Village Quotes - Page 33

• Not the children of the rich or of the powerful only, but of all alike, boys and girls, both noble and ignoble, rich and poor, in all cities and towns, villages and hamlets, should be sent to school

  John Amos Comenius

  Girl, Children, Powerful

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• I'll try to communicate, Taylor said. She spoke slowly and deliberately. Hello! We need help. Is your village close? My village is Denver. And I think it's a long way from here. I'm Nicole Ade. Miss Colorado. We have a Colorado where we're from too! Tiara said. She swiveled her hips, spread her arms wide, then brought her hands together prayer-style and bowed. Kipa aloha. Nicole stared. I speak English. I'm American. Also, did you learn those moves from Barbie's Hawaiian Vacation DVD? Ohmigosh, yes! Do your people have that, too?

  Libba Bray

  Prayer, Moving, Thinking

  Libba Bray (2011). “Beauty Queens”, p.20, Scholastic Inc.

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• A total of 1,580 people, the civilian population, suffered as a result of the bloody wave of terrorist acts that swept over Moscow and other towns and villages of our country.

  Boris Yeltsin

  Country, People, Population

  Boris Yeltsin's speech to the summit of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) in Istanbul, news.bbc.co.uk. November 18, 1999.

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• Christians. They’re determined to rid the land of any who worship the Horned One. Murdering all the druids, burning the temples, sometimes whole villages, and knocking over the standing stones.” The Lady’s face hardened. “This god of peace and love certainly likes to bathe the land in blood.

  Brom

  Love, Christian, Blood

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• Everyone knew there were wolves in the mountains, but they seldom came near the village-the modern wolves were the offspring of ancestors that had survived because they had learned that human meat had sharp edges.

  Terry Pratchett

  Mountain, Meat, Modern

  Stephen Briggs, Terry Pratchett (2008). “The Wit And Wisdom Of Discworld”, p.24, Random House

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• There is one timeless way of building. It is a thousand years old, and the same today as it has ever been. The great traditional buildings of the past, the villages and tents and temples in which man feels at home, have always been made by people who were very close to the center of this way.

  Christopher Alexander

  Home, Men, Past

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• I feel all agitated, like one of those snow globes you see resting peacefully on shop counters. I was perfectly happy being an ordinary, dull little Swiss village. But now Jack Harper’s come and shaken me up, and there are snowflakes all over the place, whirling around until I don’t know what I think anymore. And bits of glitter, too. Tiny bits of shiny, secret excitement.

  Sophie Kinsella

  Thinking, Snow, Secret

  Sophie Kinsella (2004). “Can You Keep a Secret?”, Random House Digital, Inc.

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• Cultural speciation had been crippling to human moral and spiritual growth. It had hindered freedom of thought, limited our thinking, imprisoned us in the cultures into which we had been born. . . . These cultural mind prisons. . . . Cultural speciation was clearly a barrier to world peace. 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.

  Jane Goodall

  Spiritual, Ignorance, Thinking

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• The birds sang, the proles sang. the Party did not sing. All round the world, in London and New York, in Africa and Brazil, and in the mysterious, forbidden lands beyond the frontiers, in the streets of Paris and Berlin, in the villages of the endless Russian plain, in the bazaars of China and Japan — everywhere stood the same solid unconquerable figure, made monstrous by work and childbearing, toiling from birth to death and still singing.

  George Orwell

  New York, Party, Paris

  George Orwell (1983). “1984”, p.476, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• But remember, boy, that a kind act can sometimes be as powerful as a sword. As a mortal, I was never a great fighter or athlete or poet. I only made wine. The people in my village laughed at me. They said I would never amount to anything. Look at me now. Sometimes small things can become very large indeed.

  Rick Riordan

  Powerful, Wine, Athlete

  Rick Riordan (2013). “Percy Jackson: The Complete Series”, p.926, Penguin UK

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• I opted for the rear door, both as a courtesy and so she couldn't freak out about me showing up on her front doorstep for all of East Falls to see. Being the village pariah does make social calls most trying. -Paige

  Kelley Armstrong

  Fall, Doors, Trying

  Kelley Armstrong (2009). “Dime Store Magic: Women of the Otherworld”, p.255, Vintage Canada

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• When I was in south Sudan, people used to rap in my village. But the rapping was more in the mother tongue, Nuer.

  Emmanuel Jal

  Mother, Rap, People

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• When I grew up in Seattle, by the way, in the 70's, it was a fishing village. There were loggers and fishers and my dad had a sewer company and it wasn't the way Seattle is now. Culturally, it was very different back then.

  Rainn Wilson

  Dad, Fishing, Different

  Source: mynorthwest.com

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• In principle... no government in the world can accept an armed terrorist group, some of them coming from abroad, controlling streets and villages in the name of jihad.

  Walid Muallem

  Government, Names, Terrorist Groups

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• One of my earliest memories is walking up a muddy road into the mountains. It was raining. Behind me, my village was burning. When there was school, it was under a tree. Then the United Nations came. They fed me, my family, my community.

  Ban Ki-moon

  Memories, Rain, School

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• Obviously, you would give your life for your children, or give them the last biscuit on the plate. But to me, the trick in life is to take that sense of generosity between kin, make it apply to the extended family and to your neighbour, your village and beyond.

  Tom Stoppard

  Children, Generosity, Giving

  "Writer and fighter" by Tim Adams, www.theguardian.com. September 20, 2008.

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• Both my best and worst memories are of my time in Nicaragua. The experience as a whole was totally redeeming and amazing. It sounds so cliche, but I don't care because I'm saying that from the heart. I stayed with a host family and went back to the same kind of rural farming village outside of Managua.

  Eden Sher

  Memories, Heart, Nicaragua

  "New York tops the list for young actress". Interview with Jae-Ha Kim, www.chicagotribune.com. May 17, 2011.

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• Few of the great tragedies of history were created by the village idiot, and many by the village genius.

  Thomas Sowell

  Tragedy, Village Idiots, Genius

  "Roberts betrayed his oath". The St. Augustine Record, July 5, 2012.

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• I saw the Village as a place you could escape to, to express yourself. When I first went there, I wrote and performed poetry. Then I drew portraits for a couple of years. It took a while before I thought about picking up a guitar.

  Richie Havens

  Couple, Guitar, Years

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• Princeton is a wonderful little spot. A quaint and ceremonious village of puny demigods on stilts.

  Albert Einstein

  Education, Littles, Wonderful

  Albert Einstein (2017). “Einstein on Peace”, p.357, Pickle Partners Publishing

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• There are so many shocking things. Is it more shocking that there are children sold into slavery in every city in the world and right under our noses or that there are villages in Nepal where there are no children left because they have all been kidnapped for sex trafficking, or that there are generations of slaves in some countries where indentured slavery passes from generation to generation and that kids grow into adults not knowing that another world - another life - exists?

  Gillian Anderson

  Country, Sex, Children

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• 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

  Nice, Toronto, Ifs

  Source: movieweb.com

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• And when we saw all those cities and villages built in the water, and other great towns on dry land, and that straight and level causeway leading to Mexico, we were astounded.

  Bernal Diaz del Castillo

  War, Land, Cities

  Bernal Diaz del Castillo (2003). “The Conquest of New Spain”, p.234, Penguin UK

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• [Washington is a] very gossipy little village of people all going to the same bars . . . all watching each other having affairs with each other

  Helen Mirren

  People, Bars, Littles

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• BJP is committed to transform the agriculture sector. We want to increase farmer income and the purchasing power of villages.

  Narendra Modi

  Agriculture, Bjp, India

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