Quotes About Villagers

#1. The villagers marked the time in two ways: before the swamp and after. What came before was good. And all that came after was not.

Melanie Crowder

#2. I have finally learned that I am as much a part of this country as those villagers. Whether they like it or not, my umbilical cord is buried in the earth of Vietnam just like theirs.

Sherry Garland

#3. I watch the Eruptions. Mount Dad, long dormant, now considered armed and dangerous. Mount Saint Mom, oozing lava, spitting flame. Warn the villagers to run into the sea.

Laurie Halse Anderson

#4. Urbanization in India is a slow but sure death for her villages and villagers.

Mahatma Gandhi

#5. The village of Wall watched the battle of wills with fascination, wondering what the outcome would be, for no one crossed Bridget Forester: she had a tongue that could, the villagers said, blister the paint from a barn door and tear the bark from an oak.

Neil Gaiman

#6. The heart of the matter, as I see it, is the stark fact that world poverty is primarily a problem of two million villages, and thus a problem of two thousand million villagers.

E.F. Schumacher

#7. Hand-spinning is designed to put millions of rupees in the hands of the poor villagers.

Mahatma Gandhi

#8. She'd been so busy worrying about soldier boys and villagers she'd forgotten the jungle had hunters of its own, and now she was going to die for it.

Paolo Bacigalupi

#9. What do you get when you cross an egomaniacal fairy godmother, an arrogant genie, and a couple of wandering plagiarists whose idea of cultural preservation is stealing the stories of unsuspecting villagers and passing them off as their own?

Kate SeRine

#10. Although people sometimes assume that the happy are self-absorbed and complacent, just the opposite is true. In general, happiness doesn't make people want to drink daiquiris on the beach; it makes them want to help rural villagers gain better access to clean water.

Gretchen Rubin

#11. When Tessia and Jayan were served a large, fat rassook each, Jayan had smugly commented that Tessia certainly had a way with villagers and he would not be surprised if she could charm pickpockets into putting money into her wallet.

Trudi Canavan

#12. Srad was a fruit with mildly narcotic properties- tonight the villagers ingested large quantities of it in order to feel the narcotic effects.

Christie Sims

#13. converted, how the remaining villagers on Ivu'ivu,

Hanya Yanagihara

#14. The Doctor snorted. 'Wimp!' He squared his shoulders and turned towards the fire, grinning. 'Race you.' And he was off, running. Jack hesitated, sighed, swore, and ran after him. Levin and Krylek, Catherine and the villagers stared after them in astonishment. Two dark figures running though fire ...

Justin Richards

#15. If we want to impart education best suited to the needs of the villagers, we should take the vidyapith to the villages.

Mahatma Gandhi

#16. The Charkha supplemented the agriculture of the villagers and gave it dignity.

Mahatma Gandhi

#17. Too trying, this is all far too trying, Parma thought. An ogre I may outwit or a Rahg I may defeat, but a horde of frightened villagers? Auay! How does Brandegan put up with it?

Julius Bailey

#18. Although the villagers rose with the sun to work the fields, attend to the animals, bake their bread, and begin their long list of chores, for me, Leya Truelong, this was a day like no other. Today, Wren River was touched by the fantastic.

Desiccate by Bonnie Ferrante

Bonnie Ferrante

#19. In 1981, while doing postdoctoral field work in cultural anthropology, Bonnie A. Nardi lived with villagers in Western Samoa, trying to understand the cultural reasons that people there have an average of eight children.

Katie Hafner

#20. All primitive people are frightened of owls,' said Harley. 'The villagers here are scared to death of the gufo. Birds of ill omen. If they see one, they think they'll die. But they never do. See one, I mean, of course,' he added with a laugh.

Francis Brett Young

#21. I myself have been particularly careful never to say a civil word to the United States. I have scoffed at their inhabitants as a nation of villagers. I have defined the 100 % American as 99 % an idiot. And they adore me.

George Bernard Shaw

#22. The villagers want bread-not butter-and disciplined work, some work that will supplement their agricultural avocations which do not go on for all the 12 months.

Mahatma Gandhi

#23. I don't know a single person who is not immersed in the digital universe. Even people who are strongly anti-technology are probably voicing that view on a Web site somewhere. Third-world villagers without electricity have cellphones.

George Dyson

#24. The villagers had decided that 'practical' meant 'extremely magical and full of interesting objects' and had officially subtitled themselves, Winesap: A Pracktical Towne.

Catherynne M Valente

#25. The villagers seldom leave the village; many scientists have limited and poorly cultivated minds apart from their specialty ...

Simone Weil

#26. Physical beauty or sexual attraction in a woman was not a criterion in deciding, strengthening, or the survival of such relationships of these villagers.

Swarnakanthi Rajapakse

#27. The night I was born, my great uncle Moanea, the village forester, shot a wolf. The villagers roasted it in the fire and fed the meat to the dogs.

Teodor Flonta

#28. I thought buying at the local market would be an excellent way to build positive relationships with the local villagers.

Eric Greitens

#29. Our villagers are born to religion. But they show no interest in that aspect of religion which means unity,friendship,love and respect for others, and so forth, in other words, in such things as lead men to righteousness and fullness of life.

Mahmut Makal

#30. The angry mob of villagers wield camera phones, the twenty-first century equivalent of pitchforks and flaming torches.

Erin Kelly

#31. I've been impressed, over the last 15 years, with how often the somewhat conspiratorial comments of Haitian villagers have been proven to be correct when the historical record is probed carefully.

Paul Farmer

#32. El-Khan to the villagers. Overlooking Beit Daras were the remnants

Susan Abulhawa

#33. The elderly man from the ashram, explained to me, if the villagers wanted peace, they would feed and house the peacemakers. If they didn't want peace, no outsiders could help anyway. As we started on our journey, I noticed that without possessions, I felt oddly free.

Gloria Steinem

#34. My God, look at the size of this man! Quick! Tell the other villagers we're going back to the boats!

Robin Williams

#35. Some other brown stuff that might not be mud into her tangled hair. All around, villagers wandered with their baskets of brightly colored eggs, looking for the perfect hiding places. Ruth Zardo sat on the bench in the middle of the green tossing

Louise Penny

#36. Most of the villagers were hiding in the bush, where they were dying from bad water, malaria and malnutrition.

Nicholas D. Kristof

#37. Along the avenue of cypresses,
All in their scarlet cloaks and surplices
Of linen, go the chanting choristers,
The priests in gold and black, the villagers ...

D.H. Lawrence

#38. I met Jonah Lomu. I never knew how huge he was. I felt like a peasant in a Godzilla movie. 'Quickly! Tell the other villagers! We go now!'

Robin Williams

#39. And that lame butcher would have killed him and would have run off to the Waingunga while the villagers here hunted through all our lairs in revenge!

Rudyard Kipling

#40. We are richer in material wealth than those villagers; but their spirit is a nobler spirit than ours. We

Kahlil Gibran

#41. And as the years flowed by, some villagers told travelers of a beast and a beauty who lived in the castle and could be seen walking on the battlements, and others told of two beauties, and others, of two beasts.

Emma Donoghue

#42. Although the villagers had forgotten the ritual and lost the original black box, they still remembered to use stones.

Shirley Jackson

#43. I met a few chimpanzees on my pilgrimages and I wasn't sure if they were just shrivelled-up villagers or chimps...

Jonathan Dunne

#44. Villagers took her sudden death as a curse of verdict stone....

Jalaj Mishra

#45. Frankenstein as the underdog. Not the monster. The villagers pursuing him are the monster.

Edward Field

#46. The villagers waited silently. There is something about people with no hope for a better future in life. You can identify them from their expression. Most of all, it is in their eyes, which

Chetan Bhagat

#47. I'll just go guard some villagers or something. Even if they're not in danger.

Gabrielle

#48. The snakes have their place in the agricultural economy of the village, but our villagers do not seem realize it.

Mahatma Gandhi

#49. Give the villagers village arithmetic, village geography, village history and the literary knowledge that they must use daily, i.e. reading and writing letters, etc.

Mahatma Gandhi

#50. In a front of each home garden the villagers fixed a triangular wooden lamp-house on the top of a pole planted on the ground to hold a small statue of Lord Buddha and some deities. They used to offer flowers at this small shrine and light a tiny clay oil lamp.

Swarnakanthi Rajapakse

#51. By that point a career change was beyond consideration; he was a bottle, thrown to the sea, into which the villagers had folded their wishes, and though he was willing to give up on himself, he wasn't willing to let down those who believed he could carry them over the water.

Anthony Marra

#52. Villagers saw me as a person when I played with them, as opposed to when I talked with them.

Rebekah Nathan

#53. Long, long ago, before eruptions were invented, the molten lava had to be carried down the mountainside, bucket by bucket, and poured over the sleeping villagers. This took time.

Dave Barry

#54. but one of the guys next to him looks like he eats screaming villagers for breakfast.

Kristen Callihan

#55. puts her little finger in my face. "I don't speak Behemoth, so I'll talk slow. You should learn some manners before the villagers chase you with fiery torches. You shouldn't go around putting your hands on people, no matter how hot you are.

Alexa Riley

#56. The authorities make them hate him. Otsu, these people are simple. They're afraid of the government, so afraid that if it so decrees, they'll drive away their fellow villagers, even their own kin.

Eiji Yoshikawa

#57. many villagers still commonly use the unit of measurement dan, literally the amount of weight a grown man can carry over his shoulder.

Dan Washburn

#58. Not only did the angry villagers hound their monsters to the edge of town, they reproached her for being vulnerable to the torches.

Susan Stryker

#59. The villagers considered it lucky to make the New Year's first money transaction with her because she was a prosperous person.

Swarnakanthi Rajapakse

#60. Along the edge of this green lived a man. His name is not important, as no one ever used it. The villagers only ever called him the Apothecary.

Patrick Ness

#61. Tessie Hutchinson was in the center of a cleared space by now, and she held her hands out desperately as the villagers moved in on her. "It isn't fair," she said. A stone hit her on the side of the head.

Shirley Jackson

#62. In the countryside where the communal pattern was least disturbed, the new religion found the ground less favorable. The villagers (pagani) and the heath-dwellers (heathen) clung longest to the ancient cults.

Eric Hoffer

#63. Year after year, the senior command placed a lone rifle company inside the Korengal, with power hard enough to antagonize the villagers but not overwhelming enough to break their will to fight.

Bing West

#64. Author relates the reaction of an Irish village to a landowner who tried to raise rents on the land's occupants. The villagers refused to talk to or trade with the man, whose name was Captain Boycott.

Patrick N. Allitt

#65. The dry knowledge of the three R's is not even now, it can never be, a permanent part of the villagers' life.

Mahatma Gandhi

#66. Village people had no central conception of truth or time or even of other people's memories; they always just played dumb when he told them they'd changed their stories

Karan Mahajan