Takes A Village Quotes

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

Jodie Sweetin

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

Katy Perry

#4. 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

#5. 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

#6. 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

#7. 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

#8. 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

#9. 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

#10. 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

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

Matshona Dhliwayo

#12. 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

#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. 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

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

Hillary Rodham Clinton

#18. Registering guns is like sending a list of your household valuables to a burglars' guild. Why invite - guarantee - a visit.?

Kenneth W. Royce

#19. 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

#20. 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

#21. People don't belong to people. I'm not gonna let anyone put me in a cage.

Truman Capote

#22. 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

#23. 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

#24. But I know the rage that drives you. That impossible anger strangling the grief, until the memory of your loved ones is just poison in your veins. And one day you catch yourself wishing the person you loved had never existed, so you'd be spared your pain.

Christopher Nolan

#25. 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

#26. The most important and necessary human deed, for both doer and recipient, are those of which he does not see the results.

Leo Tolstoy

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

Sara Sheridan

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

Florence King

#29. When Britain and the U.S. invaded Iraq, it was with the reasonable expectation that it was going to increase the threat of terror, as it has.

Noam Chomsky