Village Quotes - Page 7

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.

People must understand the Clean Ganga program, as an economic activity also. The Gangetic plains account for 40% of our population. They have over one hundred towns, and thousands of villages.

I'm not worried that tomorrow there will be a battalion outside your Greenwich Village apartment. I'm worried about things like the McCain Liberman bill that would define enemy belligerents so loosely it would include Americans, which is just like Stalin and Hitler and Mussolini.

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

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.

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

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

Then, when I had the opportunity to go to Africa and visit the villages, I heard the real, raw, true rhythms and realised the origins of the old Negro spirituals I grew up with in the South.

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

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

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.

I do not believe in the TRANSFER of an individual. I believe in the TRANSFER of entire villages.

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.

In the villages in Europe, there are still healers who tell stories.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.