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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
- 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.
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.