Village Quotes

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.

They say it takes a village to raise a child, and it takes a church to raise the village. Today, I come home as the child that village raised, to be mayor of the village.

Creative people who can't help but explore other mental territories are at greater risk, just as someone who climbs a mountain is more at risk than someone who just walks along a village lane.

Until I was four years old I lived in the house of my paternal grandfather, about two miles from the pretty little village of Wallace, at the mouth of the river of that name.

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.

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.

I quit the tax job then and decided that I was going to play in a band. I answered ads in the Village Voice and went through two days of auditioning for bands.

The more you participate in our common endeavors, the more successful your work in the factory, mine, wharf or village, in an economic institute or in the arts, in commerce or administration, the sooner we will be where we all want to be.

When I was in high school I moved from the big city to a tiny village of 500 people in Vermont. It was like The Waltons!

In 1978, the tradition of running from village to village with a message was revived. that first run was from Davis to Los Angeles, a distance of 500 miles.

My family actually lived in the same village for about 400 years. They had great stability until the last century. People lived and intermarried in small villages.

Franz Kline, who became known for his black and white paintings, did a whole series of gorgeous landscapes and wonderful portraits that may still hang in Greenwich Village.

When I become the village idiot, or at least, it starts to become a joke, you can't do that much longer.

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

I had rather be first in a village than second at Rome.

When I walked to school in the mornings I would start out alone but would pick up four other boys along the way. We would set out together after school across the village green.

The Internet is becoming the town square for the global village of tomorrow.

New Zealand is not a small country but a large village.

It's been a huge inspiration for us and we've been walking tall around the athletes' village over the last couple of days.

He was probably the best boss I ever worked for. The village was his priority. He never said no to anybody.

I will look into other ways to help the people of this village.

The dam powered up to 12 mills that existed below the dam in the valley behind the village.

We want to elevate the product. You don't expect to see a store like this in Winter Park Village, that's why we're there.

We had two card tables and a fan in a very hot garage. We have a village now that's trying to help kids.

When they attacked my village they were shouting 'you are all rebels' - but we don't have any links to rebels.