Village Quotes

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

  Yannick Noah

  Echoes, Calm, Quiet

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

  Charles Spurgeon

  Glasses, Society, Hives

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

  O. Henry

  Art, Lows, Greenwich

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

  Jan Karon

  People, Care, Stills

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• The soul of India lives in its villages.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Soul, India

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• It isn't just a village. The houses aren't just places to live. Everything belongs to everybody. Everyone belongs to everyone else. Even a single person can make a difference.

  Joanne Harris

  Differences, House, Making A Difference

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• You need a village, if only for the pleasure of leaving it. A village means that you are not alone, knowing that in the people, the trees, the earth, there is something that belongs to you, waiting for you when you are not there.

  Cesare Pavese

  Home, Mean, Knowing

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• I want to turn the clock back to when people lived in small villages and took care of each other.

  Pete Seeger

  People, Simple Life, Small Villages

  "The Old Left". New York Times Magazine Interview, www.nytimes.com. January 22, 1995.

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

  Gina Bellman

  Connections, World, Littles

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• The true India resides in its villages.

  Charan Singh

  Powerful, India, Country Life

  WebIndia123 profile for Chaudhary Charan Singh, www.webindia123.com. March 06, 2014.

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

  Bryce Dallas Howard

  Firsts, Courses

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• A village somewhere was missing it's idiot.

  Linda Howard

  Missing, Idiot, Missing It

  Linda Howard (2006). “Drop Dead Gorgeous: A Novel”, p.172, Ballantine Books

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

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Ideas, Small Villages, World

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

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Imagination, One Day, Might

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• It takes a village to raise a child.

  Hillary Clinton

  Children, Memorable, Village To Raise A Child

  Hillary Clinton (0101). “Talking It Over: A collection of her newspaper columns from 1995 to 1996”, p.78, Creators Publishing

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• There is a great good in returning to a landscape that has had extraordinary meaning in one's life. It happens that we return to such places in our minds irresistibly. There are certain villages and towns, mountains and plains that, having seen them walked in them lived in them even for a day, we keep forever in the mind's eye. They become indispensable to our well-being; they define us, and we say, I am who I am because I have been there, or there.

  N. Scott Momaday

  Travel, Memories, Eye

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

  Nancy Spain

  Cities, Paris, Way

  Nancy Spain (1964). “A Funny Thing Happened on the Way”

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• Sweet Auburn, loveliest village of the plain.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Sweet, Auburn

  'The Deserted Village' (1770) l. 1

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• The village is coming back, like it or not.

  David Brin

  Community, Coming Back

  David Brin, Matt Bai, Melissa Febos, Joseph Sutton, Mike Siegel (2017). “1984 in the 21st Century: An Anthology of Essays”, p.10, Riverdale Avenue Books LLC

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• The future of India lies in its villages

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Lying, India

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

  Jeremy Irvine

  Small Villages

  "Jeremy Irvine’s Fan Club". Interview with Michael Douglas, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 17, 2015.

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• We all live in a little Village.

  Patrick McGoohan

  Littles

  Interview with Warner Troyer in Toronto for the Ontario Educational Communications Authority, March 1977.

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• The strength of my country lies in the huts of the poor; in the villages; in the youth, mothers and sisters; in the farmers...I believe in your strength and hence I believe in the future of our country.

  Narendra Modi

  Mother, Country, Lying

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

  Howard Rheingold

  Globes, Global Village, Interconnected

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• Yes, in my books I do edit myself to keep from becoming the Village Explainer.

  Thomas Perry

  Book, Becoming, Edits

  Interview with Ann Bruns, www.bookreporter.com. January 17, 2003.

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