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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
- Bring
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- Nov 07, 2020
Benteen, come on, big village, be quick. Bring packs.
- Go
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In my village, girls have limited opportunities. If they get admission in a college, only a few households would allow them to go for further studies.
- I Am
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I come from a village where traditionally girls don't go out and play sport so I struggled a lot to come this far and to get to this position where I am at the Olympics.
- People
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Our parents faced more hardship than us. They didn't stop us from training despite hearing the taunts from the people in the village. We were fortunate to have parents like them.
- Enough
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We did not had enough facilities in the village. My family was also not well off. There was no mat, no gym; we used to wrestle in the mud. It was very different from the national camps where I trained before the Commonwealth Games.
- People
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In our village women are left to clean the house and milk the cattle so when I first entered the ring, I had to hear the criticism of people.
- Gold
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- Nov 07, 2020
My first gold was in the 2002 cadet national. I realized I was good enough even outside my village and my district.
- Chicken
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I also have a soft spot for spicy chicken wings. They are always best eaten at dives and sports bars, like Wogie's in the West Village, New York City, near my house.
- Childhood
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The Dorset coast, where I spent my childhood, is a gorgeous place to run. I love to explore and revisit places like the cliffs at Kimmeridge Bay and the abandoned village of Tyneham.
- Coastal
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Like so many poor Ilokanos, my grandparents left their village, for it could no longer sustain them. The Ilocos is a narrow coastal plain where, so often, the mountain drops to the sea. Land hunger had always afflicted the Ilokanos and made them migratory.
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.