Village Quotes - Page 36

• I can’t think of any greater happiness than to be with you all the time, without interruption, endlessly, even though I feel that here in this world there’s no undisturbed place for our love, neither in the village nor anywhere else; and I dream of a grave, deep and narrow, where we could clasp each other in our arms as with clamps, and I would hide my face in you and you would hide your face in me, and nobody would ever see us any more.

  Franz Kafka

  Inspirational, Dream, Thinking

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• Emigration, forced or chosen, across national frontiers or from village to metropolis, is the quintessential experience of our time.

  John Berger

  Emigration, Metropolis, Chosen

  John Berger (2014). “And Our Faces, My Heart, Brief As Photos”, p.45, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• Never give children a chance of imagining that anything exists in isolation. Make it plain from the very beginning that all living is relationship. Show them relationships in the woods, in the fields, in the ponds and streams, in the village and in the country around it. Rub it in.

  Aldous Huxley

  Country, Children, Giving

  Aldous Huxley (2009). “Island”, p.215, Random House

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• And when this happens, when we allow freedom ring, when we let it ring from every village and every hamlet, from every state and every city, we will be able to speed up that day when all of God's children, black men and white men, Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics, will be able to join hands and sing in the words of the old Negro spiritual: Free at last! Free at last! Thank God Almighty, we are free at last!

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  God, Spiritual, Children

  Speech at Civil Rights March,Washington, D.C., 28 Aug. 1963

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• Beer was the driving force that led nomadic mankind into village life. It was this appetite for beer-making material that led to crop cultivation, permanent settlement and agriculture.

  Alan D. Eames

  Beer, Agriculture, Village Life

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• Once you educate the boys, they tend to leave the villages and go search for work in the cities, but the girls stay home, become leaders in the community, and pass on what they've learned. If you really want to change a culture, to empower women, improve basic hygiene and health care, and fight high rates of infant mortality, the answer is to educate girls.

  Greg Mortenson

  Girl, Home, Fighting

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The road was frozen. The village lay quiet under the cold sky. Komako hitched up the skirt of her kimono and tucked it into her obi. The moon shone like a blade frozen in blue ice.

  Yasunari Kawabata

  Moon, Blue, Ice

  Yasunari Kawabata (2013). “Snow Country”, p.77, Vintage

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• If adventures will not befall a young lady in her own village, she must seek them abroad.

  Jane Austen

  Travel, Adventure, Young

  Jane Austen (2005). “Jane Austen: 8 Books in 1”, p.437, Shoes & Ships & Sealing Wax

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• I believe that in a great city, or even in a small city or a village, a great theater is the outward and visible sign of an inward and probable culture.

  Laurence Olivier

  Believe, Cities, Theatre

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• A man who has lived in many places is not likely to be deceived by the local errors of his native village; the scholar has lived in many times and is therefore in some degree immune from the great cataract of nonsense that pours from the press and the microphone of his own age.

  C. S. Lewis

  Men, Errors, Age

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• What do you know about dragons?” “They're big, scaly, four-legged creatures with wings who terrorized small villages until a virgin was offered up as a sacrifice.” His grinned again. “I do miss the virgins.

  Katie MacAlister

  Sacrifice, Dragons, Wings

  Katie Macalister (2004). “You Slay Me”, p.49, Penguin

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• How can we be alive and not wonder about the stories we knit together this place we call the world? Without stories our universe is merely rocks and clouds and lava and blackness. It's a village scraped raw by warm waters leaving not a trace of what existed before.

  Douglas Coupland

  Clouds, Rocks, Water

  Douglas Coupland (2009). “Generation A: A Novel”, p.10, Simon and Schuster

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• Nobody wants to see the village of the happy people.

  Lew Hunter

  People, Crafts, Want

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• Jewish villages were built in the place of Arab villages. You do not even know the names of these Arab villages, and I do not blame you, because these geography books no longer exist; not only do the books not exist, the Arab villages are not there either. Nahalal arose in the place of Mahalul, Gevat - in the place of Jibta, Sarid - in the place of Haneifs and Kefar Yehoshua - in the place of Tell Shaman. There is no one place built in this country that did not have a former Arab population.

  Moshe Dayan

  Country, Book, Israel

  Moshe Dayan's address to the students at Technion University in Haifa, Israel (March 19, 1969), a transcription of which appeared in Ha'aretz (April 4, 1969); later quoted in Edward W. Said "The Question of Palestine" (p. 14), 1980.

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• We need to pledge ourselves anew to the cause of Christ. We must capture the spirit of the early church. Wherever the early Christians went, they made a triumphant witness for Christ. Whether on the village streets or in the city jails, they daringly proclaimed the good news of the gospel.

  Martin Luther

  Christian, Cities, Jail

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• You are the stars and the world is watching you. By your presence, you send a message to every village, every city, every nation. A message of hope. A message of victory.

  Eunice Kennedy Shriver

  Sports, Hope, Stars

  "Eunice Kennedy Shriver, 1921-2009: She Changed the World for People With Mental Disabilities". learningenglish.voanews.com. August 21, 2009.

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• Every summer Lin Kong returned to Goose Village to divorce his wife, Shuyu.

  Ha Jin

  Summer, Divorce, Wife

  FaceBook post by Ha Jin from Feb 25, 2012

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• I would rather be first in a little Iberian village than second in Rome.

  Epicurus

  Attitude, Rome, Littles

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• I think each village was meant to feel pity for its own sick and poor whom it can help and I doubt if it is the duty of any private person to fix his mind on ills which he cannot help. This may even become an escape from the works of charity we really can do to those we know. God may call any one of us to respond to some far away problem or support those who have been so called. But we are finite and he will not call us everywhere or to support every worthy cause. And real needs are not far from us.

  C. S. Lewis

  Real, Thinking, Sick

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• Dignity and majesty have I seen but once, as it stood in chains, at midnight, in a dungeon in an obscure village of Missouri.

  Parley P. Pratt

  Midnight, Dungeons, Majesty

  Parley P. Pratt (2008). “Spirituality: The Key to the Science of Theology”, p.11, Cedar Fort

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• Some people—and I am one of them—hate happy ends. We feel cheated. Harm is the norm. Doom should not jam. The avalanche stopping in its tracks a few feet above the cowering village behaves not only unnaturally but unethically.

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Hate, Feet, People

  Vladimir Nabokov (2011). “Pnin”, p.25, Vintage

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• A drone strike is a terror weapon, we don't talk about it that way. It is; just imagine you are walking down the street and you don't know whether in 5 minutes there is going to be an explosion across the street from some place up in the sky that you can't see. Somebody will be killed, and whoever is around will be killed, maybe you'll be injured if you're there. That is a terror weapon. It terrorizes villages, regions, huge areas. It's the most massive terror campaign going on by a long shot.

  Noam Chomsky

  Sky, Long, Drones

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• The books transported her into new worlds and introduced her to amazing people who lived exciting lives. She went on olden-day sailing ships with Joseph Conrad. She went to Africa with Ernest Hemingway and to India with Rudyard Kipling. She travelled all over the world while sitting in her little room in an English village.

  Roald Dahl

  Reading, Book, People

  Roald Dahl (2007). “Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator”, p.160, Penguin

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