Village Quotes - Page 26

• Information and images bump against each other every day in massive quantities, and the resonance of this interfacing is like the babble of a village or tavern gossip session.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Gossip, Taverns, Bumps

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• I hired Bob at Terrytoons. He was my assistant animator, and then became an animator himself. He had just come from Boston with his family and was a brilliant draftsman as well as a great jazz guitarist. We had lots of fun nights in Greenwich Village together and then later hanging in LA. Bob worked on Fritz the Cat , Heavy Traffic , Coonskin , and on Wizards . I am terribly saddened by his passing and will miss him dearly.

  Ralph Bakshi

  Fun, Cat, Night

  FaceBook post by Ralph Bakshi from Dec 15, 2014

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

  Nostradamus

  Home, Leader, Village Idiots

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• The MPs are not adopting villages; it's the villages that are adopting the MPs.

  Narendra Modi

  Mps, Empowerment, India

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• All of Africa's resources should be declared resources of the state and managed by the nation. Our experience in Bolivia shows that when you take control of natural resources for the people of the town and village, major world change is possible.

  Evo Morales

  People, Towns, Bolivia

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• I try to remind people, whether you have a growth manager or a value manager, you're going to go through cycles where you think you have a village idiot.

  Robert Rodriguez

  Thinking, People, Growth

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• [On Ezra Pound:] A village explainer, excellent if you were a village, but if you were not, not.

  Gertrude Stein

  Pounds, Excellent, Ifs

  The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas ch. 7 (1933)

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

  Simone Weil

  Science, Mind, Scientist

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• We're in a tough place in this world. There are a lot of kids giving up very early. Scripture says it takes a village to raise one child, and that's what these coaches are going to have to go back and understand.

  Ray Lewis

  Children, Giving Up, Kids

  "Ray Lewis Is Fed Up With Abusive Coaching". Interview with Ryan Bort, www.esquire.com. January 29, 2015.

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• So long as we continued to attach more importance to our own narrow group membership than to the 'global village' we would propagate prejudice and ignorance. There was absolutely no harm in being part of a small group - indeed, with our hunter-gatherer band mentality it gave comfort, provided us with an inner circle of friends who could be utterly trusted, who were absolutely reliable. It helped give us peace of mind. The danger came only from drawing that sharp line, digging that ditch, laying that minefield, between our own group and any other group that thought differently.

  Jane Goodall

  Ignorance, Circles, Drawing

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• When I am talking about "It Takes a Village", I'm obviously not talking just about or even primarily about geographical villages any longer, but about the network of relationships and values that do connect us and binds us together.

  Hillary Clinton

  Talking, It Takes A Village, Together

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• We have been working with Habitat for Humanity and we have built eighty homes, 80% of which are being lived in by New Orleans' musicians. It is called the Musicians' Village and at the center is the Ellis Marsalis Center for Music.

  Harry Connick, Jr.

  Home, New Orleans, Humanity

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• it's a good idea to wait a few months before joining anything when you arrive at a village. A bookseller friend who retired to nearby Oxfordshire, and was worried he might be bored, got himself on to every village committee in the first six months, and spent the next ten years extricating himself.

  Jilly Cooper

  Ideas, Years, Bored

  Jilly Cooper (2012). “Angels Rush In”, p.402, Random House

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• A writer's business is minding other people's business ... all the vices of the village gossip are the virtues of the writer.

  Dawn Powell

  People, Gossip, Vices

  Dawn Powell (1998). “The Diaries of Dawn Powell: 1931-1965”, Zoland Books

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• Between the villages of Aubiere and Romagnat in the ancient Province of Auvergne there is an old road that comes suddenly over the top of a high hill. To stand south of this ridge looking up at the highway flowing over the skyline is to receive one of those irrefutable impressions from landscape which requires more than a philosopher to explain. In this case it is undoubtedly, for some reason, one of exalted expectation.

  Hervey Allen

  Book, Expectations, Skylines

  Hervey Allen (1933). “Anthony Adverse”

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• Mothers really were not built to raise babies not only by themselves, but with only a partner. For millions of years, a woman had much more than just her husband to help rear her young... This whole idea of 'it takes a village to raise a child' is exactly how we're supposed to live.

  Helen Fisher

  Mother, Baby, Children

  "Motherhood 2.0: It takes an (online) village" by Adrienne Mand Lewin, www.today.com. October 12, 2009.

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• I went to live in Barcelona in 1975, when I was twenty. Even before I went there, I knew more about the Spanish Civil War than I did about the Irish Civil War. I liked Barcelona, and then I grew to like a place in the Catalan Pyrenees called the Pillars, especially an area between the village of Flavors and the high mountains around it.

  Colm Toibin

  War, Mountain, Barcelona

  "This Week in Fiction: Colm Tóibín" by Deborah Treisman, www.newyorker.com. February 24, 2013.

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• We're always thinking of eternity as an idea that cannot be understood, something immense. But why must it be? What if, instead of all this, you suddenly find just a little room there, something like a village bath-house, grimy, and spiders in every corner, and that's all eternity is. Sometimes, you know, I can't help feeling that that's what it is.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Thinking, Ideas, House

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• Wait, we can not break bread with you. You have taken the land which is rightfully ours. Years from now my people will be forced to live in mobile homes on reservations. Your people will wear cardigans, and drink highballs. We will sell our bracelets by the road sides, and you will play golf, and eat hot h'ors d'ourves. My people will have pain and degradation. Your people will have stick shifts. The gods of my tribe have spoken. They said do not trust the pilgrims, especially Sarah Miller. And for all of these reasons I have decided to scalp you and burn your village to the ground.

  Paul Rudnick

  Thanksgiving, Pain, Taken

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• Very much like that, and very much a loner, do you know and I didn't fit really into sport or all kind of group activities as a kid, I couldn't find a niche. And music was not really part of the kind of village curriculum it would, you know.

  Eric Clapton

  Sports, Kids, Loner

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• I couldn't help but think, This car is taking me to a mental hospital and my mother is treating it like open-mic night at a Greenwich Village café.

  Augusten Burroughs

  Mother, Night, Thinking

  Augusten Burroughs (2010). “Running with Scissors: A Memoir”, p.132, St. Martin's Press

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• Totem poles and wooden masks no longer suggest tribal villages but fashionable drawing rooms in New York and Paris.

  Mason Cooley

  New York, Paris, Drawing

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• Near yonder copse, where once the garden smil'd,
  And still where many a garden flower grows wild,
  There, where a few torn shrubs the place disclose,
  The village preacher's modest mansion rose.
  A man he was to all the country dear,
  And passing rich with forty pounds a year;
  Remote from town's he ran his godly race,
  Nor e'er had chang'd nor wish'd to change his place;
  Unskilful he to fawn, or seek for power,
  By doctrines fashion'd to the varying hour;
  Far other aims his heart had learn'd to prize.
  More bent to raise the wretched than to rise.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Country, Fashion, Flower

  Oliver Goldsmith (1856). “The Miscellaneous Works: Poems. Miscellaneous pieces. Dramas. Criticism relating to poetry and the belles-lettres”, p.69

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• In every village marked with little spire,
  Embowered in trees, and hardly known to fame.

  William Shenstone

  Tree, Littles, Fame

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• There was this mountain village in Russia where my music was getting in on some German radio station. I remember this because music used to get up to Saskatchewan from Texas. Late at night after the local station closed down.

  Joni Mitchell

  Night, Russia, Texas

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