- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
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
- 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.
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.