Village Quotes - Page 6

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

New Zealand is not a small country but a large village.

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

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.

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

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

Return to the villages means a definite, voluntary recognition of the duty of bread labour and all its connotes.

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

Khaddar is an attempt to revise and reverse the process and establish a better relationship between the cities and villages.

Today the cities dominate and drain the villages so that they are crumbling to ruin.

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

Opening a book in the middle of a chapter always made me feel like I was interrupting a group of strangers, wandering unannounced into their villages and apartments and taxis and slums.

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.

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.

I was born and I live in a small village, where the centre of life is the square, and the small bar/cafe.

I did a lot of reading of first person accounts from Koreans and combatants and aid workers. And I spoke to relatives. A lot of wonderful photographs were made available to me from that period - 1950-1956 - and those were given to me by a Korean newspaper in Seoul. Ruined villages, refugees streaming through a river valley, GI's and orphans and orphanages, those tiny details that you can only see in a picture.

The Internet is a far more speech-enhancing medium than print, the village green, or the mails. Because it would necessarily affect the Internet itself, the C.D.A. would necessarily reduce the speech available for adults on the medium. This is a constitutionally intolerable result.

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.

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