You are here: Quotes > Browse > Keywords > V > Villages Quotes

Villages Quotes


See also Village Quotes

In that sense, I became politicized because the people in the coal mining villages who were involved in the struggle knew why they were there. But they couldn`t understand why some pop star from London would want to be there.

- Ernie Pyle

I grew up in northern Sweden in a very small village and this is exactly the same. It`s very strange. It`s two hundred small villages linked together. Living here as compared to living in Tokyo, where I lived, or in London or New York, this is so much more like living in the country. You go to bed early and you get up early, even if you`re not working. You get up early with the sun and go to bed with the sun. That is much more rural kind of living and it suits me so much better than New York. - On Los Angeles.

- Peter Stormare

The building of friendship, family, community and love is complicated. We are so isolated in this country, no longer supported by tribes and villages.

- Jasmine Guy

A total of 1,580 people, the civilian population, suffered as a result of the bloody wave of terrorist acts that swept over Moscow and other towns and villages of our country.

- Boris Yeltsin

(The spirits moved inside the cottonwood branches to listen to the words coming from the villages.) See now, ... Look at the end of the broken off branch. If you see a star in the center, then this is a good place, where people speak kindly of one another.

- Mary Louise

This exposes residents to The Villages` outdoor clubs.

- Scott Grimes

Having covered some half a hundred cities, towns, villages, and wide spots in the road during the last tow years, George and I fairly wallowed in the comfort of our own home base.

- Martin Milner

My family actually lived in the same village for about 400 years. They had great stability until the last century. People lived and intermarried in small villages.

- Roger Bannister

In that sense, I became politicized because the people in the coal mining villages who were involved in the struggle knew why they were there. But they couldn`t understand why some pop star from London would want to be there.

- Billy Bragg

Typically, in the cities there can be resistance to the gospel or just to Americans, or anybody that`s Western. When you get back into the villages, the people are very welcoming. Then when you get into Muslim areas, it definitely gets a little more difficult.

- Michael Scott

This is a project where everybody wins: the villages will get power, the cliffs won`t be damaged and it will be a work of art,

- Hiro Yamagata

This is a project where everybody wins: the villages will get power, the cliffs won`t be damaged and it will be a work of art.

- Hiro Yamagata

The people in the villages had turned in on themselves. You can understand it. When you have a bad day on the field, what do you do? Talk to your teammates.

- Ian Botham

We have received credible reports that show a clear and consistent pattern: entire villages are looted, burned down and sometimes bombed. Large numbers of civilians have been killed and scores of women and children have been abducted, raped and tortured.

- Alfredo Viegas

The picture that emerges for humans in the previous several million years is that of a social primate living in small bands and villages.

- Allen Merritt

Remember the rights of the savage, as we call him. Remember that the happiness of his humble home, remember that the sanctity of life in the hill villages of Afghanistan, among the winter snows, is as inviolable in the eye of Almighty God, as can be your own.

- Andrew Moran

We absolutely want to be in The Villages and can`t wait to open.

- Antonio Gates

A lot of disabled people here are integrated into the school system. There, they`re grouped together in homes. There`s a lot of villages in really bad situations. There is no safety net there; there`s no social services. There`s very little government help.

- Badru Kiggundu

Several others at the camp who regularly visit their villages say there is a need for more shelters, infrastructure and jobs in the valley (where their homes are).

- Barrie Hartman