Quotes About Village

Was he the epitome of virtue because he was poor? How had it been in the village? There was foul gossip and cussedness anywhere in the world where small men had to think of their stomachs first before thinking about others." -Istak

The village road was as narrow as her old granny's mind.

En el pueblo me asfixiaba. Ya sé que no me está bien el decirlo, pues allí nací y me crié y allí tenía mi cuadrilla. Pero no aguantaba más. En el pueblo vive mucha gente echada a perder por la política. Gente que hoy te da un abrazo y mañana, por lo que sea que le hayan contado, deja de dirigirte la palabra

Dream Song: As my eyes Search the prairie, I feel the summer in the spring. Whenever I pause The noise Of the village.

The Negro is better off in his family, in the first place, because, even when his home is little more than a primitive one-room cabin, he is at least living in the open country in contact with the pure air and freedom of the woods, and not in the crowded village where the air and the soil have for centuries been polluted with the accumulated refuse and offscourings of a crowded and slatternly population.

It was the eternal contest for reputation and prestige that encouraged Londoners to endow new hospitals or write great plays or crack the problem of longitude for the navy. No matter how agreeable your surroundings, you couldn't get famous by sitting around in some village, and that is still true today. You need people to acknowledge what you have done; you need a gallery for the applause; and above all you need to know what everyone else is up to.

There had, of course, been notorious murders in Indiana before. Perhaps the most sensational was the 1895 case of Reverend William E. Hinshaw. A much-admired figure in the village of Belleville, Hinshaw was accused of killing his wife, Thirza—who had discovered his affair

As soon as I was old enough to drive, I got a job at a local newspaper. There was someone who influenced me. He wrote a column for The Guardian from this tiny village in India.

You're an idealist, and I pity you as I would the village idiot.

The husband has the right to avenge himself if his wife is unfaithful. The village has known for many moons that White Eagle planned to steal Prairie Flower away from Howling Wolf. Howling Wolf has learned of this and punished his wife.

He gave her his hand, sensing the thin strong rod of obdurate competence that was the armature of her artsy Village style.

Nether Hambleton and Middle Hambleton

he made Widecombe-in-the-Moor sound awfully pretty and I was curious to see to what extent it remained so. I am happy to say it is still a gorgeous place. It has a lovely church with a magnificent tower, a green, a pub, and a shop, and stands amid a symphony of rocky hills.

and do you know the difference, by the way, between village and hamlet? It's quite simple, really: One is a place where people live and the other is a play by Shakespeare)

On me donne de l'or. Beaucoup d'or. Mais je n'ai pas le droit de le dépenser. Personne ne veut rien me vendre. J'ai une maison et beaucoup d'or, mais je dois digérer la honte de tout le village. Ils me paient pour que j'aie des remords à leur place. De tout ce qu'ils font de mal ou d'impie. De tous leurs vices. De leurs crimes. De la foire aux vieux. Des bêtes torturées. Des apprentis. Et des ordures.

U ovu vodu bacaju ono što je mrtvo da bih ga ja izvadio. I to zubima. Za to sam pla?en. Daju mi ?amac, a pla?aju mi sramotom i zlatom. Daju mi da jedem. Daju mi zlata. Mnogo zlata. Ali nemam prava da ga trošim. Niko ništa ne?e da mi proda. Imam ku?u i mnogo zlata, ali moram da gutam sramotu celog sela. Pla?aju me da bi me umesto njih grizla savest.

The inertia of a jungle village is a dangerous thing. Before you know it your whole life has slipped by and you are still waiting there.

U selu poput ovoga uvijek se na nešto ?ekalo: ili da neko do?e, ili da ode, na ro?enje nekog djeteta ili na ne?iju smrt. Uspavano je selo vazdan iš?ekivalo kakav doga?aj, tek bi se tada prenulo.

we knew the Witch Doctor was busy in the village. I've got the spot marked to a certainty in my mind, and all of you notice that there's the finest cedar growing directly above him on the top of the wall,

he passed through a village and a woman approached him with a request. 'I don't have the time,' he replied. 'Then stop being emperor' was the devastating riposte.

tradition has it that disputes which break out in a village are worked out in public. By this I mean collective self-criticism with a touch of humor because everyone is relaxed, because in the end we all want the same thing.

Such a colonized intellectual, dusted over by colonial culture, will in the same way discover the substance of village assemblies, the cohesion of people's committees, and the extraordinary fruitfulness of local meetings and groupments. Henceforward, the interests of one will be the interests of all, for in concrete fact everyone will be discovered by the troops, everyone will be massacred—or everyone will be saved.

This village belongs to the Castle, and whoever lives here or passes the night here does so in a manner of speaking in the Castle itself. Nobody may do that without the Count's permission.

It was said that the Mongols picked up women at one village and dropped them off at the next—having sex along the course of the journey.