Top 100 Quotes About A Village
#1. She was a soldier, not some girl twisting her skirts at a village dance.
Scott Westerfeld
#2. Caesar gave the ultimate definition of ambition when he said: 'Better to be the chief of a village than a subaltern in Rome'.
Fernando Pessoa
#3. You can threaten a village wise woman with death and torture and she may say "jesus is lord" to survive, but you can never know what's really in her heart ... that, I feel, is how the goddess survived centuries of history and hatred.
Dianne Sylvan
#4. As a walled town is more worthier than a village, so is the forehead of a married man more honorable than the bare brow of a bachelor.
William Shakespeare
#5. Retail banking in Africa is very weak. You can't go to a village and get money from an ATM or visit a branch of the bank. So people have to use the Internet.
Mo Ibrahim
#6. I live here in Vermont, in a village of barely a thousand people halfway up the state's third highest mountain.
Chris Bohjalian
#7. 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.
Sharad Pawar
#8. Jesus, my yard was starting to feel like a Village People reunion. So far I had the cop, the biker, and the cowboy.
Diane Henders
#9. My daughters all have aunties who help out. It takes a village.
Jodie Sweetin
#10. I stay in France. Better to be the queen of a village than a servant in a kingdom.
Emmanuelle Beart
#11. You can't build a wall round a village.
The sun and the wind
will always find their way in.
Igor Goldkind
#12. Give up a member to save a family, a family to save a village, a village to save a country, and the country to save yourself.
Vyasa
#13. Teaching in a village school in Nepal was a freaking piece of cake compared to teaching in my native land.
Nicholas D. Kristof
#14. My first part-time job gave me the smell of earning money when I worked in a village chemist aged 14. I loved helping the pharmacist with prescriptions and on the shop floor, with its glamorous make-up aisle.
Nicki Chapman
#15. I'm every woman. It takes a village to make me who I am.
Katy Perry
#16. Twenty years ago, I wrote a book called 'It Takes a Village.' And a lot of people looked at the title and asked, 'What the heck do you mean by that?' This is what I mean. None of us can raise a family, build a business, heal a community or lift a country totally alone.
Hillary Clinton
#17. It would be the hardcore. The ones who tell Lady Luck to go screw herself. The ones with hearts of stone. The ones who could let a hundred die so one might live. The ones who see the wisdom in torching a village in order to save it. The world was FUBAR now.
Rick Yancey
#18. When you consume more food in one meal than a village of people eat in a day something is wrong
Stanley Victor Paskavich
#20. In the occupation in Afghanistan, there are tragedies as well. It's not as bad as in Iraq because there are fewer American troops. But, as I describe in the book, going out on patrol and coming into a village, the soldiers found a stash of documents and decided this was Taliban propaganda.
Yaroslav Trofimov
#21. You arrive at a village, and in this calm environment, one starts to hear echo.
Yannick Noah
#22. I once had a sparrow alight upon my shoulder for a moment, while I was hoeing in a village garden, and I felt that I was more distinguished by that circumstance than I should have been by any epaulet I could have worn.
Henry David Thoreau
#23. If Henry Miller often sounded like a village idiot, it is because, like Whitman, he was the rest of the village as well.
Gore Vidal
#24. I think of myself ... as a troubadour, a village storyteller, the guy in the shadows of the campfire.
Louis L'Amour
#25. Our job is to show how it is possible to take an illiterate woman and make her into an engineer in six months and show that she can solar-electrify a village
Bunker Roy
#26. I was still 15 when I met John Lennon at a village fete in Woolton, in Liverpool.
Paul McCartney
#27. If you would be known, and not know, vegetate in a village; if you would know, and not be known, live in a city.
Charles Caleb Colton
#28. Sig is like that. She tends to have an "it takes a village" attitude toward monster hunting. I have mostly hunted supernatural predators alone, partly because I had no choice and partly because I'm an idiot.
Elliott James
#29. I turned right onto the A410 which went north with suspiciously Roman straightness toward Aymestrey, which is less a village than a diorama of the last six hundred years of English vernacular architecture stretched along either side of the road.
Ben Aaronovitch
#30. In 1965, I went to what was called the worst Bihar famine in India, and I saw starvation, death, people dying of hunger, for the first time. It changed my life. I came back home, told my mother, 'I'd like to live and work in a village.' Mother went into a coma.
Bunker Roy
#31. I have been, am, in his service; I have seen his generosity and goodness; and I will never betray him-not for all the gold in the world. I have come from a village where they don't eat that kind of bread.
Jules Verne
#32. He is no longer a city dweller who has even once in his life caught a ruff or seen how, on clear and cool autumn days, flocks of migrating thrushes drift over a village. Until his death he will be drawn to freedom.
Anton Chekhov
#33. To save the family, abandon a man;
to save the village, abandon a family;
to save the country, abandon a village;
to save the soul, abandon the earth.
Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa
#34. One does see so much evil in a village,' murmured Miss Marple in an explanatory voice.
Agatha Christie
#35. Oh, I was born here. There's a village a few miles south of Varinshold, so small it doesn't even have a name. You'll find my kin there.
Anthony Ryan
#36. He's the river that idly passes between mountains. I'm the volcano that destroys a village.
Krista Ritchie
#37. I was born and brought up near a village in Nottinghamshire and in my childhood enjoyed the freedom of the rather isolated country life. After the First World War, my father had bought a small farm, which became a marvelous playground for his five children.
Godfrey Hounsfield
#38. The Durhannians' countenance lifted as is the way of Hope. There was a village elder whose eyes flickered with the light of Understanding. We knew he would soon be able to illuminate paths in the darkness.
Laurie Green Westlake
#39. I know that if you spend enough on each person person in a village, you will change their lives. If you put in enough resources-enough mzungu,foreigners, technical assistance, and money-lives change. I know that....The problem is, when you walk, what happens? -Simon Bland
Nina Munk
#40. The emotional health of a village depended upon having a man whom everyone loved to hate, and Heaven had blessed us with two of them.
Barry Hughart
#41. Have you an unexpurgated copy of Hannah More's 'Letters to a Village Maiden'?
Eugene Field
#42. It took a village to raise a child, and it took a rainbow of colors to make them feel at home and comfortable.
T.A. Webb
#43. The thing about living in a village at the foot of a mountain is that the world for you becomes, without thinking about it, self-contained. People are of two kinds, really: from the Valley, and from Elsewhere.
Henry Louis Gates
#44. 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.
Lisa Unger
#45. Let's not muddy the brook ; Perhaps a pigeon is drinking water at a distance, Or a pitcher is being filled in a village, Or a dervish may be dipping dry bread in the brook.
The folk upstream understand the water.
They did not muddy the brook. We also must not muddy the brook...
Sohrab Sepehri
#46. [On Ezra Pound:] A village explainer, excellent if you were a village, but if you were not, not.
Gertrude Stein
#47. First in violence, deepest in dirt, lawless, unlovely, ill-smelling, irreverent, new; an overgrown gawk of a - village, the "tough" among cities, a spectacle for the nation.
Lincoln Steffens
#48. The occultist knows that this thought-atmosphere of a village, town, city, or nation is the composite thought of those dwelling in it or who have previously dwelt there. Strangers
William Walker Atkinson
#49. Now in India, a village boy who has worked his way up to work at a call center, or if he gets a job working even as a busboy in a Taj or an Oberoi hotel, he'll put on his wedding announcement with pride, 'Busboy at the Taj' or 'Call center, Office Tiger.'
Marie Brenner
#50. Be it a village or a city, education is very important, and it always comes into you.
Kareena Kapoor Khan
#51. There was a village watercolour society and they'd come and paint in my field. I watched them from the window, the way they would struggle this way and that to find the perfect moment. God has made every angle on that beautiful, and I felt that tremendously.
Nicolas Roeg
#52. The explanation of evil is a hell of a lot more disappointing than that. It's blunders, people making blunders, whether it's raiding a village and killing all the inhabitants, or killing a child in a fit of rage. Mistakes. Everything is simply a matter of mistakes.
Anne Rice
#53. Your face
like a village asleep at the bottom of a lake
which is reborn to daylight from the grass and from the year
germinates
Aime Cesaire
#54. Ahh! Lady Pillows. So much fluffier than mine." He took a giant whiff. "Why does everything girlie smell so delightful?" "Because we acknowledge the importance of basic hygiene. And periodically clean our bathrooms." "Brilliant. I should write that down. After all, it takes a village.
Kathy Reichs
#55. I am a village boy, and Amsterdam for me was always the big town.
Anton Corbijn
#56. In a village you can't sack or fight with someone, as you'll find yourself stuck beside them in the hairdresser's next morning.
Jilly Cooper
#57. As anyone knows who has ever had to set up a military encampment or build a village from the ground up, occupations pose staggering logistical problems.
Barbara Ehrenreich
#58. What was extraordinary about Occupy London was that it was a village with a louder voice than one of the biggest cities of the world.
Rhys Ifans
#59. A rescue mission doesn't involve going in and just taking a child and leaving. You can't just choose any child at random. Every kid has a case that is based on that child's original family. So, we made it over to a village, found the child; we were interacting with the child.
Jason Mraz
#60. A community is made up of intimate relationships among diversified types of individuals
a kinship group, a local group, a neighborhood, a village, a large family.
Carroll Quigley
#61. Somewhere out there was a village I'd deprived of it's idiot.
Jim Butcher
#62. The dining room is a building; the bathroom is a building. If we scatter this single-program architecture inside of a domestic environment, we can link an interior urbanism in a way similar to a village or a township of tiny houses.
Jimenez Lai
#63. Hitler emphasized again and again his belief that Nazism was a secular ideology founded on modern science. Science, he declared, would easily destroy the last remaining vestiges of superstition. 'Put a small telescope in a village, and you destroy a world of superstitions.'24
Richard J. Evans
#64. If you lie down in a village square hoping to capture a sea gull, you could stay there your whole life without succeeding. But a hundred miles from shore it's different. Sea gulls have a highly developed instinct for self-preservation on land but at sea they're very cocky.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
#65. My father came to Chennai at the age of 16 from a village in Coimbatore. He was an artist and was clear he wanted to do something, so he came to Chennai and joined an art course for eight years before he came into films.
Suriya
#66. The rest pay an annual tax for this outside garment of all, become indispensable summer and winter, which would buy a village of Indian wigwams, but now helps to keep them poor as long as they live.
Henry David Thoreau
#67. I think of myself in the oral tradition-as a troubadour, a village tale-teller,
the man in the shadows of the campfire. That's the way I'd like to be remembered-
as a storyteller. A good storyteller.
Louis L'Amour
#68. No history much? Perhaps. Only this ominous Dark beauty flowering under veils, Trapped in the spectrum of a dying style: A village like an instinct left to rust, Composed around the echo of a pistol-shot.
Lawrence Durrell
#69. I was quite happy in Arkhangelsk.Subsequently, I was sent to a village. I liked it in its own way because it sounded to me very much like the tradition of a hired man in any world-class poem. That's what I was, a hired man. I was working for a collective farm.
Joseph Brodsky
#70. There is no way you are going to be forgiven for blowing up a village and killing a bunch of people.
Henry Rollins
#71. Memory is a house with ten thousand rooms; it is a village slated to be inundated." from "Village 113
Anthony Doerr
#72. Seeing as this is probably my last hurrah, I don't suppose I could get you two bleeding hearts to massacre a village with me? For old time's sake. - Jackal
Julie Kagawa
#73. It isn't just a village. The houses aren't just places to live. Everything belongs to everybody. Everyone belongs to everyone else. Even a single person can make a difference.
Joanne Harris
#74. Power, money, lusts of the flesh and any other desire which takes a man, a family, a village or a nation from peace or freedom and places it under the sword is tyranny and the enemy of all.
Jaime Buckley
#75. Dragons don't ask for maidens, he said. Dragons are offered maidens.
Alys shook her head to show she didn't understand.
Is a king likely to be a maiden? Or a village headman? It's the men who make the laws that decree that maidens be offered.
Vivian Vande Velde
#76. It's a good idea to wait a few months before joining anything when you arrive at a village. A bookseller friend who retired to nearby Oxfordshire, and was worried he might be bored, got himself on to every village committee in the first six months, and spent the next ten years extricating himself.
Jilly Cooper
#77. 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.
Laurence Olivier
#78. You are not dead, until every person who knew you is dead as well. Where did I hear that? It doesn't matter. There is a village in my head.
Neil Gaiman
#79. I went to Thailand and built a village for 27 rescued children and this is where my passion to help prevent modern day slavery came from.
David Batstone
#80. The notion of the world as a village is becoming a reality.
James Wolfensohn
#81. I grew up in a village of about 800 people surrounded by lakes and woods, and I think it's made a definite impact on me.
Drew Hayden Taylor
#82. When a village ceases to be a community, it becomes oppressive in its narrow conformity. So one becomes an individual and migrates to the city. There, finding others like-minded, one re-establishes a village community. Nowadays only New Yorkers are yokels.
Paul Goodman
#83. 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.
Uzo Aduba
#84. I grew up in a village of 12 houses. We had a well and a cow.
Olesya Rulin
#85. It isn't possible," she said. "But there it is. Look again." In the distance, pinpricks of light arranged into a grid. There, plainly visible on the side of a hill some miles distant: a town, or a village, whose streets were lit up with electricity.
Emily St. John Mandel
#86. It may take a village to raise a baby, but hell! it takes an army to produce a book.
Sara Sheridan
#87. I truly have a village supporting me. My son has godmothers, godfathers, grandparents and so many others in his life who love him as much as I do. They're there for both of us. I may not have a mate or husband, but I'm definitely not a single parent.
Jill Scott
#88. Creative people who can't help but explore other mental territories are at greater risk, just as someone who climbs a mountain is more at risk than someone who just walks along a village lane.
R.D. Laing
#89. To think, a sweater, is made entirely of knots. My stomach could clothe a village.
Andrea Gibson
#90. How can we be alive and not wonder about the stories we knit together this place we call the world? Without stories our universe is merely rocks and clouds and lava and blackness. It's a village scraped raw by warm waters leaving not a trace of what existed before.
Douglas Coupland
#91. Hillary Clinton famously talked about how raising a child takes a village. Except our society isn't set up that way. We're organized in nuclear units, and a single mom can ask her friends only so many times for help picking up the kids.
Katharine Weymouth
#92. Homesick? For a village in the middle of nowhere? Where there's no work and everyone
Susanne O'Leary
#93. I encourage people to get a village so that there will always be someone who's like family looking out for your child.
Kym Whitley
#94. My life was made easy - I lived in a village, and by writing for some newspapers and magazines, had enough to live on. I was happy to be there and write.
Pankaj Mishra
#96. A village, even a small one, takes at least all night to burn, in the end it looks like an enormous flower, then there's only a bud, and after that nothing.
Louis-Ferdinand Celine
#97. I suppose I'm a cultural Anglican, and I see evensong in a country church through much the same eyes as I see a village cricket match on the village green. I have a certain love for it.
Richard Dawkins
#98. When I am talking about "It Takes a Village", I'm obviously not talking just about or even primarily about geographical villages any longer, but about the network of relationships and values that do connect us and binds us together.
Hillary Clinton
#99. You educate a boy, and you're educating an individual. You educate a girl, and you're educating a village.
-African Proverb
Nicholas D. Kristof
#100. It takes a village to raise a child
but it takes strong families to make a village.
Matshona Dhliwayo
