Quotes About It Takes A Village

#1. It takes a village to raise a child, they say, and it takes a community to raise a genius, no matter how singular the individual.

Orna Ross

#2. How many times did we hear [Barack] Obama say, 'You didn't build that. You didn't build that - no, you need government.' We even saw Hillary Clinton say - remember her phrase - 'It takes a village to raise a child.' In other words, your children are not your children - they belong to the community.

Rafael Cruz

#3. My daughters all have aunties who help out. It takes a village.

Jodie Sweetin

#4. I'm every woman. It takes a village to make me who I am.

Katy Perry

#5. 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

#6. 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

#7. 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

#8. Hilary Clinton said you know, it takes a village to raise a child and somebody said it takes a village idiot to believe that ... it is part of the whole thing of third parties wanting to make decisions for which they pay no price for when they're wrong.

Thomas Sowell

#9. People say it takes a village to raise a child. People ask me how my daughter is doing. She's only doing good if your daughter's doing good. We're all one family.

Kanye West

#10. It takes a village to raise a child.

Hillary Rodham Clinton

#11. 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

#12. It takes a village to raise a child
but it takes strong families to make a village.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#13. 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

#14. We're in a tough place in this world. There are a lot of kids giving up very early. Scripture says it takes a village to raise one child, and that's what these coaches are going to have to go back and understand.

Ray Lewis

#15. If it takes a village to raise a child, it takes a whole agency to make a successful campaign.

David Guerrero

#16. Mothers really were not built to raise babies not only by themselves, but with only a partner. For millions of years, a woman had much more than just her husband to help rear her young ... This whole idea of 'it takes a village to raise a child' is exactly how we're supposed to live.

Helen Fisher

#17. Just as the bee takes the nectar and leaves without damaging the color or scent of the flowers, so should the sage act in a village.

Gautama Buddha

#18. One cannot live on potatoes alone. It is said that one wants bread with potatoes. And when there's no bread, a Jew takes his stick, and goes through the village in search of business.

Sholom Aleichem

#19. 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

#20. I don't use recreational drugs, except for cocaine, hallucinogens, and nitrates.

Robert Mapplethorpe

#21. For God to mend your broken heart you must give him ALL the pieces. You can't hold any back.

Rick Warren

#22. It takes a man of genius to travel in his own country, in his native village; to make any progress between his door and his gate.

Henry David Thoreau

#23. The organizational fit is the good balance of the fitting attitude and misfit thinking.

Pearl Zhu

#24. I am this guy who's four and a half feet tall, but my life doesn't constantly address it.

Peter Dinklage

#25. I don't really believe in any fashion rules. I think fashion is a form of self-expression. I think you can wear whatever you want!

Ariana Grande

#26. You really can't prepare for anything in life. The second you know what's going to happen, there's always a curve ball, so I'm just chillin', cruising along for the ride.

Shailene Woodley

#27. She didn't look at me and I didn't look at her. Some questions are so direct the only way to ask them is sideways.

Deanna Raybourn

#28. Id like to be a lion ... they are very family-oriented. Unfortunately. too many wild animals are afraid at what man can do to them.

Connie Stevens

#29. I'd like to give zero out capital gains tax and zero out the dividends tax, zero out alternative minimum tax, and zero out the death tax.

Michele Bachmann

#30. 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

#31. Play the moment, play whatever plays for you in that moment, and then go to the next moment. It doesn't matter where you're going. Don't worry about that. Just take it moment, moment, moment, moment.

Philip Roth

#32. We should never judge anyone; a 'wicked' action which we may see as 'evil', may be necessary for the greater good. Where would the story of Christ be without Judas? His actions were ultimately good; a part of the plan.

Robert S. Jepson Jr.

#33. 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

#34. Experiences are the chemicals of life with which the philosopher experiments

Manly P. Hall

#35. It may take a village to raise a baby, but hell! it takes an army to produce a book.

Sara Sheridan

#36. The new republic should be based on diversity, respect and equal rights for all.

Evo Morales

#37. We're separated, but not lost or truly apart. Do not mourn me, my love. I have not died. . . .

J.R. Ward

#38. Tony Lamas and fitted polo shirt. And that growing sense

Richard Ford

#39. It takes only one child to raze a village.

Florence King