arise a miscreant to establish the most grinding tyranny by calling himself the people. Votes: 3

If it takes a village to raise a child, it takes a whole agency to make a successful campaign. Votes: 3

It may take a village to raise a baby, but hell! it takes an army to produce a book. Votes: 3

Simplicity enables us to live lives of integrity in the face of the terrible realities of our global village. Votes: 3

His sister had been sent down to the village to ask Mistress Garlick the witch how you stopped spelling recommendation. Votes: 3

I am somewhere in the middle of a village with all the modern amenities. There's something missing. Life? I reckon.... Votes: 3

The snakes have their place in the agricultural economy of the village, but our villagers do not seem realize it. Votes: 3

I'm luckier than my grandfather, who didn't move more than five miles from the village in which he was born. Votes: 3

Death carries off a man busy picking flowers with an besotted mind, like a great flood does a sleeping village. Votes: 3

Few things are more pleasant than a village graced with a good church, a good priest and a good pub. Votes: 3

I live here in Vermont, in a village of barely a thousand people halfway up the state's third highest mountain. Votes: 3

Britain can sometimes feel like a very small village, and you're this, I dunno, scarlet woman they're all gossiping about. Votes: 3

After my grandfather began to be successful, he returned to the village where he was born and founded a primary school. Votes: 3

Under pressure, people admit to murder, setting fire to the village church or robbing a bank, but never to being bores. Votes: 3

Come the millennium, month 12, In the home of greatest power, The village idiot will come forth To be acclaimed the leader. Votes: 3

Art is History's nostalgia, it prefers a thatched roof to a concrete factory, and the huge church above a bleached village. Votes: 3

There is no way you are going to be forgiven for blowing up a village and killing a bunch of people. Votes: 3

When I become the village idiot, or at least, it starts to become a joke, you can't do that much longer. Votes: 3

A writer's business is minding other people's business ... all the vices of the village gossip are the virtues of the writer. Votes: 3

You wouldn't see those sorts of decisions given in village cricket, let alone Test cricket. The England players have my sympathy. Votes: 3

To know after absence the familiar street and road and village and house is to know again the satisfaction of home. Votes: 3

I would like to thank my parents in Vergaio, a little village in Italy. They gave me the biggest gift: poverty. Votes: 3

A man who has to go to the village to get the news hasn't heard from himself in a long time. Votes: 3

in a village you can't sack or fight with someone, as you'll find yourself stuck beside them in the hairdresser's next morning. Votes: 3

And broader still became the blaze, and louder still the din, And fast from every village round the horse came spurring in. Votes: 3

I come from a small village in Sicily. For all Italian people, family is very important. We don't fight with our families. Votes: 3

You must think about building a 'granth-mandir' in your village. Why is your village lacking such a 'granth-mandir'? Start with 50 books...100 books. Votes: 3

If your shout is local, only your village will hear you; if your whisper is universal, the whole world will hear you! Votes: 3

In the village, a sage should go about Like a bee, which, not harmingFlower, colour or scent, Flies off with the nectar. Votes: 3

I encourage people to get a village so that there will always be someone who's like family looking out for your child. Votes: 3

The big man in a small village is the big ship in a small lake! Let him sail to the vast oceans! Votes: 3

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: 3

If people are able to run the affairs of a village well, eventually they'll be able to run a township, and a county. Votes: 3

Any well-established village in New England or the northern Middle West could afford a town drunkard, a town atheist, and a few Democrats. Votes: 3

The Smurf village was destroyed weeks ago and Bush has still not made an appearance. George Bush doesn't care about tiny blue people. Votes: 3

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: 3

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

One lesson that every nation can learn from China is to focus more on creating village-level enterprises, quality health services and educational facilities. Votes: 3

If Henry Miller often sounded like a village idiot, it is because, like Whitman, he was the rest of the village as well. Votes: 3

When I was in south Sudan, people used to rap in my village. But the rapping was more in the mother tongue, Nuer. Votes: 3

If you're going to do a movie about the Village, it's pretty nice to shoot in the village and not be in Toronto. Votes: 3

Democracy cannot be a plaything for the capital cities. It has to infiltrate every nook and cranny in the country, including the village. Votes: 3

Dream Song:As my eyes Search the prairie, I feel the summer in the spring. Whenever I pause The noise Of the village. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

Being prime minister isn't the only job in life! As far as I'm concerned, I could live in a village and be satisfied. Votes: 3

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: 3

I don't think one parent can raise a child. I don't think two parents can raise a child. You really need the whole village. Votes: 3

Every village should celebrate its birthday & it will end the poison of casteism... and once casteism ends, see how the strength of villages increase! Votes: 3

I grew up in a village of about 800 people surrounded by lakes and woods, and I think it's made a definite impact on me. Votes: 3

[Washington is a] very gossipy little village of people all going to the same bars . . . all watching each other having affairs with each other Votes: 3

I keep a very low profile in Switzerland. There are only about 2,000 people in the village I live in, so it's a quiet town. Votes: 3

We're not allowed to carry out harsh interrogations anymore, but we're allowed to fly over somebody's village, without due process, and kill them all? Votes: 3

The earth has become one big village, with telephones laid on from one end to the other, and air transport, both speedy and safe. Votes: 3

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: 3

Where I lived, it was a cold mining place, a village called Dunston. The only time you saw a Rolls-Royce was when somebody died. Votes: 3

A community is made up of intimate relationships among diversified types of individuals--a kinship group, a local group, a neighborhood, a village, a large family. Votes: 3

Indeed, it was largely the clubbiness of the Washington village press corps that let Nixon get away with Watergate and still win his landslide in 1972. Votes: 3

By exchanging quality time for 'turn-up' times, what many of today's wayward youngsters have become - men and women of the village have failed them. Votes: 3

When combined with information and communication technologies, microcredit can unleash new opportunities for the world's poorest entrepreneurs and thereby revitalize the village economies they serve. Votes: 3

I think video village is bullshit. It's like it's a breeding ground for people to nitpick and feel important. It's just such a weird dynamic. Votes: 3

I was born in a mining village, and you either played football or played football. If you didn't play, there was something wrong with you. Votes: 3

Give the villagers village arithmetic, village geography, village history and the literary knowledge that they must use daily, i.e. reading and writing letters, etc. Votes: 3

The village had institutionalized all human functions in forms of low intensity.... Participation was high and organization was low. This is the formula for stability. Votes: 3

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: 3

When I was in high school I moved from the big city to a tiny village of 500 people in Vermont. It was like The Waltons! Votes: 3

True swadeshi is that alone in which all the processes through which cotton has to pass are carried out in the same village or town. Votes: 3

What was extraordinary about Occupy London was that it was a village with a louder voice than one of the biggest cities of the world. Votes: 3

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

I had done a guerrilla in World War II, so I had some knowledge of, of the the village life, and the way guerrillas worked. Votes: 3

The emotional health of a village depended upon having a man whom everyone loved to hate, and Heaven had blessed us with two of them. Votes: 3

As anyone knows who has ever had to set up a military encampment or build a village from the ground up, occupations pose staggering logistical problems. Votes: 3

It takes a man of genius to travel in his own country, in his native village; to make any progress between his door and his gate. Votes: 3

Every rustic who delivers in the village alehouse his slow, infrequent sentences, may help to kill or keep alive the fatal superstitions which clog his race. Votes: 3

Just as the bee takes the nectar and leaves without damaging the color or scent of the flowers, so should the sage act in a village. Votes: 3

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: 3

When we say, even in a global village, that all politics is local, we mean that national sovereignties are the only reliable source of political authority. Votes: 3

Give up a member to save a family, a family to save a village, a village to save a country, and the country to save yourself. Votes: 3

As a bee without harming the flower, its colour or scent, flies away, collecting only the honey, even so should the sage wander in the village. Votes: 3

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: 3

You must realize one thing. In every little village in the world there are great potential champions who only need motivation, development and good exercise evaluation. Votes: 3

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: 3

The inertia of a jungle village is a dangerous thing. Before you know it your whole life has slipped by and you are still waiting there. Votes: 3

The village had a mill near it, situated on the little creek, which made very good flour. The population consisted of civilized Indians, but much mixed blood. Votes: 3

With five to ten hundred pure-minded young women threading the streets of the village every evening unattended, vice must slink away, like frost before the rising sun ... Votes: 3

First in violence, deepest in dirt, lawless, unlovely, ill-smelling, irreverent, new; an overgrown gawk of a - village, the "tough" among cities, a spectacle for the nation. Votes: 3

I grew up in a small village close to a big lake. There are heavy winds there, and they always sound different. I like these sounds best. Votes: 3

In 1978, the tradition of running from village to village with a message was revived. that first run was from Davis to Los Angeles, a distance of 500 miles. Votes: 3

In 1978, the tradition of running from village to village with a message was revived. that first run was from Davis to Los Angeles, a distance of 500 miles Votes: 3

For most baseball fans, maybe oldest is always best. We love baseball because it seizes and retains the past, like the snowy village inside a glass paperweight. Votes: 3

As a walled town is more worthier than a village, so is the forehead of a married man more honorable than the bare brow of a bachelor. Votes: 3

In a village where everyone has only one leg, the biped will hop about more lamely than anyone else, if he knows what is good for him. Votes: 3

Even if you live in a tiny village, there's an Internet site. It's quite easy to find clothes, but sometimes women don't know how to mix them. Votes: 3

If you ask, you're a boor. Just accept it. Hillry Clinton loves children! She helped children! She village'd children. She raised children. She wrote a book about it. Votes: 3

We live in the village. We have a summer place in Westport, Connecticut. We don't spend a lot on all kinds of things. But I have no complaints. Votes: 3

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: 3

I grew up in Ditchling. It was an idyllic village at the foot of the South Downs. In those days, the village was full of artists and sculptors. Votes: 3

Working on a film, you don't get time to develop rivalries, but the theatre is like a little village, and the differences between me, Lionel and Georgia grew. Votes: 3

Alfriston is a compact village set around a rather traffic-weary High Street, mainly of old, timbered buildings. The principal sights lie to the east on the river side. Votes: 3

This country's crazy in terms of fame and what people think it means. They expect a writer to be something between a Hollywood starlet and the village idiot. Votes: 3

Savages cling to a local god of one tribe or town. The broad ethics of Jesus were quickly narrowed to village theologies, which preach an election or favoritism. Votes: 3

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: 3

Beer was the driving force that led nomadic mankind into village life. It was this appetite for beer-making material that led to crop cultivation, permanent settlement and agriculture. Votes: 3

When the enterprising burglar isn't burgling; When the cut-throat isn't occupied in crime; He loves to hear the little brook a-gurgling; And listen to the merry village chime. Votes: 3

Some village Hampden, that with dauntless breast The little tyrant of his fields withstood, Some mute inglorious Milton here may rest, Some Cromwell guiltless of his country's blood. Votes: 3

It isn't just a village. The houses aren't just places to live. Everything belongs to everybody. Everyone belongs to everyone else. Even a single person can make a difference. Votes: 3

Information and images bump against each other every day in massive quantities, and the resonance of this interfacing is like the babble of a village or tavern gossip session. Votes: 3

There were 15 people in the village, including five of us. If my father arrested somebody in the winter, he'd have to wait until the thaw to turn him in. Votes: 3

Yes, I was a parish priest for five years. I was a curate in a large working class parish in Bristol and the Vicar of a village in Kent. Votes: 3

Schools should be the most beautiful place in every town and village-so beautiful that the punishment for undutiful children should be barred from going to school the following day. Votes: 3

An English village could never be mistaken for an American one: the outline against the sky differs; a thatched cottage makes a very wavy line on the blue above. Votes: 3

I try to remind people, whether you have a growth manager or a value manager, you're going to go through cycles where you think you have a village idiot. Votes: 3

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: 3

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: 3

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: 3

How could they think Noel was hot? If this was REALLY Versailles, Noel SO would not be Louis XIV, he would be the French version of the village idiot Votes: 3

I have heard of many going astray even in the village streets, when the darkness was so thick you could cut it with a knife, as the saying is... Votes: 3

This means more to me than any Grammy I could ever win ... It will take a village and an army, [some] countries and continents to make bullying a hate crime. Votes: 3

Whatever education a university or institutes of higher education imparts, it must achieve the global level of benchmarking given the vastness and diversity of global village we live in today. 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

In my little town, Sighet, which is in Romania, Hungary-Romania, but a real shtetl, a little [Jewish] village - and we began with the Chumash [Pentateuch], probably at age four. Votes: 3

I have seen vast, perhaps unbelievable, changes during the journey that has brought me from the flicker of a lamp in a small Bengal village to the chandeliers of Delhi. Votes: 3

Everything is connected. There is no such thing as an island, especially in our world, global village, the whole thing. Pollution from way across the ocean circulates in the air. Votes: 3

The Pawnee chief had left the village the day after the doctor arrived, with 50 or 60 horses and many people, and had taken his course to the north of our route. Votes: 3

Our village was built on the Ohio River, and was a halting place on this great national road, then the only avenue of traffic between the South and the North. Votes: 3

As a woman who grew up in a village in India, I've spent my whole life fighting tradition. There's no way that I want to be a traditional Indian housewife. Votes: 3

Whose woods these are I think I know. His house is in the village though; He will not see me stopping here To watch his woods fill up with snow. Votes: 3

It may take a village to raise a child, but not every villager needs to be a mom or dad. Some of us just need to be who we are. Votes: 3

Early in the spring of 1750, in the village of Juffure, four days upriver from the coast of The Gambia, West Africa, a manchild was born to Omoro and Binta Kinte. Votes: 3

Here, you can walk into a bookstore and pick up a Bible or Christian literature and learn. Over there, they are lucky if they have one Bible for a whole village. Votes: 3

What I particularly like about Broadway is the camaraderie and the friendship of other people in other shows. Everybody knows you're opening and cares about you. There's a real village atmosphere. Votes: 3

New York is to the nation what the white church spire is to the village - the visible symbol of aspiration and faith, the white plume saying the way is up! Votes: 3

Remember, the village idiot was the spiritual man who built the ark and saved his family. Keep being you and never give up marching to the beat of your own drum! Votes: 3

Where I live is about an hour and a half West of London. I live in the countryside... It's a classic little village, and it's idyllic in a lot of ways. Votes: 3

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: 3

A man's greatest moment in life is when his enemy lays vanquished, his village aflame, his herds driven before you and his weeping wives and daughters are clasped to your breast. Votes: 3

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: 3

We need to become good citizens in the global village, instead of competing. What are we competing for - to drive more cars, eat more steaks? That will destroy the world. Votes: 3

Our job is to show how it is possible to take an illiterate woman and make her into an engineer in six months and show that she can solar-electrify a village Votes: 3

My idea of village SWARAJ is that is a complete republic, independent of its neighbors for its own vital wants, and yet interdependent for many others which dependence is a necessity. Votes: 3

The Westgate Landfill is zoned for residential use. It's near a planned village. The Navy has a capping plan for the site, but it's not consistent with residential use for the site. Votes: 3

I grew up in a small, strictly-Catholic fishing village on the coast of Wales. The people there have a different attitude to life than those in Hollywood - people stick together more. Votes: 3

Under a spreading chestnut-tree The village smithy stands; The smith, a mighty man is he, With large and sinewy hands; And the muscles of his brawny arms Are strong as iron bands. Votes: 3

My life was made easy - I lived in a village, and by writing for some newspapers and magazines, had enough to live on. I was happy to be there and write. Votes: 3

During the engagement I tried to throw a strong force through the canon, but I was obliged to use it elsewhere before it had gotten to the supposed location of the village. Votes: 3

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: 3

The Marrying Season' is the final book in the 'Legend of St. Dwynwen' series, and in each of the three books, a small village church in the Cotswolds plays a significant role. Votes: 3

I think when you've travelled around a lot in Africa, you understand something that many people here don't recognize: the extraordinary power that is Africa at village level - at community level. Votes: 3

The governess was not much liked in the village. She was too tall, too fond of books, too grave, and, a curious thing, never smiled unless there was something to smile at. Votes: 3

You are the stars and the world is watching you. By your presence, you send a message to every village, every city, every nation. A message of hope. A message of victory. Votes: 3

When I met my designs in the market of a remote village in the West Indies, or in the airport restaurant in Zurich, I felt like the mother of many well-behaved children. Votes: 3

The amount of horror one used to hear about in one village could be quite extreme. But one might not have heard about all the other villages' horrors at the same time. Votes: 3

In Canada an ordinary New England house would be mistaken for the château, and while every village here contains at least severalgentlemen or "squires," there is but one to a seigniory. Votes: 3

I was described as a dreamer, a fantasist, even as the village idiot. I didn't care. What I cared about was convincing people to allow me to go on with my work. Votes: 3

You go to India and you see the poorest village somewhere in the middle of India. And the poor family is happier than any rich billionaire in this country because of spirituality. Votes: 3

It seems a shallow observation, but... the Tory Conference are not an attractive lot, are they? I mean, if all those people were born in the same village, you'd blame pollution, wouldn't you? Votes: 3

Some, I verily believe, delight to be slave-men; it is a joy to them, and they would not change their condition; not only miserable village wretches, but men in good position, well-to-do sycophants. Votes: 3

It is Sunday, mid-morning-Sunday in the living room, Sunday in the kitchen, Sunday in the woodshed, Sunday down the road in the village: I hear the bells, calling me to share God's grace. Votes: 3

Sometimes electricity provides unexpected benefits. In a remote village in China's Fujian province in which young men have traditionally had a hard time finding wives, the arrival of electricity has attracted more brides 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

If the village worker is not a decent man or woman, conducting a decent home, he or she had better not aspire after the high privilege and honour of becoming a village worker. Votes: 3

Retail banking in Africa is very weak. You can't go to a village and get money from an ATM or visit a branch of the bank. So people have to use the Internet. Votes: 3

Even a small village in the middle of Africa with a 3D printer will have access to any good it can download. The world of the 'Star Trek' replicator is not far away. Votes: 3

I'm a simple village girl who has always obeyed the orders of my father and brothers. Since forever, I have learned to say yes to everything. Today I have decided to say no. Votes: 3

Yes, the small village that we live in, in Virginia, is a very interesting place, in terms of its Civil War history, because it was a town that was founded by Quakers in 1733. Votes: 3

Hey...You.. What's life without eyebrows, freak? Got a new listing for your bingo book right here!! A guyis going to be the next lord hokage of Konohagakure village. Uzumaki Naruto! Konoha-school NINJA! Votes: 3

I think the presence of caste in India, how the villages are geographically structured on caste lines, is very different from China. The presence of an egalitarian culture is striking in a Chinese village. Votes: 3

Yes, I first visited Korphe village, Braldu valley, Baltistan, Pakistan, after failing to summit K2 in 1993, and met Haji Ali, a long time dear mentor and friend. My second visit to Korphe was in 19 Votes: 3

It is a condition of monsters that they do not perceive themselves as such. The dragon, you know, hunkered in the village devouring maidens, heard the townsfolk cry 'Monster!' and looked behind him. Votes: 3

We proceeded systematically, village by village and we destroyed the houses, filled up the wells, blew down the towers, cut down the shady trees, burned the crops and broke the reservoirs in punitive devastation. Votes: 3

There are 10,000 local governments in the state of New York. Ten thousand! Town, village, lighting district, water district, sewer district, a special district to count the other districts in case you missed a district. Votes: 3

Yes, I first visited Korphe village, Braldu valley, Baltistan, Pakistan, after failing to summit K2 in 1993, and met Haji Ali, a long time dear mentor and friend. My second visit to Korphe was in 1994. Votes: 3

Good roads, good houses, adequate electricity, good schools or good hospitals in the village are indeed, the parameters of progress. However, in my view, 100 percent literate village is the true symbol of real progress. Votes: 3

I was born in a family of landless peasants, in Azinhaga, a small village in the province of Ribatejo, on the right bank of the Almonda River, around a hundred kilometres north-east of Lisbon. Votes: 3

From this day forward, the millions of our school children will daily proclaim in every city and town, every village and rural schoolhouse, the dedication of our Nation and our people to the Almighty. Votes: 3

[Vice chairman of Barbour] Helen [Barbour] and I realized that I come from the same village that her ancestor John Barbour came from, who created Barbour. It just seemed like such a great connection. Votes: 3

Creative people who can't help but explore other mental territories are at greater risk, just as someone who climbs a mountain is more at risk than someone who just walks along a village lane Votes: 3

Lincoln's stature and strength, his intelligence and ambition - in short, all the elements which gave him popularity among men in New Salem, rendered him equally attractive to the fair sex of that village. Votes: 3

I have nothing against romance. I believe that we must hold on to the right to dream and to be romantic. But an Indian village is not something that I would romanticize that easily. Votes: 3

I've gone through the village of my songwriting and my artistry, and I've gone through lots of different phases, including one where it has been very quiet and abandoned me for a few years. Votes: 3

People say it takes a village to raise a child. People ask me how my daughter is doing. She’s only doing good if your daughter’s doing good. We’re all one family. Votes: 3

Until I was four years old I lived in the house of my paternal grandfather, about two miles from the pretty little village of Wallace, at the mouth of the river of that name. Votes: 3

When I walked to school in the mornings I would start out alone but would pick up four other boys along the way. We would set out together after school across the village green. Votes: 3

I could never muster the courage to speak to girls in my college in Pune. Most of them were Parsis and spoke English. I came from a village and could barely converse in English. Votes: 3

One cannot live on potatoes alone. It is said that one wants bread with potatoes. And when there's no bread, a Jew takes his stick, and goes through the village in search of business. Votes: 3

I used to have a wild night with three women until 5am., but I am getting older. In the Olympic village here, I will live it up with five women, but only until 3am. Votes: 3

I looked around at us all: me in my nightgown, Kiyo bare-chested, Dorian in his extravagant robes, and Tim in his Native getup. God, I muttered, standing up, we all look like the village people. Votes: 3

I chose to document the lives of people living in a remote village in Alaska called Shishmaref because there we can literally see how climate change is affecting their homes, livelihoods and ultimately their lives. Votes: 3

Like primitive, we now live in a global village of our own making, a simultaneous happening. It doesn't necessarily mean harmony and peace and quiet but it does mean huge involvement in everybody else's affairs. Votes: 3

No history much? Perhaps. Only this ominous Dark beauty flowering under veils, Trapped in the spectrum of a dying style: A village like an instinct left to rust, Composed around the echo of a pistol-shot. Votes: 3

I think of myself in the oral tradition-as a troubadour, a village tale-teller, the man in the shadows of the campfire. That's the way I'd like to be remembered- as a storyteller. A good storyteller. Votes: 3

Everyone knew there were wolves in the mountains, but they seldom came near the village-the modern wolves were the offspring of ancestors that had survived because they had learned that human meat had sharp edges. Votes: 3

We live now in a global village and we are in one single family. It's our responsibility to bring friendship and love from all different places around the world and to live together in peace. Votes: 3

People from the village come up and tease me: 'We hear you've started drawing on your telephone.' And I tell them, 'Well, no, actually, it's just that occasionally I speak on my sketch pad,' Votes: 3

If you go to most third world countries, the older woman dispenses advice to the arguing couple while other members of the family, or even the village, sit around and listen. It is no big deal. Votes: 3

My first part-time job gave me the smell of earning money when I worked in a village chemist aged 14. I loved helping the pharmacist with prescriptions and on the shop floor, with its glamorous make-up aisle. Votes: 3

Here, like everywhere else, laughing and singing, dancing and dreaming are not exactly the whole of reality; and for one ray of sun shining on the hut, the rest of the village remains in the dark. Votes: 3

As soon as I was old enough to drive, I got a job at a local newspaper. There was someone who influenced me. He wrote a column for The Guardian from this tiny village in India. Votes: 3

The Durhannians' countenance lifted as is the way of Hope. There was a village elder whose eyes flickered with the light of Understanding. We knew he would soon be able to illuminate paths in the darkness. Votes: 3

Until the end of elementary school, I lived in a suburban area, so the type of village I used to live in is borderline between village and the city, so I'm familiar with the rustic environment. Votes: 3

The road was frozen. The village lay quiet under the cold sky. Komako hitched up the skirt of her kimono and tucked it into her obi. The moon shone like a blade frozen in blue ice. Votes: 3

Mechanical instruments, potentially a vehicle of rational human purposes, are scarcely a blessing when they enable the gossip of the village idiot and the deeds of the thug to be broadcast to a million people each day. Votes: 3

The thing about living in a village at the foot of a mountain is that the world for you becomes, without thinking about it, self-contained. People are of two kinds, really: from the Valley, and from Elsewhere. Votes: 3

Because in the feudal system of that period at least 80% of people lived in villages, so it's very simple to get a cross-section of society in a single village. You get the microcosm of the social macrocosm. Votes: 3

As a fairly innocent teenager, growing up in a village in Wales, I just thought, "God, I would like to go and hang about Soho and write great poetry and try to avoid drinking myself to death." Votes: 3

I find it pretty fascinating how humans keep gravitating towards these giant centers. I went to this walled medieval village in France this year, and it was truly the most crazy, beautiful, bizarre place I've ever been. 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 don't stay in my trailer. I like to sit in video village, probably to the annoyance of some producers and directors, because they really love to talk about actors, and they can't in front of me. Votes: 3

I divide my time between all the mud and open space in Surrey and the social life and work in London, particularly Chelsea, which still has the same village feel that it had in the swinging Sixties. Votes: 3

It is not an act of bravery to try to save your own village. It is an instinct to protect what you possess. Bravery is when you step in to help when you have nothing to lose. Votes: 3

I know a lot of people in the retirement village that I have a house in in Florida that are on the Internet and are reading the paper on the Internet, and they're communicating on the Internet. Votes: 3

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: 3

Rising living standards - whether in a village, a region, a nation, or the world - depend first on specialization: on letting people concentrate on what they do best and trade with others who specialize in other things. Votes: 3

In the old days, Zen was not really practiced so much in a monastery. The Zen Master usually lived up on a top of the mountain or the hill or in the forest or sometimes in the village. Votes: 3

I feel Polish. More specifically, I feel like I'm from the tiny village in the Northeast of Poland where I have a house and where I love to spend time. But I don't work there. I cut wood. Votes: 3

For a writer you have to be interested in different cultures, different backgrounds. You are not there to write only about your village. You're there to show a bit of your village, but also to understand other villages. Votes: 3

It deals with so many different aspects of living in South Africa the racial issues of South Africans and Asians with poverty with the reality of children orphaned by AIDS the transition from village life to city life. Votes: 3

Past the village flowed the river, like time, like life itself, waiting for the swimmer to come again on his way to the climax of his adventurous life, and to the end for which he had been made. Votes: 3

Then he went out without touching anything and put his arm around Ingeborg, and like that, with their arms around each other, they returned to the village while the whole past of the universe fell on their heads. Votes: 3

It's our responsibility for the village to say, 'Hey we're going to create these programs,' whether it's sports, creative arts, music, we need some things to give young people positive things to do, and that's including jobs. Votes: 3

Science is international: the best scientists can come from anywhere; they can come from next door, or they can come from a small village in a country anywhere in the world - we need to make it easier. Votes: 3

I began when I was a child, because I was born and grew up in a little village. And many people ride the horses. So, it was a big - it has been a big passion for me. Votes: 3

In the old days, Zen was not really practiced so much in a monastery. The Zen Master usually lived up on a top of the mountain or the hill or in the forest or sometimes in the village. Votes: 3

Our work seeks to focus attention on the necessity of developing security for the global village, meeting its need for clean air, water, food and a healthy habitat, as well as fostering clarity of vision on cooperation and development. Votes: 3

Before the first press pictures, the ordinary man would visualize only those events that took place near him, on his street or in his village. Photography opened a window. As the reader's outlook expanded, the world began to shrink. Votes: 3

I think people's feeling the need to be more dependent on others is caused more by the lack of good-paying jobs and by today's zeitgeist that insists it takes a village. That's disempowering although possibly true for many people. Votes: 3

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: 3

When I am talking about "It Takes a Village", I'm obviously not talking just about or even primarily about geographical villages any longer, but about the network of relationships and values that do connect us and binds us together. Votes: 3

There's an assumption in many of these cultures that these children are mentally retarded, when in fact they're not at all. I saw how the operation affects the child, as well as the child's family and often the village. Votes: 3

I suppose, I hoped, by setting a particularly brutal ancient rite in the present and in my own village to shock the story's readers with a graphic dramatization of the pointless violence and general inhumanity in their own lives. Votes: 3

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: 3

I ask you all so earnestly to open girl's schools in every village and try to uplift them. If the Conditions of women are raised, then their children will, by their noble actions, glorify the name of the Country. Votes: 3

So you see, when war comes to one’s village, one’s doorstep, it isn’t tragic and impersonal any longer. It is just an excuse to vomit private hatred. That is why I am not a great patriot. 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

I was a nut for Dostoevsky. You can tell a lot from what people read between those ages. My brother was a Steinbeck freak and now he lives in a little village in New Hampshire and he's a baker. Votes: 3

I was a child, and in 1942, I was evacuated to the Cotswolds with my mother, who was a teacher - she went with her school. I lived in one house in the village, and my mother was in the vicarage. Votes: 3

I knew Bobby Dylan back in the days when he lived in the village. He used to come and see me and sing songs for me, saying they ought to go into my next collected book on American folk music. Votes: 3

There was this mountain village in Russia where my music was getting in on some German radio station. I remember this because music used to get up to Saskatchewan from Texas. Late at night after the local station closed down. Votes: 3

It is in a small village in the Pyrenees where no one knows me 7that my life will come to a close.... There is not enough time remaining for me to write all the letters I would like to write.... Votes: 3

The reason I joined the struggle against Apartheid was because you had this system of oppression, which affected everybody who was black. Whether you were old or young, man or woman, in a village or a town, it didn't matter. Votes: 3

One, if by land, and two, if by sea; And I on the opposite shore will be, Ready to ride and spread the alarm Through every Middlesex village and farm For the country folk to be up and to arm. Votes: 3

I went to Bali, and I was in a small village, and somebody who was with me showed a woman a little figurine of Bart and asked: 'Do you know who this is?' And she said: 'Mickey Mouse.' Votes: 3

If there is electricity in every village, people will watch TV till late night and then fall asleep. They won't get a chance to produce children. When there is no electricity, there is nothing else to do but produce babies. Votes: 3

You can look at a slum or a peasant village, but it is only by entering into the world - by living in it -that you begin to understand what it is like to be powerless, to be like Christ. Votes: 3

Wicked eyes are not a good prospect for seminary boys. They want a gentle, soft sort of wife, not a wife who looks as though she may sprout wings and carry off the young children of the village. ~Maria "Smythe" Votes: 3

When we get the remote Russian village online, what will get people to the Internet is not going to be reports from Human Rights Watch. It's going to be pornography, 'Sex and the City,' or maybe funny videos of cats. Votes: 3

Rhesus monkeys as well as human adults and older children living in a remote Amazon village have been given comparison and addition tasks using arrays of dots, and they show the same abilities we find in 5- year- old Boston children. Votes: 3

The dining room is a building; the bathroom is a building. If we scatter this single-program architecture inside of a domestic environment, we can link an interior urbanism in a way similar to a village or a township of tiny houses. Votes: 3

Village is an idea; universe is an idea! If you cannot create an idea bigger than your village you live in, you remain inside your village; if we cannot create an idea greater than this universe, we remain inside this universe Votes: 3

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: 3

A famously wise old man in a village was once asked how he came by his wisdom. "I got it from my good judgment," he answered. And where did his good judgment come from? "I got it from my bad judgment." Votes: 3

Some people—and I am one of them—hate happy ends. We feel cheated. Harm is the norm. Doom should not jam. The avalanche stopping in its tracks a few feet above the cowering village behaves not only unnaturally but unethically. Votes: 3

I have been, am, in his service; I have seen his generosity and goodness; and I will never betray him-not for all the gold in the world. I have come from a village where they don't eat that kind of bread. Votes: 3

I want to try and portray characters that are in real life, that you see day-to-day. If I were to just stay in my little village in Wales, I would have gotten a very small taste of a very big plate. Votes: 3

I was traumatised in the medieval Afghan society at Sarana village by the local boys of Omar's Taliban who forced my in-laws to subjugate me for trying to be different. There can be Omars in other religions, too, who oppress women. Votes: 3

I am holed up in a small village where I am doing my own work and it feels great. I have a small gallery and not many people find me, but I am happy being left alone and doing what I love. Votes: 3

We're in a tough place in this world. There are a lot of kids giving up very early. Scripture says it takes a village to raise one child, and that's what these coaches are going to have to go back and understand. Votes: 3

I opted for the rear door, both as a courtesy and so she couldn't freak out about me showing up on her front doorstep for all of East Falls to see. Being the village pariah does make social calls most trying. -Paige Votes: 3

The family feuds or the village feuds often had to do with an idea of honor. Perhaps it was a peasant idea; perhaps this idea of honor is especially important to a society without recourse to law or without confidence in law. Votes: 3

Even the village rain-maker no longer claimed to be able to intervene. He could not stop the rain now, just as he would not attempt to start it in the heart of the dry season, without serious danger to his own health. Votes: 3

Within my own life, I read all the beloved novels by lamps of vegetable oil; I saw the Standard Oil invading my own village, I saw gas lamps in the Chinese shops in Shanghai; and I saw their elimination by electric lights. Votes: 3

It is no accident that I made Cartoon Town a simple little village - in many ways it mirrored my home town. And, yes, many of my puppet characters took on some of the more eccentric characteristics of people I knew there. Votes: 3

The other girls in the village never felt restless. Nhamo was like a pot of boiling water. 'I want...I want...,' she whispered to herself, but she didn't know what she wanted and she had no idea how to find it. Votes: 3

I had a lot of time before I actually got my break so to speak. I was building websites for other actors. I worked in a grocery store back in the little village where I grew up but I found it mind-numbingly boring. Votes: 3

He is no longer a city dweller who has even once in his life caught a ruff or seen how, on clear and cool autumn days, flocks of migrating thrushes drift over a village. Until his death he will be drawn to freedom. Votes: 3

I come from Nigeria, and we live by the idea that it takes a village. So my entire team. I live by my team: my friends, my neighbors, my teachers - they're the people who taught me how to be a free actor. Votes: 3

If we want truth and justice to rule our global village, there must be no hypocrisy. If there is no truth, then there will be no equality. No equality, no justice. No justice, no peace. No peace, no love. No love, only darkness. Votes: 3

Where I grew up, in a remote village at the back of a valley, the old still thought the dead needed attending to - a notion so universal, it's enscribed in all religions. If you didn't, they might exact revenge upon the living. Votes: 3

I once had a sparrow alight upon my shoulder for a moment, while I was hoeing in a village garden, and I felt that I was more distinguished by that circumstance that I should have been by any epaulet I could have worn. Votes: 3

Hillary Clinton famously talked about how raising a child takes a village. Except our society isn't set up that way. We're organized in nuclear units, and a single mom can ask her friends only so many times for help picking up the kids. Votes: 3

In this era of the global village, the tide of democracy is running. And it will not cease, not in China, not in South Africa, not in any corner of this earth, where the simple idea of democracy and freedom has taken root. Votes: 3

I have asked the village blacksmith to forge golden chains to tie our ankles together. I have gathered all the gay ribbons in the world to wind around and around and around and around and around and around again around our two waists. Votes: 3

We must widen the circle of our love till it embraces the whole village; the village in its turn must take into its fold the district, the district the province, and so on until the scope of our love becomes co-terminous with the world. Votes: 3

When you truly accept that those children in some far off place in the global village have the same value as you in God's eyes or even in just your eyes, then your life is forever changed; you see something that you can't un-see. Votes: 3

You need a village, if only for the pleasure of leaving it. A village means that you are not alone, knowing that in the people, the trees, the earth, there is something that belongs to you, waiting for you when you are not there. Votes: 3

We think we live in a global village. We don't. The world is a big and beautiful and incredibly varied place. It can only be known locally, with your two feet on the ground. We should stick to our own gardens, as Voltaire said. Votes: 3

Coca-Cola is the only business in the world where no matter which country or town or village you are in, if someone asks what do you do, and you say you work for Coca-Cola, you never have to answer the question, What is that? Votes: 3

When I grew up in Seattle, by the way, in the 70's, it was a fishing village. There were loggers and fishers and my dad had a sewer company and it wasn't the way Seattle is now. Culturally, it was very different back then. Votes: 3

If there ever is to be a republic of every village in India, then I claim verity for my picture in which the last is equal to the first or, in other words, no one is to be the first and none the last. Votes: 3

Coca-Cola is the only business in the world where no matter which country or town or village you are in, if someone asks what do you do, and you say you work for Coca-Cola, you never have to answer the question, 'What is that?' Votes: 3

When God wanted to defeat sin, His ultimate weapon was the sacrifice of His own Son. On Christmas Day two thousand years ago, the birth of a tiny baby in an obscure village in the Middle East was God's supreme triumph of good over evil. Votes: 3

Now in the 1980s, I happened to notice that if you look at an aerial photograph of an African village, you see fractals. And I thought, 'This is fabulous! I wonder why?' And of course I had to go to Africa and ask folks why. Votes: 3

I have seen ministers of justice, clothed in magisterial robes and criminals arraigned before them, while life was suspended on a breath in the courts of England; I have witnessed a congress in solemn session to give laws to nations;...but dignity and majesty have I seen but once, as it stood in chains at midnight, in a dungeon, in an obscure village of Missouri. Votes: 3

I would rather be first in a little Iberian village than second in Rome. Votes: 2

I am ashamed to see what a shallow village tale our so-called history is. Votes: 2

Like restless birds, the breath of coming rain Creeps, lilac-laden, up the village street Votes: 2

I have a vision of the world as a global village, a world without boundaries. Votes: 2

I would like to bury myself in an Indian village, preferably in a Frontier village. Votes: 2

You can pregrow a village with no consequence on the land. In fact, with a positive carbon contribution." Votes: 2

Smart habitation is an integrated area of villages and a city working in harmony and where the rural and urban divide has reduced to thin line. Votes: 2

Organized religion provides a model of the way all organizations, from the state down to the village garden club, end a price in terms of a member's freedom of thought and action. Votes: 2

Life in a Chinese village is much more organised because the Chinese Communist Party has a presence even in the remotest Chinese village - a presence of the kind that no governmental or non-governmental organisation has in Indian villages. Votes: 2

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: 2

What had brought me to New York in the autumn of 1972 was a letter of recommendation written by Norman Mailer, the author of 'The Naked and the Dead' and American literature's leading heavyweight contender, to Dan Wolf, the delphic editor of 'The Village Voice.' Votes: 2

If you're the village blacksmith and a model T comes along, you better become a mechanic. People's lives are better when they get news online versus having to wait for the morning paper. It's a lot more efficient, a lot more real time, a lot less waste. Votes: 2

I did not have a mobile phone in 1993. No one did, except the occasional banker or Hollywood star seeming smart, or the main character in 'American Psycho.' In 1993, every day was 'let's get lost.' I could walk Greenwich Village for hours and not be found. Votes: 2

I truly have a village supporting me. My son has godmothers, godfathers, grandparents and so many others in his life who love him as much as I do. They're there for both of us. I may not have a mate or husband, but I'm definitely not a single parent. Votes: 2

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: 2

I've had some amazing people in my life. Look at my father - he came from a small fishing village of five hundred people and at six foot four with giant ears and a kind of very odd expression, thought he could be a movie star. So go figure, you know? Votes: 2

Two days after the Boston marathon bombings, there was a drone strike in Yemen attacking a peaceful village, which killed a target who could very easily have been apprehended. But, of course, it is just easier to terrorise people. The drones are a terrorist weapon; they not only kill targets but also terrorise other people. Votes: 2

It was one of my dreams as a child, growing up in my little village with my cousins. We used to walk together, and I used to say, when you look at the world map, 'This town is there, that town is there, that river is there.' I used to say, 'One day, I'm going to travel these places.' Votes: 2

I, and others like me - trap stars - we always considered ourselves Robin Hoods: we go out and get the money. Just think, if you was in the village and you a hunter, you take pride in going out to hunt the prey and bring it back for the village to eat. In our situation, we took pride in getting money so that the hood could eat. Votes: 2

We all live in a little Village, Votes: 0

Village cricket spread fast through the land. Votes: 0

Good grief. You two look like Village of the Sofa Damned. (Cassandra) Votes: 0

Neo-Liberalism promised us a Global Village and gave us a Potemkin Village. Votes: 0

This is unexposed film of Greenwich Village because nothing ever happens there. Votes: 0

All the guys called the Olympic Village a high-class Boy Scout camp. Votes: 0

Every summer Lin Kong returned to Goose Village to divorce his wife, Shuyu. Votes: 0

Have you an unexpurgated copy of Hannah More's 'Letters to a Village Maiden'? Votes: 0

Your Village may be different from other people's Villages, but we are all prisoners. Votes: 0

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

It was so much fun being in the Olympic Village and meeting all the athletes. Votes: 0

Yes, in my books I do edit myself to keep from becoming the Village Explainer. Votes: 0

I grew up in Greenwich Village. Dad was friends with John Lennon and Yoko Ono. Votes: 0

Technology has made the world into a Village. Spirituality has made it into a Global Family. Votes: 0

My background did not start with the East Side; it started with Greenwich Village, which is West Side. Votes: 0

I like places where you can dance to crazy music, like Bedlam or Eastern Bloc in the East Village. Votes: 0

I dont see a lot of movies that portray the East Village as well as I think they can. Votes: 0

I don't see a lot of movies that portray the East Village as well as I think they can. Votes: 0

I love walking around and grabbing coffee and sitting in a park and people watching"¦ I love Greenwich Village. Votes: 0

Village reform is not merely cleaning the roads, constructing schools and worshipping monasteries. It is not mere celebration of festivals. Votes: 0

Now, twenty years old, I come out and I go back to Greenwich Village. Now, of course, I'm a wealthy man. 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

I'm reading a manuscript by Rodney Jones, "Village Prodigies",it's one of the best contemporary poetry books I've ever read ever. Votes: 0

At 'The Village Voice,' there were all these fevers inside the offices, that would break out into full-scale rumbles between writers. Votes: 0

Now some folks say that we should be glad for what we have. Tell me, would you be happy in Village Ghetto Land? Votes: 0

Despite popular conviction, a writer needn't wear black, be unshaven, sickly and parade around New York's East Village spewing aphorisms and scaring children. Votes: 0

You know, one of the only times I ever wrote about art was the obituary of Warhol that I did for the Village Voice. Votes: 0

I'd like to go to New Society Village someday and find out exactly how far I can walk before people stop talking like me. Votes: 0

People think New York is this big city where no one knows each other, but when you live in the Village, it's the opposite. Votes: 0

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: 0

I live in the East Village, and occasionally people will recognize me there. When I'm in Williamsburg, I always get recognized. Midtown, not so much. Votes: 0

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: 0

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: 0

When you do 'Mad Fat Diary' or 'The Village,' you always learn about the particular time period, and that's always nice for an actor. Votes: 0

I always got a kick out of it when they called it the California Sound because it really came out of Liverpool and Greenwich Village. Votes: 0

When you do 'Mad Fat Diary' or 'The Village,' you always learn about the particular time period, and that's always nice for an actor. Votes: 0

When I saw the rough cuts of 'The Village of Peace,' I was immediately intrigued and wanted to share this story on the global stage, Votes: 0

What are you going to do? "Can't say - run for president, write -" "Greenwich Village?" "Good heavens, no - I said write - not drink. Votes: 0

When I saw the rough cuts of 'The Village of Peace,' I was immediately intrigued and wanted to share this story on the global stage. 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

When we got to the hotel, the Hawaiian Village, there were 500 screaming women there. The police were trying to keep the crowd back. It was very dangerous. Votes: 0

I rode with four street-clothes cops in the East Village. I spent six weeks riding with them every day - in street clothes, with a vest underneath. Votes: 0

In many ways, Eulah-Beulah prepared me for literary criticism. After having a two-hundred-pound babysitter fart on your face and yell Pow!, The Village Voice holds few terrors. Votes: 0

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: 0

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: 0

I grew up in New York City in Greenwich Village and had parents who were somewhat bohemian so I was always on the nonconformist side of the equation. Votes: 0

Franz Kline, who became known for his black and white paintings, did a whole series of gorgeous landscapes and wonderful portraits that may still hang in Greenwich Village. 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

The magic kit we developed with Idea Village is an extraordinary success in 40,000 stores across America. The TV commercial we shot for it has produced amazing results - unbelievable. Votes: 0

I grew up in the East Village, in Alphabet City, when it was a very dangerous neighborhood. To survive there, I had to learn to be a little bit invisible. Votes: 0

In such places as Greenwich Village, a menage-a-trois was completed- the bohemian and the juvenile delinquent came face-to-face with the Negro, and the hipster was a fact in American life. Votes: 0

I was going to public school in the post-World War II, the grey doldrum years. But I was in this extraordinary environment of Manhattan, of Greenwich Village, of bohemian parents. Votes: 0

These people, as far as I can see, do not congregate in the notorious centers of the movement, like the North Beach in San Francisco or Greenwich Village, or Venice, California. Votes: 0

Celebrated in the Bob Dylan ballad 'Joey,' Crazy Joe Gallo was a charismatic beatnik gangster whose forays into Greenwich Village in the 1960s inspired his bloody revolution against the Mafia. Votes: 0

Every [Alaskan] has witnessed climate change over the past fifty years. Our winters are warmer, our summers are longer, and our Arctic Village shores, once protected by sea ice are eroding. Votes: 0

I write a column for The Village Voice, which I've done since time immemorial, and occasionally - and books. And I occasionally write minor notes for record albums and occasional articles. 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

I had met a young lady who wanted to be in the theater. It was Judy Holliday. She had somehow fallen down the steps of the Village Vanguard, which still exists today. Votes: 0

I also have a soft spot for spicy chicken wings. They are always best eaten at dives and sports bars, like Wogie's in the West Village, New York City, near my house. Votes: 0

I think part of picking where you live in New York is accepting who you are. Really looking at yourself and going, 'Yeah, I'm not cool enough for the West Village.' Votes: 0

I'm grateful for a lot of things. One is not being a drunk wreck. Or losing all four limbs in some ridiculous East Village bus accident that I was so destined for. Votes: 0

The main jobs would be The New Yorker, The Village Voice, The Washington Post and - I'm thinking of The Reporter when Max Askeli was there, but I got fired from The Reporter. Votes: 0

Lacey said if he wanted to read a daily or regular critiques of the Bush administration, he would read the New York Times, and that's not what he wanted in the Village Voice. Votes: 0

I've lived in Forest Hill Village, Riverdale, Summerhill, The Annex and Cabbagetown. Finding the right neighbourhood fit in Toronto is only slightly less tricky than finding the right partner to share it with. Votes: 0

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: 0

I grew up in New York, in the Village, and I started going to Stella Adler pretty young. I was 13 or 14 years old. But I was also really shy when I was growing up. Votes: 0

The place was packed as we flooded in, all the patrons freezing at the sight of an armed sheriff, two deputies, an Indian, and a construction worker; we probably looked like the Village People. Votes: 0

I grew up reading the 'Village Voice' and wanting to be one of these multidisciplinary music writers, film writers, book writers. And I lucked out getting a job at the 'Voice' right after college. Votes: 0

Just off one of the most congested traffic corridors in Los Angeles, tiled with a mosaic of fast-food chains, nail salons, and dollar stores, lies a little green oasis: the Los Angeles Eco-Village (LAEV). Votes: 0

We will apply the experience accumulated in the past four years to the operation of every competition and training venue as well as facilities in the Olympic Village in an intensive and comprehensive way. Votes: 0

It's not a secret family like I have a beautiful, gorgeous wife in Tokyo; I have another mom and dad. I'm the kid and I have another mom and dad in Atwater Village, Los Angeles; Votes: 0