Village Quotes - Page 9

The loves of women for each other grow more numerous each day, and I have pondered much why these things were. That so little should be said about them surprises me, for they are everywhere ... In these days when any capable and careful woman can honorably earn her own support, there is no village that has not its examples of two hearts in counsel, both of which are feminine.

Frances E. Willard

Heart, Two, Support

Frances E. Willard (2016). “Glimpses of Fifty Years (Abridged, Annotated)”, p.695, BIG BYTE BOOKS

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I had done a guerrilla in World War II, so I had some knowledge of, of the the village life, and the way guerrillas worked.

Roger Hilsman

War, Village Life, Done

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Many enlightened persons are never very well known. Many are reclusive. They live in little villages in India or up in the high Himalayas in Tibet. Some have no students at all. Some have a few.

Frederick Lenz

Teacher, India, Littles

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In all the practice centers in the tradition of Plum Village whenever the phone rings or the clock chimes in the dining hall, people stop everything they are doing and breathe consciously, releasing all thinking and any tension.

Nhat Hanh

Motivational, Thinking, Phones

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In the old days, Zen was not really practiced so much in a monastery. The Zen Master usually lived up on a top of the mountain or the hill or in the forest or sometimes in the village.

Frederick Lenz

Mountain, Forests, Sometimes

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I grew up in Sierra Leone, in a small village where as a boy my imagination was sparked by the oral tradition of storytelling. At a very young age I learned the importance of telling stories - I saw that stories are the most potent way of seeing anything we encounter in our lives, and how we can deal with living.

Ishmael Beah

Boys, Imagination, Age

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Not the children of the rich or of the powerful only, but of all
alike,
boys and girls, both noble and ignoble, rich and poor, in all cities
and
towns, villages and hamlets, should be sent to school.
Education is indeed necessary for all, and this is evident if we
consider
the different degrees of ability. No one doubts that those who are
stupid
need instruction, that they may shake off their natural dullness. But
in
reality those who are clever need it far more, since an active mind, if
not occupied with useful things, will busy itself with what is useless,
curious, and pernicious.

John Amos Comenius

Girl, Powerful, Children

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Well I guess my music came to prominence around one piece called 'In C' which I wrote in 1964 at that time it was called 'The Global Villages for Symphonic Pieces', because it was a piece built out of 53 simple patterns and the structure was new to music at that time.

Terry Riley

Simple, Pieces, Patterns

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I ask you all so earnestly to open girl's schools in every village and try to uplift them. If the Conditions of women are raised, then their children will, by their noble actions, glorify the name of the Country.

Swami Vivekananda

Uplifting, Girl, Country

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Rhesus monkeys as well as human adults and older children living in a remote Amazon village have been given comparison and addition tasks using arrays of dots, and they show the same abilities we find in 5- year- old Boston children.

Elizabeth Spelke

Children, Boston, Years

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The Westgate Landfill is zoned for residential use. It's near a planned village. The Navy has a capping plan for the site, but it's not consistent with residential use for the site.

James Young

Navy, Use, Landfills

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Post office closures in the Dakotas and Minnesota will impact many communities‚ but the White Earth reservation villages‚ and other tribal towns of Squaw Lake‚ Ponemah‚ Brookston in Minnesota‚ and Manderson‚ Wounded Knee and Wakpala (South Dakota) as well as Mandaree in North Dakota will mean hardships for a largely Native community.

Winona LaDuke

Mean, White, Lakes

"Native And Rural Communities Face Devastating Post Office Closures" by Georgianne Nienaber, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 10, 2012.

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My first part-time job gave me the smell of earning money when I worked in a village chemist aged 14. I loved helping the pharmacist with prescriptions and on the shop floor, with its glamorous make-up aisle.

Nicki Chapman

Jobs, Smell, Earning

Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

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It used to happen in villages and towns in China that they would have - I guess you'd call them beauty contests - where all of the women of a particular village or town would be seated behind these screens or curtains with only their feet showing.

Lisa See

Feet, Towns, Would Be

"Lisa See: Secret Women's Writing". "The Book Show" with Lyn Gallacher, www.abc.net.au. December 28, 2006.

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One of the early tip-offs to me about the enormous changes that were going on with being in a Bangalore house, home, where the young woman from a nearby village, who had been hired to baby sit newborn twins, suddenly said after two weeks of work: 'I'm sorry, this is too much work, I'm going to try applying for call center jobs. The pay is better.'

Bharati Mukherjee

Baby, Jobs, Sorry

"Literary Getaways: Book Your Travel. Literally". "Talk Of The Nation" with Andrea Seabrook, www.npr.org. June 16, 2011.

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Celebrated in the Bob Dylan ballad “Joey”, Crazy Joe Gallo was a charismatic beatnik gangster whose forays into Greenwich Village in the 1960s inspired his bloody revolution against the Mafia.

Tom Folsom

Crazy, Mafia, Bob

"Gangster Chic: Joey Gallo" by Tom Folsom, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 17, 2009.

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It is no accident that I made Cartoon Town a simple little village - in many ways it mirrored my home town. And, yes, many of my puppet characters took on some of the more eccentric characteristics of people I knew there.

William Jackson

Home, Character, Simple

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It's true you have to screen out a lot living in the city. I stayed away from New York for a long time after college, and when I was first back, I'd read The Village Voice and feel like I was having a panic attack.

Lynne Tillman

New York, College, Cities

Source: www.guernicamag.com

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No true work since the world began was ever wasted; no true life since the world began has ever failed. Oh, understand those two perverted word, failure and success and measure them by the eternal, not the earthly, standard. When after thirty obscure, toilsome, unrecorded years in the shop of the village carpenter, one came forth to be pre-eminently the man of sorrows, to wander from city to city in homeless labors, and to expire in lonely agony upon the shameful cross -- was that a failure.

Frederic Farrar

Lonely, Work, Men

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One of the overriding points of Liberal Fascism is that all of the totalitarian "isms" of the left commit the fallacy of the category error. They all want the state to be something it cannot be. They passionately believe the government can love you, that the state can be your God or your church or your tribe or your parent or your village or all of these things at once. Conservatives occasionally make this mistake, libertarians never do, liberals almost always do.

Jonah Goldberg

Mistake, Believe, Love You

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How soft the music of those village bells, Falling at interval upon the ear In cadence sweet; now dying all away, Now pealing loud again, and louder still, Clear and sonorous, as the gale comes on! With easy force it opens all the cells Where Memory slept.

William Cowper

Sweet, Memories, Fall

William Cowper (1856). “The task, Table talk, and other poems: With critical observations of various authors on his genius and character, and notes, critical and illustrative”, p.293

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Twilight's soft dews steal o'er the village-green, With magic tints to harmonize the scene. Stilled is the hum that through the hamlet broke When round the ruins of their ancient oak The peasants flocked to hear the minstrel play, And games and carols closed the busy day.

Samuel Rogers

Twilight, Games, Play

Samuel Rogers (1854). “The complete poetical works of Samuel Rogers: with a biographical sketch, and notes”, p.63

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In the Ramtops village where they dance the real Morris dance, for example, they believe that no-one is finally dead until the ripples they cause in the world die away - until the clock he wound up winds down, until the wine she made has finished its ferment, until the crop they planted is harvested. The span of someone's life, they say, is only the core of their actual existence.

Terry Pratchett

Real, Believe, Wine

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When the elephant decides to walk through the village, all the dogs come out and bark.

Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

Dog, Elephants, Bark

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It was manifest to me that there was something in the Roman Catholic religion which made the priests very dear to the people; for I doubt whether in any village in England, had such an accident happened to the rector, all the people would have roused themselves at midnight to wreak their vengeance on the assailant.

Bill Vaughan

Catholic Religion, People, Doubt

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