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- Nov 07, 2020
Village Quotes
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- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
There had so lately been a large force of Spanish cavalry at the village, which had made a great impression on the minds of the young men, as to their power, consequence, which my appearance with 20 infantry was by no means calculated to remove.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Doctor
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
I used to spend my holidays there in my grandparents' large family house, with my numerous cousins. When I die, I am going to be buried in the village cemetery.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Environment
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- Nov 07, 2020
You arrive at a village, and in this calm environment, one starts to hear echo.
- Here
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- Nov 07, 2020
The East Village is where I cut my teeth as a kid. I ran around here on a skateboard.
- Children
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was born on August 10, 1913, in Lorenzkirch, a small village in Saxony, as the fourth child of Theodor and Elisabeth Paul, nee Ruppel. All in all, we were six children. Both parents were descendants from Lutheran ministers in several generations.
- Brother
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- Nov 07, 2020
My father was the church organist; the village curate was my mother's brother, a former monk from the order of Pijar, a very well-educated and ascetic man who loved nothing but solitude.
- About An Hour
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Clog
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Greenwich Village
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- Nov 07, 2020
This is unexposed film of Greenwich Village because nothing ever happens there.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
If people are able to run the affairs of a village well, eventually they'll be able to run a township, and a county.
- Will
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- Nov 07, 2020
The more you participate in our common endeavors, the more successful your work in the factory, mine, wharf or village, in an economic institute or in the arts, in commerce or administration, the sooner we will be where we all want to be.
- Face
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- Nov 07, 2020
I like to give pennies to children, but unfortunately, a man cannot do these things if he lives in a small village or town where his face is known and seen every day. For children take advantage, as I know to my cost, and would gather round him like hens around a farmer when he scatters grain.
- Hampshire
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
My favorite records are, like, The Pretty Things' 'Parachute' and 'S.F. Sorrow' and The Mothers of Invention's 'We're Only in It for the Money' and The Kinks' 'Village Green Preservation Society' - these records that have a story - even if it's not a literal story - because of how they're sequenced and flow. It's like a novel with sound.
- Challenge
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- Nov 07, 2020
South Africa has all the tools to compete in the new global village - an eager workforce, ready to take on any challenge.
- Gangster
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- East Village
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- Nov 07, 2020
These are such First World problems, but there's a certain claustrophobia to New York. You don't escape in the East Village, but it at least feels full of camaraderie and youth - or full of camaraderie and youth in an East Village that is as full of Chase banks and Starbucks as the Upper West Side, or anywhere else in Manhattan.
- I Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love the East Village.
- Country
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I like to think about the biblical story of the woman at the well and how out of order her life was. Jesus pointed out she'd had five husbands and was living with a sixth. But Jesus chose her to be the one who would take the good news of the Messiah's arrival to her village.
- Epidemic
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- Nov 07, 2020
Soon after joining the Ministry of Health in Ethiopia, I was called upon as part of team to respond to a malaria outbreak. My team was dispatched to a village in southwestern Ethiopia, where I not only observed the malaria epidemic's shocking effects on adults and children but also experienced it first-hand.
- Done
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- American Movies
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm from a little village in the south of Holland where there was nothing to do but watch American movies and television - I grew up with The 'A-Team,' 'Charlie's Angels,' and 'Edward Scissorhands.'
- Voice
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- Nov 07, 2020
You can criticize any news staff in some ways, but the one thing that you couldn't call the Village Voice staff was a staff of stenographers, taking notes from public figures and just passing them on.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Nov 07, 2020
I grew up in a village after the war, and in the village, there were almost only women.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
When a riot happens in a city or a town or a village, the man in charge of the place is held responsible, and the same thing has happened to Modi.
- Art
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- Nov 07, 2020
My father came to Chennai at the age of 16 from a village in Coimbatore. He was an artist and was clear he wanted to do something, so he came to Chennai and joined an art course for eight years before he came into films.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Best
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- Nov 07, 2020
So I played the acoustic guitar and harmonica and stomped my foot and I think I was right in assuming that Greenwich Village would be the best place to perform my own material and possibly get some attention, move on to making records and all.
- Power
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Reality
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Netflix
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- Nov 07, 2020
When we had free time in the Olympic Village, we got massages and rested while watching Netflix.
- Old
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Cliffs
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- Nov 07, 2020
Guernsey itself was overcrowded, but its cliffs were utterly empty. I spent a wonderful year with a friend, climbing them. It was sheer magic: you went from this pretty, busy village of an island to the sea cliffs and heard nothing but the gulls and the waves.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
As a child growing up in a grey-skied Yorkshire village, I would occasionally happen upon a Bollywood movie on the television. After a few minutes watching a bunch of sari-clad dancers cavorting on a Swiss mountain to tuneless music, I would switch over to some proper drama about housing estates and single mothers.
- Together
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- Nov 07, 2020
The whole world is global. With the Internet, it's like we're all living in a small village. We're starting more and more to realize there is no difference, we can work together, we can put aside our differences and work on our similarities and be successful in that way.
- Business
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm really grateful to my parents for having the confidence in me to let me go. I was terrified I might have to slink back to the village with my tail between my legs, and treated every job as though it were my last - I still do - but fortunately, I got work and things seemed to slot into place.
- Horror
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Only
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- Nov 07, 2020
In 1978, when I was a non-Congress chief minister, we distributed surplus wheat among labourers. Later, when we visited a village, I asked a labourer whether he knew who sent the wheat. 'Yes, Indiraji - only Indiraji helps the poor.' Indiraji was a symbol for the weaker sections.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
I grew up in the East Village with a lot of old people in my building, and I'm not sure if they lost their sense of smell over the years, but they always seemed to smell like they poured a bottle of perfume on themselves. I never want to become that person.
- Pit
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- Nov 07, 2020
I grew up in a little pit village on the outskirts of Durham.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
We have to convince our youth that the nation does not need the white-collared class only. We have to find work for the rural young people in the village itself and stop the exodus to the cities.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was the first member of my family to cross into Pakistan and find his ancestral village.
- Footballer
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was born in a village where there had never been a footballer who'd made it in the major championships.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
It was a tough moment for me when I was in Senegal, especially when I was young. I was born in a village, I grew up there, and they don't like football.
- Cricket
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was born in a small village in Kerala. From there, I went on to play for the Kerala state team and international test cricket for India, and now I am working in TV shows and cinema... Any miracle can happen.
- Debtor
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Hope
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- Nov 07, 2020
When students get into a great university, it's a huge aspirational lift for their village. These students become beacons of hope.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Folk Songs
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Kick
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Garden
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Play
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- Nov 07, 2020
I quit the tax job then and decided that I was going to play in a band. I answered ads in the Village Voice and went through two days of auditioning for bands.
- Press
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Hair
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- Nov 07, 2020
You could say I was born into entrepreneurship. My grandmother, who was from Sierra Leone, was left to raise four children in the 1940s in a rural village in West Africa after becoming a young widow. To support her family, she made natural skin and hair care preparations and sold them primarily to missionaries and villagers.
- Change
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Father
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was the middle child of three boys and grew up in the village of Barton Seagrave near Kettering, Northamptonshire. My father, Nigel, followed his father, Keith, into shoe manufacturing.
- Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was 5 years old, we had nothing in the village. One day, in front of my house, some soldiers in a big Cadillac started to do a picnic. I looked at them like they were coming from the moon. I remember they gave me a box of rice pudding - that, for me, was the American Dream.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I grew up in a small village on the border of Hampshire and Surrey. When people ask, I tend to say that I'm from Haslemere.
- Friendship
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- Nov 07, 2020
We are aware that globalization doesn't mean global friendship but global competition and, therefore, conflict. That doesn't mean we will all destroy each other, but it is no happy global village, either.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Almost every week, there are stories in the press or on Chinese social media about what even the official Chinese media call 'hot online topics:' stories about how people in a particular village or town used Weibo to expose malfeasance by local or regional authorities.
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
My mom is a woman who grew up in a small farming village in the West Bank called Beit Ur El Foka. She only went to school up to 8th grade and then dropped out to go work in a tailor shop that made dresses and different embroidered designs to make money for her family.
- Nov 07, 2020
I used to run away from school to my village. But later, I went to the U.S. for studies and lost touch.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I would often take this bus and go to a nearby village where I had hordes of animal friends. I was hardly around four or five years old then. The conductor was so used to seeing me hop on to the bus and get down at the same place, that he never asked any questions. The strangest part is, he never asked for a ticket either!
- Community
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- Nov 07, 2020
A tradition I remember from my childhood was that when there was a wedding in any one family, the entire village shared the responsibility and contributed. Regardless of the caste or community, the bride became the daughter of not just a single family but of the entire village.
- Mountain
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Journey
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Daily
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Today
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- Nov 07, 2020