Village Quotes - Page 18

• "What are you going to do?" "Can't say - run for president, write -" "Greenwich Village?" "Good heavens, no - I said write - not drink."

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Running, Writing, Heaven

  "This Side of Paradise". Book by F. Scott Fitzgerald, 1920.

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• She finds tales everywhere, in grains of sand she picks up from the garden, in puffs of smoke that drift out from the chimneys of the village, in fragments of smooth timber or glass in the jetsam. She will ask them, "Where did you come from? How did you get here?" And they will answer her in voices very like her own, but with new lilts and squeaks and splashes in them that show they are their own.

  David Almond

  Garden, Glasses, Voice

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• I toyed briefly with an image someone once mentioned to me, of a village in the shadow of a twin-peaked mountain. In the morning the sun rises. At lunch it sets behind the mountain. In the early afternoon it rises once more. The cocks crow for the second time, and later the sun sets again. No. One peak. Metaphors should not be belaboured.

  Neil Gaiman

  Morning, Lunch, Crow

  Neil Gaiman (2007). “Signal to Noise”, p.44, A&C Black

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• You will find a way to live without me. You will find a way to live for both of us,' Alexander said to Tatiana as the swelling Kama River flowed from the Ural Mountains through a pine village named Lazarevo, once when they were in love, and young.

  Paullina Simons

  Rivers, Mountain, Way To Live

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• Across town, over in the East Village, the graffiti was calling for the rich to be eaten, imprisoned, or taxed out of existence. Though it sometimes seemed like a nice idea, I hoped the revolution would not take place during my lifetime. I didn't want the rich to go away until I could at least briefly join their ranks.

  David Sedaris

  Nice, Ideas, Going Away

  David Sedaris (2000). “Me talk pretty one day”

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• Technology, including Zaadz, will allow us to evade the jerks far more than we could before. The technology-based social responsibility movement, broadly construed, will allow us to return to some extent to the moral monitoring of small villages.

  Michael Strong

  Responsibility, Technology, Greed

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• Sitting in the flickering light of the candles on this kerchief of sand, on this village square, we waited in the night. We were waiting for the rescuing dawn - or for the Moors. Something, I know not what, lent this night a savor of Christmas. We told stories, we joked, we sang songs. In the air there was that slight fever that reigns over a gaily prepared feast. And yet we were infinitely poor. Wind, sand, and stars. The austerity of Trappists. But on this badly lighted cloth, a handful of men who possessed nothing in the world but their memories were sharing invisible riches.

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Song, Stars, Memories

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• The notion of the world as a village is becoming a reality.

  James Wolfensohn

  Reality, World, Becoming

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• Generally students are the best vehicles for passing on ideas, for their thoughts are plastic and can be molded and they can adjust the ideas of old men to the shape of reality as they find it in villages and hills of China or in ghettos and suburbs of America.

  Theodore White

  Ghetto, Reality, Men

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• It deals with so many different aspects of living in South Africa the racial issues of South Africans and Asians with poverty with the reality of children orphaned by AIDS the transition from village life to city life.

  Laura Thielen

  Children, Reality, Cities

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• I know a lot of people in the retirement village that I have a house in in Florida that are on the Internet and are reading the paper on the Internet, and they're communicating on the Internet.

  Davy Jones

  Retirement, Reading, Florida

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• The decision to rely heavily on high-altitude air power, target urban infrastructure and repeatedly attack heavily populated towns and villages has reflected a deliberate trade-off of the lives of American pilots and soldiers, not with those of their declared Taliban enemies, but with Afghan civilians... There will be no official two-minute silence for the Afghan dead, no newspaper obituaries or memorial services attended by the prime minister, as there were for the victims of the twin towers.

  Seumas Milne

  Air, Two, Silence

  " The innocent dead in a coward's war" by Seumas Milne, www.theguardian.com. December 19, 2001.

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• Since we are not yet fully comfortable with the idea that people from the next village are as human as ourselves, it is presumptuous in the extreme to suppose we could ever look at sociable, tool-making creatures who are from other evolutionary paths and see not beasts, but brothers, not rivals, but fellow pilgrims journeying to the shrine of intelligence...The difference... is not in the creature judged, but in the creature judging.

  Demosthenes

  Brother, Ideas, Differences

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• The amount of horror one used to hear about in one village could be quite extreme. But one might not have heard about all the other villages' horrors at the same time.

  Sharon Olds

  Might, Horror, Used

  Interview with Dwight Garner for Salon Magazine, www.english.illinois.edu. July 1, 1996.

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• It was summertime and I was in The Azores, hanging around the small village my parents are from. I was looking out on this very rural setting, on a road going up a hill. There was an old man coming down the hill with a pitchfork on his shoulder. He was wearing gum boots, work pants - and a Coca-Cola T-shirt. I saw that and thought, That's my album!

  Nelly Furtado

  Men, Summertime, Parent

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• It is particularly recommended, as a means of uniting the inhabitants of the village into one family, that while each faithfully adheres to the principles which he most approves, at the same time all shall think charitably of their neighbours respecting their religious opinions, and not presumptuously suppose that theirs alone are right.

  Robert Owen

  Religious, Mean, Thinking

  Robert Owen (1854). “Part 5. of the New Existence of Man Upon the Earth in Winch is Continued the Outline of Mr. Owen's Life...[etc]”, p.11

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• Former brownfields, depressed urban areas, and hard-hit rural towns blossom as eco-industrial parks, green enterprise zones, and eco-villages. Farmers' markets, community co-ops, and mobile markets get fresh, organic produce to the people who can't afford to shop at health-food stores.

  Van Jones

  People, Community, Climate

  Van Jones (2008). “The Green Collar Economy: How One Solution Can Fix Our Two Biggest Problems”, HarperOne

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• I was born in a family of landless peasants, in Azinhaga, a small village in the province of Ribatejo, on the right bank of the Almonda River, around a hundred kilometres north-east of Lisbon.

  Jose Saramago

  Rivers, Small Villages, East

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• My art teacher in junior high was a very out gay man and a mentor to me. He would tell us about Greenwich Village and show us the 'Village Voice' and describe his life, but it was all sort of subversive and below the radar.

  Gus Van Sant

  Teacher, Art, Gay

  Interview with Tony Dushane, www.motherjones.com. December 5, 2008.

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• This is going to make me sound ancient, but I remember Juhu Beach when there weren't any buildings on it. You'd go through countryside and arrive at this amazing beach. I remember driving from Delhi to the Qutab Minar through countryside. Mehrauli was a little village - that's all gone.

  Salman Rushdie

  Beach, Sound, Gone

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• There is no way you are going to be forgiven for blowing up a village and killing a bunch of people.

  Henry Rollins

  People, Way, Killing

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• It is not an act of bravery to try to save your own village. It is an instinct to protect what you possess. Bravery is when you step in to help when you have nothing to lose.

  Gail Tsukiyama

  Bravery, Trying, Steps

  Gail Tsukiyama (2008). “The Samurai's Garden: A Novel”, p.123, Macmillan

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• There's nothing nicer than coming back to your village, where people like my mum's friends take the mick out of me. I prefer that to the craziness of Hollywood.

  Jeremy Irvine

  People, Hollywood, Craziness

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• This means more to me than any Grammy I could ever win ... It will take a village and an army, [some] countries and continents to make bullying a hate crime.

  Lady Gaga

  Country, Bullying, Hate

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

  Terry Pratchett

  Mistress, Witch, Recommendations

  Terry Pratchett (2008). “Guards! Guards!: (Discworld Novel 8)”, p.19, Random House

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