Quotes About Village

I grew up in a very rural community in England.

I have seen rural life and met all kinds of people.

I moved to Kentish Town from Chelsea in 1983, partly because I had a lot of friends already living in the area and because it took an hour off the journey to my house in Suffolk. It has a villagey feel, and it's still a very mixed community, which I like.

None of the buildings in the town of Sisters are really more than one story tall.

The door of the judge's house was opened to him by a huge, bearded man who informed the reporter in a conversational tone that if he did not leave the village immediately he would not leave it with his arms unbroken.

After all, television is confined to a glass box. No matter how gruesome the scenes on the screen may be, no blood will spill on the carpet. No matter how close television seems to be bring the day's events, they always remain distant enough to be viewed with dispassion. The global village can be visited and abandoned at will.

Rajasthan is a place I visit very often. My grandparents live in the village called Kulhariyon Ka Baas, and I am originally from Rajasthan.

One year, my parents hired someone in the village to dress up as Krampus for a surprise visit to our home - and they regretted it for ever. I went to the door and this huge creature was standing there. I think I passed out.

When I visit my village, relatives or even when I am at a film shoot, I try to observe my surroundings and understand the environment.

I was working as a volunteer in a village, 25 km. from Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, in 2012 when India Against Corruption movement started. I had realized that change needs to come from top downward, so I decided to join the movement as a volunteer and started policy research for the same.

the most alarming fact about what happened in Salem in 1692 is the sure conviction of the civil authorities that extraordinary means were justified because of the dire threat posed to the sleepy village of Salem—"the Rendezvous of Devils," as one panic-stricken preacher put it, "where they Muster their infernal sources."14

Gli abitanti del villaggio diventarono incarnazioni di quella leggenda che avevano ascoltato tante volte.

Marshall McLuhan was right when he said that television has made a global village of the world—but he didn't know the global village would be Beirut.

a German spy landing off the coast of Norfolk, walking into a village and banging on a pub door to ask in perfectly accented English for a glass of hard cider. The publican gave him a drink, made an excuse and went out the back to fetch the local policeman. The only person in Britain who didn't know you couldn't get alcohol at nine in the morning would be a German spy.

In the small village I'm from we had a very old custom. On a child's first day of school, the rabbi would give him a slate on which the first two letters of the Hebrew alphabet were written in honey. The rabbi asked the child to lick up the letters and go on to use the slate to learn to read and write. The child would always remember that learning was sweet like honey.

For whatever sets in motion societal activity originates in the intimate communal living of families in the same village or hamlet, in the same region or country.

On the beautiful Norfolk coast, there's Happisburgh (pronounced Hays-bruh), a small village with a lighthouse, a church, a superb pub, and not much else, apart from almost a million years of human occupation.

What could be more natural for me than to look upon the Abbot as representing the highest human ideal worth striving for, just as the position of the humble village priest had appeared to my father in his own boyhood days?

Tak akan ada kampung sebersih ini di atas gunung kalau tak ada kerukunan di antara para penghuni.

Orang kampung seperti sahaya ini, bendoro muda, kelahirannya sendiri sudah suatu kecelakaan. Tak ada sesuatu yang lebih celaka dari nasib orang kampung.

Mengapa membuka ladang sejauh ini? Kalau deka(t) kampon(g) habis dimakan(g) babi sendiri. Di sini babi hutan(g) yang ditunggu. Orang kampon(g) bikin ladan(g) sambil cari daging.

Pemerintah punya mau. Orang gunung punya mau sendiri. Kampon(g) tetap kampon(g). Desa ada boleh di darat - Mana Sambur, Ketika Mendengar Pembangunan Gereja Kristen & Pembangunan Desa.

An undecided man is the worst disaster of the village.

From my village I see as much of the universe as you can see from earth, So my village is as big as any other land For I am the size of what I see, Not the size of my height. —Fernando Pessoa as Alberto Caeiro, The Keeper of Sheep