Village Quotes - Page 13

• Savages cling to a local god of one tribe or town. The broad ethics of Jesus were quickly narrowed to village theologies, which preach an election or favoritism.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Jesus, Savages, Towns

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2008). “The Spiritual Emerson: Essential Works by Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.78, Penguin

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• Signal smokes, war drums, feathered bonnets against the western sky. New messiahs, young leaders are ready to hurl the finest light cavalry in the world against Fort Stark. In the Kiowa village, the beat of drums echoes in the pulsebeat of the young braves. Fighters under a common banner, old quarrels forgotten, Comanche rides with Arapaho, Apache with Cheyenne. All chant of war. War to drive the white man forever from the red man's hunting ground.

  Frank Nugent

  War, Native American, Men

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• The Jewish usurers are fast-rooted even in the smallest villages, and if they lend five gulden they require a security of six times as much. They charge interest, upon interest, and upon this again interest, so that the poor man loses everything that he owns.

  Desiderius Erasmus

  Men, Six, Poor

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• I am ashamed to see what a shallow village tale our so-called History is. How many times must we say Rome, and Paris, and Constantinople! What does Rome know of rat and lizard? What are Olympiads and Consulates to these neighboring systems of being? Nay, what food or experience or succor have they for the Esquimaux seal-hunter, or the Kanaka in his canoe, for the fisherman, the stevedore, the porter?

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Rome, Paris, Doe

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• I grew up in a kibbutz in the Galilee, but we were surrounded by Arabic villages, so I heard all these sounds and all this music. My father was very close friends with one of the Bedouin tribes, so I would always go there, to weddings, and I was always very fascinated by that music.

  Maya Beiser

  Father, Sound, Tribes

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• I rode with four street-clothes cops in the East Village. I spent six weeks riding with them every day - in street clothes, with a vest underneath.

  Jason Wiles

  Clothes, Riding, East

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• Opening a book in the middle of a chapter always made me feel like I was interrupting a group of strangers, wandering unannounced into their villages and apartments and taxis and slums.

  Julie Schumacher

  Book, Groups, Stranger

  Julie Schumacher (2012). “The Unbearable Book Club for Unsinkable Girls”, p.151, Delacorte Books for Young Readers

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• I decided to do what I do when I was 2 years old. At 2 years old, you know, I heard the sound of a drum playing in the village, and I found my own drum and just picked it up and started playing, the worst song ever written by Wyclef Jean.But it actually started a vibe.

  Wyclef Jean

  Song, Years, Sound

  Big Think Interview, bigthink.com.

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• Up in the north of Scotland, a lot of the villages are completely Viking names. A lot of Vikings came down and settled in Scotland and in Ireland. And a lot of them didn't, but they took plenty of us with them - mostly the chicks.

  Gerard Butler

  Names, Scotland, Down And

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• As a fairly innocent teenager, growing up in a village in Wales, I just thought, "God, I would like to go and hang about Soho and write great poetry and try to avoid drinking myself to death."

  Andrew Davies

  Growing Up, Teenager, Drinking

  Source: collider.com

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• We didn't make money but we never lost money. We'd sit around Times Square with fliers, walk around the Village and try and get people to come. Now you'd just tweet it, but that was the beginning of emails, or the beginning of me doing emails - I'm sure there were people in 1986 who were doing emails.

  Jake M. Johnson

  Squares, People, Trying

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• People must understand the Clean Ganga program, as an economic activity also. The Gangetic plains account for 40% of our population. They have over one hundred towns, and thousands of villages.

  Narendra Modi

  People, Empowerment, Towns

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• Khadi service, village service and Harijan service are one in reality, though three in name.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Reality, Names, Three

  Mahatma Gandhi (1975). “Collected Works”

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• Urbanisation is not a crisis but an opportunity, seeing it as a crisis is wrong. And not just villages, we want everyone to get opportunities wherever they are staying. Aatma gaav ki ho aur suvidha sheher ki ho, this is what we believe.

  Narendra Modi

  Believe, Opportunity, India

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• I want to build a treehouse village connected by bridges in the woods by my house so my friends have a place to stay.

  Jason Reeves

  Bridges, House, Want

  Source: itcouldbemainstream.blogspot.com

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• I grew up in a village of about 800 people surrounded by lakes and woods, and I think it's made a definite impact on me.

  Drew Hayden Taylor

  Thinking, Lakes, Impact

  Source: www.yabookshelf.com

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• Everything is connected. There is no such thing as an island, especially in our world, global village, the whole thing. Pollution from way across the ocean circulates in the air.

  Alix Kates Shulman

  Ocean, Islands, Our World

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• Give the villagers village arithmetic, village geography, village history and the literary knowledge that they must use daily, i.e. reading and writing letters, etc.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Reading, Writing, Giving

  Mahatma Gandhi (1959). “India of My Dreams”, p.183, Rajpal & Sons

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• We have to tackle the triple malady which holds our villages fast in its grip; want of corporate sanitation, deficient diet and inertia.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Want, Inertia, Sanitation

  Mahatma Gandhi (1959). “India of My Dreams”, p.95, Rajpal & Sons

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• I had stopped writing plays set in villages because they were not relevant to my experiences and I knew my English classmates wouldn't appreciate them.

  Sefi Atta

  Writing, Play, Appreciate

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• I'm grateful for a lot of things. One is not being a drunk wreck. Or losing all four limbs in some ridiculous East Village bus accident that I was so destined for.

  Augusten Burroughs

  Grateful, Drunk, East

  Source: www.bookslut.com

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• I was my class playwright and I wrote plays set in villages with kings and chiefs.My plays were about treason and betrayals. If they were influenced by Macbeth, they were also influenced by Nigerian plays I had seen and Village Headmaster, a television drama series I had watched as a child.

  Sefi Atta

  Kings, Children, Betrayal

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• I grew up in New York City in Greenwich Village and had parents who were somewhat bohemian so I was always on the nonconformist side of the equation.

  Anne Waldman

  New York, Cities, Parent

  Source: logosjournal.com

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• A miniature village in Bournemouth caught fire and the flames could be seen nearly three feet away.

  Bob Monkhouse

  Funny, Humor, Feet

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• I was going to public school in the post-World War II, the grey doldrum years. But I was in this extraordinary environment of Manhattan, of Greenwich Village, of bohemian parents.

  Anne Waldman

  War, School, Years

  Source: logosjournal.com

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