Village Quotes - Page 12

• I still visit my village quite often, as my parents and one of my sisters live there, but also I feel the village is more of an isolated, unreal part of me.

  Volker Bertelmann

  Parent, My Sister, Feels

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• You convey too great a compliment when you say that I have earned the right to the presidential nomination. No man can establish such an obligation upon any part of the American people. My country owes me no debt. It gave me, as it gives every boy and girl, a chance. It gave me schooling, independence of action, opportunity for service and honor. In no other land could a boy from a country village, without inheritance or influential friends, look forward with unbounded hope. My whole life has taught me what America means. I am indebted to my country beyond any human power to repay.

  Herbert Hoover

  Girl, Country, Mean

  Herbert Hoover (1929). “The New Day: Campaign Speeches of Herbert Hoover, 1928”, p.3, Stanford University Press

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• The largest single step in the ascent of man is the change from nomad to village agriculture.

  Jacob Bronowski

  Men, Agriculture, Ascent

  Jacob Bronowski (1976). “The ascent of man”

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• If you lie down in a village square hoping to capture a sea gull, you could stay there your whole life without succeeding. But a hundred miles from shore it's different. Sea gulls have a highly developed instinct for self-preservation on land but at sea they're very cocky.

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Lying, Cocky, Squares

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• Your village just called. They're missing an idiot.

  Russell Lynes

  Wise, Missing, Idiot

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• Each hamlet or village or town should be a place, its own place. This is not a matter of fake historicism or artsy-craftsy architecture. It is a matter of respect for things existing, subtle patterns of place woven from vistas and street widths and the siting and color and scale of stores, houses, and trees... If the countryside is to prosper, it must be different from city or suburb... The difference is in part the simple business of containing our towns and giving them boundaries.

  Robert Christopher Riley

  Simple, Land, Cities

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• I don't think that village idea of actually knowing what you're contributing to the whole exists anymore.

  Feist

  Thinking, Ideas, Knowing

  Interview with Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. September 28, 2011.

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• 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.

  David Amram

  Black And White, Portraits, Landscape

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• Because in the feudal system of that period at least 80% of people lived in villages, so it's very simple to get a cross-section of society in a single village. You get the microcosm of the social macrocosm.

  Michael Haneke

  Simple, People, Feudal System

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• The important thing about travel in foreign lands is that it breaks the speech habits and makes you blab less, and breaks the habitual space-feeling because of different village plans and different landscapes. It is less important that there are different mores, for you counteract these with your own reaction-formations.

  Paul Goodman

  Travel, Space, Land

  Paul Goodman (1966). “Five years”

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• For a writer you have to be interested in different cultures, different backgrounds. You are not there to write only about your village. You're there to show a bit of your village, but also to understand other villages.

  Paulo Coelho

  Writing, Different, Culture

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• It's not a secret family like I have a beautiful, gorgeous wife in Tokyo; I have another mom and dad. I'm the kid and I have another mom and dad in Atwater Village, Los Angeles.

  John Hodgman

  Beautiful, Mom, Dad

  "Bewildered Maine resident John Hodgman takes another crack at our 11 Questions". Interview with Marah Eakin, www.avclub.com. September 3, 2015.

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• There is no better way of industrializing the villages of India than the spinning wheel.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  India, Way, Spinning

  Mahatma Gandhi (1969). “Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi”

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• The collectors of revenue and the policeman are the only symbols by which millions in India's villages know British rule.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  India, Language, British

  Mahatma Gandhi (1986). “The Moral and Political Writings of Mahatma Gandhi: Civilization, Politics and Religion”, Clarendon Press

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• If there ever is to be a republic of every village in India, then I claim verity for my picture in which the last is equal to the first or, in other words, no one is to be the first and none the last.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  India, Republic, Lasts

  Mahatma Gandhi, Dennis Dalton (1995). “Gandhi: Selected Political Writings”, p.150, Hackett Publishing

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• India's way is not Europe's. India is not Calcutta and Bombay. India lives in her seven hundred thousand villages.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Europe, India, Way

  Mahatma Gandhi (1967). “Collected Works”

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• Men appear to prefer ruining one another's fortunes, and cutting each other's throats about a few paltry villages, to extending the grand means of human happiness.

  Voltaire

  War, Mean, Cutting

  Voltaire (1824). “A Philosophical Dictionary: From the French”, p.43

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• Urbanization in India is a slow but sure death for her villages and villagers.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Urbanization, India

  Mahatma Gandhi (1974). “Collected Works”

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• Khadi is the sun of the village solar system.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Sun, Solar System

  Mahatma Gandhi (1967). “The Gospel of Swadeshi, by M.K. Gandhi”

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• I was going to become a youth worker because I do voluntary work with the kids in the little village where I live. I make little films with them and stuff when I'm not working. I thought, I'll pack it in then and go and do something I love doing, and get a regular job because I've got two kids and a mortgage.

  Stephen Graham

  Love, Jobs, Kids

  "Gizza job, CBeebies". Interview with Patrick Barkham, www.theguardian.com. June 30, 2009.

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• I never felt at home. I stuck outIn New York City, especially in Greenwich Village, down among the cranks and the misfits and the one-lungers and the has-beens and the might've beens and the would-bes and the never-wills and the God-knows-whats, I have always felt at home.

  Joseph Mitchell

  New York, Home, Cities

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• I find what I call the [bleep] side of the industry very difficult. You won't see me at other peoples' premiers. I mean, I go to my own premiers because I have to help my film, but I don't enjoy that whole side of it. I don't enjoy celebrityhood. I love getting a seat in a restaurant. I love it when people say hi when I don't know them. I mean, that's fine, but apart from that, I like the elements of celebrityhood which make living in the world like living in your own village.

  Jeremy Irons

  Mean, People, Elements

  "Actor Jeremy Irons". "The Tavis Smiley show", www.pbs.org. September 7, 2012.

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• When a village ceases to be a community, it becomes oppressive in its narrow conformity. So one becomes an individual and migrates to the city. There, finding others like-minded, one re-establishes a village community. Nowadays only New Yorkers are yokels.

  Paul Goodman

  Cities, Community, Conformity

  Paul Goodman (1966). “Five years”

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• I had literary interests my whole life. I decided at the age of five I was going to be a writer. So I had done a great deal of reading. I suppose I was more at home in Greenwich Village than, say, any of classmates from Warsaw High School. But in any case, it was an overwhelming experience for me. It took me some time to begin to assimilate it.

  Tom Robbins

  Reading, School, Home

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• I think that the heroism which at this day would make on us the impression of Epaminondas and Phocion must be that of a domestic conqueror. He who shall bravely and gracefully subdue this Gorgon of Convention and Fashion, and show men how to lead a clean, handsome and heroic life amid the beggarly elements of our cities and villages; whoso shall teach me how to eat my meat and take my repose and deal with men, without any shame following, will restore the life of man to splendor, and make his own name dear to all history.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Fashion, Men, Thinking

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