Village Quotes - Page 5

• The mystic must be steadily told,-All that you say is just as true without the tedious use of that symbol as with it. Let us have a little algebra, instead of this trite rhetoric,-universal signs, instead of these village symbols,-and we shall both be gainers. The history of hierarchies seems to show that all religious error consisted in making the symbol too stark and solid, and was at last nothing but an excess of the organ of language.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Religious, Errors, Excess

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1982). “Emerson: Selected Essays”, p.264, Penguin

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• More hearts are breaking in this world of ours Than one would say. In distant villages And solitudes remote, where winds have wafted The barbed seeds of love, or birds of passage Scattered them in their flight, do they take root, And grow in silence, and in silence perish.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Heart, Wind, Roots

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1849). “The Poems of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ; Complete in One Volume”, p.73

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• Villages and woods, meadows and chateaux, pass across the moving scene, out of which the whistling of locomotives throws sharp notes. These faint, piercing sounds, together with the yelping and barking of dogs, are the only noises that reach one through the depths of the upper air. The human voice cannot mount up into these boundless solitudes. Human beings look like ants along the white lines that are highways; and the rows of houses look like children's playthings.

  Alberto Santos-Dumont

  Dog, Children, Moving

  Alberto Santos-Dumont, (2013). “My Air-Ships”, p.24, Read Books Ltd

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• True swadeshi is that alone in which all the processes through which cotton has to pass are carried out in the same village or town.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Cotton, Towns, Process

  Mahatma Gandhi (1958). “Collected Works”

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• If there is electricity in every village, people will watch TV till late night and then fall asleep. They won’t get a chance to produce children. When there is no electricity, there is nothing else to do but produce babies.

  Ghulam Nabi Azad

  Baby, Children, Fall

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• Ahh! Lady Pillows. So much fluffier than mine.” He took a giant whiff. “Why does everything girlie smell so delightful?” “Because we acknowledge the importance of basic hygiene. And periodically clean our bathrooms.” “Brilliant. I should write that down. After all, it takes a village.

  Kathy Reichs

  Writing, Hygiene, It Takes A Village

  Kathy Reichs (2011). “Seizure: A Virals Novel”, p.53, Penguin

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• There are two instances I studied in which a community moved, amazingly, into an preexisting village built by other, earlier communalists. The Rappites were a German millenarian sect I mostly leave out of the story, even though they are fascinating, because they're focused on salvation and retreating from the world, as opposed to transforming it, like the other groups I write about.

  Christine Jennings

  Writing, Two, Community

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Despite popular conviction, a writer needn't wear black, be unshaven, sickly and parade around New York's East Village spewing aphorisms and scaring children.

  Noah Lukeman

  New York, Children, Black

  Noah Lukeman (2010). “The First Five Pages: A Writer'S Guide To Staying Out of the Rejection P”, p.16, Simon and Schuster

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• Art is History's nostalgia, it prefers a thatched roof to a concrete factory, and the huge church above a bleached village.

  Derek Walcott

  Art, Church, Nostalgia

  Derek Walcott, “From 'Omeros'”

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• What is it about maps? I could look at them all day, earnestly studying the names of towns and villages I have never heard of and will never visit.

  Bill Bryson

  Travel, Names, Looks

  Bill Bryson (1991). “Neither here nor there: travels in Europe”, Harvill Secker

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• People look at things differently. Imagine going to a village in Southern Sudan and try to explain to someone there the concept of life insurance or retirement. Go to Vietnam and say retirement. Retirement in another country is your body is too racked with pain and your hands are too arthritic from the life in the rice patty fields, so you can't work anymore. So you move in with your son and his new wife takes care of you because that's how families work there.

  Henry Rollins

  Country, Retirement, Pain

  Interview with Danny Stygion, www.sinicalmagazine.com. October 1, 2011.

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• I dont see a lot of movies that portray the East Village as well as I think they can.

  Adam Rapp

  Thinking, East, Wells

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• Desperate times call for desperate measures" is an aphorism which here means "sometimes you need to change your facial expression in order to create a workable disguise." The quoting of an aphorism, such as "It takes a village to raise a child," "No news is good news," and "Love conquers all," rarely indicates that something helpful is about to happen, which is why we provide our volunteers with a disguise kit in addition to helpful phrases of advice.

  Daniel Handler

  Love, Children, Mean

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• I live in the Village right near NYU, which is taking over most of the Village. I've lived there for most of my time in New York. One of the things I like about the Village is, it's considered the kind of area where you can't have skyscrapers or, actually, many tall buildings. So you can see the sky which, I think, is a benefit.

  Nat Hentoff

  New York, Thinking, Sky

  Source: thedailyhatch.org

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• Khaddar was conceived with a much more ambitious object, that is, to make our villages starvation-proof.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Ambitious, Proof, Starvation

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• Can one be a follower of Jesus Christ... have countries attacked. The lives, reputations and possessions of people destroyed and on the slight chance of the presence of a few criminals in a village, city, or convoy for example, the entire village, city or convoy set ablaze.

  Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

  Country, Jesus, Cities

  Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's letter to George W. Bush, www.washingtonpost.com. May 9, 2006.

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• As a matter of fact, a modern society is many societies more or less loosely connected. Each household with its immediate extension of friends makes a society; the village or street group of playmates is a community; each business group, each club, is another.

  John Dewey

  Community, Groups, Clubs

  John Dewey (0101). “Democracy and Education: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Education”, p.20, Prabhat Prakashan

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• You go to India and you see the poorest village somewhere in the middle of India. And the poor family is happier than any rich billionaire in this country because of spirituality.

  Marina Abramovic

  Country, India, Spirituality

  Source: www.marieclaire.com

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• I prefer the countryside to cities. This is also true of my films: I have made more films in rural societies, and villages, than in towns.

  Abbas Kiarostami

  Cities, Towns, Film

  "Abbas Kiarostami's best shot". Interview with Andrew Pulver, www.theguardian.com. July 29, 2009.

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• At the beginning of my acting career, I worked for two seasons at the RSC and spent a lot of time in the Cotswolds exploring Shakespeare's countryside. It's my kind of English landscape, with its tiny villages and one-room thatched pubs.

  Cherie Lunghi

  Careers, Two, Acting

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• Have you got a local mind? Broaden it! Have you got an international mind? Broaden it! Have you got a universal mind? It is not enough, because there are other universes. Broaden it! Broaden your mind till you get a multi-universal mind! And yet, this is not enough too! Broaden it! Leave your village; leave your city; leave your country; leave the earth; leave the universe; leave all the universes! Don't let your mind to cast anchor in any port! Narrow mind is the greatest enemy of the truth! The best mind is the one which has no frontiers!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Country, Anchors, Cities

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• Hilary Clinton said you know, it takes a village to raise a child and somebody said it takes a village idiot to believe that … it is part of the whole thing of third parties wanting to make decisions for which they pay no price for when they’re wrong.

  Thomas Sowell

  Children, Party, Believe

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• When I first knew Bob Dylan, he lived in the Village. And for a man who, years after, would disdain publicity or any attempts at interviews, whenever I'd write something about him, he'd be on the street corner saying, `When's it going to run? When's it going to run?' But I must say that album that was - it was the second album he did, and though I've never been a fan of his guitar-playing, he did - I have to admit, he did catch the Zeitgeist of the time.

  Nat Hentoff

  Running, Writing, Men

  Source: thedailyhatch.org

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• The people who died in the Twin Towers in that terrible crime mattered. The people who were bombed to death in dusty villages in Afghanistan didn't matter, even though it now seems that their numbers were greater. The people who will die in Iraq don't matter.

  John Pilger

  Iraq, Numbers, People

  Source: progressive.org

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• Under the spreading chestnut tree The village smithy stands; The smith, a mighty man is he, With large and sinewy hands; And the muscles of his brawny arms Are strong as iron bands. . . . He earns whate'er he can, And looks the whole world in the face, For he owes not any man. . . . Toiling,-rejoicing,-sorrowing, Onward through life he goes; Each morning sees some task begin, Each evening sees it close; Something attempted, something done, Has earned a night's repose.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Life, Strong, Morning

  "The Village Blacksmith" st. 7 (1839)

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