Quotes About Community

In the old days, people shared music; they didn't care who made it. A song would be owned by a village, and anyone could sing it, change the words, whatever. That is how humans treated music until the late 19th century. Now, with the Internet, we are going back to having tribal attitudes towards music.

It was my dream to have a beauty parlour in our village and to live near my family in Sinjar.

I used to play everything, but people in my village said football is in my blood because my father has been a footballer.

After I returned from Oxford, I spent 5-6 years in a village in Madhya Pradesh - 25 km. outside Bhopal - along with a group of people working with the communities. But, over time, we realised that there were just too many constraints, and for ordinary citizens to be the change agent was not that easy.

The AON Training Complex is not a training ground now: it's a village. It is difficult for anyone to keep tabs on everything.

Believe me, you don't want to play to an audience of seven in a village hall in Cumbernauld.

It is not difficult to come up with a long list of cricketers who like to have a good time - from the village green to the Test arena, it is a sociable sport.

I grew up in a small village in the west of Ireland.

I love the energy of Islington, the variety of things you can see, taste and buy, the number of young people around you all moving and bustling - yet it still feels like a village, a community.

I came from a really small village outside Edinburgh in Scotland and had quite a sheltered upbringing.

I come from a small village in Gurdaspur district.

The village where my father lives is, like, 300 people.

Our village is very small, so I wasn't surprised when I heard some negative comments from my neighbours on my interest in sports. But nothing mattered, as I always knew what I was doing and why I was doing it.

I come from a village, Changa Bangyaal. It is a very beautiful village. I am from a poor family. Right from the beginning, I always had a great deal of love for cricket.

It truly takes a village to become a professional athlete.

We have to convince our youth that the nation does not need the white-collared class only. We have to find work for the rural young people in the village itself and stop the exodus to the cities.

Most summers we went to Bangladesh and stayed in Grandad's village, filled with relatives. I'm one of 67 grandchildren.

As the editor at the Village Voice, I always tried to find writers of colour.

There weren't any schools in my village, so I learnt to read and write from my mother. I played in the fields, sowing seeds, working with animals, jumping in the river, climbing trees.

I began my career as a medical doctor in Ama Keng, a poor village in Lim Chu Kang. The people I cared for were ordinary Singaporeans. They were simple people who despite their hard work, had barely enough for themselves.

Success to us is not just a girl overseas going to school - but also leading her village to a better future.

I was raised in Italy for the early part of my life, in a relatively small village near Siena, and everyone worked there, from the day that they would walk to the day that they died, so I didn't really see that I was particularly different.

For somebody like me, who has trained barefoot in a small village in Odisha, I know training without proper facilities can be extremely difficult. Having experienced it all, I would like to give back to my community by creating a running academy for children.

I was born in Pizzoferrato, a little village of 1000, in the Abruzzi region of Italy.