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make a quick trip to the village. I didn't bring any protection. — Nora Roberts

Even though we are supposed to be low caste and poor our vote also has the same value and validity as that of great people. — Swarnakanthi Rajapakse

Toward the end of February 1954, James Beard was at work in his Greenwich Village kitchen doing what he most loved to do: cooking delicious meals. — Laura Shapiro

Khadi is the sun of the village solar system. — Mahatma Gandhi

I live in the East Village, and occasionally people will recognize me there. When I'm in Williamsburg, I always get recognized. Midtown, not so much. — Andrew Rannells

Come the millennium, month 12, In the home of greatest power, The village idiot will come forth To be acclaimed the leader. — Nostradamus

I could've shot the whole East Village, because it was and is my neighborhood. But Seventh Street is precious to me. — Josh Pais

My look was even more solidified when I started singing in Greenwich Village with my sister Lucy. We wore matching dresses as the Simon Sisters. — Carly Simon

I want to build a treehouse village connected by bridges in the woods by my house so my friends have a place to stay. — Jason Reeves

Care for at a ball. They returned, therefore, in good spirits to Longbourn, the village where they lived, and of which — Jane Austen

Khaddar is an attempt to revise and reverse the process and establish a better relationship between the cities and villages. — Mahatma Gandhi

Return to the villages means a definite, voluntary recognition of the duty of bread labour and all its connotes. — Mahatma Gandhi

A samagra gramsevak must know everybody living in the village and render them such service as he possibly can. — Mahatma Gandhi

In the village, a sage should go about
Like a bee, which, not harming
Flower, colour or scent,
Flies off with the nectar. — Anonymous

Raffe begins walking away from the village. Either come with me or stay. I can only help those who want to be helped. — Susan Ee

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

Under pressure, people admit to murder, setting fire to the village church or robbing a bank, but never to being bores. — Elsa Maxwell

Dear bells! how sweet the sound of village bells When on the undulating air they swim! — Thomas Hood

All the guys called the Olympic Village a high-class Boy Scout camp. — Johnny Weissmuller

The sun woke Tino early this beautiful morning in his small Italian village. — Tonya Russo Hamilton

Technology has made the world into a Village. Spirituality has made it into a Global Family. — Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

I created and opened a student-run coffeehouse in undergrad, and I loved it. I'd want to do that in the West Village. — Conrad Ricamora

People think New York is this big city where no one knows each other, but when you live in the Village, it's the opposite. — Nigel Barker

Nay, this village isn't yer sanctuary from the cruel world. It's God Almighty. He's the only one who can protect ye. — Jennifer Hudson Taylor

The global village is a place of very arduous interfaces and very abrasive situations. — Marshall McLuhan

Yes, I was a parish priest for five years. I was a curate in a large working class parish in Bristol and the Vicar of a village in Kent. — John Polkinghorne

When I become the village idiot, or at least, it starts to become a joke, you can't do that much longer. — Joan Van Ark

My background did not start with the East Side; it started with Greenwich Village, which is West Side. — Gregory Corso

If you're going to do a movie about the Village, it's pretty nice to shoot in the village and not be in Toronto. — Robin Williams

Change is seen as something evil only by those who have lost their youth or sense of humor." That was Cookie Mueller on the East Village, 1985. The — Sari Botton

To know after absence the familiar street and road and village and house is to know again the satisfaction of home. — Hal Borland

Art is History's nostalgia, it prefers a thatched roof to a concrete factory, and the huge church above a bleached village. — Derek Walcott

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

The gaping trunk looked like the mouth of a village idiot who was explaining that he didn't know anything about anything. — Kurt Vonnegut

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

I'm luckier than my grandfather, who didn't move more than five miles from the village in which he was born. — David Attenborough

Surely heaven must have something of the color and shape of whatever village or hill or cottage of which the believer says, This is my own. — William Faulkner

When I was in high school I moved from the big city to a tiny village of 500 people in Vermont. It was like The Waltons! — Daphne Zuniga

I rode with four street-clothes cops in the East Village. I spent six weeks riding with them every day - in street clothes, with a vest underneath. — Jason Wiles

Ghafoor came from a modest family in a nearby village and had been given to the palace in exchange for a cow. — Nadia Hashimi

The collectors of revenue and the policeman are the only symbols by which millions in India's villages know British rule. — Mahatma Gandhi

He had learned well: made a board of the village, a pawn of the master. — Anthony Marra

The first rays of the sun peeked up over the horizon and licked the village. "Fire," said Gein in an excited whisper. — Tim Baer

According to the Buddha's doctrine that they believed in, it was not the caste that defined a person high or low. It was one's deeds that mattered. — Swarnakanthi Rajapakse

I live here in Vermont, in a village of barely a thousand people halfway up the state's third highest mountain. — Chris Bohjalian

The notion of the world as a village is becoming a reality. — James Wolfensohn

Celebrate the birth of a girl child by planting 5 trees in your village. — Narendra Modi

The soul of India lives in its villages. — Mahatma Gandhi

I would rather be the first man in a barbarian village than the second man in Rome. — Julius Caesar

Like the blind man said as he wandered into a cannibal village ...
Alright! The country fair must be right up ahead. I smell barbecue! — John Rachel

I'll be the gringa queen of my village. — Kristen Ashley

Mark and the old soldier were about a mile away from the village when the stench of death hit them like a fresh wave of unbearable heat. — James Dashner

He's the river that idly passes between mountains. I'm the volcano that destroys a village. — Krista Ritchie

Grew up in Stapleton House village, where blood flood the waters in the streets like oil spillage — RZA

I don't need to move to the States; I love our little village, Ibstock. — Stephen Graham

The river of my village doesn't make you think about anything.
When you're at its bank you're only at its bank. — Alberto Caeiro

If your shout is local, only your village will hear you; if your whisper is universal, the whole world will hear you! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Turning his back on the village of Unwin, Chiave lumbered into the forest, barely able to walk under the weight of all he carried. — Amanda Orneck

I will build the best Potemkin village for you, my love! — Ljupka Cvetanova

If people are able to run the affairs of a village well, eventually they'll be able to run a township, and a county. — Wen Jiabao

How could they think Noel was hot? If this was REALLY Versailles, Noel SO would not be Louis XIV, he would be the French version of the village idiot — Sara Shepard

There is no better way of industrializing the villages of India than the spinning wheel. — Mahatma Gandhi

His sister had been sent down to the village to ask Mistress Garlick the witch how you stopped spelling recommendation. — Terry Pratchett

Technology has transformed the world into a global village. And communities, families, friends, etc., into local islands. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Some of the people in the village had real faces that I knew and could hate individually; Jim — Shirley Jackson

Ronde, one a live village and the other deserted, as dead as Karnak, — Ursula K. Le Guin

How would we flood village and city with our information? The people must learn how well I govern them. How would they know if we didn't tell them? — Frank Herbert

Over the village of Paradise lightning jumped from cloud to cloud and then it put down long legs and walked the earth. — Sara Donati

It would be easier to subjugate the entire universe through force than the minds of a single village. — Voltaire

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

Jesus sleeps on the cross by the church door. When he wakes up, he'll be old. The air in the village will be brighter than his naked skin. — Herta Muller

I have heard of many going astray even in the village streets, when the darkness was so thick you could cut it with a knife, as the saying is ... — Henry David Thoreau

The largest single step in the ascent of man is the change from nomad to village agriculture. — Jacob Bronowski

In every village there will arise a miscreant to establish the most grinding tyranny by calling himself the people. — Robert Peel

You're like the cute version of the village idiot. — Jennifer L. Armentrout

The true India resides in its villages — Charan Singh

It was so much fun being in the Olympic Village and meeting all the athletes. — Jordyn Wieber

I would destroy the entire village if doing so meant keeping you safe. — Auden Johnson

He was not the Model Boy of the village. He knew the model boy very well though - and loathed him. — Mark Twain

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. — Brian Johnson

The new electronic independence re-creates the world in the image of a global village. — Marshall McLuhan

You may live in an unknown small village, but if you have big ideas, the world will come and find you! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Even if I say, Everyone in the village died of diarrhea, I still laugh a little after diarrhea. — Dana Gould

But without people, the village dog and pampered pet alike would soon disappear - dogs would become extinct. — Raymond Coppinger

Healthy and nourishing food was the only alpha and omega of rural economy. — Mahatma Gandhi

Therefore it was not pride that took me into the village twice a week, or even stubbornness, but only the simple need for books and food. — Shirley Jackson

I went to this tattoo parlor in the East Village and I got an outline of a violin on my lower back. They call them tramp stamps now. — Katherine Moennig

South Africa has all the tools to compete in the new global village - an eager workforce, ready to take on any challenge. — Tom Peters

Zen- Dojo Tozan was not in Sarnen or Thu but somewhere between the two, not in a village but in the tall grass and blue flowers. — Ann Patchett

What're you doing? Collecting the straight, super-macho Village People? — Kristen Ashley

It's so much more than a child's story. - Matt Chandler on LIFE Today. — Matt Chandler

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

The village seemed very old, eaten away at the edge like the moon which had commenced to wane, — H.P. Lovecraft

Our village life would stagnate if it were not for the unexplored forests and meadows that surround it. We need the tonic of wildness ... — Henry David Thoreau

As a bee without harming the flower, its colour or scent, flies away, collecting only the honey, even so should the sage wander in the village. — Gautama Buddha

You are an indispensable and irreplaceable asset to the human family. — Ilchi Lee

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

If a family had to go far from the village to find a match for their daughter, it was viewed with suspicion. — R. Gopalakrishnan

I had done a guerrilla in World War II, so I had some knowledge of, of the the village life, and the way guerrillas worked. — Roger Hilsman

Village cricket spread fast through the land. — G. M. Trevelyan