Village Quotes - Page 28

• I was set down from the carrier's cart at the age of three; and there with a sense of bewilderment and terror my life in the village began.

  Laurie Lee

  Age, Three, Terror

  'Cider with Rosie' (1959) p. 9

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• It seems a shallow observation, but... the Tory Conference are not an attractive lot, are they? I mean, if all those people were born in the same village, you'd blame pollution, wouldn't you?

  Jeremy Hardy

  Mean, People, Blame

  "The News Quiz". BBC Radio 4, October 1998.

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• Village reform is not merely cleaning the roads, constructing schools and worshipping monasteries. It is not mere celebration of festivals.

  Periyar E. V. Ramasamy

  School, Reform, Festivals

  Collected works of Periyar E.V.R., p. 513, 2005.

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• Manner and morals have improved, improved wages and world travel during the war have had effect, and the farm labourer now is an intelligent, self respecting workman, on a level at least with the town artisan. The village rustic of the past no longer exists outside of the comic papers.

  Flora Thompson

  War, Intelligent, Past

  Flora Thompson (2008). “The Peverel papers: nature notes written in Liphoo, Hampshire, 1921-1927”

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• And broader still became the blaze, and louder still the din, And fast from every village round the horse came spurring in.

  Nathan Rothschild, 1st Baron Rothschild

  Horse, Stills, Rounds

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• The almighty dollar, that great object of universal devotion throughout our land, seems to have no genuine devotees in these peculiar villages.

  Washington Irving

  Money, Land, Dollars

  1855 Wolfert's Roost,'The Creole Village'.

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• In every village marked with little spire,
  Embowered in trees, and hardly known to fame.

  William Shenstone

  Tree, Littles, Fame

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• Near yonder copse, where once the garden smil'd,
  And still where many a garden flower grows wild,
  There, where a few torn shrubs the place disclose,
  The village preacher's modest mansion rose.
  A man he was to all the country dear,
  And passing rich with forty pounds a year;
  Remote from town's he ran his godly race,
  Nor e'er had chang'd nor wish'd to change his place;
  Unskilful he to fawn, or seek for power,
  By doctrines fashion'd to the varying hour;
  Far other aims his heart had learn'd to prize.
  More bent to raise the wretched than to rise.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Country, Fashion, Flower

  Oliver Goldsmith (1856). “The Miscellaneous Works: Poems. Miscellaneous pieces. Dramas. Criticism relating to poetry and the belles-lettres”, p.69

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• [On Ezra Pound:] A village explainer, excellent if you were a village, but if you were not, not.

  Gertrude Stein

  Pounds, Excellent, Ifs

  The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas ch. 7 (1933)

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• The villagers seldom leave the village; many scientists have limited and poorly cultivated minds apart from their specialty.

  Simone Weil

  Science, Mind, Scientist

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• We're in a tough place in this world. There are a lot of kids giving up very early. Scripture says it takes a village to raise one child, and that's what these coaches are going to have to go back and understand.

  Ray Lewis

  Children, Giving Up, Kids

  "Ray Lewis Is Fed Up With Abusive Coaching". Interview with Ryan Bort, www.esquire.com. January 29, 2015.

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• So long as we continued to attach more importance to our own narrow group membership than to the 'global village' we would propagate prejudice and ignorance. There was absolutely no harm in being part of a small group - indeed, with our hunter-gatherer band mentality it gave comfort, provided us with an inner circle of friends who could be utterly trusted, who were absolutely reliable. It helped give us peace of mind. The danger came only from drawing that sharp line, digging that ditch, laying that minefield, between our own group and any other group that thought differently.

  Jane Goodall

  Ignorance, Circles, Drawing

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• When I am talking about "It Takes a Village", I'm obviously not talking just about or even primarily about geographical villages any longer, but about the network of relationships and values that do connect us and binds us together.

  Hillary Clinton

  Talking, It Takes A Village, Together

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• it's a good idea to wait a few months before joining anything when you arrive at a village. A bookseller friend who retired to nearby Oxfordshire, and was worried he might be bored, got himself on to every village committee in the first six months, and spent the next ten years extricating himself.

  Jilly Cooper

  Ideas, Years, Bored

  Jilly Cooper (2012). “Angels Rush In”, p.402, Random House

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• A writer's business is minding other people's business ... all the vices of the village gossip are the virtues of the writer.

  Dawn Powell

  People, Gossip, Vices

  Dawn Powell (1998). “The Diaries of Dawn Powell: 1931-1965”, Zoland Books

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• Between the villages of Aubiere and Romagnat in the ancient Province of Auvergne there is an old road that comes suddenly over the top of a high hill. To stand south of this ridge looking up at the highway flowing over the skyline is to receive one of those irrefutable impressions from landscape which requires more than a philosopher to explain. In this case it is undoubtedly, for some reason, one of exalted expectation.

  Hervey Allen

  Book, Expectations, Skylines

  Hervey Allen (1933). “Anthony Adverse”

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• I come from a very small rural village in northern Germany, and being an actor never even seemed like a possibility. I thought you would have to live in a big city, or be discovered somewhere, or be born into an artistic family, which I certainly wasn't.

  Diane Kruger

  Cities, Germany, Actors

  "Diane Kruger Talks THE BRIDGE, Playing a Cop with Asperger’s, Working with Co-Star Demian Bichir, and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. July 10, 2013.

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• The Maharashtra government is working out a package for the worst-affected villages of the state in the recent floods. But we know whenever such calamities occur; whatever we do is not enough...more has to be done.

  Sonia Gandhi

  Government, Work Out, Done

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• Danced healing rituals (in African village compounds, temple courtyards, dance-therapy studios, public theaters, and other social settings) reinvoke old traumas for exorcism and the transformation of fear, convince people that evil is gone or possible to dissipate, and reaffirm communal solidarity and a sense of well-being.

  Judith Lynne Hanna

  Healing, Evil, People

  Judith Lynne Hanna (2006). “Dancing for Health: Conquering and Preventing Stress”, p.217, Rowman Altamira

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• The shaman is a very peculiar figure. He is critical to the functioning of the psychological and social life of his community, but in a way he is always peripheral to it. He lives at the edge of the village. He is only called upon in matters of great social crisis. He is feared and respected. And this might be a description of these hallucinogenic substances.

  Terence McKenna

  Community, Peculiar, Substance

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• Machine thinking is the opposite of mindfulness. If we're really engaged in mindfulness when walking along the path to the village, then we will consider the act of each step we take as an infinite wonder, and a joy will open our hearts like a flower, enabling us to enter the world of reality.

  Nhat Hanh

  Flower, Heart, Reality

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• Writers today must navigate the shifting verbal currents of the post-Gutenberg era. When does jargon end and a new vernacular begin? Where's the line between neologism and hype? What's the language of the global village? How can we keep pace with technology without getting bogged down in buzzwords? Is it possible to write about machines without losing a sense of humanity and poetry?

  Constance Hale

  Writing, Technology, Hype

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• Even after so many decades of Independence there are 18,500 villages in India which do not have electricity. We affirm our commitment to provide electricity to all those villages that do not have electricity.

  Narendra Modi

  Commitment, Independence, India

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• Maybe there's less oppression growing up in a small village, and fewer rules, and less danger.

  Luke Treadaway

  Growing Up, Small Villages, Oppression

  "Luke Treadaway: Hello aliens, fancy a spliff?". Interview with Patrick Barkham, www.theguardian.com. May 11, 2011.

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• The Smurf village was destroyed weeks ago and Bush has still not made an appearance. George Bush doesn't care about tiny blue people.

  Christian Finnegan

  Blue, People, Care

  "Best Week Ever with Paul F. Tompkins". TV Series, www.imdb.com.

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