Village Quotes

The true India resides in its villages.

The soul of India lives in its villages.

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

Village reform is not merely cleaning the roads, constructing schools and worshipping monasteries. It is not mere celebration of festivals.

A village is a hive of glass, where nothing unobserved can pass.

I grew up in Greenwich Village. Dad was friends with John Lennon and Yoko Ono.

Franz Kline, who became known for his black and white paintings, did a whole series of gorgeous landscapes and wonderful portraits that may still hang in Greenwich Village.

Greenwich Village... the village of low rents and high arts.

The future of India lies in its villages

I have a vision of the world as a global village, a world without boundaries.

Where I lived, it was a cold mining place, a village called Dunston. The only time you saw a Rolls-Royce was when somebody died.

Today, we turn to one person to provide what an entire village once did: a sense of grounding, meaning, and continuity. At the same time, we expect our committed relationships to be romantic as well as emotionally and sexually fulfilling. Is it any wonder that so many relationships crumble under the weight of it all?

Like primitive, we now live in a global village of our own making, a simultaneous happening. It doesn't necessarily mean harmony and peace and quiet but it does mean huge involvement in everybody else's affairs.

I love those connections that make this big old world feel like a little village.

Connectivity is productivity - whether it's in a modern office or an underdeveloped village.

I live in a village where people still care about each other, largely.

I had met a young lady who wanted to be in the theater. It was Judy Holliday. She had somehow fallen down the steps of the Village Vanguard, which still exists today.

Every rustic who delivers in the village alehouse his slow, infrequent sentences, may help to kill or keep alive the fatal superstitions which clog his race.

I stay in France. Better to be the queen of a village than a servant in a kingdom.

Few things are more pleasant than a village graced with a good church, a good priest and a good pub.

You arrive at a village, and in this calm environment, one starts to hear echo.

Over the next few days we want cities, towns and villages across the UK to send a message to Scotland: stay with us.

Nobody wants to see the village of the happy people.

What do they do for a village idiot when you're here?

The village is coming back, like it or not.

If adventures will not befall a young lady in her own village, she must seek them abroad.

The Village did a lot for me, of course, because it was my first movie.

We came here to a country that was populated by Arabs and we are building here a Hebrew, a Jewish state; instead of the Arab villages, Jewish villages were established. You even do not know the names of those villages, and I do not blame you because these villages no longer exist. There is not a single Jewish settlement that was not established in the place of a former Arab Village.

Let the villages of the future live in our imagination, so that we might one day come to live in them!

Being prime minister isn't the only job in life! As far as I'm concerned, I could live in a village and be satisfied.

I suppose, I hoped, by setting a particularly brutal ancient rite in the present and in my own village to shock the story's readers with a graphic dramatization of the pointless violence and general inhumanity in their own lives.

Emigration, forced or chosen, across national frontiers or from village to metropolis, is the quintessential experience of our time.

A village somewhere was missing it's idiot.

Its not a global village, but we're in a highly interconnected globe.

There are downsides to every technology. Fire kept us warm, but also burned down our villages.

I would like to thank my parents in Vergaio, a little village in Italy. They gave me the biggest gift: poverty.

Dignity and majesty have I seen but once, as it stood in chains, at midnight, in a dungeon in an obscure village of Missouri.

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

Courage is walking naked through a cannibal village

I like being outdoors a lot, and I come from a small village that's fairly remote.

Sweet Auburn, loveliest village of the plain.

Finally, there's a sense in which I look at this Westminster village and London intelligentsia as an outsider.

We all live in a little Village.

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.

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.

It is a city of villages, closely connected, each village dedicated to a different way of life.

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.

Like restless birds, the breath of coming rain Creeps, lilac-laden, up the village street

Id rather be selling groundnuts in my village than play for a pathetic club like Chelsea FC

Community is not something you have, like pizza. Now is it something you can buy. It's a living organism based on a web of interdependencies- which is to say, a local economy. It expresses itself physically as connectedness, as buildings actively relating to each other, and to whatever public space exists, be it the street, or the courthouse or the village green.