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Village Quotes
Most Famous Village Quotes of All Time!
A village can be a training ground for bigger responsibility, a quiet backdrop for a joke about nothing happening, or the setting for a childhood with far fewer options than city life offered. This collection holds all three moods, echoing themes found in our Community quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
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I grew up playing with kids from Hurt Village, playing with kids from other housing projects, Lamar Terrace, because my grandmother lived in that particular area. So, I always wondered how I would have turned out if I would have lived in that particular given circumstance.
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'Hurt Village' is based on a real housing project in Memphis, about three minutes away from the Lorraine Hotel where Dr. King was assassinated, so in my work I'm focusing on a very specific area in Memphis. I see 'Hurt Village' as a natural extension of 'The Mountaintop.'
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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.
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The village where my father lives is, like, 300 people.
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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.
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Be it a village or a city, education is very important, and it always comes into you.
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A rebel. That was me when I was younger. What was a rebel from New Jersey? A rebel was moving to the Village, not sleeping with top sheets, not eating a hot breakfast in the morning, not having 20 rolls of toilet paper and 10 boxes of Kleenex.
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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.
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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.
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I could've shot the whole East Village, because it was and is my neighborhood. But Seventh Street is precious to me.
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Not long ago, in an excruciatingly remote village in the Australian Outback, I was startled to see a bartender in a cowboy hat measuring out a classically proportioned French 75 - something he'd picked up on the Internet, he told me.
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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.
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Take vicars; there are often village vicars in 'Midsomer Murders', but the village vicar in England was killed off long ago.
For some, growing up in a small village meant an early path toward marriage rather than school, a reality worth remembering alongside the more romantic images of village life. Explore how place shapes who we become in our Identity collection.