- Me
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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
- Colleagues
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's a village in my computer - friends, fans, readers, and colleagues. It's a populous, sometimes chaotic little burg always bustling with news, gossip, opinions and potential excitement.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love the village in my computer. There's little validation in the day-to-day life of a writer; sometimes we ache for a connection.
- Contests
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- Nov 07, 2020
It used to happen in villages and towns in China that they would have - I guess you'd call them beauty contests - where all of the women of a particular village or town would be seated behind these screens or curtains with only their feet showing.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the 16th and 17th centuries, most people in Britain lived in small village communities. They knew all their neighbours. They dressed alike, and almost all were white. The vast majority belonged to the same religion and spoke much the same language.
- Isolation
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- Nov 07, 2020
We live in a global village. No country can live in isolation of others like Robinson Crusoe.
- Fly
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- Nov 07, 2020
We lived in a farm village, and no one could afford to buy a car or to fly. We were envious. We couldn't afford any toys. I couldn't imagine making a real car.
- Father
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- Nov 07, 2020
My father was a doctor, and I admired him and got along well with him. He took me with him on house calls. We were living in Flushing, which was then a sleepy village of 25,000 - before the subway got there. I've been sure I wanted to be a doctor since I was about 12.
- Culture
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- Nov 07, 2020
I believe that in a great city, or even in a small city or a village, a great theater is the outward and visible sign of an inward and probable culture.
- Parents
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- Nov 07, 2020
My parents grew up in a village where they didn't even have running water. They are first generation immigrants who are proof that arranged marriages can work, although I wouldn't want one.
- Live
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- Nov 07, 2020
Rajasthan is a place I visit very often. My grandparents live in the village called Kulhariyon Ka Baas, and I am originally from Rajasthan.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
Patriotism is not an abstract concept. It begins from one's own home. It buds out from the love for one's parents, spouses and children, the love for one's own home, village and workplace, and further develops into the love for one's country and fellow people.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've had some amazing people in my life. Look at my father - he came from a small fishing village of five hundred people and at six foot four with giant ears and a kind of very odd expression, thought he could be a movie star. So go figure, you know?
- Live
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- Nov 07, 2020
I live in New York, but I still get the village gossip. My apartment is a crash pad for so many Singaporean cousins and friends.
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.