Village Quotes - Page 25

• When I gave birth to my fourth child, I suffered from post partum hemorrhaging. I almost lost my life. I was lucky to be under the care of trained health care personnel. I started wondering then what was happening to women in rural villages.

  Joyce Banda

  Children, Lucky, Care

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• The north of the Central African Republic is now a war zone, with rival armed bands burning villages, kidnapping children, robbing travelers and killing people with impunity.

  Nicholas D. Kristof

  Children, War, People

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• A boy can see the smoke rising from Sioux villages under the shadow of the Albert memorial.

  Baden Powell de Aquino

  Wisdom, Boys, Memorial

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• We need to assume that aspirations of people in villages are nothing less than the aspirations of people in the cities. They need a change in their lifestyle.

  Narendra Modi

  Cities, People, Empowerment

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• The people in the villages had turned in on themselves. You can understand it. When you have a bad day on the field, what do you do? Talk to your teammates.

  Ian Botham

  Bad Day, People, Teammate

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• Every village should celebrate its birthday & it will end the poison of casteism... and once casteism ends, see how the strength of villages increase!

  Narendra Modi

  Empowerment, India, Poison

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• Maybe being good isn't about getting rid of anything. Maybe being good has to do with living in the mess in the frailty in the failures in the flaws. Maybe what I tried to get rid of is the goodest part of me. Think Passion. Think Age. Think Round. Maybe good is about developing the capacity to live fully inside everything. Our body is our country, the only city, the only village, the only every we will ever know.

  Eve Ensler

  Country, Passion, Thinking

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• I don't think one parent can raise a child. I don't think two parents can raise a child. You really need the whole village.

  Toni Morrison

  Children, Thinking, Two

  Toni Morrison, Danille Kathleen Taylor-Guthrie (1994). “Conversations with Toni Morrison”, p.131, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• Remember, the Arctic didn't have any ice. And the Northwest Passage was wide open. They were raising grapes in Scotland for God sakes, had a huge winery. Iceland was a farming community. As some of the glaciers retreated they found villages that were covered with ice.

  Don Young

  Ice, Scotland, Agriculture

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• Would it not be prudent to get our civilization tools together, and see how much stock is left on hand in the way of Glass Beads and Theology, and Maxim Guns and Hymn Books, and Trade Gin and Torches of Progress and Enlightenment (patent adjustable ones, good to fire villages with, upon occasion), and balance the books, and arrive at the profit and loss, so that we may intelligently decide whether to continue the business or sellout the property and start a new Civilization Scheme on the proceeds.

  Mark Twain

  Book, Loss, Gun

  Mark Twain (2004). “The Portable Mark Twain”, p.495, Penguin

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• Ella's supersonic voice followed her all the way to Bleecker Street and then dissolved amid the noisy profusion of shops, cafes, and restaurants and the crush of people that made the West Village of Manhattan unique in the world. In a single block you could buy fertility statues from Tanzania, rare Amazonian orchids, a pawned brass tuba, Krispy Kreme doughnuts, or the best, most expensive cup of coffee you ever tasted. It was the doughnuts, incidentally, that attracted Gaia.

  Francine Pascal

  Crush, Block, Coffee

  Francine Pascal (2001). “Sam”, p.7, Simon and Schuster

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• Whatever position we may rise to, be it of MP, CM or PM, nothing can teach us the way villages can.

  Narendra Modi

  Motivation, Mps, Pms

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• In the globalized world that is ours, maybe we are moving towards a global village, but that global village brings in a lot of different people, a lot of different ideas, lots of different backgrounds, lots of different aspirations.

  Lakhdar Brahimi

  Respect, Moving, Ideas

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• Working on a film, you don't get time to develop rivalries, but the theatre is like a little village, and the differences between me, Lionel and Georgia grew.

  Ron Moody

  Ghouls, Differences, Theatre

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• When you truly accept that those children in some far off place in the global village have the same value as you in God's eyes or even in just your eyes, then your life is forever changed; you see something that you can't un-see.

  Bono

  Children, Eye, Forever

  "Bono turns up the volume for social enterprise" by Joe Jervis, www.theguardian.com. November 14, 2012.

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• Maybe there's less oppression growing up in a small village, and fewer rules, and less danger.

  Luke Treadaway

  Growing Up, Small Villages, Oppression

  "Luke Treadaway: Hello aliens, fancy a spliff?". Interview with Patrick Barkham, www.theguardian.com. May 11, 2011.

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• The destruction of India's village system was the greatest of England's blunders.

  Annie Besant

  England, India, Destruction

  "Essays on Indian Freedom Movement". Book by Raj Kumar, 2003.

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• I began when I was a child, because I was born and grew up in a little village. And many people ride the horses. So, it was a big - it has been a big passion for me.

  Andrea Bocelli

  Horse, Children, Passion

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

  Voltaire

  Peace, War, Mind

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• "Glorious, stirring sight!" murmured Toad. . . . "The poetry of motion! The real way to travel! The only way to travel! Here today - in next week tomorrow! Villages skipped, towns and cities jumped- always somebody else's horizons! O bliss! O poop-poop! O my! O my!"

  Kenneth Grahame

  Real, Sight, Next Week

  'The Wind in the Willows' (1908) ch. 2.

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• Any well-established village in New England or the northern Middle West could afford a town drunkard, a town atheist, and a few Democrats.

  D. W Brogan

  Atheist, Atheism, West

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• As our cities have developed, they've built sometimes small villages or communities that were in place. And we've taken for granted all of that child care, the neighbourliness, the help that you get from people nearby.

  Susan Oliver

  Children, Taken, Cities

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• Picturesque meant - he decided after careful observation of the scenerey that inspired Twoflower to use the word - that the landscape was horribly precipitous. Quaint, when used to describe the occasional village through which they passed, meant fever-ridden and tumbledown. Twoflower was a tourist, the first ever seen on the discworld. Tourist, Rincewind had decided, mean 'idiot'.

  Terry Pratchett

  Mean, Tourists, Use

  Terry Pratchett (2008). “The Colour Of Magic: (Discworld Novel 1)”, p.101, Random House

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• We proceeded systematically, village by village and we destroyed the houses, filled up the wells, blew down the towers, cut down the shady trees, burned the crops and broke the reservoirs in punitive devastation.

  Winston Churchill

  Cutting, Filled Up, House

  Winston Churchill (2010). “My Early Life: 1874-1904”, p.149, Simon and Schuster

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• I am in Birmingham because injustice is here. Just as the eighth century prophets left their little villages and carried their "thus saith the Lord" far beyond the boundaries of their home towns; and just as the Apostle Paul left his little village of Tarsus and carried the gospel of Jesus Christ to practically every hamlet and city of the Graeco-Roman world, I too am compelled to carry the gospel of freedom beyond my particular home town. Like Paul, I must constantly respond to the Macedonian call for aid.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Jesus, Home, Cities

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