Village Quotes

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

The true India resides in its villages.

It takes a village to raise a child.

The soul of India lives in its villages.

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

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

Urbanization in India is a slow but sure death for her villages and villagers.

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

I cannot recognise either the Palestinian state or the Israeli state. The Palestinians are idiots and the Israelis are idiots.

Greenwich Village... the village of low rents and high arts.

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

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.

The future of India lies in its villages

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

Today, we turn to one person to provide what an entire village once did: a sense of grounding, meaning, and continuity. At the same time, we expect our committed relationships to be romantic as well as emotionally and sexually fulfilling. Is it any wonder that so many relationships crumble under the weight of it all?

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

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.

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.

The village is coming back, like it or not.